Health Equity Report
- Program Recommendations to Advance Health Equity
The purpose of the recommendations report is to guide HTPCP grantees in increasing the focus of health equity in their work. Achieving health equity for its program participants is a key component of HTPCP. The report includes HTPCP grantee insights into their work to advance health equity, including the impact of COVID-19 on current operational status, and opportunities and challenges.
Data Placemats
- Innovations and Community Impact
HTPCP grantees were asked in their one-year follow-up survey about innovations use in their projects. Respondents described innovations as new service delivery models or practices, patient education materials or strategies, new tools, professional training, or new partnerships and collaborations. About one-quarter of prior grantees reported innovations involving the use of technology. - Formation of Community Partnerships
In recent discussions about sustainability, grantees identified shared goals and values as critical for successful partnerships. Partnerships are sustained by mutual need and support and by the shared experience of impact in the community. Grantees described a sense of fun or camaraderie in working together with children and families. - Sustainment of Projects
In a discussion among projects completing their five years of funding, all agreed that partnerships are a critical part of sustainability planning. Several had specific strategies to continue their partnerships, including identifying liaisons, engaging in problem solving together, sharing digital and other content, particularly updates and individualized reports, and creating linkages between partners. Other important factors in sustainability identified were community engagement, leveraging story telling to engage people in the mission, and sharing data in usable formats.
Case Studies
Three case studies were developed featuring HTPCP grantees who have been successful in not only maintaining core program areas but also expanding their services. The following includes best practices and lessons learned and video highlighting these amazing programs:
- House of Teens (HOT) at Community Health Center, Inc. and the YWCA of New Britain, CT - The program evolved from an after-school program focused on health promotion and obesity prevention to the East Side Community Center: Hub of Health and Empowerment where teens can access primary care services, engage in various empowerment opportunities and actively participate in community revitalization efforts | Video
- Empowering Mothers Initiative at Asian Health Services of Oakland, CA - This project offers an innovative approach to reaching and engaging immigrant and refugee mothers of young children | Video
- Reach out and Read Washington State in Seattle, WA: The program gives young children a foundation by incorporating books into pediatric care and encouraging families to read aloud together | Video
Tip Sheets
- Supporting Diversity and Reducing Health Disparities
Shares information from six Healthy Tomorrows grantees about their efforts to integrate cultural and linguistic competence into project values, policies, structures and practices, and how they address disparities and inequities through public health and clinical practice. - Strategies for Sustaining Successful Community-based Programs
Provides information to support community-based programs in planning for sustainability in their organizations. - Conducting an Economic Analysis
Describes how to use evaluation data to conduct an economic analysis that may be appropriate for programs, including Return on Investment (ROI) analysis, cost effectiveness analysis, or cost benefit analysis. Download the project summary that includes the results and lessons learned.
Guides: Evaluating Your Community-based Program
This is a two-part guide to program evaluation for pediatricians and others implementing community-based health initiatives.
Part I: Designing Your Evaluation
- Workbook: This guide, in workbook format, reviews strategies for setting measurable objectives, identifying realistic outcomes, and developing logic models for health initiatives.
Part II: Putting Your Evaluation Plan to Work
- Workbook: The follow up publication to Part I. This guide takes the evaluation plan from the planning to the implementation stage and will assist in how to measure, collect, analyze, and present data meaningfully.
Lessons Learned
- The Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program: Highlights and Lessons Learned From the National Evaluation
This report presents an overview of the major findings from the Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children National Evaluation Project conducted by the American Academy of Pediatrics between 2003 and 2005. - Evaluation of Community-Based Health Projects: The Healthy Tomorrows Experience
This study was published in Pediatrics and examines community-based programs and experience of evaluation, both in terms of capacity and benefits to the program. - Healthy Tomorrows Sustainability Tip Sheet
This informational sheet has been compiled by AAP Healthy Tomorrows staff. It takes lessons learned by Healthy Tomorrows projects to provide helpful tips to increase the sustainability of your project.
MCHB Performance Measures
- National performance measures were developed and approved by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) for annual reporting by all MCHB grantees. A Performance Measure describes a specific maternal and child health need that, when successfully addressed, can lead to better health outcomes.
The Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children program is funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), a Federal agency. HRSA does not engage in advocacy on behalf of its grantees. It supports community health and advocacy efforts of grantees on behalf of the children, families, and communities they serve.
Last Updated
10/26/2022
Source
American Academy of Pediatrics