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"At the end of the year we have this beautiful report where I feel very confident about the data and information reporting back to the state." Lauren Randall, MPH, CHES, from Riverside Community Health Foundation (RCHF), discusses managing community health initiatives with ClearPoint Strategy. With multiple health-related projects to manage, including state grants, community engagement efforts, and tracking the performance of health improvement programs, a centralized system that allows meticulous tracking of all activities has made a significant difference. Check out the success story here: https://lnkd.in/gNb2FPcB #HealthcareManagement #Strategy #RiversideCHF #ClearPointStrategy 

Revisiting our 2023 Blogs💡Embedding a broader notion of community health - Dr Nicki Taylor and Dr Gabrielle O’Flynn explore how a broader concept of community and its relationship to community health can shape PDHPE delivery in the future. https://lnkd.in/gHgu9vPj

Thinking about starting a Coalition? 📚Learning from the best is key to success! When establishing Community Health Impact Coalition, we turned to"More than the Sum of Its Parts: Making MSIs Work" - a "Good to Great" for #CoalitionBuilding We highly recommend reading the full report. Here are our key takeaways: https://lnkd.in/e42Yq3qw === We have lots to share— and lots to learn! If you're running a #fieldcatalyst, let's chat!

In this "Ask and Answer" session, a health center wanted to know if they could use grant funding to purchase a van for health services and other community health outreach efforts. The vehicle would travel to hard-to-reach communities, such as areas that are very rural, more than 30 miles from the health center, and to districts with lower primary care use. Could they get a grant for this purpose? Find out our answer and next steps at https://lnkd.in/eNShNFCx. And then please let me know what you think in the comments

Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs) are part strategic plan/part grounding rod, and provide a systematic process for determining health needs in a particular community or population and using results to spur community change. More and more organizations, funders, community collaboratives, and even local government agencies are looking for efficient, effective ways to do CHNA. At IP3, we believe that CHNA should catalyze community change, not just check a box. This post shares how IP3 ASSESS supports a holistic approach that includes robust community and stakeholder engagement, alignment across stakeholder groups, and moving collaboratively from community insight (exploring the data) to concerted community action. https://lnkd.in/gFTRyfm8

🚀 Launch with confidence! 𝗗𝗶𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄? The average time for successful coalitions to move from informal collaboration to launch is 🗓 18 months. Community Health Impact Coalition was no different. 𝗪𝗵𝘆? To go live with existing proof points. To avoid premature launches without consensus from stakeholders on problem definition or solutions. Coalition building need not be a mystery. 👉 Set the stage for impact: https://lnkd.in/e42Yq3qw === We have lots to share— and lots to learn! If you're running a #fieldcatalyst, let's chat!

In recent years, we've seen a surge in groups seeking advice from Community Health Impact Coalition on radical collaboration: How to kick it off? How to make it stick? How to drive major impact? We've got you covered. Introducing "𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗥𝘂𝗻 𝗮 𝗖𝗼𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻." A no-nonsense guide, breaking down the why and how of coalitions, packed with practical insights and trusted resources from our own experience. Check it out here 👉 https://lnkd.in/e-cc-DjB === We have lots to share— and lots to learn! If you're running a #fieldcatalyst, let's chat!

Community engagement is critical to the success of interventions like PMC, to promote target behaviors, foster community ownership, and enable feedback between caregivers, community members, providers, and decision-makers at all levels of the health system. At the beginning of the project, human-centered design techniques were used to elevate the voices and experiences of key community stakeholders in each partner country.   More than one year into PMC implementation through Plus Project, uptake is high and effective strategies are in place to reach children lost to follow-up because of early community buy-in. To learn more, read about our approach to community engagement here: https://lnkd.in/dUYCRpHb

Because it was a short piece, we couldn’t capture all of the great work done by community groups. But extremely grateful to have worked with dedicated professionals across the European Region on community engagement projects on COVID-19. As countries rebuild after the pandemic, investing in community engagement and looking for community input in recovery and resilience is needed like never before. We hope the examples also provide inspiration and insight for future disease outbreaks on how communities can be involved. And I could not have asked for better colleagues! Elsa Laino Nicola Cullen Alice Allan Camila Picchio #communityengagement #infectiousdiseases Link in the comments