Quick Guide
Definition: Establish vehicles and venues to support/develop meaningful collaboration.
Why It Matters: It is essential to build a framework for collaboration within an organization. It allows for more efficient processes, better communication, and increased productivity leading to overall improved health outcomes for communities.
| Type | Title | Description |
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| Examples | Power-building Partnerships for Health: Lessons from Santa Barbara About Building Power to Protect Farmworker Health and Advance Health Equity | This article highlights the importance of relationship building within Power-Building Partnerships for Health (PPH) and discusses Santa Barbara County Public Health Department’s collaboration with two community organizing groups. |
| Templates | Preparing for Successful Public Meetings: Checklist for Before, During, and After | This tool provides a short, accessible checklist for preparing successful public meetings with communities and partners. |
| Templates | Partnership Assessment Tool for Health (PATH) | This fillable tool is intended for community-based organizations (CBOs) and healthcare organizations engaged in partnerships to provide services to populations in need. The tool includes a partnership questionnaire and discussion guide to facilitate future meetings. |
| Templates | PATH Addendum | This tool is an addendum to PATH that allows for CBOs and healthcare organizations to identify benchmark characteristics within partnerships that advance health equity. |
| Trainings | Essentials of Collaboration | This 1-hour interactive course examines how efficient teamwork can result in improved population health. Using a case study to explain essential principles, you will receive guidance on breaking down silos, aligning activities across sectors, and cooperating effectively. The course's definition of a successful collaboration lays the groundwork for teaming up with others to improve your community. |
| Guides | Effective Public Engagement through Strategies and Communication | This guide serves as a tip sheet and offers communication strategies that local governments can incorporate into public engagement efforts. The sheet shares steps organizations can take before, during, and after engagement. |
| Guides | Engaging Your Community : A Toolkit for Partnership, Collaboration, and Action | This toolkit is designed to help organizations build effective partnerships, carry out creative outreach initiatives, and develop persuasive communications that speak to various community groups and populations. The toolkit provides instructions for conducting self-evaluations of a partnership, as well as outreach techniques to involve community residents and other organizations. It also provides resources for enhancing these tactics to increase organizational capacity. |
| Guides | Promoting Effective Public Participation at Governing Body Meetings: Opportunities to Deepen Public Participation and Trust | This publication provides suggestions to improve the process of receiving public input during local agency meetings and opportunities to deepen public participation and trust. |
| Guides | Resources for Collaboration and Power Sharing | This guide is for health departments seeking to share authority with community power-building organizations (CPBOs) and provides action-oriented steps to improve collaboration. |
| Guides | Resources for Collaborations and Power Sharing Between Government Agencies and Community Power- Building Organizations | This guide outlines the benefits of partnerships between government entities and community power-building groups and offers a variety of models for collaboration. |
| Guides | Strengthening and Sustaining Public Engagement: A Planning Guide for Communities | This guide instructs local governments, elected officials, and/or school systems on how to strengthen and sustain public engagement in planning strategies. Considerations such as types of engagement, when to prioritize engagement, and how to build more robust engagement methods are included. |
| Guides | Planning Public Engagement: Key Questions for Local Officials | This guide provides 14 key questions for local agencies to consider when engaging with the public. |
| Guides | Integration to Improve Health: Partnership Models between CBOs and Healthcare Organizations | This resource focuses on common approaches organizations can take by working together to approve health outcomes through service models, financial relationships, data, partnerships, and governance. Each category has a variety of real-life examples that serve as additional learning opportunities for readers. |
| Frameworks | Build Health Challenge: Keys to Collaboration | The BUILD Health Challenge (BUILD) is a framework that identifies four dynamic stages of collaboration that are essential to developing successful partnerships aimed at promoting health equity. The stages include examples, and takeaways for organizations for Building Relationships, Establishing a Team, Defining Roles and Creating Structure, and Communicating to Build Trust. |
| Articles | CBOs Perspective on Improving Health and Social Services Integration | This article discusses the perspectives of CBOs on service delivery and suggestions for improving health system partnerships. To create lasting and sustainable partnerships, CBOs must feel supported and the relationship must be mutually beneficial. |
| Articles | Collaboration Between Health Systems and CBOs | This executive summary highlights different approaches to overcoming early challenges in forming new partnerships. It provides examples and discusses common themes and lessons learned. Each strategy ensures the voices of the CBOs and their communities are valued in the priority setting and decision-making process. |
| Articles | Advancing Healthcare and CBOs to Address Social Determinants of Health | This executive summary focuses on the collaboration between three healthcare-CBO partnerships. It is intended to help refine relationship with current or existing partners and/or agencies exploring new collaborations. |
| Articles | Power-Building Partnerships for Health: Key Impacts 2018-2019 | This resource highlights the key impacts of the Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative (BARHII) and the Public Health Alliance of Southern California's pilot project to develop and support partnerships between five local California health departments and community organizing groups. The partnerships focus on building community power to improve systems and/or policy change that advance health equity. |
| 2023 CA LHJ Examples | San Mateo County Health: Community Collaboration | The Government Alliance for Race & Equity (GARE) at San Mateo County Health provides a network to share information and collaborate on equity efforts. Structures such as the Behavioral Health and Recovery Services’ Health Equity Initiatives, and a new Community Collaborative Model with Public Health, provide avenues for connection, communication, and trust-building between County Health and community. Structures vary by division. |
| Type | Title | Description |
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| Examples | 2-1-1 San Diego - Connecting Partners through the Community Information Exchang | Developed by 2-1-1 San Diego, this case study highlights the Community Information Exchange (CIE) data platform, which enables health and social services to obtain a better understanding of interactions across systems, agencies, and community services. |
| Templates | Estimating the Total Cost of Partnership | This Excel spreadsheet can assist organizations to estimate the overall cost of a partnership for up to three years. It identifies the resources required to prioritize crucial decisions, consult with stakeholders, advocate for additional funding and maintain focus on the shared objectives. |
| Templates | Value Proposition Tool: Articulating Value within Community- Based and Healthcare Organizations Partnerships | This tool is intended for CBOs and healthcare organizations looking to form a new partnership or seeking clarification on the value of an existing partnership. For those considering a new partnership, this tool can help unite common objectives and determine the overall value of a partnership. |
| Webinars | Advancing Healthcare and CBOs Partnerships to Address Social Determinants: Lessons from the Field | This webinar includes effective strategies for producing and sustaining healthcare and CBO partnerships that address the social determinants of health. |
| Webinars | Power-building for Health Departments Webinar - Part 1 | Part 1 of Human Impact Partners webinar series, Power-Building for Health Departments: Power 101. This webinar is intended for health department leaders, staff, and partners. It focuses on the foundational concepts, introductory frameworks, and strategies for shifting, sharing, and building community power. |
| Webinars | Power-building for Health Departments Webinar - Part 2 | Part 2 of HIP webinar series, Power-Building for Health Departments: Tools for Analyzing and Redistributing Power. This webinar focuses on tools for analyzing and redistributing power. Participants include representatives from Santa Barbara and Riverside Counties in California. |
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| 2023 CA LHJ Examples | Live Healthy Napa County Language Inclusion Listening Sessions Summary Report | Napa County Health and Human Services Agency-Public Health has added a staff intern classification, strengthening their local Public Health workforce pipeline. Through their Live Healthy Napa County (LHNC) collaborative, they continue to convene partners in action teams to increase Respect and Social Inclusion within Napa County. One of the action teams, the LHNC Language Inclusion action team, has engaged community members to identify gaps in information and resource access. The team created a report of their findings as well as a document of information and resource access points for Spanish-speaking community members in Napa County. |
| 2023 CA LHJ Examples | Marin County Public Health Collaboratives | Marin County Health & Human Services has a long history of developing, nurturing, and evolving community collaboratives to address public health issues & achieve shared goals (Community Collaboratives: Healthy Marin Partnership, Marin HIV/AIDS Care Council, Marin Prevention Network, Marin Perinatal Service Providers Network, Marin Oral Health Steering Committee, Healthy Eating Active Living Collaborative, OD Free Marin, Community Resilience Teams, Community Health Worker Collaborative, Equity and Community Partnerships Committee, Marin County Suicide Prevention Collaborative, and Aging Action Initiative among others). Marin County seeks to provide compensation to community members whose participation may cause financial hardship, while also honoring their expertise and experience. Many collaboratives within HHS are focusing on increasing inclusive participation and amplifying the voices of community members from historically disenfranchised communities. |