Center for Civic Partnerships

Technical Support Capabilities Statement

This list provides a description of the various technical support services and events provided by the Center, as well as technical support topics.

Brokering technical support (for trainings, local intermediaries)

Consultant subcontracts for trainings, workshops, conferences, etc.
Provide recommendations on trainers and other presenters
Provide information and link to other technical support opportunities or resources (e.g., trainings, individual technical support on a topic, funding)

Various methods including site visits, telephone, e-mail, mail
Individual staff, subcommittees, collaboratives
Problem solving, skill and capacity building, providing content information, planning and strategizing
On-site training (e.g., sustainability, resource development)
Facilitation of key processes (e.g., creating decision-making structure, strategic planning, community-based assessment, defining evaluation questions, collaborative sustainability)

Develop initiative-wide learning communities
Encourage and provide venues for sharing, capturing lessons learned, joint-problem-solving, celebration, etc.
Connect sites for peer learning (e.g., training, technical support, site visits)

Statewide Conferences - Up to 300 participants, keynotes, skills/issues workshops, planning sessions, poster sessions/exhibits, etc.
Statewide Workshops/Symposiums - Up to 60 participants, keynotes, content/skill development, peer learning, networking, internal and external presenters
Regional/Cluster Workshops - Up to 40 participants, content/skill focused (tools, techniques, etc.), internal and external presenters
Project Coordinators' Meetings - Up to 15 participants, support for key project staff, burnout prevention, peer learning, sharing and support in safe environment Orientations/Initiative Kick-Off Meetings - Up to 100 participants, orientation to initiative/program

Provide information on Initiative design, logic model, key players, technical support offerings and skill building in technology

Newsletters and Briefs/Bulletins - success stories from communities, notices of meetings/funding opportunities/publications, content information
Resource guides - planning and best practices tools (e.g., youth development, violence prevention, tobacco, healthy cities and communities)
State of the science - timely policy implementation reports (e.g., SB 697, social will for tobacco policy implementation)
Skills toolkits - user friendly tips, techniques and tools (e.g., collaborative sustainability)
Regular resource mailings - articles, publications, tip sheets, reports, announcements, funding opportunities, etc. Reports (e.g., CHCC Annual Compendium of Abstracts)

Content/skill information, links to other websites (e.g., Community Toolbox, Join Together), calendars of conferences and training events, conference registration, funding database, private area for sharing of materials and soliciting input

Announcements (publications, trainings, funding, conferences), logistics, polling, alerts, information sharing and problem solving dialogues

Entire group and small affinity groups - content information, peer learning and sharing, skills development

Presentations on Initiative at conferences (e.g., Prevention, SOPHE, APHA)
Submit articles for publications (e.g., Public Health Reports, National Civic Review, Health Promotion Practice)
Build relationships with potential partners (e.g., Foundation Consortium, California Department of Health Services, Healthy Start, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Promotional materials

Training, workshop and conference design teams of workshop participants
Subcommittee of staff and other grantees help determine topics, session content and presenters
Team with other support grantees on workshop design

Annual TS Needs/Skills Assessment completed by collaboratives to guide future TS offerings
Annual TS Activity Survey to determine usefulness of past year's TS offerings and desires for types of activities offered in next year (separate evaluation also conducted by initiative evaluator)
Participant evaluations from each workshop (summarized and used to develop future offerings)
Various informal processes for soliciting feedback and suggestions on TS
Model continuous quality improvement

Action planning and creating workplans
Asset-based community development
Broad determinants of health
Building and maintaining a collaborative
Burnout prevention and stress management
Capacity building
Case management and resource centers
Categorical prevention topic areas (e.g., alcohol and other drugs, food security, injury, violence, employment, welfare reform, children's health)
Collaborative leadership
Communications
Community-based assessment
Conducting surveys and focus groups
Conflict resolution
Cultural competency
Decision-making
Developing implementation plans and proposals
Evaluation
Finance reform
Fund development
Governance structures
Healthy cities and communities movement
Integrated data systems
Local data collection, analysis, application and dissemination
Media advocacy
Meeting facilitation
Personnel management
Policy development, implementation and advocacy
Presentation skills
Priority-setting
Program management
Quality of life indicators and report cards
Services integration
Strategic planning
Sustainability
Systems change
Team building
Use of local data
Working across sectors
Working with the business, education and faith communities