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Community Health Planning Seed Grants
The National Business Coalition on Health, through the Community
Coalitions Health Institute, and the United Health Foundation are pleased to
announce the launch of a new Community Health Planning Grant program for NBCH
member coalitions.
January 31st Informational Webinar
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Key Dates
January 31, 2011 3-4 pm EST - Applicant Webinar
February 4, 2011 – Email “letter
of intent” due to NBCH (Lgreenberg@nbch.org)
February 28, 2011 – Applications
from Coalition Due Electronically (Lgreenberg@nbch.org)
April 1, 2011 – Final Seed Grant
Decisions made
April 15, 2011 - Projects Start
September, 2011 – Coalition Lead
Population Health Summit meetings complete
February, 2012 – Final Community
Action Plans complete
About the InitiativeIn
response to the increasing incidence in debilitating and expensive chronic
preventable disease and the economic challenges confronting states and local
communities, the United Health Foundation and the National Business Coalition
on Health have launched the first round of community planning grants to address
local population health challenges. Utilizing the financial resources and
oversight of United Health Foundation and the expertise of the National
Business Coalition on Health’s Community Coalitions Health Institute, this
initiative is designed to support local communities to assess their key health
challenges and implement locally appropriate interventions. Specifically, a minimum of five communities
will receive, through a competitive process, grants of up to $50,000 to:
- Facilitate the
collection and analysis of state and locally relevant health data
- Convene key
stakeholders in a strategic planning process to identify priority
opportunities for intervention
- Coordinate and
stimulate the development of community-based, philanthropic, corporate social
responsibility, and government resources
- Create a more
fertile environment to sustain the health promotion agenda as a key
community-wide priority, to assess progress, and to make refinements as
necessary over time
Grants
will be awarded in large part, based upon criteria that include:
- Use of America’s
Health Rankings®, local health department and other data to
describe the key challenges confronting their designated community
- The
support and commitment to participate in the planning process by key
stakeholders, including but not limited to public health, employers,
physicians and other health professionals, hospitals, government,
nonprofits and the philanthropic sector.
- The commitment
and expertise of the local NBCH coalition
Each
grantee will be expected to convene a multi-stakeholder strategic planning
process that will result in:
- A data-driven
and prioritized strategic plan relevant to improved population health, the
prevention of important disease risk factors, and demonstrated potential
for decreasing the burden of illness that results in avoidable escalations
of health care costs
- Enhanced
coordination of existing prevention resources and support for the
development of new resources
- Engage
government as a partner and bring added value to the increasingly
challenged public sector prevention resources
Applications
will be judged by an independent panel made up of experts representing public
health, health services research, coalitions, and other stakeholders.
Key
Materials [Download here]
Community Health Planning Grant Application
Community Health Planning Application Expectations
Resources (See below.)
Applications must be submitted
electronically by COB February 28, 2011 to Lgreenberg@nbch.org
Details
Overall Project Objective: The objective of each community
health planning grant is to convene stakeholders in a “community summit” to examine
relevant health indicators, identify a target health indicator from America’s
Health Rankings for the community health intervention, plan policy and program
interventions, identify resources at the community level and produce a plan
with specific health improvement goals and stakeholder accountability. The end
result of this project is a specific Community Action Plan that can
realistically be implemented by the community.
The Summit: Once awarded a Community Health Planning
grant, coalitions are expected to convene a summit of local stakeholders, including, but not
limited to, public health, employers, physicians and other health
professionals, hospitals, government, nonprofits and the philanthropic sector. For those
communities that have already conducted a health planning process, the summit
will focus on identifying policy and program interventions and assigning
specific community accountability.
The summit will kick off a 9
month planning and prioritization process.
The initial summit will be used
to review data and identify priority areas. The summit will also be used to identify
“team” members who are tasked to meet regularly and identify action steps to
address each health objective. With meaningful input from local stakeholders,
grantees will identify a specific health improvement goal selected from health
indicators in America’s Health Rankings.
Coalition initiatives may address any health metric addressed in
America’s Health Rankings.
Following the summit, subsequent
smaller meetings may be held by team members to develop specific population
health objectives and action plans. The
grantee coalitions will ensure that planning teams make progress on their
assigned program areas and will be responsible for coordinating each
sub-element of the plan into a final comprehensive action plan that is the
deliverable for this grant. A template
for the plan will be provided.
The Community Action Plan: The Community Action Plan is the
final deliverable of the initiative. The
plan must identify data-driven health improvement targets, planned actions,
resources or a plan to obtain resources, champions for each intervention, and a
process to ensure ongoing engagement and sustainability. The plan must also
include a strategy for obtaining resources necessary for implementation.
Coalitions should show, through letters of support or other indicators of
commitment, that stakeholders with roles identified in the Community Action
Plan have endorsed or approved of the plan.
Grant Decisions: CCHI will employ a competitive
process to fund a minimum of 5 coalitions with a grant of up to $50,000 each.
Applications will be reviewed by an Independent Review Committee. Coalition grant applications will be required
to demonstrate a collaborative approach to identifying the population health
priority and development of the Community Action Plan. Applicants must include strong letters of commitment as part of the
application process. Final grant
decisions will reflect a combination of application scores, strength of
stakeholder participation, need identified in the applications, diversity of
approaches and the perceived readiness of the community to engage in this
process. More information can be found
in the Community Health Planning grant application.
NBCH /CCHI Role: NBCH will develop a template for
the summits that identifies potential data sources and planning tools and that
discusses effective strategies for engaging multiple stakeholders. CCHI will
also provide a template for the Community Action Plan.
Resources
CCHI encourages coalitions to visit a number of sites that provide
examples of data and community based initiatives that may assist communities in
the application and implementation phase of this seed grant.
Community Coalitions Health
Institute / Community Health Partnerships
Resource Page
America’s Health Rankings
For over 20 years, America's
Health Rankings® has been tracking the state of the nation's health. This
analysis provides a comprehensive perspective on our national health issues,
state by state. The 2010 Rankings features an interactive map where users can
explore these statistics, compare states side-by-side, and learn what communities
can do to improve health in the future.
Centers For Disease Control and
Prevention / Community Guide to Preventive Services
The Guide to Community Preventive
Services is a free resource to help communities choose programs and policies to
improve health and prevent disease in the community. Systematic reviews are
used to answer these questions: - Which program and policy interventions have been proven effective?
- Are there effective interventions that are right for my community?
- What might effective interventions cost; what is the likely return
on investment?
County Health Rankings
This first-of-its-kind
collection of 50 reports – one per state – helps community leaders see that
where we live, learn, work, and play influences the health of communities. The County Health Rankings are a key
component of the Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health (MATCH) project.
Mobilizing
Action Toward Community Health (MATCH)
For Information contact:
Liza Greenberg, RN, MPH – Lgreenberg@nbch.org
Suzanne Mercure, Smercure@nbch.org
Applications must be submitted
electronically by COB February 28, 2011 to Lgreenberg@nbch.org
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