Goal: Partner with the community to meet the needs of families and children

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Tips:

• Create and sustain partnerships with community[1] leaders to enhance communication among providers, staff, patients, and families
• Involve community in planning, implementing and evaluating services and policies; add community member (s) to the team
• Work with  community  and family partners to define appropriate language, family education materials, and links to local resources
• Establish and use relationships with diverse race/ethnic/language news sources to promote positive health behaviors
• Identify and address barriers to community participation in planning, implementing and evaluating  services; develop interventions that fill gaps in needed services

[1] Examples of community resources are local service agencies, health insurer and hospital community benefit programs, faith organizations, radio, TV, schools and clubs.

 

Healthy Care for Healthy Kids Learning Collaborative (A Partnership of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and NICHQ)