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Partnerships for Improving Community Health Training Series

Series Goal: Strengthen capacities for collaborative community-based health improvement efforts

Series Objectives: (participants will be able to)

  • Implement strategies for building and sustaining partnerships
  • Assess partnership effectiveness
  • Apply tools and techniques to collaborations towards alignment and achievement of shared health outcome goals

Mobilizing community partners to identify and solve health problems is among the Ten Essential Public Health Services. Building partnerships is a foundational step in community health assessment and health improvement planning as well as for other community-based public health interventions. The National Association for County and City Health Officials’ (NACCHO’s) Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) strategic community health planning model includes partnership building among its key elements in organizing for successful community-driven health improvement efforts.

The modules below are based on materials from the Partnerships for Improving Community Health regional meetings held around the state in 2009 and current literature (see bibliography). In addition to the presentations, tools and links to other resources are included for each module.

Module & Objective ZIP

Nuts and Bolts of Partnership Development

Module 1		 Module 1 - Nuts and Bolts of Partnership Development Materials -- Opens a ZIP file in a New Window (ZIP, 2.14Mb)

Objectives:

  • Implement strategies for building and sustaining partnerships
  • Use tools to identify and inventory roles and skills needed for the partnership
  • Apply skills to identify and retain active partners

Materials:

Techniques for Sustaining Community Partnerships

Module 2		 Module 2 - Techniques for Sustaining Community Partnerships -- Opens a ZIP file in a New Window (ZIP, 3.5Mb)

Objectives:

  • List indicators of a successful partnership
  • Describe why trust is so important in partnerships
  • Select and apply tools, techniques and strategies that contribute to partnership sustainability
  • Identify innovative roles for partners

Materials:

Leadership and Facilitation

Module 3		 Module 3 - Leadership and Facilitation -- Opens a ZIP file in a New Window (ZIP, 2.2Mb)

Objectives:

  • Define roles and responsibilities of facilitator and leader.
  • Share resources for leadership and facilitation development and facilitation techniques for meeting success.

Materials:

Evaluating your Partnership

Module 4		 Module 4 - Evaluating your Partnership -- Opens a ZIP file in a New Window (ZIP, 9.2Mb)

Objectives:

  • Gain better understanding of types and functions of partnership assessments and evaluation
  • Become familiar with evaluation and assessment tools
  • Be able to make informed choices on applying partnership assessment and evaluation techniques

Materials:
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