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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Health and Medicine Division; Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice; Roundtable on Population Health Improvement. Exploring Equity in Multisector Community Health Partnerships: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington (DC): National Academies Press (US); 2017 Jun 13.

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Exploring Equity in Multisector Community Health Partnerships: Proceedings of a Workshop.

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BWorkshop Agenda

  • Roundtable on Population Health Improvement
  • Exploring the Infrastructure of Multisector Community Health Partnerships: A Workshop
  • December 8, 2016
  • James Irvine Conference Center
  • Kaiser East Bay Community Foundation, Oakland, California

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES

1.

Explore multisector community health partnerships that engage residents, reduce health disparities, and improve health and well-being with the aim of understanding the following:

a.

Common elements (including measurements, evaluation tools, methods, strategies) used by partnerships that can be shared with others.

b.

Models or strategies that engage residents on a continuum from initial engagement through leadership development and sustained participation in community health improvement over time.

c.

Strategies or infrastructure that contribute to overcoming health disparities and improving overall community health and well-being, particularly for the most vulnerable residents.

d.

Potential co-benefits that accrue to communities and institutions that participate in multisector partnerships.

2.

Engage speakers from a range of multisector partnerships in a structured way about what they have learned makes their partnerships and initiatives effective and the challenges that they have had to overcome in order to create change in their community.

3.

Engage workshop participants in a structured discussion with the goal of developing a list to be included with the proceedings that lists strategies for sharing power and engaging with different partners in developing and sustaining multisector collaborative relationships.

8:30 a.m.
  • Welcome and Overview of the Day
  • Sanne Magnan, co-chair, Roundtable on Population Health Improvement
  • George Flores, senior program manager, Healthy California Prevention Team, The California Endowment; chair, planning committee; member, Roundtable on Population Health Improvement
9:00 a.m.
  • Community-Driven Approaches and Perspectives on Building Healthy Communities
  • Moderator: Anthony Iton, senior vice president for Healthy Communities, The California Endowment
  • Speaker: Kanwarpal Dhaliwal, co-founder and community health director, RYSE Center, Richmond, California
  • Speaker: Andrea Manzo, hub manager, Building Healthy Communities, East Salinas, California
  • Speaker: Dawn Phillips, co-director of programs, Causa Justa: Just Cause, Oakland, California
10:00 a.m.
  • Q&A Discussion Facilitated by Tony Iton
10:30 a.m.
  • Break
10:45 a.m.
  • Approaches and Perspectives on Community Engagement in Partnerships to Improve Community Health
  • Moderator: Soma Stout, executive lead, 100 Million Healthier Lives, Institute for Healthcare Improvement; member, planning committee
  • Speaker: Will Douglas, manager, community impact, Tenderloin Health Improvement Partnership, San Francisco, California
  • Speaker: Jennifer Lacson Varano, manager, Community Benefit and Emergency Management, Tenderloin Health Improvement Partnership, San Francisco, California
  • Speaker: Teal VanLanen, community activator, Algoma School District; healthy children team lead, Live Algoma, Wisconsin
  • Speaker: Pete Knox, executive vice president, Bellin Health; chief learning and innovation officer, Live Algoma, Wisconsin
11:45 a.m.
  • Q&A Discussion Facilitated by Soma Stout
12:15 p.m.
  • Lunch
1:00 p.m.
  • Approaches to and Perspectives on Community Engagement in Partnerships to Build a Culture of Health
  • Moderator: Jomella Watson-Thompson, associate professor, Applied Behavioral Science; associate director, Work Group for Community Health and Development, University of Kansas; member, planning committee
  • Speaker: Shelton McElroy, project manager, Metro United Way; Change Makers leadership instructor, Jefferson Community and Technical College, Louisville, Kentucky
  • Speaker: Yesenia Castro, Mid-Columbia health equity advocates coalition coordinator, Nuestra Comunidad Sana and The Next Door, Inc., Columbia Gorge Region, Oregon and Washington
  • Speaker: Stephanie Co, special assistant to the president, Beyond Housing, 24:1 Community, North Saint Louis, Missouri
2:00 p.m.Q&A Discussion Facilitated by Jomella Watson-Thompson
2:30 p.m.
  • Break
2:45 p.m.
  • Table Discussion with Speakers and Community Members
  • Each table should identify a facilitator/reporter and develop a list with examples that answer the following questions:
  • The first multi-part question was answered by speakers and was not separately discussed by the eight table discussion groups.
1.

What are the resources and capacities needed to initiate and sustain community health partnerships?

a.

Human resources (e.g., skills, abilities, specialized knowledge, expertise, experience, leadership development, relationships)

b.

Organizational resources (e.g., backbone, health integrator, dedicated staff)

c.

Financial resources (e.g., sources of startup and sustainable funding, foundations, corporations, government funding streams, braided funding streams)

d.

Informational resources (e.g., data collecting and sharing; technical support)

e.

Communication resources (e.g., in-person and online meetings or webinars, social media, listserv)

f.

Policy (e.g., local, state, federal)

2.

What are the principles and practices of engagement and power sharing in multisector community partnerships (e.g., language, roles, leadership development, individual residents, and institutional relationships)

3.

How do you build the relationships and bridges that enable you to work with people that have different viewpoints and personal and institutional positions of power, particularly at moments of community pain and polarization?

4.

What are the (other) barriers and challenges to building and sustaining community partnerships?

5.

What is your proudest accomplishment? What has been most meaningful to you in doing this work?

6.

Have you made mistakes? If you could go back to the beginning and start from scratch, is there anything that you would do differently?

7.

How do partnerships use data to inform learning, strategy, decision making, and future actions?

8.

How are partnerships evaluated and their impact measured?

9.

How can community health partnerships use communications and social media to advance health improvement agendas?

3:45 p.m.
  • Report Out and Discussion in Plenary
4:30 p.m.
  • Closing Remarks and Reflections on the Day
  • George Flores
  • George Isham, co-chair, Roundtable on Population Health Improvement
5:00 p.m.
  • Adjourn
Copyright 2018 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
Bookshelf ID: NBK507112

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