Building Bridges Across the Professions: Promoting Successful Intraprofessional Collaborations

This keynote address will focus on how leaders can bring together diverse groups of people to tackle shared problems and achieve the common good.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Rationale for the importance of collaboration
  2. Advantages of collaboration
  3. Challenges of collaboration
  4. Appreciate the role of organizational structure and culture
  5. Model for collaboration

Community and Organizational Partnerships Community Engagement Group Processes/Facilitation Leadership

Effective Project Management

Overview of the need for project management, role of project management, phases of project management, project management elements, project team, project contract. Explains the value of project management – that it helps the project move more quickly while the work is being done – “go slow to go fast”. The program discusses the need for a project plan and the different types of project plans that can be used.

Learning Objectives:

1. Project content, logistics, deliverables
2. Self management
3. Coordination and Communication with others

Community and Organizational Partnerships Group Processes/Facilitation Project Scope

2015 Healthy Start Convention

On November 16-18, 2015, all Healthy Start grantees attended the 2015 Healthy Start Convention: Achieving Measurable Outcomes that Make a Difference for Women, Families, and Communities in Washington, DC.

The purpose of the Convention was to convene the Healthy Start grantee community to build momentum, garner synergy, and propel the Healthy Start initiative towards greater success in improving perinatal health outcomes by sharing best practices, building skills, and increasing knowledge for providing high-quality services to women and their families.

Materials from the Convention are available below.

Plenary Sessions


Breakout Session I: Collective Impact Peer Learning Network (PLN)


Breakout Session II: Quality Improvement to Strengthen Service Delivery


Breakout Session III: Enhancing Quality Service Delivery (Resources, Training, and Information)


Breakout Session IV: Strengthening Communication/Marketing Strategies


Project Management 101


Breastfeeding Communication Program evaluation Quality Improvement Reproductive Life Planning/Family Planning

Healthy Start Regional Meeting (IL)

Meeting Materials:

  • Local Healthy Start Evaluation: Measuring Impact | Slides
  • Collective Impact | Recommended Reading
  • Sustaining Fatherhood Involvement Panel: Fathers as Assets to their Children, Families, and Communities | Slides
  • High Alignment/High Action | Handout
  • Action Aligned Commitments | Handout
  • The State of Infant Health in Illinois: Identifying Opportunities and Monitoring Change | Slides
  • Becoming Trauma Informed: Applying the Research to Our Work | Slides
  • Turn the Curve | Diagram and Questions
  • Person Role System Framework | Briefing Notes

Backbone Organization Case Management/Care Coordination Common Agenda Father/Partner Involvement Program evaluation

Healthy Start Regional Meeting (AZ, CA, NM, TX)

Meeting Materials:

  • BCFS Healthy Start Laredo | Slides
  • Recruitment Strategies | Slides
  • Addressing Healthy Start TA Areas of Interest | Slides
  • Effective Fatherhood Programs Q/A and Open Discussion | Slides
  • Healthy Start CoIIN Overview | Slides
  • Collective Impact – Peer Learning Networks | Slides
  • Building the Healthy Start Community | Slides
  • Healthy Start Regional Meeting: Techniques, Tools, and Treasures | Slides
  • Overview of Program Evaluation and Quality Improvement | Slides

Case Management/Care Coordination Community Engagement Program evaluation Quality Improvement

Healthy Start Regional Meeting (CO, MN, NV, OR, SD, WI)

Meeting Materials:

Communication Community Engagement Quality Improvement

Ask the Expert: Launching Our Learning Together: Using Peer Learning Networks to Achieve Collective Impact

In an effort to support the Healthy Start Community of Grantees as we strive to “Achieve Collective Impact”, the EPIC Center will be launching six peer learning networks (PLN) each targeting a subset of HS grantees. The PLNs will be co-facilitated by a team member from both the Healthy Start Grantee Community and the EPIC Center. The PLNs will provide the opportunity for all grantees to learn from their peers, dive into more CI content, get exposed to additional CI tools that can assist when working through each of the CI conditions, and develop an action plan reflective of the unique characteristics and phase each grantee is currently in.

We are excited about the opportunity to create space to both learn from one another and highlight examples from the Healthy Start field as we continue the Collective Impact journey. Please participate on this webinar to learn more about the launching of the Collective Impact Peer Learning Networks.   This webinar would be appropriate for (but not exclusive to)  Healthy Start Project Directors, Program and Backbone staff involved with the Community Action Networks/Collective Impact Initiatives, Chairs/Key Stakeholders in leadership roles on the CAN/CI initiatives.

Webinar Materials:

Backbone Organization Common Agenda Continuous Communication Mutually Reinforcing Activities Shared Measurement

Collective Impact: Applying the Conditions and Concepts within the Community Context

Presenter: Sylvia Cheuy, Director, Tamarack – An Institute for Community Engagement
During the 2015 Spring National Healthy Start Association Conference, EPIC Center hosted a Collective Impact session. This session included:
  • A brief recap of Collective Impact, emphasizing its goal to promote thinking and acting differently in addressing complex community issues.
  • Emphasis on the importance of ongoing learning as a key strategy to accelerate the effective implementation of Collective Impact.
  • An emphasis on experiential learning – that includes providing tools and resources.
  • An opportunity to engage in peer sharing and Q & A with subject matter expert.
Session Materials:
Note: No session recording is available.

Backbone Organization Common Agenda Continuous Communication Mutually Reinforcing Activities Shared Measurement

Hear From Your Peer: Healthy Start Client Recruitment Strategies

Are you wondering what other Healthy Start grantees are doing regarding client recruitment? Join this webinar and hear general client recruitment themes from the larger Healthy Start grantee community and recruitment strategies from one Level 3 Healthy Start grantee, MomsFirst in Cleveland, Ohio. The webinar will highlight MomsFirst’s experience with population segmentation and building strategic partnerships with family planning and school-based health in an urban setting. Time will be allotted for your questions and comments. Continued discussion opportunities following the webinar will also be offered.

By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:

  • State at least three common recruitment strategies from the Healthy Start grantee profiles
  • List examples of client recruitment strategies for three different population segments
  • Explain the importance of applying recruitment lessons learned in the design of recruitment strategies

Webinar Materials: 

Communication Community and Organizational Partnerships Community Engagement Community Needs Assessment EBP Implementation

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