Healthy Communities Initiative:

Grantee Orientation/Leadership Meeting

April 17 – 19, 2013

Mission & Purposes

Healthy Communities Initiative Mission: To promote policy, systems and environmental changes that support healthy eating and active living.

Purposes of the Orientation:•To orient community partners to the Healthy Communities Initiative•To establish the policy focus of the Healthy Communities Initiative•To ground participants in leadership competencies•To connect participants to state and national resources

Who is here today?

Healthy Communities Initiative Leadership Teams

Kansas Health Foundation

Technical Assistance Team:•Center for Community Support & Research •Healthy Kids Challenge•Public Health Law Center

Healthy Communities Initiative Kansas Advisory Committee

HCI Implementation Grant

Kansas Health Foundation will provide:

Funding• Up to $25,000 per year over three years

contingent upon a local cash match of $.50 on the dollar or $12,500 each year.

• Cash Match FAQ

Significant technical assistance• To implement the community change framework

to create an environment that supports the policy priority identified during the planning grant year.

HCI Action Plan

Healthy Communities Initiative Team HCI Leadership Teams Kansas Health Foundation Technical Assistance Providers:

• Center for Community Support & Research• Healthy Kids Challenge• Public Health Law Center

HCI Action Plan

Community Planning Phase One-year planning process Identify one policy priority by September

2013 Develop implementation proposal to

advance policy priority Community Implementation Phase

Funding and technical assistance to implement community change framework to create an environment that supports the policy priority

Policy Priorities

Healthy Eating• Food Policy Councils• Healthy foods in public service venues• Healthy Concessions

Active Living• Safe Routes to School• Complete Streets• Active Transportation

Community Change Framework

Environment that Supports

Community Health Policies

Community Mobilization

Community Education

Advocacy with Organizational

Decision Makers

Educating Government Policymakers

Measuring Progress

The extent to which communities are implementing activities highlighted in grant proposals and help identify:

Barriers getting in the way of implementation.

Why some communities are making more progress than others.

Environmental/contextual factors contributing and/or detracting from progress.

Measuring Progress

The extent to which communities have been able to mobilize others around their policy priorities:

Whether there has been an increase in the number of supporters for the policy priority within the community.

The extent to which communities have been able to target and/or develop quality champions to move the work forward.

How the overall capacity of the coalition, partnership or leadership team is evolving over time.

Measuring Progress

The extent to which public opinion is supportive of the issue:

Whether there has been an overall increase in community awareness around the issue.

Whether there has been an increase in the number and quality of earned media hits or other evidence of public discussion of the issue.

Whether individuals with influence in the community (i.e., policy makers and decision-makers) are aware of the policy priority.

Measuring Progress

Data required from HCI Leadership Teams:

Semi-monthly tracking forms – Gauge how communities are progressing toward policy goals in terms of activities completed.

Leadership Team Assessment – Tool to track progress on the HCI Leadership Team development over time.

Annual Context Mapping – Tool that provides a better understanding of the different individuals and organizations each coalition, partnership or leadership team plans to target during each year of implementation and potential barriers that may hinder progress.

HCI Round 2 Timeline

• April 1, 2013 – March 31, 2014: • Planning Grants• Ongoing Technical Assistance

• September 1, 2013 -- Identify policy priority• October 2 – 4, 2013 -- HCI convening, Wichita, KS• April 1, 2014 – Grant status reports due • May 1, 2014 – KHF invites implementation grants (due June

15th) • August 1, 2014 – Implementation grant awards announced• September 1, 2014 – August 31, 2017:

• Implementation grant period • Ongoing technical assistance

HCI SharePoint Site

•https://www.myctb.org/wst/hci

• Allen County: Claudia Hohnbaum & Ron Alexander• Cheyenne/Rawlins counties: Vickie James & Kevin

Bomhoff• Franklin County: Claudia Hohnbaum & Ron Alexander• Harvey County: Claudia Hohnbaum & Amy Delamaide• Reno County: Claudia Hohnbaum & Scott Wituk• Saline County: Vickie James & Joyce McEwan Crane• Seward County: Vickie James & Amy Delamaide• Stafford County: Claudia Hohnbaum & Joyce McEwan

Crane

PHLC: Mary Marrow, Julie Ralson Aoki, & Natasha Frost

Technical Assistance Contacts

• Timeline• Technical Assistance Contacts • Webinars & Networking • HCI SharePoint • Evaluation

Next Steps