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Goals & Strategic Initiatives

Officially adopted by the CHC Community Advisory Board, November 10, 2004.

Strategic Initiative I: Develop strong partnerships and expand existing ones among community, educators and providers.
  • Goal #1 - Continue to support partnerships which facilitate employing community health advocates who link community members to existing health and human services resources.
  • Goal #2 - Continue to support partnerships which facilitate placing health professions students in community sites for clinical training in order to expand available health and human services resources.
  • Goal #3 - Expand neighborhood based partnerships to support citizen initiated and implemented health promotion/disease prevention programs.
  • Goal #4 - Continue to develop community-wide partnerships that include health and human services providers, health professions faculty and students, and community members to respond to community identified health concerns.
  • Goal #5 - Assess the impact of partnerships on improving the health of the community and health professions education.
Strategic Initiative II: Educate students and providers to improve health care service delivery.
  • Goal #6 -Continue to develop health professions school curricula and expand faculty development programs to support service learning, multiprofessional, community-based clinical training, and community-based participatory research.
  • Goal #7 - Expand continuing education and continuing medical education opportunities for community and academic partners, providers, and community members.
  • Goal #8 - Assess the extent to which education efforts of students and providers have improved health care delivery in the community.
Strategic Initiative III: Support and encourage community advocacy and programs that empower community members to become active participants in improving their own health and the health of the community.
  • Goal #9 - Continue to support the emerging field of community health advocacy within the health care and human services employment sectors.
  • Goal #10 - Increase community participation in health promotion and disease prevention activities (HPDP).
  • Goal #11 - Increase utilization of existing health and human services resources.
  • Goal #12 - Assess the extent to which community advocacy programs have improved the health of the community.
Strategic Initiative IV: Develop new models of collaborative multiprofessional practice.
  • Goal #13 - Continue to support efforts that focus on improved coordination and collaboration of existing resources across provider systems, and health and human services.
  • Goal #14 - Continue to support efforts to strengthen health promotion and disease prevention programs through health and human services providers and citizen organizations.
  • Goal #15 - Expand models of multiprofessional, collaborative practice to include public policy issues in health and economic and community development.
  • Goal #16 - Assess the impact on new models of practice on improving the health of the community.
Strategic Initiative V: Conduct and disseminate program evaluation and community based participatory research.
  • Goal #17 - Facilitate the expansion of systemic evaluation and research efforts and community-wide performance standards linked to state and national objectives aimed at improving the health of the community.
  • Goal #18 - Develop community-wide and state-wide health services research initiatives in order to improve health care services access and utilization, particularly for the underserved members of the community.
  • Goal #19 - Assess the extent to which expanding systemic and research efforts improve the health of the community.
Strategic Initiative VI: Diversify and increase the funding base that supports Center programs and activities.
  • Goal #20 - Increase local, state and federal support for CHC programs and activities.
  • Goal #21 - Increase private foundation support and development efforts to establish a permanent ongoing source of funds for CHC activities.
  • Goal #22 - Assess the extent to which fundraising efforts have been successful toward insuring the ongoing work of the Center.

 

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