Center for Civic Partnerships

Prior Technical Support Events/Activities

Technical Support Workshops

Two-day workshops involving sharing, building skills, and acquiring new information

October 3-4, 1996
Systems integration, economic development, evaluation, using the Internet, local polls and benchmarks/indicators.
Total attendees: 48

January 9-10, 1997
Finance reform, policy development, resident involvement, strategy development, evaluation, RFP guidelines and public information strategies. Included a site visit to Partners for Healthy Neighborhoods in Oceanside.
Total attendees: 44

June 12-13, 1997
Health Partnership sharing and systems change plans, Partnership development for systems change, creating integrated systems and population health measurement.
Total attendees: 52

January 7-8, 1998
System integration, integrated data systems, balancing community ownership and lead agency accountability, linking direct services with systems change, expanding and maintaining Partnership membership.
Total attendees: 38

June 3-4, 1998
Cultural competency, indicators, benchmarks and report cards, involving the business community, resident involvement, using data, policy organizing and advocacy, institutionalization and sustainability of systems change efforts, improving policies affecting services for immigrants. Included a site visit to North Sacramento/Del Paso Heights Community Health Alliance.
Total attendees: 43

January 6-7, 1999
Sustainability, county involvement in neighborhood level services, conflict resolution, media advocacy, using polling data, presentation skills and resident involvement.
Total attendees: 41

January 5-6, 2000
Organizational, resident and agency leadership, cultural diversity, policy education, sustainability and using evaluation data in decision-making.
Total Attendees: 47

June 9, 2000
Policy Leadership, Sustainability, Leveraging Local Business Resources,Storytelling, and Local Evaluation.
Total attendees: 40

February 21-23, 2001
Writing for publication, Outcome Evaluation, transferring lessons learned to other community improvement efforts.

Regional Workshops

One-day workshop focused on a specific topic

December 1996
Asset-based community development
Total attendees: 42

November 1997
Finance reform
Total attendees: 42

May 1998
Policy development
Total attendees: 28

Project Coordinators' Meetings

Meetings of HII Coordinators for sharing and problem-solving

December 8, 1997
Preventing/reducing coordinator overload, governance structures, systems change and communication issues.
Total attendees: 6

December 4, 1998
Balancing the needs of multiple constituents, refining/scaling down of activities, personnel management, working effectively with local evaluators, tapping into the HII learning community and preventing/reducing coordinator burnout.
Total attendees: 8

May 18-19, 1999
Disseminating the Louis Harris polling data to community members, capacity building, getting HP members motivated to begin discussing sustainability issues and preventing/reducing coordinator burnout.
Total attendees: 7

December 3, 1999
Balancing the Needs of HP, TCWF, and lead agency, preparing for sustainability, community linkages, effectively working with subcontractors, accessing support grantees, leadership opportunities.
Total attendees: 8

October 26-27, 2000
Sustainability, project phase-down, leadership, role of project coordinators.

Policy Education Workshops

One-day workshops focused on skill building and information sharing for policy change

December 3, 1998
Developing health improvement policies, guidelines on lobbying, planning for implementation, city/county perspectives and training community members on policy.
Total attendees: 29

December 2, 1999
Creating and implementing organizational change, effectively using polling data, policy publications and support grantee consultations.

Lessons Learned Meeting

Sharing lessons learned from Initiative efforts

May 18-19, 1999
Sustainability, systems change, personnel issues, implementation plans and collaboration.
Total attendees: 18

February 21-23, 2001
Systems change, necessary precursors to population health improvement efforts.

Teleconferences

September 17, 1996
Cultural competence
Total attendees: 25

March 17, 1997
Using local survey data
Total attendees: 22

May 15, 1997
Assessing Health Partnership governance
Total attendees: 23

October 10, 1997
Community outreach strategies
Total attendees: 6

March 30, 1998
Health Partnership sharing and helping community members understand data
Total attendees: 10

June 26, 1998
Policy education planning
Total attendees: 8

HII Listserv

November 1996
Listserv was introduced
Total participants: 60

HP News Briefs

Newsletter for sharing information on Health Partnership progress and related resources
(800- 1000 copies of each issue distributed)

November 1996
February 1997
June 1997
November 1997
March 1998
June 1998
February 1998
July 199
February 1999
July 1999
February 2000
July 2000 (Online)

Health Improvement Initiative Conference March 1999

Presented two sessions on sustainability
Presented initiative orientation
Moderated community report card session
Facilitated roundtable discussion
Coordinated session for local health officers and administrators
Presented at Cohort II grantee meeting