Building Capacity with Partners to Address Policy and Systems Change for HDSP Program Priorities
- Linda Redman, Project Officer, Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, CDC (moderator)
- Brian Boisseau, Program Manager, Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program, Kentucky Department for Public Health
Session Objective
Upon completion of the session, participants will be able to identify strategies for building mutual understanding of policy and systems change for the HDSP program with their partners.
Supporting Skills and Knowledge
- Identify policy and systems changes appropriate for HDSP priority areas.
- Identify key partners for systems changes in the healthcare setting.
- Describe methods for creating partner “buy in” to systems and policy change.
- List key factors for building, maintaining, and sustaining partnerships that are focused on common goals.
- Describe techniques to facilitate team synergy and cooperation with partners.
- Explain how both the HDSP program and their partner’s initiatives can mutually enhance each other’s practices.
Session Summary
In this session, the experience of the Kentucky Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program in developing and implementing an intervention to build partner capacity for systems change to improve systems of stroke care will be described. Participants will be given the initial situation faced by Kentucky and will work in groups to identify strategies for working with partners to implement a systems change to address the issue. At the end of the exercise, participants will have an opportunity to compare their strategies to those actually implemented by Kentucky to achieve improvement in systems of stroke care through building partner capacity.
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