CYBHI NEES Toolkit
A network map
Tools like Kumu or Graph Commons can create interactive network maps (we used Kumu for the example above). These maps help you explore how organizations are connected and where gaps exist. For example, you might find there is a missing connection where one is expected to be. A bar chart A simpler option is to create bar charts that rank organizations by their average strength score or number of strong connections. This can be easily created using Google Sheets, Excel, or PowerPoint. Step 5: Interpret and Share Findings
This step transforms your NEES results into insights your county can act on. The goal is not just to understand the data, but to use it to strengthen collaboration across your behavioral health ecosystem.
After reviewing your summary metrics and visualizations, consider bringing county leaders and partners together to reflect on the results. Sharing the findings transparently helps build a shared understanding of current collaboration patterns, areas of strength, and opportunities for deeper connection. These conversations often surface context and nuance that quantitative findings alone cannot provide, such as existing initiatives, historical relationships, or capacity constraints that influence how organizations work together. Before starting to share findings, consider whether you will share the names of the organizations that responded to the questionnaire. Depending on your unique context and the purpose of your survey, you may wish to keep the specific names of organizations private to protect respondent privacy. To do so, you can consider a label such as “social services provider” or “behavioral health provider”, such as the labels used in the example above. When describing governmental agencies, such as a “county behavioral health
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