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Building Healthy
PartnershipsPARC Conference 2007 - February 5, 2007
Nicole Gauthier, Prevention Coordinator, Sudbury Regional Hospital, Regional Cancer ProgramCarol Coffyn, Public Health Nurse, Sudbury & District Health Unit
Agenda
• Introduction
• Partnerships 101
• Let’s get moving…for the health of it!
• Questions/comments
What does Partnership Mean?
Common points:• Between organizations, groups, agencies,
individuals, disciplines• Common aim or aims, vision, goals, mission or
interests• Joint rights, resources and responsibilities• New structure(s) and processes• Autonomous, independent• Improve and enhance access to services for users
and careers• Equality
Why work in partnership?
Belief that working in partnership rather than alone has benefits that outweigh the costs.
“…the quality and cost effectiveness
of services can be significantly improved
when organizations work well together.”Fruitful
Partnership
Benefits
ResourcesComplete an initiativeInformation sharingFundingAccess to clientsAvoid duplicationLobby
Creative solutionsShare knowledgeComprehensive programsCapacityAccountabilityParticipationSustainability
Challenges
Financial risk
Reporting
Change to organization
Values
Tension & conflict
Time
Loss of identity
Various Types of Partnerships
Glendinning 2003• Macro, meso, local
Pratt, Gordon & Plamping 1999• Competition, co-operation, coordination
and co-evaluation
Gray 1989• Collaboration, co-operation, co-ordination
Partnership Continuum
Cooperative
Model
Collaborative
Model
Integrated
Model
The Partnership Toolkit 2001
Develop a Partner Profile
Type of organizationSize of organizationLocation Type of servicesType of experienceStrengths & skillsFinancial stabilityCultural sensitivity
Features of Successful Partnerships
Entering into partnerships• Welcoming culture• Membership• Mutual benefit• Common mandate/purpose
Successful Partnerships
Maintaining partnerships• Shared vision• Common and compatible goals and
objectives• Division or roles and responsibility• Balanced power and authority• Effective communication• Supportive structures and processes• Commitment• Trust and respect• Commitment of time
Successful PartnershipsMaintaining partnerships
• Leadership• Resources• Partnership agreement• Continuous nurturing• Mutual recognition• Adaptability and flexibility• Building capacity• Evaluation
RPN - Membership
RPN Inception
• Initiated in 2000• Purpose: to share information
and to offer support to its partners in cancer prevention and screening.
Cancer 2020
•A solid provincial plan to expand cancer prevention and early detection.
•A framework to monitor progress.
RPN – After Cancer 2020
• Our goal is to help reduce the incidence and mortality of cancer and to improve the quality of life for residents of Northeastern Ontario.
Cancer Care Ontario
Cancer 2020 Network
Provincial Cancer Prevention & Screening
Council
Cancer Prevention &
Early DetectionNetworkCentral
South/West
Southwest Cancer
Prevention &Early Detection
Network
CCO Region –East PreventionAnd Screening
Network
Cancer PreventionNetwork –
South Region
Central East – Regional Cancer
Prevention &Screening Network
Northwest Prevention and
Screening Network
NEO – RPNPrevention, Screening &
Early Detection
Prevention &Screening
Network for Southeastern
Ontario
RCPs
Ministry of Health Promotion
What makes the RPN a successful partnership
Entering a partnership• Trusting relationship• Mutual Benefit• Similar interests• Common mandate
What makes the RPN a successful partnership
Maintaining partnerships• Shared vision• Common and compatible goals and objectives• Division or roles and responsibility• Balanced power and authority• Effective communication• Supportive structures and processes• Commitment• Trust and respect• Commitment of time
Maintaining partnerships• Leadership• Resources• Partnership agreement• Continuous nurturing• Mutual recognition• Adaptability and flexibility• Building capacity• Evaluation
What makes the RPN a successful partnership
Accomplishments
• NEO Tobacco Summit• NEO – A Healthy Place to Live
Roundtable Symposium• Time of Your Life Campaign• NEO SSWG, PAWG incepted• Lay Health Educator Project• Let’s Get Moving … For The Health
Of It! Media campaign
A look back…
Making NEO a healthier place to live:
• Developed a partnership with CTV - Fall 2004.• Launched a three-year (2005-2007) television
campaign.• Focused on physical activity and policy.• Targeted parents of children ages 2-14 in their
social environments of family/community, school and workplace.
Goals
• Increase community awareness and capacity for policy change, behavior change and supports for physical activity.
• Help advance Cancer 2020 physical activity targets in Northeastern Ontario.
Expected Outcomes
1. Increase awareness of existing connection between social support/environments, policy and physical activity.
2. Increase knowledge around ways to affect policy change and provide positive social support/environments.
3. Changing attitudes and behaviors necessary to take action on producing policy change.
What have we accomplished
• Forty eight news stories
• Approx. 400 call back line entries
• Eighteen call back line winners
• Eight 30 second commercials
• Comprehensive environmental/policy scan
Environmental/policy scan
• Six reports developed – baseline data
• The purpose is to find out whether or not the initiative has:– spurred positive policy change,– inspired behavior change, and – increased supportive environments for
physical activity in Northeastern Ontario.
Policy/environmental scan Interim results
• Community readiness for walkability
• Need for the provision of education to particular sectors
• Initiated new partnerships with other sectors interviewed
A walkable community…
• Encourages citizens to walk more and rely on their cars less.
• Supports walking as a form of everyday transportation.
• Is well-designed where people can walk to school, work, stores, parks and restaurants.
Where do we go from here?
• Complete year three of CTV media campaign
• Investigate new partnerships – regional and provincial
• Seek additional sources of funding
• Develop and pilot policy workshops (pilot in at least one district)