Transcript The National Business Coalition on Health

The National Business
Coalition on Health
Community Health Planning Grant
Application Expectations
January 31, 2011
Introductions
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Dennis White, NBCH –
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Liza Greenberg –
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Application management process
Suzanne Mercure 
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Overview and goals
Community Health Planning Lead
Shelly Espinosa –
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United Health Foundation
Today’s Purpose
Purpose of Community Health Planning
Grants program
 Eligible applicants and projects
 Application and selection process
 Grant management plan
 Address questions
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Program Funder
Funding by United Health Foundation
Jointly managed by NBCH/CCHI and UHF
What are the Planning Grants?
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Coalition lead partnerships with governmental
public health and other stakeholders
Address America’s Health Ranking indicator
Formal prioritization and planning process to
target a specific indicator
Result: Community Action Plan that addresses
programs, policies, and fundraising
Funding 25-50k
9 month projects
Eligibility and Priority Issues
NBCH member coalition
Partnership with public health and others
Community data
Support of key stakeholders
Knowledge of existing planning efforts
Employer involvement
AHR relevant project
What Will Coalitions Do?
Any health indicator in
www.americashealthrankings.org
 Identify public and private data to support
decision making
 Stakeholders review data and determine
priorities
 Summit
 Comprehensive plan development
 Stakeholder endorsement of final plan
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Examples of community indicators
Prevalence of smoking
 Prevalence of binge drinking
 Prevalence of obesity
 Infectious disease
 Immunization coverage
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MUST BE HEALTH INDICATOR
Management Process
CCHI lead and overseen
 Contracts issued to coalitions
 CCHI technical assistance, template
development, and evaluation support
 Funding is milestone based
 Progress reporting and final plan using
defined template is required
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Selection Process
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Independent review committee
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Coalition, academic, public health
Review panel evaluation of applications
 Coalition and geographic diversity
 Budget
 Capability
 Joint decision making by CCHI/UHF
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Expectations – Coalition Capability
Factors
 Experience
 Staffing plan
 Working relationships with public health
 Employer-member support
 Letters of support (member, public
health, other stakeholder)
Expectations: Community assessment
Specify the community or region
 Identify and show use of community
 Identify existing community health
planning activities
 Describe past participation with
community health activities and future
coordination
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Expectations - Description
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Details on how coalition will implement
summit, subsequent planning efforts, and plan
development
 Deliverables /Timeline – short is fine – we are
looking to see you’ve thought through the
process steps to get through priority setting
and planning
 Fine to use / cite existing model
Expectations – Community Action
Plan
There will be obstacles – anticipate them and
plan for them
 The “getting it done” part should be in your
plan – how will you implement and fund
execution of activities identified in plan
 Evaluation – two parts: coalition will evaluate
the process of planning, the plan should
address evaluation of the impact of
interventions
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Expectations – Budget and Staffing
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Reasonable budget up to $50 k (less is
preferred)
Budget linked to tasks and deliverables
Reasonable staffing plan
9 month or less project
In kind or matching preferred but not required
The final project Action Plan is required to show
plan for identifying resources
Timeline
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Email re intent to apply 2/4
Applications Due February 28, 2011
April 1, 2011 – decisions announced
April 15, 2011 – projects start
September 2011 – summits should be
complete
February 2012 – consensus supported plans
complete
Miscellaneous
Applicants that cannot carry out the
project as proposed will be asked to
return funds
 United and NBCH will have role in
guiding/support activities and may
participate in summits
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Questions?
Contact:
Liza Greenberg, RN, MPH
Cell: 301 928 5909
Email: [email protected]