Answers to your questions about the 5HF Survey
Editor’s note: We ran an article a few weeks ago about the survey 5HF is conducting. This article answers any questions that may have arisen.
by Matt Pegouskie, 5 Healthy Towns Foundation
Would you like an opportunity to influence grant funding for your local community? Are you interested in making a difference in five minutes or less? Now is your chance! 5 Healthy Towns Foundation is conducting our 5 Healthy Towns survey this fall. The survey gives us an opportunity to collect information about our communities that will assist the foundation and your local Community Wellness Coalition. We know you might have questions about how the information is used, privacy of that information, and how you can access the survey. We’ve attempted to answer your questions below! If you have any additional questions, please feel free to contact 5 Healthy Towns Foundation at matt@5healthytowns.org.
Q: How do I take the survey?
A: Visit www.5hfsurvey.com or scan the QR code below with your phone.
Q: When will the 5 Healthy Towns Survey be available to the public?
A: We will collect responses for the survey from October 6 through December 7, 2025.
Q: Who should complete the survey?
A: Anyone over age 18 living in the Stockbridge, Manchester, Grass Lake, Dexter, or Chelsea school districts.
Q: When did we last do the 5 Healthy Towns Survey?
A: We issued the first 5 Healthy Towns Survey in 2020 and a follow-up survey in 2022. We use the results of those surveys to select priorities for our strategic plans, and to help guide your local Wellness Coalition in their granting processes.
Q: Why should I participate in the 5 Healthy Towns Survey again?
A: 5 Healthy Towns Foundation spends more than $1,000,000 per year in our 5 Healthy Towns. We want to spend it on things that make a difference to you, and we’d like to know how that’s changed since 2022.
Q: How long will it take?
A: About five minutes.
Q: Can more than one person in my household take the survey?
A. Yes! In fact we hope every person over 18 in your household and in the community will take the survey.
Q: What will 5 Healthy Towns Foundation learn from this survey?
A: The results will help us understand your greatest wellness needs. For instance, we will learn which communities and demographic groups (seniors, youth, those who are alone…) need nutrition or fitness resources. We will learn where you connect so we can fortify those places and organizations. Mostly we will learn how we can help you stay or get well. The 2025 survey will also allow our foundation to look at trend lines to help determine how best to spend our funds.
Q: Are my answers confidential?
A: Yes. We will only look at the information according to “demographics.” We won’t tie individual data to anyone — not even those who provide contact information in order to be in the drawing described at the end of this Q&A.
Q: Will you tell us what you learn from the survey?
A: You can count on it. We will report back in an upcoming issue of Connected, with your local wellness coalitions, and with other community organizations. Survey results are always posted on OneBigConnection.org in the Facts and Figures section. We have local survey results there that stretch back to 2015’s local Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance Survey. If you want, you can call us and we’ll talk with you about what we learn. 734-433-4599.
Q: What else do I need to know?
A: Opt in the prize section of the survey and you’ll be entered into a drawing. Once every two weeks we will select winners for prizes such as tickets to Greenfield Village’s Holiday Nights and local restaurant gift cards.
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