Buffalo County Community Partners, is a county-wide effort located in central Nebraska. Buffalo County Community Partners was one of the first projects of its kind in Nebraska. Community Partners has data assessments or surveys done each year to monitor the health status of the community. They take the results and share them with the community. Community members create coalitions to address the problems and unite resource to create change.

Our mission is to assess, promote, and strengthen the health of Buffalo County.

Our vision is that everyone from all corners of Buffalo County work together to improve the quality of life of those who live in and work in this community.

Our project began in the fall of 1994. After 12 months in the planning and assessment stage, the original 25-member Partners Group created five task forces (vision element committees) to develop a set of health status improvement goals from issues identified from the community assessment.

Fifteen goals for enhancement of health and quality of life were developed in early 1996. Each goal had a stated outcome, supporting rationale, baseline data, and target to be attained for 2001.

Fifteen goal work groups encompassing 200 volunteers attained 50% of these 15 priority health goals by 2001. $290,713 was granted to community coalitions working toward goal attainment. It is estimated that 70,000 people have been served by these grant programs and services per year.