Created in 1999, the Center for Sustainable Health Outreach (CSHO), a collaboration between the University of Southern Mississippi and the Harrison Institute for Public Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, believes that Community Health Workers are an effective and efficient means of improving community health. CSHO supports the development, implementation, sustainability, and evaluation of community health workers and community health worker programs.
Although sustainability is traditionally thought of in terms of dollars and cents fundraising, understanding and affecting public policy are critical components in making sure that CHWs and CHW programs are recognized as integral to the health care delivery system. CSHO has developed an interactive hands-on workshop to provide CHWs with the basic knowledge and tools to develop coalitions and partnership around issues relevant to their work, and to implement the strategies needed to effect outcomes in the public policy arena.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the presentation, participants in this session should be able to: 1) List the steps necessary to organize a coalition around an issue; 2) Develop a coalition building strategy to affect policy change; 3) Implement communication strategies that include: letter-writing campaigns to policymakers, developing press releases and fliers , and drafting letters to the editor;
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: None
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.