Mobilize Partnerships to Identify and Solve Health Problems

Improve quality and performance.

Achieve better outcomes – improved health, less preventable death and disease.

Be more efficient with time and money.

Receive national accreditation.

Why is accreditation important?

Documents accountabilityEncourages continual Quality

ImprovementSets benchmarks on servicesLeads to best practice sharingHelps to identify gaps in

performance

In “plain English”: Engage people and organizations in health issues.

“How well do we really get people and organizations engaged in health issues?”

(CDC,2008)

Constituency development and identification of system partners and stakeholders

Coalition development

Formal and informal partnerships to promote health improvement

(CDC, 2008)

Build statewide partnerships to: Collaborate in the performance of public

health functions and essential services Utilize the full range of available human

and material resources

Improve the state's health status (CDC, 2008)

Organize and provide leadership to: Convene, facilitate, and collaborate with

statewide partners (including non-traditional)

Identify public health priorities based on the work from E.S. # 1 (Monitor) and # 2 (Diagnose)

Create effective solutions to solve state and local health problems

(CDC, 2008)

Build statewide partnerships to: Collaborate in performing public health

functions and essential services

Utilize the full range of available human and material resources

Improve the state's health status (CDC, 2008)

Assist partners and communities to:

Organize and undertake actions

Improve the health of the state's communities

(CDC, 2008)

Use the 4 Model Standards:

1. Planning and Implementation: Do we conduct a variety of community building practices, including engagement, constituency development, and partnership mobilization, to identify and solve health problems?

Model Standard

2. State-Local Relationships: How well do we engage local health systems in partnerships to provide technical assistance, capacity building and resources?

Model Standard

3. Performance Management and Quality Improvement: How often do we review the effectiveness of our partnership-mobilizing efforts and use this information to improve?

Model Standard

4. Public Health Capacity and Resources: Do we effectively invest in and utilize human, information, organizational and financial resources to produce mobilization efforts that meet the health needs of the state’s population?

Skill to :

Partner with communities to understand quantitative and qualitative data

Skill to:

Collect , summarize , and interpret information

State policy options ; write clear, concise policy statements

Skill to :Lead and participate in groups to

address specific issues

Present accurate demographic, statistical, programmatic, and scientific information for professional and lay audiences

Skill to

Establish and maintain linkages with key

stakeholders

Use leadership skills to build community

partnerships

Collaborate with community partners

Accomplish effective community engagements

Identify community assets and available resources

Other State Agencies (e.g., FSSA, IDEM, DOE, ITPC, Homeland Security, OFBS)

Colleges and Universities Statewide Professional Organizations

(e.g., IEHA, INSOPHE, IPHA, INPHCA, IRHA, ISMA, ISNA, IAFP, IHHA, IMHC, IAPHP, IDA)

Voluntary Health Agencies (ACS, AHA, ALA, AF ADA and more)

Policy and Decision-makers Local Health Departments and their

partners

Mass Prophylaxis Clinics Chronic Disease Coalitions Minority Health Coalitions Community Health Centers and MCH

clinics Rural Health HIV Prevention Services Lead Poisoning Prevention

Laura HeinrichDiabetes Program

Chronic Disease Division

CDC National Public Health Performance Standards Program Website: http://www.cdc.gov/od/ocphp/nphpsp/EssentialPublicHealthServices.htm#es2

Indiana Public Health System Quality Improvement Report (2007).

Council on Linkages Training Project Website: http://www.trainingfinder.org/competencies/list_ephs.htm#2

What does your program do to mobilize community

partnerships?