Engaging Multi-Sector Partners through the Collaboration Multiplier Tool to Advance Health and Equity

1. Engaging Multi-Sector Partners
through the Collaboration
Multiplier Tool to Advance
Health and Equity
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Practical Playbook National Meeting
June 1, 2017
Leslie Mikkelsen, MPH
Managing Director
Katie Miller, MPH
Associate Program Manager

3. Effective collaborations allow you to…
 Accomplish a broad range of goals
 Broaden buy-in
 Leverage financial and human capital
 Identify areas for focus and joint solutions
 Concentrate on comprehensive approaches

4. Medical Care
Behavior Health
& Social Services
Community-Wide
Prevention
Evolving Collaborations for Health

5. County Health Rankings Model

6. THRIVE Framework

7. Equity at the Core of Strategy
Consider the following overarching questions when
designing strategies to advance health equity:
 Are those most affected by the issue actively
involved in defining the problem and shaping the
solution?
 How does this strategy improve the conditions for
those communities most in need?
 Will those most negatively affected by the problem
benefit the same, less so, or more so?

8. Economic
s
Childcare
Medical
Care
Jobs
We each
have a
role
Healthy
Food
Clean Air
Parks
and
Activities
Policy
Makers
Educatio
n
Housing Preschoo
l
Safe
Neighbor
-hoods
Resident
s
Transpor
t-ation

9. The “How” of Collaboration

10. Collaborator 4
Expertise:
Desired
Outcomes:
Key Strategies:
Collaborator 3
Expertise:
Desired
Outcomes:
Key Strategies:
Collaborator 1
Expertise:
Desired
Outcomes:
Key Strategies:
Collaborator 2
Expertise:
Desired
Outcomes:
Key Strategies:
Shared Outcomes
Partner Strengths
Joint Strategies
Collaboration Multiplier

11.  Identify common and divergent approaches
 Take stock of individual and collective resources
 Identify who (or what) is missing and tailor a
pitch to engage more diverse partners
 Forge comprehensive approaches and joint
solutions
 Clarify how people from each discipline view and
approach an issue differently
Collaboration Multiplier Helps
Multi-Sector Partnerships to…

12. Asian Health Services:
Community-Centered Health Home
Photos courtesy of http://www.theinlinegroup.com/asian_health_services/; http://www.cahealthynailsalons.org

13. Asian Health Services:
From Pedestrian Safety…
Photo courtesy of Asian Health Services, http://www.ahschc.org/safety.htm

14. Photo courtesy of Community Commons, http://www.communitycommons.org
Asian Health Services:
…to Community Change!

15. Information-
Gathering
Analysis
1 2

16. Information-Gathering
Categories
1
 Importance of this issue
 Mandate
 Organizational goals
 Expertise, assets and strengths
 Strategies and activities
 Audience and partners
 Data
 Desired outcomes

17. Information-Gathering1
Community
Groups
Expertise
Desired
Outcomes
Key
strategies/
activities
Health
Services
Transport-
ation
Local
Business

18. Information-Gathering1
Community
Groups
Expertise
Desired
Outcomes
Key
strategies/
activities
n Delivering culturally
competent primary
care services
n Collecting data on
patient health
outcomes and trends
n Develop educational
pedestrian safety
campaign
n Foster partnerships
across sectors
n Improved health &
safety; reduce
unintentional injuries
n Planning and design
for multiple modes of
transportation, e.g.
streets, highways, bike
lanes
n Develop streetscape
designs that facilitate
traffic flow and ease of
travel
n Enhanced mobility
and safety for
pedestrians and
vehicles
n Cultivating leaders in
the community
n Understanding of
community needs &
concerns
n Increased quality of
life their community
n Culturally and socially
relevant services and
policies
n Promote to
community members
n Provide public support
around health and safety
to community leaders
n Advocate to elected
officials re: impact on
economic viability/
development
n Supplier of
products and services
n Understanding
consumer demands
and needs
n Increased safety in
surrounding area for
new and returning
customers
Health
Services
Transport-
ation
Local
Business

19. 2 Analysis
Transportation
Local
Business
Health
Services
Community
Groups
Shared
Outcomes
Partner
Strengths
Joint
Strategies

20. 2 Analysis
Transportation
Local
Business
Health
Services
Community
Groups
Improved health and safety for residents
and visitors, especially for seniors and
disabled
Make Oakland Chinatown more walkable,
attractive, and economically viable
Partner
Strengths
Joint
Strategies

21. 2 Analysis
Transportation
Local
Business
Health
Services
Community
Groups
Improved health and safety for residents
and visitors, especially for seniors and
disabled
Make Oakland Chinatown more walkable,
attractive, and economically viable
Joint
Strategies
Community trust and established history
and relationships in community
Connections to and support from local
officials to implement policies and
environmental changes

22. 2 Analysis
Transportation
Local
Business
Health
Services
Community
Groups
Improved health and safety for residents
and visitors, especially for seniors and
disabled
Make Oakland Chinatown more walkable,
attractive, and economically viable
Community trust and established history
and relationships in community
Connections to and support from local
officials to implement policies and
environmental changes
Comprehensive community plan;
reframing issue from pedestrian safety to
environmental justice
Support outreach efforts to include
community members and residents in
planning process

23. Community Groups
Health Services
Shared Outcomes
Partner Strengths
Joint Strategies
Transportation
Local Business
Desired Outcomes:
• Enhanced mobility and safety for
pedestrians and vehicles
Key Strategies:
• Develop streetscape designs that
facilitate traffic flow and ease of
travel
Expertise:
• Planning and design for multiple
modes of transportation, e.g.
streets, highways, bike lanes
Expertise:
• Supplier of products and services
• Understanding consumer demands
and needs
Desired Outcomes:
• Increased safety in surrounding area
for new and returning costumers
Key Strategies:
• Advocate to elected officials re:
impact on economic viability/
development
Expertise:
• Culturally competent primary care
services
• Collects data on health outcomes
& trends
Desired Outcomes:
• Improved health and safety
outcomes for community; reduced
unintentional injuries
Key Strategies:
• Develop educational pedestrian
safety campaign
• Foster partnerships across sectors
Expertise:
• Cultivating leaders of the
community
• Understanding of community
needs and concerns
Desired Outcomes:
• Increased quality of life in
community
• Culturally and socially relevant
services and policies
Key Strategies:
• Promote to community members
• Provide public support around
health and safety to community
leaders
• Improved health and safety for
residents and visitors, especially for
seniors and disabled
• Make Oakland Chinatown more
walkable, attractive, and economically
viable
• Community trust and established
history and relationships in
community
• Connections to and support from local
officials to implement policies and
environmental changes
• Comprehensive community plan;
reframing issue from pedestrian safety
to environmental justice
• Support outreach efforts to include
community members and residents in
planning process
• Shared leadership to increase
community health and safety

24. Group Activity

25. Next Steps
 Tailor your messages to engage different fields in
achieving shared goals
 Identify additional partners, outreach, and learn
how they align/add value
 Identify ways to leverage opportunities and
resources to build and strengthen the coalition
 Develop a comprehensive strategic approach and
action plan

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Katie Miller
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27. Community-Centered Health Home ModelINQUIRY
Collect data on
social, economic
& community
conditions
Aggregate
prevalence data
ANALYSIS
Review health &
safety trends
Identify priorities
& strategies with
community
partners
ACTION
Coordinate activity
with community
partners
Advocate for
community health
Mobilize patient
populations
Strengthen
Partnerships
Establish model
organizational
practices

28. Image: Prevention Institute, Infographic: Medical High Utilization - A Complex Challenge That Can Be Prevented