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.

 Documents accountability  Encourages continual Quality Improvement  Sets benchmarks on services  Leads to best practice sharing  Helps 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)

ES#4: Detailed Activities  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)

ES#4: Detailed Activities  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)

ES #4: Detailed Activities  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

Who are our partners?  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

ES #4: Examples at ISDH  Mass Prophylaxis Clinics  Chronic Disease Coalitions  Minority Health Coalitions  Community Health Centers and MCH clinics  Rural Health  HIV Prevention Services  Lead Poisoning Prevention

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 CDC National Public Health Performance Standards Program Website: icHealthServices.htm#es2 icHealthServices.htm#es2  Indiana Public Health System Quality Improvement Report (2007).  Council on Linkages Training Project Website: hs.htm#2 hs.htm#2

What does your program do to mobilize community partnerships?