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Community Partnerships: Five Key

PointsRichard Endress

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I have no financial relationships to disclose

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Year Initiative Focus Partner Orgns

2001 Access DuPage Medical Access 225

2004 Positive Parenting DuPage

Parenting 150

2005 WeGo Together for Kids School Wellness 49

2008 DuPage Oral Health Plan Oral Health Access ~45

2008 FORWARD Obesity ~800

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Population health management requires partnerships with multiple organizations, most of which are not used to working with one another.

Point 1:

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Action

Opportunity

Possibility

Relationships

Point 2: How Change Really Happens

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Set a clear goal Involve the right people Get buy-in up front Establish a timetable with an endpoint & joint accountability to produce an outcome

Point 3: Effecting Change is an Art & a Science

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Hold regular meetings with demonstrable progress between meetings

Reach an outcome: a group-designed and group-approved plan

Implement & tinker towards success Communicate and learn

Art & Science, continued

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• Default SettingA Culture of Collaboration

• Mutual Capacity Building

Collaboration

• Sharing ResourcesCoordination

• Modifying ActivitiesCooperation

• Sharing InformationNetworking

Point 4: Organizational Relationships Evolve

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Point 5: Ingredients of Success

Enhancers Inhibitors

Relationships Trust Sense of Mission “Enlightened” Self-Interest

Leadership

Fear Turf

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Richard EndressPresident, DuPage Health Coalition511 Thornhill DriveCarol Stream, IL 60188630-510-8694rend@accessdupage.org

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