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Spring 2016 Collaborative Solutions Newsletter
My recent editorial in the Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice entitled: Ten Places Where Collective Impact Gets It Wrong
This article also includes online comments to the article from many prominent people in the field.
Tom Wolff Delivers at Avenir D’Enfants Conference in Quebec City November 2015Sustainability Revisited with Avenir D’Enfants in Quebec
(Photo: Tom Wolff Delivers Address at Avenir D’Enfants Conference in Quebec City November 2015. Photo of Tom and grandchildren Jonah and Liora on jumbo screen.)
New Opportunities for Collaborative Solutions with Hospitals and Health Care Systems Emerging from Obama’s Affordable Care ActApplying our coalition building knowledge to this critical emerging practice – an example from my training for Atlantic Health Systems in New Jersey. As all the phases of Obama’s Affordable Care Act start to kick in, hospitals and health care systems across the country are scurrying to meet the community benefit demands of the act. These require hospitals to address community needs. The new guidelines from the IRS also demand that hospitals do this as a requirement of their IRS non- profit status. This creates even more pressure on the hospitals. Thus most hospitals are engaged in building a coalition of community partners to accomplish the first two phase –a Community Health Assessment and a Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP). They would then move on to taking steps to address the identified needs and implement their CHIP Plan. If done well, this creates great opportunities for hospitals to create meaningful partnerships with not only community entities but also community residents – those most affected by the identified issues. More important it is great impetus to move our health care systems out of a narrow focus on remediation and to broaden the community’s approach to preventive health care and systems change.
Key Informant Interviews: a critical component of an agency’s comprehensive strategic planning process. A recent story from the United Neighbors of Fitchburg (UNF)I was recently reminded of the multiple benefits that emerge from doing one to one interviews with key people in your community as part of your agency’s community assessment for your agency’s Comprehensive Long Range plan. The United Neighbors of Fitchburg formerly the Cleghorn Neighborhood Center and their wonderful Director, Joana Dos Santos, invited me back to help them revise the original plan that I had helped them with 10 years ago. In between they have done updates but this was a chance to take a long look at where they were, what had been accomplished. As part of that process I always suggest that agencies generate a list of 10—20 individuals and groups who they will talk to in depth as part of the process. It seems obvious that this would be a component and many organizations say they are going to do it but in my experience very few do.
Bringing a Racial Justice Lens to our work: Addressing Pushback
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In the fall of 2015 I was invited to give a keynote address on sustainability entitled ”Creating a Legacy: Sustaining Your Efforts” and an all day workshop to Avenir D’Enfants . Avenir D’Enfants (The Future of our Children) is a creative 130 site private/public early childhood prevention program).They are in year seven of a ten year cycle of $400 million of private and public funds so the focus was on the issue of sustainability.