Build Healthy Places Network’s Executive Director, Dr. Douglas Jutte, was interviewed by Dr. Gabriel Kaplan, Board President of NACDD (National Association of Chronic Disease Directors). The two discussed the fundamentals of the community development field, the intersection of community development and health, and how the sectors can forge partnerships to increase investment in low-income neighborhoods to tackle health disparities. Tune in to learn more about how the community development, finance, and health sectors can collectively contribute to innovative cross-sector partnerships that address social determinants of health leading to better health outcomes in neighborhoods across the country (20-minute listen).
Read More Build Healthy Places Network, Prosperity Now, and Financial Health Network partnered to explore how to foster alignment across the community development, public health, healthcare, and financial well-being sectors. Fostering Healthy Neighborhoods: Alignment across the Community Development, Financial Well-Being and Health sectors presents examples of existing alignment across sectors, opportunities and challenges for increased collaboration including place-based initiatives, and recommendations to foster cross-sector alignment. We conducted focus groups, interviews, and an exhaustive scan of the published and online resources and materials at the intersection of this work.
Read More Interested in developing a health strategy with partnerships outside of your own sector? On August 8, 2019, speakers from Build Healthy Places Network, The CaseMade, and NeighborWorks America drew on their varied experience bridging the health and community development sectors. We discussed entry points, the motivations and perspectives that community development and health sectors each bring to their work, shared goals across sectors, and successful strategies to make your case for partnership. Hear from:
Read More Measurement is essential for demonstrating shared impact and the value of collaboration, informing resource allocation, and developing effective policies to achieve healthy communities. But when you’re working across silos, what is measured and how it is measured can become a major roadblock.
Read More More jumbles of letters: LIHTC, NMTC, CRA, AMI, TOD, HFFI, HFAs, CDFIs, CDCs (no, not that CDC). What do any of them have to do with health?
Read More Each person I meet and each conference I attend is different. A community developer confronts issues that seem dramatically unlike the challenges a payor at a health insurance company encounters each day. Yet when we start to talk about our values and goals for what we hope to achieve through our work, I’ve noticed something emerges: a shared vision.
Read More Download the playbook, Partnerships for Health Equity and Opportunity: A Healthcare Playbook for Community Developers.
Read More July 15, 2018 Update: Thank you for your interest. Our survey is now closed and we are in the processing of integrating the feedback we received. This fall we plan to release an updated set of Principles. If you’re not yet on our mailing list, click here to sign up, and you will be included in future updates. You can also download a PDF of the consultation draft as presented this spring. Partnership is hard. With different cultures, unique jargon, and varied priorities and objectives, forming working relationships across sectors to advance common goals takes time and commitment. We started asking: Where is the starting point for collaboration? What is the pathway? Are there foundational values that help pave the way for effective solutions for building healthy and prosperous communities?
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