Coalitions and Partnerships in Community Health

Coalitions and Partnerships in Community Health is a step-by-step guide for building durable coalitions to improve community and public health.

This important resource provides an in-depth, analytical, and practical approach to building, sustaining, and nurturing these complex organizations.

Author Frances Dunn Butterfoss includes all the tools for success in collaborative work from a research and practice-based stance. The book contains useful approaches to the issues, recommendations for action, resources for further study, and examples from actual coalition work.

Coalitions and Partnerships in Community Health explores

• Historical foundations of coalitions and partnerships
• Principles of collaboration and partnering
• Benefits and challenges of a coalition approach
• Coalition frameworks and models
• Cultivating coalition leadership
• Roles and responsibilities of coalition staff, leaders, and members
• Communication, decision-making, and problem-solving methods
• Vision, mission, and bylaws
• Effective marketing
• Planning for sustainability
• Approaches to assessment
• Developing strategic and action plans
• Implementing coalition strategies in the community
• Media advocacy, strategies, and tips
• Participatory coalition evaluation

Butterfoss (community health, pediatrics, Eastern Virginia Medical School) offers a step-by-step guide to building, sustaining, and evaluating coalitions to improve community and public health. After a historical and conceptual foundation on various coalition frameworks and models, Part II delves into the roles of lead agency and coalition members, coalition procedures, and structure and governance. Part III focuses on marketing, funding, and resource development, and Part IV looks at assessment and evaluation, describes planning models, and details the activities and strategies that coalitions and partnerships are most likely to pursue in the community setting. Checklists for practice, as well as chapter summaries and review questions, are included. The audience for the book includes faculty and students in health and human services professions, and novice and seasoned health and human services professionals. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Coalitions and Partnerships in Community Health is a step-by-step guide for building durable coalitions to improve community and public health.

This important resource provides an in-depth, analytical, and practical approach to building, sustaining, and nurturing these complex organizations.

Author Frances Dunn Butterfoss includes all the tools for success in collaborative work from a research and practice-based stance. The book contains useful approaches to the issues, recommendations for action, resources for further study, and examples from actual coalition work.

Coalitions and Partnerships in Community Health exploresHistorical foundations of coalitions and partnershipsPrinciples of collaboration and partneringBenefits and challenges of a coalition approachCoalition frameworks and modelsCultivating coalition leadershipRoles and responsibilities of coalition staff, leaders, and membersCommunication, decision-making, and problem-solving methodsVision, mission, and bylawsEffective marketingPlanning for sustainabilityApproaches to assessmentDeveloping strategic and action plansImplementing coalition strategies in the communityMedia advocacy, strategies, and tipsParticipatory coalition evaluation

Coalitions and Partnerships in Community Healthis a step-by-step guide for building durable coalitions to improve community and public health.

This important resource provides an in-depth, analytical, and practical approach to building, sustaining, and nurturing these complex organizations.

Author Frances Dunn Butterfoss includes all the tools for success in collaborative work from a research and practice-based stance. The book contains useful approaches to the issues, recommendations for action, resources for further study, and examples from actual coalition work.

Coalitions and Partnerships in Community Healthexplores

• Historical foundations of coalitions and partnerships
• Principles of collaboration and partnering
• Benefits and challenges of a coalition approach
• Coalition frameworks and models
• Cultivating coalition leadership
• Roles and responsibilities of coalition staff, leaders, and members
• Communication, decision-making, and problem-solving methods
• Vision, mission, and bylaws
• Effective marketing
• Planning for sustainability
• Approaches to assessment
• Developing strategic and action plans
• Implementing coalition strategies in the community
• Media advocacy, strategies, and tips
• Participatory coalition evaluation

Frances Dunn ButterfossPh.D., is a well known researcher, theorist, educator, speaker, and practitioner. She is a professor and Division Director of Behavioral Research and Community Health in the Department of Pediatrics at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS). Dr. Butterfoss was recently awarded the EVMS Foundation Chair in Pediatrics.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

About the Author.

PART I: MAKING THE CASE FOR COALITIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS.

1 Historical Perspective of Coalitions.

2 Principles of Collaboration and Partnering: Coalitions Defined.

3 Why Coalitions?

4 The Community Coalition Action Theory (CCAT).

PART II: BUILDING EFFECTIVE COALITIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS.

5 Lead Agency, Coalition Staff, and Leadership.

6 Coalition Membership and Teamwork.

7 Essential Coalition Processes.

8 Coalition Infrastructure.

PART III: SUSTAINING EFFECTIVE COALITIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS.

9 Marketing the Coalition and Its Agenda.

10 Funding, Resource Development, and Sustainability.

PART IV: COALITIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS IN ACTION.

11 Community Assessment.

12 Coalitions and Planning.

13 Coalition Activities and Interventions.

14 Evaluating Coalitions and Partnerships.

15 Coalitions and Partnerships: Their Promise and Future.

References.

Name Index.

Subject Index.