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  • A Decade of Advocacy: The Strategic Alliance for Healthy Food and Activity Environments

    A Decade of Advocacy presents a case study of the Strategic Alliance, a network of 15 California-based organizations that came together to promote healthy food and activity environments. This document provides a roadmap for effective collaboration, and highlights the impact a group of organizations can have when working together to effect change.

    Source: Prevention Institute
    Year: 2012
    Resource Type: Case Study
    Sector: public health, non-profit organizations, private
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, local, county, state
    Public Health Focus: physical activity, active living, healthy eating, environmental health, health equity

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  • A Holistic Approach to Community Development in Minneapols-St. Paul

    Learn how community developers are impacting the health of residents in a low-income housing complex in St. Paul and a senior center in Minneapolis, through two Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)-supported projects.

    Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
    Year: 2015
    Resource Type: Video
    Sector: housing, community/city planning, non-profit organizations
    Geographic Scope: local, city
    Public Health Focus: environmental health, healthy aging

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  • A Word from the Director of the Office of National Prevention Strategy

    Brigette Ulin, director of Office of National Prevention Strategy, discusses how this department under the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention aims to improve the overall health and well-being of Americans.

    Source: National Conference on State Legislatures
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Video
    Sector: all sectors
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, county, local, state, regional, national, tribal
    Public Health Focus: physical activity, active living, disabilities, healthy aging, chronic disease prevention, prevention, preventing drug and alcohol abuse, healthy eating, environmental health, health equity, tobacco-free living, mental and emotional wellbeing

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  • APHA: Health in All Policies (HiAP) Resources

    Website contains slides for multiple 2013 Health in All Policies (HiAP) presentations as well as link to "Health in All Policies: A Guide for State and Local Governments"

    Source: American Public Health Association
    Year: 2014
    Resource Type: Toolkit
    Sector: government
    Geographic Scope: state, local, city, county, neighborhood
    Public Health Focus: all health

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  • About the Health Equity Initiative

    Launched in June 2007, the Health Equity Initiative is a county-wide effort focused on health inequities that also collaborates with local organizations to support policy change and monitor results.

    Source: Multnomah County, Oregon
    Resource Type: Website
    Sector: government, non-profit organizations
    Geographic Scope: county, local
    Public Health Focus: health equity

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  • An Overview of Public Private Partnerships in Health

    This paper looks at why varied types of partnerships have formed, what are the various models of partnership, and what are some of the challenges that they face in Asia and the Pacific.

    Source: Harvard School of Public Health
    Year: 2008
    Resource Type: Tool
    Sector: government, healthcare, public health, non-profit organizations, private
    Geographic Scope: all scope

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  • Association of State and Territorial Health Officials

    ASTHO promotes public health nationwide by bringing together leading experts to address issues including pandemic influenza, public health threats from hurricanes and other natural disasters, dangerous trends in unhealthy lifestyles, and access to vaccines and other healthcare. ASTHO is the national nonprofit organization representing public health agencies in the United state, the U.S. Territories, and the District of Columbia, and over 100,000 public health professionals these agencies employ. ASTHO members, the chief health officials of these jurisdictions, formulate and influence sound public health policy and ensure excellence in state-based public health practice. ASTHO's primary function is to track, evaluate, and advise members on the impact and formation of public or private health policy which may affect them and to provide them with guidance and technical assistance on improving the nation's health. The ASTHO website connects visitors to programs, events, public policy, research, and member services.

    Source: Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
    Year: 2015
    Resource Type: Organization
    Sector: government, public health, policy
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, county, local, state, regional, national, tribal
    Public Health Focus: all health

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  • At the Intersection of Public Health and Transportation: Promoting Healthy Transportation Policy

    The US transportation system consists of a complex array of roads, highways, bridges, ferries, ports, public transit, and bike and walking paths that allow people and goods to get from one place to another. These systems, along with their design and construction, help shape communities and affect the health of the people who live, work, and play in them. Transforming the current system to achieve transportation policy that helps to improve public health and safety will require a convergence of many disciplines, such as public health, planning, engineering, and environmental studies. Because of the significant effect of the built environment on health and the direct effect that transportation decisions have on land-use and community design, public health practitioners have a critical role to play to achieve this transformation. This report is intended for the public health community. It provides evidence-based information about how transportation policy and practice affect public health. It describes federal transportation policy and how to smartly use our transportation dollars to move commerce and people from place to place while building healthier communities. Finally, it introduces Transportation for America (T4America), a national grassroots coalition working to transformational transportation policy.

    Source: American Public Health Association
    Year: 2009
    Resource Type: Report
    Sector: policy, government, public health, public safety, transportation, community/city planning
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, county, local, state, regional, national
    Public Health Focus: active living, environmental health, health equity

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  • Banking and Community Perspectives

    This issue of Banking and Community Perspectives focuses on non-legislative efforts to foster healthier community, particularly in low- and moderate-income areas. These efforts are led by both public and private organizations across the Federal Reserve's Eleventh District.

    Source: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
    Year: 2010
    Resource Type: Newsletter
    Sector: healthcare, non-profit organizations, private, government
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, local, city
    Public Health Focus: chronic disease prevention, environmental health, health equity

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  • Building Coalitions among Communities of Color: A Multicultural Approach

    This guide presents ten strategies and their corresponding steps. Strategies are key building blocks for the construction of a CACC. The absence of any of these key elements could result in an organizations failure to reach its full potential. Steps represent activities that, based on experience, can be effective ways to attain each strategy. The reader will find illustrations of how strategies and steps are understood and applied throughout the document, in the form of exhibits, sidebars (vignettes, anecdotes and parables), quotations, and lessons learned/insights.

    Source: Maryland State Partnership Initiative, Office of Minority Health
    Year: 2004
    Resource Type: Report
    Geographic Scope: local, neighborhood, city, county
    Public Health Focus: health equity, environmental health

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  • Building Cross-sector Collaboration

    Prevention Institute's collaboration tools emerged from experience working in health coalitions and partnerships; they are presented for practitioners - both new to and seasoned in collaboration - who are interested in building, strengthening, and sustaining inter-sectoral partnerships designed around an integrated prevention approach.

    Source: Prevention Institute
    Resource Type: Toolkit
    Sector: government, public health, non-profit organizations, private

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  • Building Healthy community

    In 2010, The California Endowment embarked on a new, 10-year strategic direction: Building Healthy Communities. Our goal is to support the development of communities where kids and youth are healthy, safe and ready to learn. Communities are regions, cities, neighborhoods and include some tribal lands.

    Source: The California Endowment
    Resource Type: Project
    Sector: government, healthcare, families, public health, non-profit organizations, education
    Geographic Scope: regional, city, neighborhood, local, tribal
    Public Health Focus: environmental health, health equity, chronic disease prevention, healthy eating

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  • Building Skills: Advancing Company-Community Engagement for Sustainable Societies

    This website provides tools and information for businesses, nonprofits, public agencies, and individuals interested in learning from practitioners how to build the trust, knowledge, and skills they see as essential for successful partnerships. These tools and information are based on the knowledge and experiences of businesses and nonprofit organizations partnering with each other and public agencies at the local level. We use this information in courses we teach on how to partner across sectors. ACCESS-HW is a project of the Public Health Institute (PHI) that generates and promotes research, leadership, and partnerships to advance public health worldwide.

    Source: Access Health Worldwide
    Year: 2014
    Resource Type: Toolkit
    Sector: government, public health, industry, non-profit organizations, private
    Geographic Scope: local, city, county, neighborhood, international
    Public Health Focus: all health

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  • Building Trust and Managing Conflict: Keys to Success

    This tool will allow you to assess how well your collaboration is doing at building trust and equity, and managing conflict. It will help to identify the source of any trust, equity or conflict issues and can facilitate discussion with partners regarding areas for improvement.

    Source: United Way Toronto
    Resource Type: Tool
    Geographic Scope: all scope

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  • Built Environment and Public Health Curriculum

    This website provides a response to the need for enhanced communication and thus understanding among the planning and public health educators and professionals through the offering of an interdisciplinary undergraduate, graduate, or continuing education curriculum. This curriculum is flexible enough to be offered as a full semester course, individual units or single class modules or individual assignments. This website also provides opportunity for faculty and other users to share comments, amendments and develop collaborations at the intersection of the built environment and health.

    Source: Georgia Institute of Technology
    Resource Type: Tool
    Sector: public health, education, government, non-profit organizations, transportation
    Public Health Focus: disabilities, healthy aging, environmental health, active living, health equity, healthy eating

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  • Business as a Partner in Strengthening Public Health Systems in Developing Countries

    This publication is part of a series that highlights some of the key challenges, opportunities and practical examples that were identified in dialogues among over 400 leaders in business, government, development agencies, civil society, and academia to share good practices and identify practical and feasible models of collective business action and public-private partnership aimed at achieving more systemic and scalable solutions to global challenges. It makes recommendations for ways that companies can get directly engaged in specific initiatives on-the-ground.

    Source: International Business Leaders Forum, Clinton Global Initiative
    Year: 2006
    Resource Type: Report
    Sector: government, private, non-profit organizations, public health
    Geographic Scope: national, international
    Public Health Focus: health equity, environmental health

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  • Business incentives ideas

    Robert S. Ogilvie, vice president for strategic engagement at ChangeLab Solutions, gives examples of business incentives for making healthy choices along a cost continuum and funding sources.

    Source: Community Commons
    Year: 2014
    Resource Type: Blog Post
    Sector: public health, government, industry, employers
    Geographic Scope: community, state, local, neighborhood, city
    Public Health Focus: environmental health, health equity, active living, healthy eating, chronic disease prevention

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  • CDC Community Health Improvement Navigator

    Our health and well-being are products of not only the healthcare we receive and the choices we make, but also the places where we live, learn, work, and play. Community health improvement (CHI) is a process to identify and address the health needs of communities. Because working together has a greater impact on health and economic vitality than working alone, CHI brings together healthcare, public health, and other stakeholders to consider high-priority actions to improve community health. The CDC Community Health Improvement Navigator (CHI Navigator) is a website for people who lead or participate in CHI work within hospitals and health systems, public health agencies, and other community organizations. It is a one-stop-shop that offers community stakeholders expert-vetted tools and resources.

    Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Year: 2015
    Resource Type: website
    Sector: healthcare, public health
    Geographic Scope: all scope
    Public Health Focus: all health

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  • CDC Global Health Partnerships

    The scope and intensity of global health challenges ensures that no single country or agency can work alone to meet them. To contribute to shared global health objectives, CDC works in close partnership with a wide array of international agencies and institutions to shape global health policies and to fund, implement, and evaluate programs. This webpage describes some of these partnerships.

    Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Year: 2010
    Resource Type: Webpage
    Sector: government, non-profit organizations, education
    Geographic Scope: national, international
    Public Health Focus: all health

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  • Can Collective Impact improve employment rates of people with mental health issues?

    Gretchen De Martin explores how Collective Impact can help people experiencing mental health illness find work.

    Source: Collaboration for Impact
    Year: 2014
    Resource Type: Blog Post
    Sector: healthcare, employers
    Public Health Focus: mental and emotional wellbeing

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  • Champions for Inclusive Communities: Evidence-Based Practices for Coalition Building

    Champions for Inclusive Communities reviewed research articles, workbooks, and advice from experts to identify recommended strategies to build and sustain community coalitions as a way to improve community-based services so families can use them easily. A summary of these recommended strategies is provided.

    Source: Utah State University: Center for Persons with Disabilities
    Resource Type: Tool
    Sector: government, public health, non-profit organizations, private, families
    Geographic Scope: city, county, local

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  • Change Lab Solutions

    ChangeLab Solutions provides community-based solutions for America’s most common and preventable diseases like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and asthma. Our solutions promote the common good by making healthier choices easier for everyone. ChangeLab Solutions specializes in researching and drafting model laws and policies, providing analysis and recommendations on environmental change strategies, developing educational toolkits and fact sheets, and providing on-demand training, and technical assistance to support stakeholders in their policy reform efforts

    Source: Change Lab Solutions
    Year: 2014
    Resource Type: Website
    Sector: all sectors
    Geographic Scope: all scope
    Public Health Focus: all health

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  • Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work

    This follow-up on the popular 'Collective Impact' article provides updated, in-depth guidance. In the winter 2011 issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review we introduced the concept of “collective impact" by describing several examples of highly structured collaborative efforts that had achieved substantial impact on a large scale social problem, such as The Strive Partnership educational initiative in Cincinnati, the environmental cleanup of the Elizabeth River in Virginia, and the Shape Up Somerville campaign against childhood obesity in Somerville, Mass. All of these initiatives share the five key conditions that distinguish collective impact from other types of collaboration: a common agenda, shared measurement systems, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication, and the presence of a backbone organization. This post describes and discusses those five conditions and other key aspects of collective impact work.

    Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
    Year: 2012
    Resource Type: Blog Post
    Sector: government, public health, families, non-profit organizations, private, industry
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, local

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  • Charting a Course for Change in Education, Income, and Health: Tools to help you navigate

    This toolkit brings together the latest reports, issue briefs, toolkits and online resources that may be most helpful as you start - or scale up - your community change efforts.

    Source: United Way
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Toolkit
    Sector: government, private, non-profit organizations, public health, employers, education
    Geographic Scope: local, city, county
    Public Health Focus: health equity, environmental health

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  • Charting a Course for Change through Collective Impact

    This blog post describes United Way's report, Charting a Course for Change through Collective Impact, and provides a link to a toolkit.

    Source: United Way
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Blog Post
    Sector: government, private, non-profit organizations, public health, employers, education, families
    Public Health Focus: health equity, environmental health

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  • Charting a Course for Change through Collective Impact

    More than 40 issue experts, 100 community leaders and a ton of research went into Charting a Course for Change that United Way put together recently. You'll find the strategies experts say most communities should consider in those three areas, the most effective implementation approaches to turn those strategies into action, and the role or roles that your United Way can play to advance the common good by creating opportunities for a good life for all.

    Source: United Way
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Report
    Sector: government, private, non-profit organizations, public health, employers, education
    Geographic Scope: local, city, county
    Public Health Focus: health equity, environmental health

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  • City of Richmond HiAP

    Richmond's Health in All Policies (HiAP) Strategy is being developed as a collaborative approach with the goal of improving health equity by addressing the social determinants of health and integrating health into the decision making process across all departments of the City. The website include links to documents and videos on Richmond's use of HiAP.

    Source: City of Richmond, CA
    Resource Type: Webpage
    Geographic Scope: city

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  • City of Richmond: Health in All Policies Toolkit

    This Toolkit is a resource for community members, city staff, partners and any other professionals interested in learning more about the development of HiAP within the City of Richmond. This toolkit will outline Richmond's most salient processes, and provide links to resources for those interested in gaining a better understanding of Richmond's unique story. The main components include: the origin of HiAP in Richmond, the Community Health and Wellness Element and other City events that have contributed to HiAP progression.

    Source: City of Richmond, CA
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Tool
    Geographic Scope: city

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  • Coalition Building I: Starting a Coalition

    Often, community problems or issues are too large and complex for any one agency or organization. In those circumstances, putting together a coalition of groups and individuals can be an effective strategy for bringing the community's resources to bear, and getting everyone moving in the same direction. In this section, we'll discuss just what a community coalition is, why and when it can be a good strategy, who should belong to it, and how to get it started.

    Source: Community Tool Box
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Tool
    Sector: government, public health, non-profit organizations, private
    Geographic Scope: local, neighborhood, city

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  • Coalition Building II: Maintaining a Coalition

    This resource addresses the importance of maintaining a coalition, what needs to be maintained, and how to maintain your work successfully. We'll also explore some alternatives to simple maintenance - coalition growth, for example, or changing direction, and even ending. But the key point about maintenance is that it won't happen all by itself. It takes effort - conscious, planned, and ongoing.

    Source: Community Tool Box
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Tool
    Sector: government, public health, non-profit organizations, private
    Geographic Scope: local, neighborhood, city, county, state, regional

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  • Collaboration Assessment Tool

    Helps individuals and coalitions identify specific strengths and areas of growth and enables partnerships to subsequently establish a baseline and gauge their progress via periodic checks on domains of effective collaboration.

    Source: Prevention Institute
    Year: 2004
    Resource Type: Tool
    Sector: government, public health, non-profit organizations, private
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, local, county

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  • Collaboration Multiplier

    Collaboration Multiplier is an interactive framework and tool for analyzing collaborative efforts across fields. It is designed to guide an organization to a better understanding of which partners it needs and how to engage them, or to facilitate organizations that already work together in identifying activities to achieve a common goal, identify missing sectors that can contribute to a solution, delineate partner perspectives and contributions, and leverage expertise and resources. Using Collaboration Multiplier can help lay the foundation for shared understanding and common ground across all partners. Based on the understanding that sectors often have different understandings of issues and divergent reasons for engaging in the same effort, Collaboration Multiplier helps partners navigate differences to find approaches that advance their objectives simultaneously. Collaboration Multiplier can be used at different stages of collaboration, and is designed to complement and inform Prevention Institute's Spectrum of Prevention, which promotes multi-level strategic action as a best practice for primary prevention.

    Source: Prevention Institute
    Year: 2011
    Resource Type: Tool

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  • Collaboration for Impact

    The site seeks to accelerate the adoption of system collaboration and Collective Impact in Australia. It does so by creating knowledge, network and tools; shining a light on successful Collective Impact initiatives; and building an Australian community of practice.

    Source: The Centre for Social Impact, Social Leadership Australia
    Resource Type: Website
    Geographic Scope: international

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  • Collaboration to Build Healthier Communities

    This report by Wilder Research and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis provides new information on collaborative action to improve the health of communities across the United States. It addresses the following questions: What collaborative activity is occurring between the health and community development sectors in the United States? What factors underlie successful cross-sector initiatives to improve community health? What obstacles prevent collaboration between health and community development organizations from occurring? What actions can help optimally support additional collaboration between health and community development organizations that work to improve community health?

    Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America (written by Wilder Research and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis for the RWJF)
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Report
    Sector: government, public health, non-profit organizations, private, policy, healthcare, child care, education, housing
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, local, county,

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  • Collaboratively Empowering Parents

    Preschool Without Walls, in Los Angeles, California, aims to reach, educate, and empower parents to serve as their children's first and lifelong educator. This case study highlights major outcomes and accomplishments, ingredients for success, key partners, and the populations served.

    Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Case Study
    Sector: families, education, child care
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, local, county,

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  • Collective Impact

    This webpage provides links to information about Collective Impact and Greater Cincinnati Foundation's six 'backbone' partnerships.

    Source: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation
    Resource Type: Toolkit
    Sector: non-profit organizations, families, private, employers
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, local
    Public Health Focus: environmental health, health equity

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  • Collective Impact

    Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, yet the social sector remains focused on the isolated intervention of individual organizations.

    Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
    Year: 2011
    Resource Type: Journal Article
    Sector: policy, government, education
    Geographic Scope: city, regional

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  • Collective Impact Alliance

    This blog is a vehicle for the Collective Impact Alliance to share what we know and what we have seen actually work when it comes to making social change happen. The Collective Impact Alliance represents decades of experience in moving complex social causes forward. Alliance members, who are thought leaders and practitioners in education, public health, community engagement and workforce development, have intersected many times over the years. The Alliance has launched a formal collaboration to help non-profits, communities and foundations, among others, move their signature causes ahead. The Alliance balances practical guidance with vision. Offers comprehensive support in meeting the challenges of Collective Impact. And works to help small organizations and communities as well as large ones.

    Source: Collective Impact Alliance
    Year: 2014
    Resource Type: Blog
    Sector: education, government, public health, non-profit organizations, private, employers
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, local, county

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  • Collective Impact Forum

    This is the place for those practicing collective impact to find the tools, resources, and advice they need. It's a network of individuals coming together to share experience and knowledge to accelerate the effectiveness and adoption of collective impact.

    Source: Collective Impact Forum
    Year: 2014
    Resource Type: Website

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  • Collective Impact Strategies to Achieve Systemic and Sustainable Health Improvement - Part 2

    In this webinar, FSG shared how collective impact can be helpful in addressing community health issues using two specific examples: asthma prevention and obesity. Through these examples, participants had the chance to understand in depth, how hospitals, public health institutions, safety net organizations, philanthropy, nonprofit organizations, the local community and corporations (pharmaceutical, medical device and health insurance) have worked collaboratively to address these issues.

    Source: Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Webinar
    Sector: healthcare, government, public health, non-profit organizations, private
    Geographic Scope: city, county, neighborhood, local
    Public Health Focus: access to care

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  • Collective Insights on Collective Impact

    Sponsored and curated by the Collective Impact Forum, "Collective Insights on Collective Impact," which appears in Stanford Social Innovation Review's fall issue, shares cutting-edge thinking from 22 practitioners, funders, community organizers, and thought-leaders. Through the diverse voices of the authors, you can dive deeper into important collective impact topics such as public policy, evaluation, sources of power, and community engagement. You can download the full set of articles here, or follow the links below to access individual articles from the collection.

    Source: Collective Impact Forum
    Year: 2014
    Resource Type: Toolkit
    Sector: policy, government, public health, non-profit organizations, private
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, local, city
    Public Health Focus: environmental health, health equity

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  • Comments on the Draft Framework for the National Prevention Strategy: Recommendations for Draft Vision, Goals and Strategic Directions

    Read Prevention Institute's comments to the National Prevention and Health Promotion Council on the draft framework for the National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy (NPS).

    Source: Prevention Institute
    Year: 2011
    Resource Type: Brief
    Sector: all sectors
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, county, local, state, regional, national, tribal
    Public Health Focus: physical activity, active living, disabilities, healthy aging, chronic disease prevention, prevention, preventing drug and alcohol abuse, healthy eating, environmental health, health equity, tobacco-free living, mental and emotional wellbeing

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  • Commission to Build a Healthier America

    Although the official work of the Commission came to a close in December 2009, RWJF is committed to carrying on the legacy of the Commission and its recommendations by integrating the work and findings of the Commission into all of its programming addressing the social determinants of health. The Commissioners will continue to serve as ambassadors to their communities at large and the Commission's Web site will continue to be available as a resource. The website includes state level data and other resources.

    Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
    Resource Type: Website
    Geographic Scope: city, county, local, neighborhood, state
    Public Health Focus: all health

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  • Communities Putting Prevention to Work Resource Center

    The Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) Online Resource Center provides a host of tools to support environmental changes that address obesity and tobacco use. These resources describe why environmental changes are at the heart of making healthy living easier, and how to execute them. Tools include webinars, model policies, tool kits, databases, fact sheets, and other practical materials.

    Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Resource Type: Tool
    Sector: policy, government, child care, families, public health, transportation, community/city planning, education, employers
    Geographic Scope: all scope
    Public Health Focus: physical activity, active living, chronic disease prevention, healthy eating, tobacco-free living

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  • Community Commons

    Community Commons is an interactive mapping, networking, and learning utility for the broad-based healthy, sustainable, and livable communities movement.

    Source: Community Commons
    Resource Type: Website
    Sector: all sectors
    Geographic Scope: all scope
    Public Health Focus: all health

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  • Community Engagement Guide

    The Community Engagement Guide promotes effective engagement and customer service with all county communities. Engagement activities include a range of approaches from informing residents to community-led efforts. Community engagement should offer opportunities for people to express their views and have a meaningful role in decision-making.

    Source: King County, WA Equity & Social Justice Initiative
    Year: 2011
    Resource Type: Tool
    Sector: government
    Geographic Scope: county
    Public Health Focus: health equity

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  • Community Health Assessment aNd Group Evaluation (CHANGE) Tool

    CDC's assessment tool helps states and coalitions assess change strategies in community, identify gaps and support action planning for improvement. The CHANGE tool addresses physical activity, nutrition, tobacco use, chronic disease management and leadership.

    Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Resource Type: Toolkit
    Sector: all sectors
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, county, local
    Public Health Focus: all health

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  • Community Health Page

    Indian Health Service promotes an interdisciplinary approach to promote and provide for community health. A variety of programs, disciplines, strategies and interventions work collaboratively together to pursue the IHS mission to raise the physical, mental, social, and spiritual health of American Indians and Alaska Natives to the highest level. Lots of very specific programmatic examples.

    Source: Indian Health Service
    Resource Type: Program
    Geographic Scope: tribal

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  • Community How To Guide on Coalition Building

    Coalitions have been used successfully in the United States to tackle a number of seemingly intractable problems. For communities that want to reduce their underage drinking problem, putting together a broad-based coalition can bring substantial dividends. In this “Community How To Guide on Coalition Building," readers will learn the steps that bring together a diverse group of people in pursuit of a common goal.

    Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
    Year: 2001
    Resource Type: Guide
    Sector: public health, non-profit organizations, private
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, local, county, state

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  • Community Investments Notebook

    This webpage hosts the articles included in the Spring 2014 Community Investments Notebook. This issue of Community Investments explores this emerging approach and lifts up early learnings from pioneers in the field. We find out how government can be a catalyst for creating a wide stakeholder table on sustainable and equitable development goals. We learn from organizations that have assisted with the formation of these initiatives and draw out insightful principles to organize and implement these initiatives. We spend some time understanding the critical role of data and measurement and how they help to define and refine the initiative. While these initiatives are still taking shape across the country, we welcome the potential of collective action as a bold approach to bringing about innovation and wide-scale systems change in and for low-income communities.

    Source: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
    Year: 2014
    Resource Type: Newsletter
    Sector: policy, government, public health, non-profit organizations, community/city planning, private
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, local, city
    Public Health Focus: chronic disease prevention, environmental health, health equity

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  • Community Transformation Grants (CTG)

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continues its long-standing dedication to improving the health and wellness of all Americans through the Community Transformation Grant (CTG) Program. CTG is funded by the Affordable Care Act's Prevention and Public Health Fund. CDC supports and enables awardees to design and implement community-level programs that prevent chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.

    Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Resource Type: Project
    Sector: education, transportation, faith-based organizations, employers, industry, non-profit organizations, government, public health
    Geographic Scope: state, community, tribal, territories, local, county
    Public Health Focus: physical activity, active living, chronic disease prevention, healthy eating, tobacco-free living

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  • Comprehensive Early Childhood System-Building: A Tool To Inform Discussions On Collaborative, Cross-Sector Planning

    The purpose of this tool is to help state and community leaders improve the capacity of their early childhood system. Comprehensive early childhood systems require work across the Health, Early Learning and Development, and Family Support and Leadership sectors in order to achieve agreed-upon goals for thriving children and families. The tool is based on the framework and accompanying graphic developed by the Early Childhood System Working Group (ECSWG).

    Source: Build Initiative
    Resource Type: Tool
    Sector: child care, education, government, non-profit organizations, public health, families
    Geographic Scope: state, local, city, county, neighborhood
    Public Health Focus: mental and emotional wellbeing, environmental health, healthy eating, disabilities, health equity

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  • Conflict Resolution &madsh; Process Steps

    Conflicts and disputes will inevitably emerge in a collaboration because of the challenges of managing multiple mandates and cultures and diverse perspectives. the Conflict Resolution Process Steps describe a process for effectively dealing with conflict. It recognizes the importance of agreeing to a formal process before differences have escalated into conflict and then to ensure that all partners abide by it.

    Source: Capacity Builders' Collaboration Coach
    Resource Type: Tool
    Geographic Scope: all scope

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  • Creating Safe Neighborhoods for Active Living: A Case Study of Cross-Sectoral Collaboration

    This study examined the adoption and implementation of a cross-sectoral collaboration, Manchester's Weed & Seed (W&S) initiative, to promote safe, healthy neighborhoods in Manchester, New Hampshire. Originating from a Department of Justice grant, W&S became a catalyst for bringing citizens, law enforcement, public health, social services, and other partners together to create safer, healthier neighborhoods.

    Source: Active Living Research
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Presentation
    Sector: government, public health, policy, non-profit organizations, private, public safety
    Geographic Scope: local, neighborhood, city
    Public Health Focus: mental and emotional wellbeing, active living, health equity

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  • Creating a Common Language for Cross-sector Collaboration

    In this blog post, the authors suggests that a framework for visualizing problems and a common language for talking about them can make all the difference.

    Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Blog Post
    Sector: government, public health, non-profit organizations, private
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, local

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  • Cross Sector Planning and Coordination for Children's Health and Well-being: An Overview Exploration of Major Themes

    This module is designed to help users understand the barriers that exist in coordinating care for children across sectors and how advances in health information technology (health IT) can promote better communication and more effective exchange of information across systems to positively affect child health and well-being. The intended audiences for this module include Government officials, child advocates, providers and practitioners of all types who care for children, teachers, families, and public or private directors of programs or organizations that serve children.

    Source: Health Resources and Services Administration
    Resource Type: Module
    Sector: government, healthcare, families, public health, non-profit organizations, education, child care, legal/judicial system
    Public Health Focus: health equity, mental and emotional wellbeing

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  • Cross sector working to support large-scale change

    This evidence scan provides examples of large-scale change and more localized cross sector projects, showing how health organizations are working with others to innovate and improve the quality of care. provides a picture of research into cross sector working to support innovation and change. It describes empirical examples of how organizations are working together, across disciplinary or sector boundaries, to support innovation or improve the quality of care in the UK and elsewhere.

    Source: The Health Foundation
    Year: 2012
    Resource Type: Case Studies
    Sector: government, public health, healthcare, non-profit organizations, private
    Geographic Scope: international

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  • Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative

    Alliances between for-profit and nonprofit organizations are evolving from arms-length relationships into strategic partnerships. A study of the collaboration between the Clark Foundation and Pfizer, Inc. reveals what it takes to make them work.

    Source: Harvard Business School
    Year: 2000
    Resource Type: Case Study
    Sector: healthcare, non-profit organizations, industry, private
    Geographic Scope: international
    Public Health Focus: communicable disease prevention

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  • Cross-Sectoral Collaboration in the School Fruit Scheme: Developing Methodologies and Building Capacity to Advance the Implementation of HiAP and Achieve Health Equity

    This presentation describes a study conducted to find out whether the EU's School Fruit Scheme has had an impact on cross-sectoral cooperation and to learn from these experiences.

    Source: EuroHealthNet
    Resource Type: Presentation
    Sector: public health, industry, education, government
    Geographic Scope: local, city, county, state, international
    Public Health Focus: healthy eating, health equity

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  • Cross-sector Collaboration: Management Decision and Change Model

    This article describes a successful collaboration among foundation, city government, and nonprofit stakeholders that leveraged an initial investment of $60,000 to $4.5 million in public and private funding to create a sustainable Green & Healthy Homes Initiatives for low- and moderate-income neighborhoods in Providence, R.I.

    Source: Cross-sector Collaboration: Management Decision and Change Model
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Journal Article
    Sector: housing, non-profit organizations, government, private
    Geographic Scope: local, city
    Public Health Focus: environmental health

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  • Cross-sector collaboration

    This CDC webpage describes cross-sector collaboration in relation to preparedness planning for older adults.

    Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Year: 2012
    Resource Type: Guide
    Sector: all sectors
    Geographic Scope: all scope
    Public Health Focus: healthy aging

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  • Cross-sector collaboration: management decision and change model

    The purpose of this paper is to examine critically private (for profit), public and not-for-profit sector management strategies with a focus to assess and enhance organizational capacity building through cross-sector collaboration. This topic is considered from both a contemporary and an evolutionary perspective.

    Source: Rod Erakovich, (School of Business Administration, Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth, Texas, USA), Trisha Anderson, (School of Business Administration, Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth, Texas, USA)
    Resource Type: Journal Article
    Sector: government, public health, non-profit organizations, private

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  • Cross-sectoral coordination in the public sector: A challenge to leveraging agriculture for improving nutrition and health

    This brief considers how organizational barriers might be overcome, particularly in relation to the public agricultural sector. We examine the structure, priorities, and core competencies of sectoral agencies in government. Based on this overview, several approaches are suggested to foster better collaboration between agriculture and other sectors of government.

    Source: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
    Year: 2010
    Resource Type: Conference Brief - Paper
    Sector: policy, government, public health, non-profit organizations, private, industry
    Geographic Scope: national, international
    Public Health Focus: physical activity, active living, healthy eating, environmental health

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  • Current practice in the evaluation of cross-sector partnerships for sustainable development

    This paper reports the results of research undertaken in the Spring and Summer of 2008 and discusses its implications for ongoing TPI research and development on tools for improving the effectiveness of cross-sector partnerships in delivering sustainable development — work still very much in progress.

    Source: The Partnering Initiatives
    Year: 2008
    Resource Type: Working Paper
    Sector: government, private, non-profit organizations, industry

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  • Current practice in the evaluation of cross-sector partnerships for sustainable development

    The goal of the project was to assess the "how and what" of what concerns partnership practitioners in evaluating the cross-sector partnerships in which they are involved. The motivation was to identify the ingredients of a successful partnership evaluation and to identify priorities for further research and development of tools for evaluating cross-sector partnerships.

    Source: The Partnering Initiative
    Year: 2008
    Resource Type: Research
    Geographic Scope: international

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  • Designing Healthy Communities

    Designing Healthy Communities is a documentary series for PBS produced by Media Policy Center. The series is one component of a multimedia project that investigates how design of the built environment affects public health, and can be used as a tool in the fight against chronic diseases such as obesity and asthma. Communities that are featured range from large cities to smaller rural locales and include Detroit, Atlanta, Oakland, Roseto PA, Prairie Crossing IL, and Englewood CO.

    Source: Media Policy Center
    Year: 2011-2013
    Resource Type: Video, Documentary Series
    Sector: policy, government, public health, public safety, transportation, non-profit organizations, community/city planning, families, education, faith-based organizations
    Geographic Scope: local, neighborhood, city, county
    Public Health Focus: environmental health, health equity

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  • Designing and Managing Cross-Sector Collaboration: a Case Study in Reducing Traffic Congestion

    This article focuses specifically on a cross-sector collaborative effort to significantly reduce traffic congestion in the Twin Cities metropolitan area of Minnesota. The organizers of the program concluded that a collaborative, multimodal approach was crucial to making real headway on a long-standing, costly, nearly intractable public problem. Cross-sector collaboration is now increasingly both necessary and desirable as a strategy for addressing many of society's most complex public challenges.

    Source: John M. Bryson, Barbara C. Crosby, Melissa M. Stone, and Emily O. Saunoi-Sandgren, IBM Center for The Business of Government
    Year: 2009
    Resource Type: Case Study
    Sector: policy, government, transportation, community/city planning
    Geographic Scope: regional
    Public Health Focus: environmental health

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  • Designs and Codes that Reduce Crime around Multifamily Housing

    A number of local agencies have converted anti-crime design concepts into local codes and guidelines for new development and redevelopment.

    Source: Local Government Commission
    Resource Type: Tool
    Sector: government, policy, public safety
    Geographic Scope: local, city, neighborhood
    Public Health Focus: environmental health

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  • Developing Effective Coalitions: An 8-Step Guide

    This is a step-by-step guide to coalition building that helps partnerships launch and stabilize successfully. It supports advocates and practitioners in every aspect of the process - from determining the appropriateness of a coalition to selecting members, defining key elements, maintaining vitality, and conducting ongoing evaluations.

    Source: Prevention Institute
    Year: 2002
    Resource Type: Tool
    Sector: government, public health, non-profit organizations, private
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, local, county

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  • Developing the Ingredients Necessary for Successful Cross-Sector Collaboration: Where Research Meets Practice

    Initiatives to institute environmental and policy change in community, to reduce obesity and promote active living, call for the participation of multiple stakeholder groups. These initiatives not only require collaboration across disciplines, but across cultural communities as well. Building relationships is important, but what factors are key in determining the success of a collaborative effort? Participants explored promising practices for building healthier communities through cross-sector collaboration, learned about 20 evidence-based factors that, when present, can increase a group's likelihood of attaining shared goals, and engaged in hands-on exercises to assess their own collaborative initiatives (both those existing and under consideration). This workshop was aimed at improving collaborative knowledge and skills among public health and community development practitioners at all experience levels.

    Source: Active Living Research
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Presentation
    Sector: non-profit organizations, public health, transportation, education, child care
    Geographic Scope: local, neighborhood, city, county
    Public Health Focus: health equity, active living, environmental health

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  • Diabetes: Creating a Common Agenda for Collective Impact

    Continuing Minnesota's tradition of working collaboratively to reduce the burden of diabetes in the state, the Minnesota Diabetes Steering Committee, a statewide coalition of nearly 30 organizations led by the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) for almost three decades, made a bold decision in the fall of 2011 to try a new organizing approach - collective impact - to address the many complex, long-standing issues around diabetes.

    Source: Stratis Health
    Year: 2012
    Resource Type: Newsletter Article
    Sector: government, public health, non-profit organizations, private
    Geographic Scope: state
    Public Health Focus: chronic disease prevention

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  • Economic Research Service

    With over 300 employees, The Economic Research Service (ERS) is a primary source of economic information and research in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The ERS mission is to inform and enhance public and private decision making on economic and policy issues related to agriculture, food, the environmental health, and rural development.

    Source: USDA
    Resource Type: Tool
    Sector: policy, government, public health, non-profit organizations, private, industry
    Geographic Scope: all scope
    Public Health Focus: healthy eating, environmental health

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  • Effective Communications in Collaborations: Critical Factors

    Collaborations face unique challenges when planning their communications and may need to address issues that are different from those found in traditional organizations. Strategies and approaches for engaging and informing stakeholders are driven by a number of factors and considerations. Take these into account when planning your collaboration's communications.

    Source: Capacity Builders' Collaboration Coach
    Resource Type: Tool
    Geographic Scope: all scope

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  • Embracing Emergence: How Collective Impact Addresses Complexity

    Collective impact is upending conventional wisdom on how we achieve social progress. This post lists some of the foundational tools available through the Stanford Social Innovation.

    Source: Stanford Social Innovation
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Article
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, local

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  • Environmental Health in All Policies Meeting-in-A-Box

    NACCHO's Environmental Health in All Policies Meeting-in-A-Box presentation can be used to educate leadership, community members, or local health department (LHD) staff on Health in All Policies. The presentation is broad so it can be adapted for a wide audience. Although it is meant to serve as a guide, it should be tailored to reflect the local context and what is feasible, given the community's needs. You will need to create an account to download the tool; it's fast and free.

    Source: National Association of County & City Health Officials
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Presentation
    Sector: government, public health, policy, non-profit organizations, private
    Geographic Scope: local, neighborhood, city, county
    Public Health Focus: health equity, environmental health

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  • Facilitating Health and Education Sector Collaboration in Support of Comprehensive School Health

    Governments represent just one group of professionals within the myriad of players involved in implementing comprehensive school health (CHS) in Canada. To be effective contributors to the model, all levels of government need to work together to reduce duplication while at the same time minimizing gaps in the policies and practices that support school health promotion. Collaboration between the health and education sectors within and across governmental boundaries is proving to be an effective mechanism for achieving this. In its first five-year mandate, the Pan Canadian Joint Consortium for School Health has broken new ground in horizontal integration and, as a result, has identified a set of key factors necessary for successful cross-sector collaboration.

    Source: Canadian Public Health Association
    Year: 2010
    Resource Type: Journal Paper
    Sector: public health, education, government
    Geographic Scope: international

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  • Five cross-sector partnerships innovating to solve social problems

    From recycling to space exploration, collaborations between business, government and charities can create huge public value. This article offers five interesting examples of collaborative action.

    Source: The Guardian
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Case Studies
    Sector: private, families
    Public Health Focus: environmental health

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  • Five ways funders can foster cross-sector collaboration

    Collaboration between charities, the public sector and businesses is becoming more common but no less challenging. Bally Sappal suggests how funders might mediate.

    Source: The Guardian: Global Development Professionals Network
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Article
    Sector: government, public health, non-profit organizations, private

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  • Funding Healthy Changes

    ChangeLab Solutions shows communities how policies can create stable sources of funding for healthy changes. We help identify and leverage existing sources of funding and create new funding sources so communities can create places where the healthy choice is the easy choice.

    Source: Change Lab Solutions
    Resource Type: Website, Tool
    Sector: policy, employers, government, public health, public safety, transportation, non-profit organizations, faith-based organizations
    Geographic Scope: local, neighborhood, city, county
    Public Health Focus: all health

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  • Getting Involved in Transportation Planning: An Overview for Public Health Advocates

    This fact sheet, created in collaboration with TransForm, discusses the important link between transportation planning and health, describes the key players and processes of local and regional transportation planning, and suggests ways to advocate effectively for healthier transportation policies.

    Source: Change Lab Solutions
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Fact sheet
    Sector: government, public health, public safety, transportation, non-profit organizations
    Geographic Scope: local, neighborhood, city, county, regional
    Public Health Focus: environmental health, health equity

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  • HP's Cross-Sector Health Partnership in Kenya

    This post describes the partnership between HP, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, and the Kenyan government to support early infant diagnosis of HIV.

    Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
    Year: 2012
    Resource Type: Blog Post
    Sector: government, public health, non-profit organizations, private
    Geographic Scope: national, international
    Public Health Focus: communicable disease prevention

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  • Handshake: IFC's quarterly journal on public-private partnerships

    Handshake, IFC's quarterly journal on public-private partnerships, explores innovative and successful approaches by governments that are tapping the private sector to improve basic public services. Each issue focuses on a different topic.

    Source: International Finance Corporation
    Resource Type: Journal
    Sector: government, non-profit organizations, private

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  • Health Equity in All Policies

    A literature review and qualitative interviews with key stakeholders were conducted to capture current Health Equity in All Policies methodologies in Europe. Equity Action partners had a discussion on key learning and outcomes of this review, and developed a consensus through consultation with key leaders on how to take forward a Health Equity in All Policies approach. Finally, a tool for dissemination of findings was developed to further support partners to implement Health Equity in All Policies in their country.

    Source: Equity Action
    Year: 2012
    Resource Type: Tool
    Geographic Scope: international
    Public Health Focus: health equity

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  • Health Impact Assessment Clearinghouse

    Database of HIAs done across the U.S. with a summary of each HIA and links to background information on each health topic addressed in the HIA and the methods used. Recent HIAs that have not yet been summarized and indexed, as well as in-progress HIAs, are listed here.

    Source: UCLA Health Impact Assessment Project
    Resource Type: Case Studies
    Sector: policy, government, public health, non-profit organizations, private
    Geographic Scope: city, county, neighborhood, local, state, regional
    Public Health Focus: environmental health

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  • Health Impact Assessment and the National Prevention Strategy

    This Toolkit supports use of HIAs as a strategy for considering health in decision making. The types of decisions made by federal departments often have health consequences for the communities they serve. Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a structured process that brings together scientific data, public health expertise, and stakeholder input to identify the potential health effects of a proposed policy, program, project or plan. The toolkit features two case stuides, discusses lessons learned, and identifies issues specific to integrating the practice of HIA into decision making.

    Source: National Network of Public Health Institutes
    Year: 2014
    Resource Type: website, case study
    Sector: government, education, transportation
    Geographic Scope: national, city, local
    Public Health Focus: active living, environmental health, health equity

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  • Health Impact Assessment: A Guide for Practice

    The awareness and use of HIA in the United States is rapidly increasing, and this Guide aims to support practitioners in the field, by describing the key tasks and activities for HIA as well as the issues and challenges that arise in the course of practice. The Guide includes illustrative examples from practice, as well as suggestions for stakeholder participation and the integration of health analysis in the environmental impact assessment process.

    Source: Rajiv Bhatia, Human Impact Partners
    Year: 2011
    Resource Type: Tool
    Sector: policy, government, public health
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, county, local, state, regional, national, tribal

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  • Health System Innovation in Lesotho Design and early operations of the Maseru public-private integrated partnership

    The first product of the UCSF/PwC Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Fellowship is a new case study detailing the design and launch of an innovative public-private integrated partnership (PPIP) &madsh; a specialized form of PPP &madsh; to dramatically improve delivery of healthcare in the Kingdom of Lesotho in southern Africa. The Lesotho PPIP is the first such partnership in Africa, and the first in a lower income country. The case study chronicles the decisions that led to the initiation of the PPIP, describes the design and contracting phases, and summarizes experience and early lessons from the project, from groundbreaking through the first year of operation.

    Source: The Global Health Group and UCSF Global Health Sciences
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Case Study
    Sector: healthcare, education, government, non-profit organizations, industry
    Geographic Scope: international
    Public Health Focus: access to care

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  • Health happens in neighborhoods

    Page geared toward public to increase awareness of how "place" impacts healthy, strategies to negate, and current issues.

    Source: The California Endowment
    Resource Type: Tool
    Sector: public safety, public health, non-profit organizations
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood
    Public Health Focus: active living, healthy eating, environmental health, mental and emotional wellbeing

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  • Health in All Policies (HiAP) Resources

    Health in All Policies (HiAP) is a collaborative approach to improving the health of all people by incorporating health, equity, and sustainability considerations into decision-making across sectors and policy areas. This page on the California Department of Public Health website offers information and links to two significant tools for HiAP: Health in All Policies: A Guide for State and Local Governments and Health in All Policies: Improving Health Through Intersectoral Collaboration discussion paper.

    Source: California Department of Health and AHPA
    Resource Type: Tool
    Sector: government, non-profit organizations, public health
    Geographic Scope: state, local, city, county

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  • Health in All Policies (HiAP): Framework for Country Action

    This document serves as a 'starters kit' for applying Health in All Policies (HiAP) in decision-making and implementation at national and sub-national levels. It can be easily adapted for use in different country contexts and at the regional and global levels.

    Source: World Health Organization
    Year: 2014
    Resource Type: Tool
    Sector: government, private, non-profit organizations, employers, public health
    Geographic Scope: national, international

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  • Health in All Policies (HiAP): Frequently Asked Questions

    This document provides a list of frequently asked questions related to HiAP.

    Source: National Association of County & City Health Officials
    Resource Type: Frequently Asked Questions
    Sector: all sectors
    Geographic Scope: all scope
    Public Health Focus: environmental health

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  • Health in All Policies: A Guide for State and Local Governments

    Health in All Policies: A Guide for State and Local Governments was created by the Public Health Institute, the California Department of Public Health, and the American Public Health Association in response to growing interest in using collaborative approaches to improve population health by embedding health considerations into decision-making processes across a broad array of sectors. The Guide draws heavily on the experiences of the California Health in All Policies Task Force and incorporates information from the published and gray literature and interviews with people across the country.

    Source: American Public Health Association, Public Health Institute, and the California Department of Public Health
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Tool
    Sector: government, public health
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, local, county, state

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  • Health in All Policies: Addressing the Legal and Policy Foundations of Health Impact Assessment

    The concept of Health in All Policies aims to improve the health outcomes associated with policies in an attempt to mitigate health disparities and provide optimal environments for healthier living. This multidisciplinary framework seeks to improve health through effective assessment and reformation of policy for organizations of any level and stature. The importance of integrating health in policy assessment and decision-making is a key concept in the growing field of health impact assessment.

    Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
    Year: 2011
    Resource Type: Journal Article
    Sector: government, public health, non-profit organizations, private, policy
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, local, county, state, regional, national

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  • Health in All Policies: Improving Health Through Intersectoral Collaboration

    In their discussion paper, Linda Rudolph and colleagues define the health in all policies concept, explain the need for health in all policies approaches to confront complex and current health challenges in the population, and provide an overview of California's pioneering experience with cross-sector collaboration to address the social determinants of health. The paper includes an analysis of key challenges and opportunities likely to arise when communities undertake health in all policies efforts.

    Source: IOM Roundtable on Population Health Improvement
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Discussion Paper
    Sector: government, public health, non-profit organizations, private
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, local
    Public Health Focus: health equity

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  • Health in All Policies: Lessons Learned from California

    Health in All Policies is a collaborative approach to improve health by incorporating health considerations into decision-making across all policy areas. This webinar provided an overview of the Health in All Policies approach and reviewed the work of California's Health in All Policies Task Force - the first state-level, United States effort to institutionalize this approach.

    Source: American Public Health Association
    Year: 2012
    Resource Type: Webinar
    Sector: government
    Geographic Scope: state
    Public Health Focus: all health

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  • Health in All Policies: Prospects and potentials

    This volume, published in the context of the Finnish Presidency of the European Union (EU), aims to highlight how and why the health dimension can and should be taken into account across all government sectors. Particular emphasis is placed on the unique mandate and obligation of the EU to protect health in all its policies. The topic is explored from the perspectives of available methods and different levels of policy-making, and examples are included from specific policy areas and health issues.

    Source: World Health Organization: Europe
    Year: 2006
    Resource Type: Report
    Sector: policy, government, public health, employers
    Geographic Scope: city, state, national, international
    Public Health Focus: healthy eating, environmental health, preventing drug and alcohol abuse, health equity

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  • Health in All Policies: Strategies to Promote Innovative Leadership

    In support of the National Prevention Strategy, ASTHO produced this innovative resource to educate and empower public health leaders to promote a Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach to policymaking and program development. By collaborating across multiple sectors to address health disparities and empower individuals, promoting healthy community, and ensuring quality clinical and community preventive services, we can increase the number of Americans who are healthy at every stage of life. To support your efforts, a description of the National Prevention Strategy is enclosed along with key talking points to explain a HiAP approach to other leaders in your state or locality's government, characteristics of successful cross-sector collaboration, and a collection of state stories meant to inspire you into action.

    Source: Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
    Resource Type: Tool
    Sector: all sectors
    Geographic Scope: local, city, county, state
    Public Health Focus: physical activity, active living, disabilities, healthy aging, chronic disease prevention, prevention, preventing drug and alcohol abuse, healthy eating, environmental health, health equity, tobacco-free living, mental and emotional wellbeing

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  • Healthy Communities at the Public Health Institute

    This report highlights the overarching principles of Healthy Communities and various Healthy Communities programs across California.

    Source: Public Health Institute
    Resource Type: Case Studies
    Sector: policy, government, public health, non-profit organizations, private
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, local
    Public Health Focus: physical activity, active living, healthy eating, environmental health, health equity

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  • Healthy Community Design Checklist Toolkit

    This toolkit can help planners, public health professionals, and the general public include health in the community planning process. Developed in partnership between the American Planning Association's Planning and Community Health Research Center and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Healthy Community Design Initiative, the toolkit is composed of four elements that work together to achieve this goal.

    Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Resource Type: Tool
    Sector: government, non-profit organizations, public health, transportation, public safety
    Geographic Scope: community
    Public Health Focus: environmental health, health equity

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  • Healthy Housing

    ChangeLab Solutions' Healthy Housing project works with communities around the country to make it easier for everyone to live in homes that are healthy. From healthier air inside the home to healthier neighborhoods, our policy programs make living better for everyone.

    Source: Change Lab Solutions
    Resource Type: Website, Tool
    Sector: policy, employers, government, public health, public safety, transportation, non-profit organizations, faith-based organizations
    Geographic Scope: local, neighborhood, city, county
    Public Health Focus: environmental health, health equity

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  • Healthy People 2020 - Topics and Objectives Database

    Healthy People offers science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans, and provides measurable objectives and goals to help states engage multiple sectors to take actions to strengthen policies and improve practices that are driven by the best available evidence and knowledge.

    Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
    Resource Type: Framework
    Sector: all sectors
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, county, local, state, regional, national, tribal
    Public Health Focus: all health

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  • Healthy Places Recommendations

    The Commission to Build A Healthier America focused on people and the places where we spend the bulk of our time &madsh; homes and community, schools and workplaces &madsh; to identify where people should make healthier choices and where society should remove the obstacles preventing too many Americans from making healthy decisions.The recommendations are the result of intensive study and debate, reflecting the need to identify cross-sector interventions beyond the healthcare system that are likely to achieve a significant positive impact on the health of all Americans in years, not decades.

    Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
    Year: 2009
    Resource Type: Website
    Sector: public safety, public health, transportation, government
    Geographic Scope: local, neighborhood, city, county
    Public Health Focus: environmental health, health equity

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  • Healthy Transportation Network

    The Healthy Transportation Network is a project of California Active Communities in collaboration with the State & Local Injury Control Section of the California Department of Public Health; the California Bicycle Coalition; Local Government Commission; and the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy California Field Office.

    Source: California Active community
    Resource Type: Project
    Sector: transportation, government, public safety, public health, non-profit organizations
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, local, city
    Public Health Focus: active living, environmental health

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  • ISSUE BRIEF: MESSAGE TRANSLATION

    The Commission's challenge was to frame highly-specific and technical information about social determinants and health disparities into language that would resonate with a diverse group of leaders. This issue brief, Message Translation, describes the research-based process used to develop messages and shares the results for broader use.

    Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
    Year: 2009
    Resource Type: Report
    Sector: government, industry, healthcare, public health
    Public Health Focus: health equity

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  • Implement the National Prevention Strategy

    Numerous factors outside the healthcare system — including housing, education, transportation, the availability of quality affordable food, and conditions in the workplace and the environment — often play a large role in public health so working across agencies to identify and develop reforms can have a major impact in improving the health of all Americans. If every federal agency focuses increased attention on prevention and health promotion, benefits will flow to the public’s health and will help each agency fulfill its mission. Trust for America's Health (TFAH) provides recommendations for the Federal Government and examples of actions being taken to implement the National Prevention Strategy.

    Source: Trust for America's Health
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Issue Brief
    Sector: government, public health
    Geographic Scope: city, county, local, national

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  • Implementing Health in All Policies, Adelaide 2010

    This volume addresses a number of important implementation challenges for Health in All Policies. History is analysed, different contexts are explored, concepts and methods are elaborated and case studies are described. National and sub-national country case studies shed light on how nations as diverse as Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Norway and Thailand are incrementally working towards better policy integration and governance for social wellbeing and equity. The concepts, examples and practical experiences documented in this volume provide essential learning for moving towards a clearer conceptual framework for Health in All Policies.

    Source: Government of South Australia
    Year: 2010
    Resource Type: Book
    Sector: government
    Geographic Scope: national, international
    Public Health Focus: health equity

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  • Implementing the National Prevention Strategy in Local Health Departments: A web-based tool

    The National Prevention Strategy (NPS) calls for collaboration among cross-sector partners to implement evidence-based strategies for wellness. Local Health Departments (LHDs) are well-positioned to implement NPS due to their ability to engage local stakeholders and provide data on local public health concerns. NACCHO surveyed 79 LHDs to determine factors that influence adoption of NPS. The objective of this presentation is to describe the framework for carrying out local evidence-based prevention initiatives via multi-sector partnerships. It explains four steps for implementing the National Prevention Strategy at the local level. (APHA subscription required)

    Source: Brandie Adams-Piphus, National Association of County and City Health Officials
    Year: 2014
    Resource Type: Conference Session
    Sector: government, public health
    Geographic Scope: local, city, county, regional

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  • Implementing the National Prevention Strategy: 2013 State Partners Meetings Overview

    This document describes the formation of the partnership, details the cross-sector approach to prevention that the group discussed, includes examples of partner organizations — initiatives, and lists the opportunities for multi-sector collaboration that the group identified through a series of meetings in 2013.

    Source: Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Report
    Sector: all sectors
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, county, local, state, regional, national, tribal
    Public Health Focus: physical activity, active living, disabilities, healthy aging, chronic disease prevention, prevention, preventing drug and alcohol abuse, healthy eating, environmental health, health equity, tobacco-free living, mental and emotional wellbeing

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  • Inspiring Videos related to Collective Impact and Community Health

    Many of us periodically come across short videos that are inspiring and would help build support for Collective Impact in our communities. Community Commons provides a place to share them so others can link to them, put them on their Website, etc.

    Source: Community Commons
    Resource Type: Tool

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  • Integrating Health Education, Community, and healthcare

    The Brandywine Health Foundation of Coatesville, Pennsylvania oversaw the development of facilities, programs, and a community engagement process to bring health education, community and healthcare together in the community. This case study highlights major outcomes and accomplishments, ingredients for success, key partners, and the populations served.

    Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Case Study
    Sector: healthcare, families, public health, education
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, local, county,

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  • Intersectoral Collaboration for Health: Reports from Local Health Departments

    This 90-minute webinar includes a short overview of the Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach, and an introduction to the work of Baltimore's Cross Agency Health Taskforce and Sonoma's Health Action, including history, accomplishments, and a discussion of the lessons learned from these exciting local initiatives.

    Source: American Public Health Association, via the Build Healthy Places Network
    Year: 2012
    Resource Type: Webinar
    Sector: government, public health, education, families, industry, transportation, non-profit organizations
    Geographic Scope: local, neighborhood
    Public Health Focus: health equity, environmental health, active living, healthy eating, tobacco-free living, preventing drug and alcohol abuse

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  • MAPP Network

    Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) is a strategic approach to community health improvement. This tool helps communities improve health and quality of life through community-wide strategic planning. Using MAPP, communities seek to achieve optimal health by identifying and using their resources wisely, taking into account their unique circumstances and needs, and forming effective partnerships for strategic action.

    Source: National Association of County & City Health Officials
    Year: 2014
    Resource Type: Forum
    Geographic Scope: local, neighborhood, city, county

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  • MN Diabetes Collective Impact Blueprint

    In Spring 2012, the Minnesota Department of Health's Diabetes Program and the University of Minnesota and Mayo partnership — Decade of Discovery — convened a series of meetings with Minnesota leaders and diabetes stakeholders to discuss a novel approach, “Collective Impact" as a model to increase the scope and impact of promising but disjointed efforts to reduce the impact of diabetes in Minnesota. This report, or blueprint, describes the Minnesota Diabetes Collective Impact Initiative

    Source: Minnesota Health Action Group
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Case Study
    Sector: government, public health, families, non-profit organizations, faith-based organizations
    Geographic Scope: local, neighborhood, city, county
    Public Health Focus: chronic disease prevention

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  • Making Good Nutrition More Accessible

    Healthy Foods Here of Seattle, Washington created a corner store model project to bring healthier foods to neighborhoods experiencing poor health outcomes. This case study highlights major outcomes and accomplishments, ingredients for success, key partners, and the populations served.

    Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Case Study
    Sector: non-profit organizations, public health
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, local, city
    Public Health Focus: healthy eating

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  • MakingHealthEasier.org

    CDC social networking site where CDC funded communities and their partners share stories and resources

    Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Resource Type: webpage
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, county, local, state, regional, national, tribal
    Public Health Focus: physical activity, active living, healthy eating, tobacco-free living

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  • Management Challenges in Cross-Sector Collaboration: Elderly Care Case Study

    Using a case study for the collaboration between the public, private and third sectors in elderly care, the purpose of this research is to create new knowledge on cross-sector collaboration management. Cross-sector collaboration leads to innovations in governance. It creates social value and provides reduction of costs and benefits for society. Effective collaboration between the public, private, and third sector requires innovative thinking, leading, and acting. New skills and forms of cooperation between partners are needed.

    Source: The Innovation Journal
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Journal Paper
    Sector: government, non-profit organizations, private
    Public Health Focus: healthy aging

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  • Maryland Works: A Worksite Wellness Toolkit

    This toolkit is divided into sections that address how to start a worksite wellness program, assess the worksite, select healthy eating and physical activity programs, and evaluate them. All the necessary information is provided, from how to do an employee survey to selecting the right program. Within each section are descriptions of the benefits, implementation steps, examples, and additional resources for each area.

    Source: National Governors Association
    Resource Type: Toolkit
    Sector: employers, government, public health
    Geographic Scope: local
    Public Health Focus: healthy eating, active living, tobacco-free living, chronic disease prevention

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  • Meeting Global Development Goals Requires More Cross-Sector Partnerships

    This blog post suggests that, achieving global health goals requires new thinking and fresh commitments from across all sectors -- including industry, governments, multilateral, NGOs, and other organizations - to cross-sector partnerships that drive systemwide change.

    Source: Huff Post Social Entrepreneurship
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Blog Post
    Sector: government, healthcare, public health, non-profit organizations, private, industry
    Geographic Scope: national, international
    Public Health Focus: communicable disease prevention, chronic disease prevention

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  • Minimum Elements and Practice Standards for Health Impact Assessment

    This document, a collective product of a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) practitioners workgroup in North America, intends to translate the values underlying HIA along with key lessons from HIA practice into specific 'standards for practice' for each phase of the HIA process. Participants at the first North American Conference on Health Impact Assessment held in Oakland, California in September 2008 identified the development of standards as a priority need for the field. Subsequent to the 2008 conference, participants collectively developed the first version of these practice standards. This document reflects the second version of those standards, and has been revised to include a set of “minimum elements" of HIA practice

    Source: North American HIA Practice Standards Working Group
    Year: 2014
    Resource Type: Report
    Sector: education, public health, government, non-profit organizations, transportation, policy
    Geographic Scope: local, community
    Public Health Focus: environmental health, health equity

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  • Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP)

    MAPP is a community-driven strategic planning process for improving community health. Facilitated by public health leaders, this framework helps communities apply strategic thinking to prioritize public health issues and identify resources to address them. MAPP is not an agency-focused assessment process; rather, it is an interactive process that can improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and ultimately the performance of local public health systems.

    Source: National Association of County & City Health Officials
    Resource Type: Planning Process
    Sector: government, public health
    Geographic Scope: local, city, neighborhood, county, state

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  • NACCHO's FAQs on HiAP

    NACCHO's Frequently Asked Questions on Health in All Policies (HiAP) answers the most common questions regarding Health in All Policies and its implementation. There are also links to useful examples at different levels of government: federal, state, and local.

    Source: NACCHO
    Resource Type: Tool
    Sector: policy, government, healthcare, public health, non-profit organizations
    Geographic Scope: local, state, national

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  • NPS Implementation Toolkit

    This tool allows users to learn about and obtain resources related to each Strategic Direction and Priority Area of the National Prevention Strategy.

    Source: Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
    Year: 2015
    Resource Type: Tool
    Sector: all sectors
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, county, local, state, regional, national, tribal
    Public Health Focus: physical activity, active living, disabilities, healthy aging, chronic disease prevention, prevention, preventing drug and alcohol abuse, healthy eating, environmental health, health equity, tobacco-free living, mental and emotional wellbeing

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  • National Physical Activity Plan

    The Plan is a comprehensive set of policies, programs, and initiatives that aim to increase physical activity in all segments of the American population. The Plan is the product of a private-public sector collaborative. Hundreds of organizations are working together to change our communities in ways that will enable every American to be sufficiently physically active.

    Source: National Physical Activity Plan Alliance
    Year: 2010
    Resource Type: Website
    Sector: policy, industry, government, public health, education, healthcare, non-profit organizations, private, transportation, community/city planning
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, local, county, state
    Public Health Focus: physical activity, active living, environmental health, health equity

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  • National Prevention Council Action Plan: Implementing the National Prevention Strategy

    The National Prevention Council Action Plan outlines the federal commitment to implementing the vision, goal, priorities, and recommendations of the nations first ever National Prevention Strategy. This action plan is a direct result of the National PreventionCouncils leadership and highlights the important contributions that each member department is making to ensure the health, well-being, and resilience of the American people.The National Prevention Council comprises 17 federal departments that are incorporating prevention in their activities. This action plan demonstrates how these departments are implementing prevention efforts, in line with their respective missions, to achieve the National Prevention Strategy goal of increasing the number of Americans who are healthy at every stage of life.

    Source: US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Surgeon General
    Year: 2012
    Resource Type: Report
    Sector: all sectors
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, county, local, state, regional, national, tribal
    Public Health Focus: all health

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  • National Prevention Strategy

    The National Prevention Strategy, released June 16, 2011, aims to guide our nation in the most effective and achievable means for improving health and well-being. The Strategy prioritizes prevention by integrating recommendations and actions across multiple settings to improve health and save lives. The Strategy envisions a prevention-oriented society where all sectors recognize the value of health for individuals, families, and society and work together to achieve better health for Americans.

    Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Surgeon General
    Year: 2011
    Resource Type: Website
    Sector: all sectors
    Geographic Scope: all scope
    Public Health Focus: all health

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  • National Prevention Strategy Simplified: Local Health Departments' Roadmap to Health and Wellness

    This fact sheet describes how National Prevention Strategy (NPS) can support local health departments in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of integrated chronic disease prevention efforts with specific recommendations and actions for carrying out NPS Strategic Directions and Priorities.There are many similarities between NPS and HiAP. LHDs working towards implementing HiAP in their jurisdictions can adapt these recommendations and actions to their HiAP efforts.

    Source: National Association of County & City Health Officials
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Fact Sheet
    Sector: government, public health
    Geographic Scope: city, local, county
    Public Health Focus: all health

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  • Native Generations

    Native Generations is a campaign addressing high rates of infant mortality among American Indians and Alaska Natives. The campaign video: Shares the stories of young urban AI/AN parents that are staying connected to their culture and community for the health of their families. Promotes a nationwide network of Urban Indian Health Organizations that provide health services, cultural activities and connection to community support. Reveals challenges to infant health, safety practices and other health risks. Highlights examples of innovative and vital programs for Native families in two cities.

    Source: Urban Indian Health Institute
    Year: 2012
    Resource Type: Video
    Sector: government, public health
    Geographic Scope: tribal

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  • Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care Health Equity Impact Assessment template and workbook

    The Health Equity Impact Assessment (HEIA) tool includes a template and a workbook. The workbook provides detailed instructions and walks users through the five steps of HEIA: 1) Scoping, 2) Potential Impacts, 3) Mitigation, 4) Monitoring, and 5) Dissemination. The results are recorded in the template.

    Source: Ontario Ministry of Health
    Resource Type: Tool
    Sector: government, public health, non-profit organizations, private
    Geographic Scope: all scope
    Public Health Focus: environmental health, health equity

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  • Partnership Matters Journal

    The Partnership Matters Journal explores a range of topics in cross-sector partnerships and drew on the work on those involved in the IBLF and University of Cambridge Programme for Industry Post-graduate Certificate in Cross-Sector Partnerships programme. There are four issues of the journal available to download.

    Source: The Partnering Initiative
    Year: 2003-2006
    Resource Type: Journal
    Geographic Scope: international

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  • Partnerships: Frameworks for Working Together

    In this e-learning lesson you will learn about the typical components found in effective partnerships, the different forms that partnerships can take, the steps to establishing effective partnerships, and how to manage and bring closure to partnerships.

    Source: Strengthening Nonprofits
    Resource Type: Continuing Education

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  • Partnerships: Frameworks for Working Together

    The Partnerships: Framework for Working Together guidebook will be helpful to any organization or coalition of organizations that wants to know more about establishing and managing partnerships.

    Source: Strengthening Nonprofits
    Resource Type: Tool

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  • Place Matters for Health: Ensuring Opportunities for Good Health for All

    The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and its Place Matters Teams are pleased to add to the existing knowledge base with this report, Place Matters for Health: Ensuring Opportunities for Good Health for All."The report, supported by a grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) of the National Institutes of Health, provides a summary of the analysis of the range of social, economic, and environmental conditions that exist in selected Place Matters communities and documents their relationship to the health status of the residents.

    Source: Joint Center for Political & Economic Studies
    Year: 2012
    Resource Type: Report
    Sector: government, public health, policy, non-profit organizations, private
    Geographic Scope: local, neighborhood, city, county
    Public Health Focus: health equity, environmental health

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  • Planning for Healthy Places with Health Impact Assessments

    Planning for Healthy Places with Health Impact Assessments is a 'how to' guide for conducting health impact assessments (HIAs), developed by the American Planning Association and the National Association of County & City Health Officials, sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This online course will explain the value of conducting an HIA and the steps involved in conducting an HIA. Throughout the course, examples of health impact assessments have been highlighted and discussed.

    Source: American Planning Association and the National Association of County & City Health Officials
    Year: 2011
    Resource Type: Tool, Course, Self-Study
    Sector: all sectors
    Geographic Scope: local, neighborhood, city, county
    Public Health Focus: environmental health, health equity

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  • Prevention Matters Infographic

    The Prevention Matters infographic highlights opportunities and progress in prevention, as well as federal actions aligned with the strategic directions and priorities of the National Prevention Strategy. Scroll over the interactive infographic to learn more about cross-sector efforts to increase the number of Americans who are healthy at every stage of life.

    Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Surgeon General
    Year: 2014
    Resource Type: Infographic
    Sector: policy, government, healthcare, public health, families
    Geographic Scope: national
    Public Health Focus: environmental health, health equity, tobacco-free living, chronic disease prevention

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  • Prevention Status Reports

    The Prevention Status Reports (PSRs) highlight — for all 50 states and the District of Columbia — the status of public health policies and practices designed to prevent or reduce the following important public health problems:

    Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Resource Type: report
    Sector: policy, government, healthcare, public health, non-profit organizations, families
    Geographic Scope: national, state
    Public Health Focus: preventing drug and alcohol abuse, healthy eating, communicable disease prevention, chronic disease prevention, active living, healthy eating, tobacco-free living

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  • Project Brief: Health Equity for Urban American Indians and Alaska Natives

    In 2010, the Seattle Indian Health Board’s Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI)received funding from the Office of Minority Health to carry out the Health Equity Project. The hope for this project is to support the work of urban Indian health organizations and ultimately the Healthy People 2020 goal of eliminating health disparities. This project will identify and disseminate models of successful prevention, treatment and management of disease in Urban American Indian/Alaska Native communities. The specific focus is on Healthy People 2020 objectives related to cardiovascular disease (CVD or heart disease), depression, as well as substance abuse and chemical dependency, a priority identified by the Urban Indian Health Organizations. Additionally, the Health Equity Project will provide tools and support for leveraging resources through strategic partnerships, evaluation efforts, and organizational preparation for implementing or strengthening programming. Read more about the Health Equity Project's background, preliminary findings and next steps in UIHI's April 2011 Project Brief.

    Source: Urban Indian Health Institute
    Year: 2011
    Resource Type: Report
    Sector: government, public health
    Geographic Scope: tribal
    Public Health Focus: environmental health, health equity, preventing drug and alcohol abuse, chronic disease prevention, mental and emotional wellbeing

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  • Promoting Shared Value and Collective Impact for Women's and Children's Health

    Women and children have multiple, inter-related health needs. Addressing these needs across the "Continuum of Care" in an integrated manner requires collective efforts from multiple actors. Partnerships allow them to build on each other's core competencies and have a larger, more sustainable impact. Such efforts also create shared value, addressing both social needs and business priorities.This publication includes a guide to collective impact and links to additional resources.

    Source: Asia-Pacific Leadership and Policy Dialogue for Women's and Children's Health
    Year: 2012
    Resource Type: Report
    Sector: government, private, non-profit organizations, employers, public health
    Geographic Scope: national, international
    Public Health Focus: health equity

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  • Protocol for Assessing Community Excellence in Environmental Health (PACE EH)

    Through a multi-year partnership with the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), NACCHO provides technical assistance to local health departments and their constituents in conducting community-based environmental health assessments (CEHA). To this end, NACCHO developed the Protocol for Assessing Community Excellence in Environmental Health (PACE EH), a methodology to guide local communities in identifying and addressing environmental health priorities. NACCHO is dedicated to assisting local health officials conduct CEHA. *Anyone can search for tools, but users must log in to access, bookmark, or rate tools. Logins are free, available to all, and only take a few minutes to create.

    Source: National Association of County & City Health Officials
    Resource Type: Toolkit
    Sector: government, public health
    Geographic Scope: local, city, neighborhood, county
    Public Health Focus: environmental health

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  • Public Health Institute: Healthy community

    List of links to more specific information on programs that fall under the PHI Healthy Communities umbrella.

    Source: Public Health Institute
    Resource Type: Toolkit
    Sector: government, public health, non-profit organizations, private
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, local
    Public Health Focus: physical activity, active living, chronic disease prevention, healthy eating, environmental health, health equity

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  • Public-Private Investment Partnerships for Health: An Atlas of Innovation

    This atlas identifies the primary goals and structures of Public-Private Investment Partnerships (PPIPs) and provides high-level overviews of the 12 most innovative PPIPs worldwide.

    Source: The Global Health Group
    Year: 2010
    Resource Type: Report
    Sector: healthcare, education, government, non-profit organizations, industry
    Geographic Scope: international

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  • Public-Private Partnerships

    This webpage highlights PEPFAR's public-private partnerships (PPP) in support of HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care programs.

    Source: The United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
    Resource Type: Webpage
    Sector: policy, government, public health, non-profit organizations, private, industry
    Geographic Scope: national, international
    Public Health Focus: communicable disease prevention

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  • Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs)

    In order to serve as a thought leader and repository of information on private sector delivery of health services, the Global Health Group's Private Sector Healthcare Initiative works to document, evaluate, and disseminate knowledge about PPP experiences in low- and middle-income developing countries. This webpage describes the work being done.

    Source: The Global Health Group
    Year: 2014
    Resource Type: Webpage
    Sector: healthcare, government, non-profit organizations, industry, private
    Geographic Scope: international
    Public Health Focus: access to care

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  • Public-Private Partnerships in Health: The Private Sector's Role in Public-Private Partnerships

    The World Economic Forum Global Health Initiative partnered with leading consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton to uncover underlying principles of successful PPPs by researching the real-world experience of leading companies, governments and non-governmental organizations. Booz Allen conducted nearly 60 interviews with senior executives of multinational corporations, governments, multilateral agencies, foundations and not-for-profit organizations and researched over 40 PPPs, primarily in international health. The research explored the conditions under which PPPs are the right form of collaboration and what optimizes success.

    Source: World Economic Forum
    Resource Type: Report
    Sector: government, private, non-profit organizations, employers, public health

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  • Public-private partnerships for global health: How PATH advances technologies through cross-sector collaboration

    This policy report highlights the essential role that public-private partnerships play in driving global health product development and offers insights into the key components of successful multi-sector partnerships led by PATH.

    Source: PATH
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Report
    Sector: policy, government, public health, non-profit organizations, private, industry
    Geographic Scope: national, international

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  • Red Flags in Collaborative Processes

    Red flags are hazard indicators. They are storm warnings that suggest possible dangers that could jeopardize the success of an intended collaboration process. Some flags may turn into showstoppers. Others could be game-changers or potentially have other rippling or cascade effects. Peter Adler contributed this list of 32 different red flags.

    Source: Collaborative Leaders Network
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Tool

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  • Resource Center for Evidence-Based Prevention and Cross-Sector Approaches

    This site offers local health departments guidance for integrating Healthy People 2020, the National Prevention Strategy (NPS), The Community Guide, NACCHO's HiAP Toolbox, and CHIP into a uniform approach for achieving health and wellness in the jurisdictions they serve.

    Source: NACCHO
    Resource Type: Resource Center
    Sector: government, public health
    Geographic Scope: city, county, local
    Public Health Focus: chronic disease prevention

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  • Resources for Partnerships

    Resource Page on the 'Promoting Health Equity for Urban American Indians and Alaska Natives site.' These resource guides offer suggestions for managing partnerships effectively.

    Source: Urban Indian Health Institute
    Resource Type: Toolkit
    Sector: government, public health
    Geographic Scope: tribal

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  • SECTION TWO: Building Collaboration

    A NACCHO resource that addresses the full range of issues created by hazardous waste sites and the need for agencies to work together. The complexity of dealing with a Superfund site includes perceived vs. real health threats, various remediation options, links between exposure pathways and health outcomes, and risk communication, to name a few. The involved agencies each have their area of expertise, as discussed in the Roles and Responsibilities section. Therefore, agencies must learn to work together to leverage their strengths to the greatest advantage of the community as a whole. At its core, interagency collaboration holds the promise of accomplishing something jointly that one agency alone cannot accomplish.

    Source: National Association of County & City Health Officials
    Resource Type: Webpage
    Sector: government, public health
    Geographic Scope: city, county, state, national
    Public Health Focus: environmental health

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  • Scaling Up Energy Access through Cross-sector Partnerships

    In this study, over 40 experts from across the private, public and civil society sectors were consulted; existing barriers to providing off-grid electricity to rural households were analyzed; promising and innovative approaches were further understood. The result: a “cross-sector partnership framework" was developed as a starting point for new cross-sector business models on energy access in peri-urban and rural areas. A profit and loss (P&L) methodology has also been developed to measure and quantify the economic, environmental and social impacts of rural electrification and thus support the business case.

    Source: World Economic Forum
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Report
    Sector: private, non-profit organizations, government, industry
    Geographic Scope: local, regional, national, international
    Public Health Focus: environmental health

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  • Selecting the Right Communication Technology Tools (pdf)

    There are many kinds of tools that enable your collaboration partners to work together and communicate more efficiently and effectively. The right ones can help you share information at various levels (around the collaborative table, within partner organizations, and with external stakeholders); facilitate effective and timely decision making; sustain and build relationships by enhancing transparency in communication; use budgets and resources most effectively given constraints. Nonprofits use various technology tools, many in combination, to achieve their goals.

    Source: Capacity Builders' Collaboration Coach
    Resource Type: Tool
    Geographic Scope: all scope

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  • Smart Growth

    Smart growth' covers a range of development and conservation strategies that help protect our natural environment and make our communities more attractive, economically stronger, and more socially diverse. Our About Smart Growth page explains the basic issues addressed by smart growth approaches.

    Source: Environmental Protection Agency
    Resource Type: Program
    Sector: policy, government, public health, public safety, transportation, non-profit organizations, community/city planning
    Geographic Scope: all scope
    Public Health Focus: environmental health

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  • Smart Growth Regional, State, and Local Funding Opportunities

    The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed this guide of regional, state, and local funding resources to assist local and state governments, community, and non-governmental organizations who are addressing the varied aspects of smart growth.

    Source: Environmental Protection Agency
    Resource Type: Website
    Sector: policy, government, public health, public safety, transportation, non-profit organizations, community/city planning
    Geographic Scope: city, county, local, state, regional
    Public Health Focus: environmental health

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  • State by State Data

    The Commission created an in-depth collection of state-level graphical data ready to download into relevant research and presentations.

    Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
    Resource Type: Website
    Geographic Scope: state, national
    Public Health Focus: health equity

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  • Supporting Community Health Through Collective Impact

    Recently, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) partnered with The Atlantic to host “A Conversation on Community Health" - a series of events in U.S. cities across the country to explore what it means, and what it takes, to create a healthy community. NewPublicHealth checked in with GSK's Senior Vice President and Corporate Medical Director, Robert Carr, MD, MPH, FACPM, to get his take on why businesses should care about community health, and why a broad, cross-sector dialogue is a critical next step.

    Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, New Public Health
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Interview
    Sector: industry, employers, public health, non-profit organizations, private
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, local, county

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  • Sustainable Communities Index

    The Sustainable Communities Index is a system of indicators for livable, equitable and prosperous cities. This site provides the methods and data sources required for collecting indicators in your city or region and resources for applying these metrics to planning, policy making and civic engagement. Citizens, community groups, government agencies, private business, and community organizations can all use the measures in the SCI

    Source: Sustainable Communities Collective
    Resource Type: Program
    Sector: policy, government, healthcare, business, non-profit organizations, public health, transportation, employers, education, child care, public safety, housing
    Geographic Scope: city, regional
    Public Health Focus: health equity, environmental health

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  • Systems-Level Impact: Using the Collective Impact Framework for Public Health Systems Building

    In order to make progress on improving systems, public health partnerships should embody a collective impact approach to improving social outcomes. Collective impact is the commitment of a group of important actors from different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem. Social innovation researchers found that successful collective impact initiatives have five core characteristic described in this newsletter.

    Source: Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs
    Year: 2012
    Resource Type: Website
    Sector: public health, government, non-profit organizations, private

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  • Talking about Health in All Policies

    A recording of the October 2, 2013 webinar and the accompanying slides. In this webinar, the Berkeley Media Studies Group will talk about how organizations can develop and refine their messages to support Health in All Policies and make the case for why Health in All Policies is essential to help protect physical and fiscal health, advance community engagement, and build relationships across government sectors. In this webinar, the Berkeley Media Studies Group discussed how organizations can develop and refine their messages to support Health in All Policies and make the case for why Health in All Policies is essential to help protect physical and fiscal health, advance community engagement, and build relationships across government sectors.

    Source: Dialogue4Health
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Webinar
    Sector: government, public health, non-profit organizations, private, policy
    Geographic Scope: local, community, state
    Public Health Focus: environmental health, health equity

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  • The "How To" Guide

    Before you and your core collaborators consider starting a Collective Impact initiative, there are a few questions you should get clear in your collective minds.

    Source: Collaboration for Impact
    Resource Type: Tool

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  • The Art and Science of Evaluation: Sound Methods for Assessing Policy and Environmental Change

    In this webinar, panelists will discuss techniques for effectively evaluating policy and environmental change efforts to create healthy people in healthy places. It will also touch on strategy evaluation to promote equity and multi-field partnerships. Panelists will draw on specific evaluation examples and discuss challenges and lessons learned.

    Source: Convergence Partnership
    Year: 2010
    Resource Type: Presentation

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  • The Breakdown: A Look at Cross-Sector Collaboration

    In this series, Philadelphia Generosity focuses on the bigger picture of social impact in Greater Philadelphia. We take a look at the connections between organizations, analyze business models, and provide high-level context to the big issues facing our leaders. This first installment is all about collaborations — who's working together and who's finding success.

    Source: Philadelphia Generosity
    Year: 2014
    Resource Type: Blog
    Sector: government, non-profit organizations, private, employers
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, local
    Public Health Focus: environmental health, health equity

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  • The Guide to Community Preventive Services

    The Guide to Community Preventive Services is a free resource to help you choose programs and policies to improve health and prevent disease in your 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?

    Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Resource Type: Website
    Sector: government, public health, policy, non-profit organizations, private
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, county, local, state, regional, national, tribal
    Public Health Focus: all health

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  • The Guide: Identifying Vulnerable Older Adults and Legal Options for Increasing Their Protection During All-Hazards Emergencies: A Cross-Sector Guide for States and Communities

    This guide aims to equip public health officials, the aging services network, emergency management, and essential partners from other sectors and at all jurisdictional levels with critical information, strategies, and resources to improve the planning for and protection of vulnerable community-dwelling older adults during all-hazards public health emergencies. The guide covers topic areas such as developing plans, partnering and collaboration, using data for action, building registries, using law-based solutions, sheltering, and caregiver preparedness.

    Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Year: 2012
    Resource Type: Guide
    Sector: public health, government, public safety
    Geographic Scope: state, community, local, city, county
    Public Health Focus: healthy aging, environmental health

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  • The Healthy Communities Initiative

    The Healthy Communities Initiative was designed to enrich the debate on how cross-sector and place-based approaches to revitalize low-income communities might both revitalize neighborhoods and improve health. The idea is simple: those who work on making low-income communities function better (by building high-quality affordable housing, financing small businesses, and creating community assets such as charter schools, clinics, or daycare centers) should work closely with the health sector to coordinate those community-improving efforts in a way that promotes better health outcomes over the life course. The Federal Reserve System and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation created the Healthy Communities Initiative to encourage stronger linkages between the two sectors and move them forward towards a healthier future.

    Source: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
    Year: 2014
    Resource Type: Toolkit
    Sector: policy, government, healthcare, child care, families, public health, non-profit organizations, community/city planning, private, education, employers
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, local, city
    Public Health Focus: chronic disease prevention, environmental health, health equity

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  • The Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health Partnership Study: Multi-sector Partnerships in US Counties with Improving Health Metrics

    Multi-sector partnerships are promoted as a mechanism to improve population health. This study explored the types and salient features of multi-sector partnerships in US counties with improving population health metrics. We used the “Framework for Understanding Cross-Sector Collaborations" proposed by Bryson, Crosby, and Stone to guide data collection and interpretation. Comparative case studies were conducted in 4 counties selected on the basis of population, geographic region, an age-adjusted mortality decline better than the US average, and stable per capita income. Data were collected through website and report reviews and through in-depth interviews with key informants (N = 59) representing multiple sectors. County reports were developed and cross-case themes related to partnership types and salient features were derived.

    Source: Preventing Chronic Disease (CDC) - Authors: Susan J. Zahner, DrPH, MPH, RN; Thomas R. Oliver, PhD, MHA; Kirstin Q. Siemering, DrPH
    Year: 2014
    Resource Type: Case Study
    Sector: all sectors
    Geographic Scope: county
    Public Health Focus: all health

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  • The Partnering Initiative

    The Partnering Initiative is dedicated to driving widespread, systematic and effective collaboration between civil society, government and companies towards a sustainable future.

    Source: The Partnering Initiative
    Resource Type: Organization
    Geographic Scope: international

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  • The Partnering Toolbook

    The Partnering Toolbook offers a concise overview of the essential elements that make for effective partnering.

    Source: The Partnering Initiative
    Year: 2011
    Resource Type: Tool
    Geographic Scope: international

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  • The Partnering with Governments Navigator

    The Partnering with Governments Navigator is aimed at assisting donors, NGOS and practitioners from the private sector in navigating the challenges and seizing the opportunities of partnership with governments. The Navigator outlines a selection of key issues for consideration when working with public sector partners and shares pointers for reflecting upon and addressing these.

    Source: The Partnering Initiative
    Year: 2010
    Resource Type: Toolkit
    Sector: government, non-profit organizations, private
    Geographic Scope: international

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  • The Real Challenge for Collective Impact

    In this blog post, the author, Paul Schmitz, discusses some of the challenges associated with collective impact strategies.

    Source: Huff Post Impact
    Year: 2012
    Resource Type: Blog Post
    Sector: non-profit organizations
    Geographic Scope: city, county, neighborhood, local

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  • The Tension of Turf: Making It Work for the Coalition

    Tension of Turf is the Institute's companion tool to its 8-step process of coalition building, Developing Effective Coalitions: An Eight Step Guide. It offers practical support for skillfully managing the dynamic tension that commonly arises when people collaborate. This guide helps coalitions derive authentic, constructive power from their varying perspectives, skills, and mandates.

    Source: Prevention Institute
    Year: 2003
    Resource Type: Tool
    Sector: government, public health, non-profit organizations, private
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, local, county

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  • The Vitality Institute Commission on Health Promotion and the Prevention of Chronic Disease in Working-Age Americans

    The Commission is working to close the gaps in evidence and place the power of prevention at the center of health policies and actions in the US. We focus on preventing major non-communicable diseases - cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular and chronic respiratory diseases, musculoskeletal disorders, and mental illness - which threaten the economic competitiveness and the vitality of our nation. By working with stakeholders from across all sectors of society, we are dedicated to creating solutions that address the issues in bold and transformative ways.

    Source: Vitality Institute
    Year: 2014
    Resource Type: Toolkit
    Sector: all sectors
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, county, local, state, regional, national, tribal
    Public Health Focus: physical activity, active living, disabilities, healthy aging, chronic disease prevention, prevention, preventing drug and alcohol abuse, healthy eating, environmental health, health equity, tobacco-free living, mental and emotional wellbeing

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  • The influence of power dynamics and trust on multidisciplinary collaboration: a qualitative case study of type 2 diabetes mellitus.

    Ongoing care for chronic conditions such as diabetes is best provided by a range of health professionals working together. There are challenges in achieving this where collaboration crosses organizational and sector boundaries. The aim of this article is to explore the influence of power dynamics and trust on collaboration between health professionals involved in the management of diabetes and their impact on patient experiences.

    Source: BMC Health Services Research
    Year: 2012
    Resource Type: Journal Article
    Sector: healthcare, public health, families
    Public Health Focus: chronic disease prevention

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  • The power of partnership: how to seize the potential

    This report aims to promote the use of partnership arrangements and to offer practical advice and useful case studies of partnership working. The focus is on cross-sector partnerships designed to deliver clinical and other services for the NHS. It is aimed both at boards considering and overseeing partnerships, and managers responsible for procuring and managing them

    Source: Sodexo and ZPB Associates
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Tool
    Sector: healthcare, non-profit organizations, private, government
    Public Health Focus: access to care

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  • Time to Act: Investing in the Health of Our Children and Communities

    This report outlines 10 new recommendations from the RWJF Commission to Build a Healthier America. Throughout the report, the import of cross-sector collaboration is cited.

    Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America
    Year: 2014
    Resource Type: Report
    Sector: healthcare, families, public health, education, policy, government, non-profit organizations, private
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, local, city

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  • Tips for Leveraging Education, Income and Health Strategies

    Here are a few ideas for using Charting a Course in focusing staff and board members, in planning, in coordinating with community partners and funded agency leaders, and in outreach to workforce campaign companies, major investors, opinion leaders, funded agency leaders and others important to making lasting change.

    Source: United Way
    Year: 2012
    Resource Type: Tool
    Sector: government, private, non-profit organizations, public health, employers, education
    Geographic Scope: local, city, county
    Public Health Focus: health equity, environmental health

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  • Toolbox

    NACCHO's Toolbox os a free, online collection of local public health tools produced by members of the public health community. Tools within the Toolbox are materials and resources public health professionals and other external stakeholders can use to inform and improve their work in the promotion and advancement of public health objectives. Current examples of tools include, but are not limited to case examples, presentations, fact sheets, drills, evaluations, protocols, templates, reports, and training materials.

    Source: National Association of County & City Health Officials
    Resource Type: Toolkit
    Sector: public health
    Geographic Scope: local, city, neighborhood, county, state
    Public Health Focus: all health

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  • Toolkit for Communities Using Health Data

    Data has become the backbone on which we base our health decisions. That puts a great deal of pressure on communities to understand the data they receive, to interpret that data correctly, and then use it in the way it was intended. The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) recently released the Toolkit for Communities Using Health Data to assist organizations in looking at data systematically. The purpose of this Toolkit is to support communities that are using data by promoting sound stewardship practices, while helping them avoid the missteps and potential harm that can result when data users fail to follow sound data stewardship practices.

    Source: National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Year: 2015
    Resource Type: Toolkit
    Sector: government, public health, policy, non-profit organizations, private
    Geographic Scope: local, neighborhood, city, county

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  • Transforming Prince George's County Communities Through Health in All Policies

    This website describes seven strategies being implemented in Maryland's Prince George's County to reduce chronic disease rates, prevent the development of secondary conditions, and address health disparities with complementary policy, environmental, programmatic, and infrastructure activities to create health equity and optimize health outcomes.

    Source: Institute for Public Health Innovation
    Year: 2012
    Resource Type: Website
    Sector: government, public health, public safety, healthcare, transportation, community/city planning
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, county
    Public Health Focus: chronic disease prevention, active living, healthy eating, environmental health, tobacco-free living

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  • Transit-oriented Developments, Health Lens Analysis Project

    The Guide provides planners, public and environmental health professionals, designers and engineers with an agreed evidence base which links the quality and form of the built environment with the health and well-being of the community. It is envisaged that the Guide will be used as a resource by state and local government agencies involved in the implementation of the 30 Year Plan for Greater Adelaide.

    Source: Government of South Australia
    Resource Type: Tool
    Sector: policy, government, public health, public safety, transportation, community/city planning
    Geographic Scope: neighborhood, city, local, county, state, regional, national, international
    Public Health Focus: environmental health

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  • U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration Transportation and Health Tool

    An online tool to help transportation decision makers see how their community compares in terms of key health and transportation indicators. Site is divided into Health, environmental health, Transportation, Community, Public Realm, Education, Housing, and Economy.

    Source: Federal Highway Administration
    Year: 2015
    Resource Type: Website
    Sector: policy, government, public health, public safety, transportation, education, community/city planning, housing
    Geographic Scope: city, state, national, regional
    Public Health Focus: physical activity, active living, disabilities, chronic disease prevention, environmental health

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  • Understanding the Economic Impacts of Development Patterns

    Several resources highlighting examples of different approaches and tools local governments are using to better understand the economic implications of development in their community.

    Source: Local Government Commission
    Resource Type: Toolkit
    Sector: government
    Geographic Scope: local, city, county, regional
    Public Health Focus: environmental health

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  • Understanding the Spectrum of Collaborative Governance Practices

    The document is an excerpt from the A Practical Guide to Collaborative Governance, a 62-page step-by-step handbook that walks readers through the stages of sponsoring, convening, organizing, and participating in a public policy collaborative process. The document itself covers the four main points and principles of collaborative governance process, meaning of and misconceptions about consensus processes, and stages of collaborative process.

    Source: Policy Consensus Initiative
    Resource Type: Excerpt
    Sector: policy, government

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  • Understanding the Value of Backbone Organizations in Collective Impact

    An in-depth, 4-part review of what it takes to be a backbone organization, and how to evaluate and support its work.

    Source: Stanford Social Innovation
    Year: 2012
    Resource Type: Blog Post
    Sector: non-profit organizations
    Geographic Scope: city, local

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  • Using the Equity Impact Review Toolkit

    The Equity Team has developed a variety of tools and resources to help departments and agencies increase equity and social justice work, both in our community and within the services King County Government provides.

    Source: King County, WA Equity & Social Justice Initiative Tools & Resources
    Resource Type: Toolkit
    Sector: government
    Geographic Scope: county
    Public Health Focus: health equity

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  • VetoViolence: Child Maltreatment is a Public Health Issue

    This framework presents the case that child maltreatment is a complex problem, and prevention of it requires the work of a broad range of agencies and organizations.

    Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Resource Type: Website
    Sector: child care, education, government, non-profit organizations, public health, public safety, legal/judicial system
    Geographic Scope: state
    Public Health Focus: environmental health, health equity, mental and emotional wellbeing

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  • Video: Power Dynamics in Collaborative Processes

    In this video, seasoned facilitators Cheryl Soon and Kem Lowry have a conversation about a number of power dynamics typically found in collaborative processes. They share what they have experienced and learned. Ultimately, they suggest that power is not something to be avoided or feared. Instead, power dynamics should be embraced.

    Source: Collaborative Leaders Network
    Resource Type: Video

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  • What Works in Minnesota: Cases of Cross-Sector Collaboration to Improve Community Health

    This collection of posters was showcased at the November 1, 2013, Minnesota Healthy Communities Conference: Building on What Works, in St. Paul, Minnesota. Included in this collection are projects across the state of Minnesota that promote access to healthy foods; opportunities for physical activity and active living; access to healthcare; quality early childhood and education; healthy housing; and a culture of health in neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces. These case examples highlight the emerging field of cross-sector collaboration to improve community health and identify several of the key ingredients required for project success.

    Source: Minnesota Healthy Communities Initiative
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Case Studies
    Sector: policy, government, child care, healthcare, education, housing, employers
    Geographic Scope: local, city, county, regional, state
    Public Health Focus: physical activity, active living, healthy eating, environmental health, preventing drug and alcohol abuse, mental and emotional wellbeing

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  • Why Cross-Sector Partnerships Are Increasingly Essential to Creating Positive Change

    Written by Robert Harrison, CEO of the Clinton Global Initiative, this blog post discusses why making real headway on the most urgent global challenges will require partnerships that allow multiple stakeholders from different sectors to pool resources, experiences, and skills.

    Source: Arabella Advisors
    Year: 2013
    Resource Type: Blog
    Geographic Scope: international

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  • Wisconsin Health Impact Assessment Toolkit - Webcasts and Training

    This webpage contains links to materials from in-person trainings in Wisconsin and webinars introducing Health Impact Assessment (HIA).

    Source: Wisconsin Department of Health
    Resource Type: Tool
    Sector: government, public health, transportation, non-profit organizations
    Geographic Scope: local, community, state
    Public Health Focus: environmental health, health equity

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  • Working Toward Transformational Health Partnerships in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

    Global health partnerships play a key role in meeting many of the most critical health needs of low– and middle-income countries. This report summarizes the contribution of these partnerships to meeting global health needs and how to increase their scale and impact going forward.

    Source: BSR (Business for Social Responsibility)
    Year: 2012
    Resource Type: Report
    Sector: private, non-profit organizations, industry
    Geographic Scope: national, international

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  • Workplace Health Promotion Assessment

    CDC's website provides businesses, state agencies, and other partners with ways to support the various recommendations for worksites in the NPS. This tool describes a workplace health assessment and how to conduct one, as well as factors influencing workplace health.

    Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Resource Type: Tool
    Sector: government, public health, non-profit organizations, private, employers

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  • Worksite Health Promotion

    Worksite policies and programs may help employees reduce health risks and improve their quality of life. The site has links to interventions reviewed by the Community Guide and and a number of materials near the bottom of the webpage.

    Source: Community Preventive Services Task Force
    Resource Type: Toolkit
    Sector: policy, employers
    Public Health Focus: chronic disease prevention, communicable disease prevention, environmental health

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