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CHEROKEE COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES COUNCIL

A healthier community.
A clearer path to help.

A public-facing digital home for a community health organization in Northeastern Oklahoma.

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The live CCHSC homepage, with its original green and cream brand colors, community photograph, and links to local health resources.
Cherokee County Health Services Council / LIVE PUBLIC WEBSITE

The live public website, captured in November 2026. Website content and photography courtesy of CCHSC.

CLIENT

Cherokee County Health
Services Council

SECTOR

Community health
& nonprofit

SCOPE

Website design
& development

STATUS

Public website live
Portal in development

THE CONTEXT

A local mission.
Many ways to serve it.

Cherokee County Health Services Council works to strengthen community health through education, resources, and partnerships. Its website needs to serve people looking for help as well as volunteers, partners, and community members.

We designed and built the organization’s public website to bring those needs into a shared digital home: a place to understand the work, find local resources, and discover ways to get involved.

The challenge is one of clarity. Someone looking for a local service needs a different path from a potential partner exploring the council’s programs. The site brings those paths together without asking every visitor to start in the same place.

THE PUBLIC EXPERIENCE

Useful information.
A clearer way through.

01 / FIND HELP

Community resource directory

A searchable directory organizes local services into categories including food, medical care, housing, transportation, and mental health.

Categories use the language of the need, while individual resource pages provide the next layer of detail. The directory also explains its role and gives visitors a route to report information that needs updating.

02 / UNDERSTAND THE WORK

Programs & community events

Public program pages and event information give visitors ways to explore the council’s work and connect with community activity.

A shared program layout makes the introduction, service area, supporting information, and relevant next steps easier to find. The program overview connects these individual pages into a broader picture of the organization’s work.

03 / TAKE A NEXT STEP

Ways to get involved

Clear routes to volunteering, partnerships, donations, and contact help people move from learning about the mission to taking part.

These are distinct visitor intentions, so each has a clear destination. The public website gives people context before asking them to choose an action.

04 / BUILD A FOUNDATION

A considered public home

The public website gives the organization an established place to share its mission, team, resources, and important service information.

Consistent navigation and page patterns connect these different kinds of information. Visitors can move between a program, a resource category, and the organization behind them while remaining within the same public experience.

THE DESIGN LOGIC

Different journeys.
A coherent whole.

Lead with the visitor’s task.

The public experience offers clear routes to learn about the council, find resources, explore programs, or participate. The page structure helps the purpose of each route stay visible.

Give detailed content a repeatable shape.

Resource categories and program detail pages hold different information, but both use clear headings and grouped content to make that information easier to scan.

Keep public information intentional.

The screens shown here contain public service and organization information. Internal operational work belongs to the separate portal engagement and is not represented as a finished public feature.

THE NEXT CHAPTER

Beyond the
public website.

The portal is still in development. It is a separate part of the engagement, with its own workflows, access requirements, and review process. We’ll share more as that work progresses.

Portal in development
YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

Good work deserves
a better foundation.

Tell us what you’re working toward.
We’ll help you figure out what comes next.

Let’s build something meaningful
YOUR CHOICE

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