Community Clinical Linkages

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Many programs that employ a community based approach fail to achieve the behavioral and health goals that they were developed to achieve (Merzel, & D 'Afflitti (2003). Yet with the ballooning health inequalities seen across our health care system, this result is no longer an option. This points to the need for a new and fresh approach to growing and sustaining programs and linkages.Growing and sustaining community clinical linkages takes time and effort. However, like all partnerships, there will be ebbs and flows in the relationship between both sectors. But commitment to the CCL process, and a united desire to improve health outcomes suggest that to be effective, CCLs must be forced to grow, as well as made to become sustainable. Community …show more content…
 Many organizations and external funding agencies expects CCL efforts to leave something behind to continue successful change interventions and improvements.
 CCLs must work to develop the necessary commitment, capacity, and resources to ensure that policies and practices are institutionalized and engrained into the community to get to the sustainability they see.
 Many community clinical linkages fail to achieve the behavioral and health goals they were developed to address
 Many partnerships do not plan for growth and sustainability.
 Growing and sustaining CCLs will ensure that the values, ideas, and processes of the CCL is sustained over the long haul.
 ---- is the estimated cost for lack of sustainability in public health program.
 The American taxpayers and other philanthropic organizations are deprived of their investments when CCL whither and died because growth and sustainability was not included in its strategic planning.
 Sustainability is not only about funding, it is about creating and building momentum to maintain communitywide change by organizing and maximizing community assets and resources
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Grow of the Linkage

 Obtain input and buy-in from coalition members and key external decision-makers.
 Define critical long- and short-term policy strategies.
 Document and organize the information you have collected: evaluation findings, lists of strategies and activities, criteria grids, effort justification sheets, and budgets.
 Set mutually agreeable goals to incrementally grow the partnership.
 Reach out to new and non-traditional partners and get them involved in the CCL.
Remember that we are all a part of public health, so don’t leave out those who work across other areas of health. In fact, if an organization contributes to the health of the population in any way, they are a part of public health (EPHS??)

Sustain the Linkage

 Determine whether the initiative or activities should be sustained.
 Create a shared understanding of sustainability.
 Identify sustainability champions from across your sector (i.e., individuals who confront inequalities in healthcare and promote) health equity in both sectors.
 Assess the current situation for sustaining the

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