3094.0: Monday, November 13, 2000: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM | ||||
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| In 1996, the Allina Foundation, a non-profit foundation affiliated with a large Minnesota-based health system, funded a two million dollar multi-year project to identify strategies that work in community-based or population-based health improvement and to create an infrastructure for evaluation. Project REACH I (Research, Education and Community Health) increased the capacity of community organizations and provider groups to work with each other to improve their community’s health through the community health improvement model (assessment. planning, intervention, evaluation). Part II was developed in response to a report from the Minnesota Department of Health and the Urban Coalition on the status of low-income populations, including populations of color, in Minnesota. Since 1996, 56 community-based initiatives have received funding. The outcomes of Project REACH are as follows: 1) to build capacity by creating awareness that capacity was an issue (34 technical assistance grants @ $5000); 2) to create genuine interest in what works in communities with a focus on evaluation (10 grants @ $100,000 each); 3) to foster shared decision-making in grant awards through a public-private proposal review board and a national advisory panel. Three projects will discuss results, lessons learned and system change as a result of the project. A Minnesota Department of Health representative will give a public health system viewpoint of community partnerships. The Allina discussant will close the session with lessons learned and translation into clinical practice and systems change | ||||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: Refer to the individual abstracts for learning objectives | ||||
| Janny Dwyer Brust, MPH | ||||
| Minority Health Public-Private Partnerships: Minnesota Department of Health Perspective Ryan Church, MBA | ||||
| Phillips Neighborhood Healthy Housing Initiative: Promoting a Healthy Partnership Between a Community and its Institutions Catherine Jordan | ||||
| Project REACH: Lessons Learned and Translation into Clinical Practice Georgianna Lee Bell, MPH, MBA | ||||
| Project REACH: Reducing Health Disparities and Building Capacity Through Public-Private Partnerships Janny Dwyer Brust, MPH | ||||
| Improving Teacher Asthma Knowledge in the Minneapolis Public Schools Gail Brottman, MD | ||||
| Lessons Learned: The Northside Breastfeeding Campaign Bonny Skovbroten, RN, MAN, Patricia Splett, RD, PhD | ||||
| Sponsor: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development | |||
| Cosponsors: | Food and Nutrition; Health Administration | |||