Building, Maintaining and Evaluating State HDSP Partnerships
- Rosanne Farris, Applied Research and Transition Team Leader, Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, CDC (moderator)
- Frances Butterfoss, Professor, Health Promotion/Disease Prevention Section of the Center for Pediatric Research, Eastern Virginia Medical School
Session Objective
Upon completion of the training, participants will be able to describe an overview of the steps to building, maintaining and evaluating a state partnership.
Supportng Skills and Knowledge
- Describe the Community Coalition Action Theory as a framework for developing and evaluating a state partnership
- Identify the key steps in forming, implementing, maintaining and evaluating quality partnerships
- Identify recommended strategies to improve the partnership and its programs
- Describe the rationale for evaluating the effectiveness and productivity of partnerships
Session Summary
This presentation will set the stage as to why evaluation of coalitions and partnerships is critical, what should be evaluated and how to do it more successfully. Partnerships will be defined in terms of their functions and what makes them effective by using the Community Coalition Action Theory as a guiding framework. The key steps in forming and maintaining partnerships will be discussed as well how evaluation can be integrated into each of these steps. Evaluation of partnerships should focus on the effectiveness of the process, impacts from specific projects implemented by the partnership and outcomes related to health status indicators, as well as changes in community policies, practices and environments. This session will demonstrate that evaluation is “doable” and is essential to sustaining and institutionalizing partnership programs within the community.
Resources
- Butterfoss, FD, Kegler, MC. Toward a Comprehensive Understanding of Community Coalitions: Moving from Practice to Theory. In DiClemente, R, Crosby, L, Kegler, MC. (Eds.) Emerging Theories in Health Promotion Practice and Research. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2002:157-193.
- Butterfoss FD, Francisco VT. Evaluating community partnerships and coalitions with practitioners in mind. Health Promotion Practice, 5(2):108-114, 2004.
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