142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Cross-Sector Partnerships and the Dashboard-Ready Community

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Mark Wallace, M.D., M.P.H. , North Colorado Health Alliance, Evans, CO
Vincent Atchity, Ph.D. , North Colorado Health Alliance, Evans, CO
Tyler Payne , North Colorado Health Alliance, Evans, CO
In Colorado’s Weld County, organizations from all sectors of the economy are using a community dashboard to improve consumer and population health and yield a sustainable surge in prosperity. The North Colorado Health Alliance and the Weld County Department of Public Health operationalized a dashboard to engage partner organizations in formulating a calendar-driven plan for collective impact and engage the population at the grassroots level.

The utility of a population health dashboard depends on cross-sector commitment to shared goals and a desired destination. Leadership, advocacy, and consistent strategic messaging in broadly accessible terms may be necessary for many months in order to create a shared language of high-level outcomes. The dashboard-ready community must share a universally appealing idea about where it is trying to get, the sort of idea that is often met with resistance by organizations and individuals deep in expertise, mired in detail, and entrenched in status quo operations.

Healthy People 2020 provides a destination and a sense of urgency. Reaching these population health goals in six years requires an end to business as usual. Leadership, advocacy, and consistent strategic messaging are necessary to instill an appropriate sense of urgency throughout a community.

The North Colorado Health Alliance, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, gives community partners a forum for developing a shared strategic language, disseminates consistent and accessible messaging throughout the community, contributes to coordinated population movement, and uses the dashboard to accelerate velocity of change.

Learning Areas:

Administer health education strategies, interventions and programs
Administration, management, leadership
Advocacy for health and health education
Communication and informatics
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs

Learning Objectives:
Describe dashboard concept in terms accessible to community at large Design campaign for creating community buy-in at grassroots and organizational levels Formulate calendar-driven plan for collective impact Identify key communications channels for community navigation Identify new community partners and cross-sector leveraging opportunities Understand role of dashboard advocates in accomplishing tactical objectives

Keyword(s): Information Technology, Public/Private Partnerships

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the Collective Impact Coordinator for the North Colorado Health Alliance. The Alliance is the backbone organization that shares responsibility with the county health department for the development and deployment of the community dashboard.
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.