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Community Building for Children’s Health: Lessons From Community Partnerships for Healthy Children 

03-13-2009 15:00

Dorothy Meehan, M.B.A., C.P.A., Kathleen Hebbeler, Ph.D., Stacie Cherner, M.A., M.S.W., Dana M. Petersen, Ph.D.
The Sierra Health Foundation’s Community Partnerships for Healthy Children (CPHC) worked with northern California communities to improve children’s health. CPHC improved the health of some children in some communities on some outcomes; it did not improve children’s health at the population level. Community building seems well suited to devising successful strategies to address straightforward health issues; more time, resources, and expertise are needed for more complex problems. Most collaboratives were able to gather resources from a variety of sources and combine them to provide services. Collaboratives whose members had certain skills (e.g., grantwriting, public relations, computer skills) had greater success. From The Foundation Review (Vol. 1, Issue 1). Read the entire issue at www.foundationreview.org.

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07-08-2009 13:59

Fascinating, thorough and candid findings. Thanks for providing this article.