Puentes & Associates is a consulting firm founded in the 1990s that works to eliminate ethnic health disparities through community-based research and action. They employ a diverse team of researchers and health promotion experts with experience conducting needs assessments, designing health campaigns, and building partnerships between minority communities and public health agencies. Their Research Partnership Building model places community organizations at the center of health interventions and provides training to increase their skills and participation in addressing the health needs of their communities.
Health@Simcoe Muskoka is an annual look at both ongoing activities and the new public health issues emerging in our changing world. This document includes the agency’s annual report.
County needs assessment that entails mass information about smoking of the population in Pennsylvania through the department of public health. The assessment includes demographics, race, and gender. evaluating through organizations and intervention programs that are currently in place and ones that can be used for the future.
Health@Simcoe Muskoka is an annual look at both ongoing activities and the new public health issues emerging in our changing world. This document includes the agency’s annual report.
County needs assessment that entails mass information about smoking of the population in Pennsylvania through the department of public health. The assessment includes demographics, race, and gender. evaluating through organizations and intervention programs that are currently in place and ones that can be used for the future.
Aetna Presentation Social Determinants of Latino HealthDanny Santibanez
Social Determinants of Hispanic/Latino Health
Daniel Santibanez, MPH, RD, University of North Florida
September 23, 2005 - UNF Hispanic Health Issues Seminars
This is part 8 of an 8 part series of seminars on Hispanic Health Issues brought to you by the University of North Florida’s Dept. of Public Health, College of Health, a grant from AETNA, and the cooperation of the Duval County Health Department.
BUILDing Multi-Sector Collaborations to Advance Community HealthPractical Playbook
The Practical Playbook
National Meeting 2016
www.practicalplaybook.org
Bringing Public Health and Primary Care Together: The Practical Playbook National Meeting was at the Hyatt Regency in Bethesda, MD, May 22 - 24, 2016. The meeting was a milestone event towards advancing robust collaborations that improve population health. Key stakeholders from across sectors – representing professional associations, community organizations, government agencies and academic institutions – and across the country came together at the National Meeting to help catalyze a national movement, accelerate collaborations by fostering skill development, and connect with like-minded individuals and organizations to facilitate the exchange of ideas to drive population health improvement.
The National Meeting was also a significant source of tools and resources to advance collaboration. These tools and resources are available below and include:
Session presentations and materials
Poster session content
Photos from the National Meeting
The conversation started at the National Meeting is continuing in a LinkedIn Group "Working Together for Population Health" and Twitter. Use #PPBMeeting to provide feedback on the National Meeting.
The Practical Playbook was developed by the de Beaumont Foundation, the Duke University School of Medicine Department of Community and Family Medicine, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA).
Budget RESEARCHBudget Template - page 1 of 2GRANT(For Internal Use.docxAASTHA76
Budget RESEARCHBudget Template - page 1 of 2GRANT(For Internal Use Only - see specific sponsoringTitle:Union County of Georgia cancer prevention programagency for the proper forms)Date:12-May-17RFA no.PI:Project Period:2017/2018Budget Period:2017-2018Year 1Field researchResearch assitants( Salaries & benefits)250,000Transport120,000Research tools( questionaires and interviews)50,000420,000Screening actvitiesLocal hospital staff service fees80,000Electricity consumed by equipment20,000Maintenace expenses40,000140,000MarketingNutrionists service fees150,000Local gym service15,000Formation of chamber fo commerce180,000Education workshops ( schools and community centers)50,000395,000
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Running head: COMMUNITY COALITION 1
COMMUNITY COALITION 3
Community Coalition
Kimberly Crawford
Kaplan University
January 8, 2018
Community Coalition
1. Choose 5 partnerships to engage and explain why you would invite each of these people//organizations to be a part of the coalition.
The creation of community health promotion and education programs takes into consideration several agencies or parties who help in the achievement of the desired health goals. Each of the partners will address its roles using different approaches depending on their area of expertise. This is an important factor to consider as different institutions address health promotion using different approaches and perspectives. The overall outcome from the contribution of every partner should be able to restore and promote the physical, emotional, spiritual, psychological, and social wellness of the community in relation to the health issue being suffered (Minelli, & Breckon, 2009). Chronic diseases are currently the leading causes of death in the community due to their complexity and the severe effects on human health. The community health promotion and education program will be provided by the ‘Health Concerns Coalition’ which will be made up of the following partners; community religious groups, Cancer Supportive Care Foundation, an association of cancer-survivor patients, nutritional organizations, and the local authority.
1. Cancer Supportive Care Foundation – This is an important part of the coalition as it will offer technical expertise in education and diagnosis of chronic diseases. The foundation team will include medical experts who will diagnose the community members of any chronic illnesses. Examinations for diseases such as breast cancer, prostate cancer, diabetes and blood pressure will be conducted by this partner as they will provide modern machines needed for the diagnosis of chronic illnesses.
2. Community religious groups – Community religious groups ca ...
Healthlink Worldwide: making connections, improving healthHealthlinkWorldwide
Presentation on the work of Healthlink Worldwide to strengthen capacity of partners and clients to use information, knowledge and communication processes more effectively to improve their access to health.
Community Needs Assessment Marion County Marion County FLynellBull52
Community Needs Assessment
Marion County
Marion County Florida
Located in Central Florida with a population of 343, 778.
Marion county is in central Florida.
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Social Determinants
Factors included in this category, generational poverty, widespread homelessness, persistent issue of overweight and obesity, lack of affordable housing, shortage of healthcare and dental care providers, water fluoridation is lacking in most communities, struggling and failing schools, and built environment impedes access to recreation areas and safe places for physical activity.
Addressing social determinants of health is important for improving health and reducing health disparities.
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Marion County Most Utilized Hospitals
Hospital NameNumber of DischargesFlorida Hospital Ocala15,739Ocala Regional Medical Center8,940West Marion Community6,532
Medical Resources Available
Clinical and nutrition services
Wellness programs
Environmental health
Infectious Disease services
Clinical and nutrition services include - Supplements for women and children, immunizations throughout various locations within the county, dental services, family planning, and centers which treat sexually transmitted diseases.
Wellness programs which include – disease prevention and management such as diabetes. Weight programs, children healthy promotional programs, and health education.
Environmental health which includes - Environmental Health programs are essential to public health. They work to achieve a safe and healthy environment for the community. Environmental Health staff monitor conditions that could present a threat to health and safety of the public.
Infectious Disease services which involves, The Florida Department of Health in Marion County is responsible for the surveillance of reportable communicable diseases, including enteric diseases, vaccine-preventable diseases, invasive bacterial diseases, arthropod-borne diseases, and others. Infectious disease control programs are designed to protect the residents and visitors of Marion County
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Community Needs Assessment
Marion County community needs include, access to primary prevention and healthcare, oral health, mental and behavioral health, education and training.
Primary prevention efforts are focused on preventing illness and injury before it happens. Prevention includes environmental and policy change as well as education, behavior revision and lasting investments in systems that encourage healthy living.
Oral health influences physical, emotional, and social well-being. Poor oral health causes pain and disability. With pain and disability hinders work and school which causes issues with attendance and performance. Oral issues will in turn costs residents, taxpayers and healthcare systems millions of dollars to treat.
Mental and physical health are equally important factors for overall health and quality of life. Mental and behavior health includes emotional, psychological and social we ...
VIVID understands and has access to hard-to-reach patient populations. We respond to each patient populations\' specific needs with motivational, truly easy-to understand, culturally competent communications that improve patient-provider relationships, creating real "push" from the consumer side.
Innovators appreciate the role that non-medical factors play.
Care management and business improvement programs can benefit by looking beyond claims or medical records to capture factors that influence health.
1. Eliminating Ethnic
Health Disparities
ThroughCommunity-Based
Research and Action
Puentes & Associates
1457 Park Road, NW,
Suite 104
Washington, DC 20010
Tel: (202) 332-3284
Fax: (202) 265-1045
Puentes2002@aol.com
Consultant Team
Puentes consultants combine years of
applied research and communications train-
ing with a life-long commitment to serving
minority communities. Our core team
includes:
Stewart J. Lawrence, Ph.DPrincipal
Investigator and Research Director. 10+
years experience planning and implement-
ing strategic marketing and community-
based survey research.
Puentes2002@aol.com.
Kimberly A. Mueller, MPHDirector of Health
Promotion. 10 years experience facilitating
interventions on tobacco use, HIV/AIDS and
women’s health in minority communities in
U.S./ Latin America K_Mueller@yahoo.com.
Sebastian Murillo G.Coordinator of
Hispanic Health Communications. 10 years
experience organizing bilingual audio-visual
production and grassroots public education
in Peru. Clients have included World Bank,
IDB and int’l NGOs. SMgambini@aol.com
Strategic consultants:
Tod Ragsdale, Ph.D.Chief liaison to scientif-
ic research community. Advises on survey
research methodology, data analysis and
report writing.
Jorge Nevares. M.A. President of Nevares
Associates, a multicultural marketing firm.
Advises on public relations and media com-
munications.
A FEW SUCCESS STORIES...
1995: Comprehensive anti-tobacco cam-
paign, including planning, fundraising, mar-
keting, quit programs, rallies, and art
exhibits. Funder: Univ. of Massachusetts.
1996: Grassroots health nutrition campaign
with Mayan mothers in Quetzaltenango,
Guatemala. Needs assessment survey, pub-
licity, and program development.
1997: Community-based HIV/AIDS preven-
tion with Hispanic/Vietnamese organizations
in 32 northern MA towns. Extensive training
in needs assessment, program planning and
evaluation, community outreach, and
fundraising. Funder: State Dept. of Health.
1998-99: Community-based substance
abuse prevention campaign with Hispanic
organizations/DOH in Wash. DC.
Comprehensive needs assessment based on
household surveys and focus groups. Result:
$800,000 in new ATOD treatment funding.
2000: MA-based health education campaign
for African-American, Hispanic and Anglo
constituencies. Prevention workshops and
multi-lingual media production on ATOD
use, HIV/AIDS, and reproductive health.
2001: Community-based campaign for
environmental health and justice with
Hispanic/minority organizations in Corpus
Christi, TX. Critique of state health data,
mobilization of stakeholder groups, local
publicity and press relations. Strengthened
environmental monitoring process by State
DOH, EPA and ATSDR
THE PUENTES ADVANTAGE
Rapid results
Our consultants are adept at getting on the
wavelength of local actors and forging work-
able partnerships. Most community-based
needs assessments require a year or more to
carry out. Ours normally take just weeks or
months. Rapid deployment and turnaround
saves time and money without compromis-
ing technical quality.
Competitive cost
We do not use a cumbersome hierarchy to
implement our support operations. We scale
down our activities to better meld with the
personnel and organizational style of our
non-profit partners. Universities and other
research firms have enormous overhead
costs. Our fees are cheaper, in part because
each consultant is only contracted as needed.
Cultural competence
We integrally involve the target population
in the design and implementation of our
health research and communications.
Integral participation increases the statistical
reliability and validity of health surveys and
maximizes the impact of
health interventions.
Minority service
providers upgrade their
technical capabilities,
forge closer partnerships
with public health agen-
cies, and strengthen their
ties to local communities.
2. PUENTES & ASSOCIATES
Puentes and Associates was founded in the
1990s to bridge this “partnership gap.” Our
gender-inclusive multi-cultural team is com-
prised of public health researchers, commu-
nity health trainers, and social marketing
specialists who are familiar with the way
government health agencies and community
health providers “do business.” We work on
government contract to build the “bridges”
that allow public agencies to rely more heav-
ily on community-based organizations for
the design and implementation of minority
health interventions. Public agencies obtain
much needed data and show improved pro-
gram impact – all at reduced cost. Minority
organizations gain skills and participation
and their communities are empowered and
better served.
Here are some specific benefits our funders
can expect from our activities:
s Highly reliable data collection and analysis
of minority health needs, including
Hispanics, African-Americans, women and
youth.
s Increased cultural “competence” for gov-
ernment-funded health programs for
minorities.
s Enduring organizational ties to minority-
serving health organizations.
s Human capital development for minority
health organizations and their staffs, espe-
cially youth
s Increased civic participation and minority
trust in government health agencies.
RPB™ NEEDS ASSESSMENTS
Puentes & Associates has pioneered a
needs assessment methodology that fosters
community-based health interventions in
minority communities that lack basic and
reliable data on their health needs. We call
this methodology RESEARCH P ARTNERSHIP
BUILDING ™, or RPB.
The RPB model grew out of a substance
abuse prevention campaign conducted in
1998-1999 with Hispanic/Latino organiza-
tions and the District of Columbia
Department of Health. RPB has special
application to newcomer Hispanic and other
immigrant communities that remain margin-
alized from the public health sector due to
language and cultural barriers. Hispanic-
serving organizations have a strong incentive
to engage in RPB to bring their communities
“out of the shadows” and to ensure priority
attention to their health needs. Public
agencies can utilize RPB to initiate partner-
ships with minority organizations that are
better placed to gather data and to promote
prevention messages to difficult-to-reach
constituencies.
The RPB model places community-based
organizations at the center of the health
intervention and requires extensive hands-on
training in research design, data collection,
social marketing and program development.
Puentes team members may deploy to a
health prevention site for 3-6 months to
help organize and manage this process.
For more information about RPB, please
contact our office.
THE CHALLENGE
A
s the U.S. population continues to
diversify ethnically and racially, public
and private institutions are under
increasing pressure to serve minority commu-
nities in ways that enhance minority partici-
pation. Within the public health field, federal,
state and local governments are recognizing
the need for strategic partnerships with com-
munity-based organizations to address per-
sistent ethnic and racial disparities. These
partnerships can increase the reliability of
health data on populations that are difficult
to reach through conventional research and
data collection strategies. They can also
ensure that minority
health prevention cam-
paigns are culturally
attuned and efficiently
targeted for maximum
impact on the knowl-
edge, attitudes and
behaviors of those at
risk or in need.
Building such partnerships is easier said than
done. Public agencies often lack the staff
and resources required for effective long-
term outreach to minorities. Minority health
providers lack advanced data collection and
management skills and may have limited
outreach beyond their immediate client
base. Building strategic partnerships, there-
fore, requires technical skills and inter-cultur-
al competence that the prospective partners
rarely have at their disposal.
OUR SERVICES
All of our services are intended to enhance
public-private collaboration in minority-tar-
geted health prevention. Our services
include:
Strategic planning & development
s Organizing policy authority
s Building stakeholder coalitions
s Designing needs assessments
s Grant writing/fundraising
Research
s Data analysis & report writing
s Telephone/door-to-door surveys
s Focus groups
s Participant/observation research
Publicity outreach
s Poster and flyer design
s Radio/TV/Internet ads
s Op-ed/news stories
s Press relations
Educational materials design
s Training guides/handbooks
s Health brochures
s Video/audio productions
Training and facilitation
s Workshops for health promoters
s Social marketing
s Data management & storage
Puentes team members are fluent in English
and Spanish. Many of our projects have
been conducted in Hispanic communities.
We also specialize in projects targeting
minority youth and women.