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Cross-Sector Partnerships and the Dashboard-Ready Community
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 programsAdministration, 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
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.