1. Capacities for Successful Implementation
Understanding of Community-Centered Health
Shared understanding of the importance of the community and social environment in achieving health
Process for orienting partners and stakeholders
Ownership
Shared excitement and energy for agenda
Working Relationships
Strong, mutually beneficial
Engages residents, community and clinical organizations, and others who can help change community conditions
Partners have clarity on how to contribute their strengths
Transparency in operations
Vision/Goals
Articulated desired future for both health outcomes and related community conditions
Supported by outcomes and measures
Data
Health Outcomes
Community Conditions
Patient or community resident input are collected and shared to inform priorities
Distributed Leadership Active leadership includes
resident-leaders
clinical and community organizations
partners in business and government
Advocacy
Members advocate for relevant policy and systems changes in organizations, government and business
Clinical and Organizational Change
Processes, practices, training and staffing within clinical and community organizations promote and achieve health
Structure
Agreed upon process for making collective decisions about priorities and resource allocation
Agreed roles and responsibilities
Focused and Aligned Commitments
Shared decision making to prioritize strategies
Partner activities, capacities and agendas align
Resources
Knowledge, training, money, relationships, etc. are identified, leveraged and allocated to support partners in their respective roles