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Engaging Non-Traditional Stakeholders Around The Issue of Alcohol: Experiences in New York City
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The Partnership for a Healthier New York City (PHNYC) has prioritized this strategy in its efforts to raise awareness about alcohol-related harms and the need to transform communities to reduce those harms.
Results: PHNYC developed collaborations with key individuals and organizations working to promote sexual health, and to prevent and reduce sexual assault, violence, and suicide. Additional links were formed with populations experiencing disproportionate levels of alcohol-related harm (e.g., the LGBTQ community, women-serving organizations, etc.). Furthermore, faith-based communities played a special role—owing to their commitment to social justice and healthy neighborhoods.
PHNYC has strategically partnered with these stakeholders to raise awareness of the connections between alcohol and their focus issues through various activities, including cross-sectoral symposia, photovoice exploration into neighborhood conditions, narrative collections, and more.
Conclusions: It is vital that public health practitioners and advocates create opportunities for multi-sectoral stakeholders to come together and amplify the voice around alcohol and its related harms.
Learning Areas:
Advocacy for health and health educationImplementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Learning Objectives:
Identify non-traditional stakeholders to engage around alcohol
Describe processes for starting dialogue and building working relationships towards shared goals across sectors
Keyword(s): Alcohol Use, Community-Based Partnership & Collaboration
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have been the Program Manager for Alcohol Education for the Partnership for a Healthier New York City since April of 2012. I also have an MPH in Health Policy from the Yale School of Public Health, so have been trained as a public health professional.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.