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Explore SOAR - a strength-based approach for strategic planning, shifting from silos to collaborations, identifying unified visions, and taking collective action. Learn the importance of trust and backbone organizations in creating healthier and connected communities.
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Building Community Backbone Support and Infrastructure for Sustainability • Marisue Garganta • Director of Community Health Integration and Community Benefit • October 13, 2015
Setting the Stage • Building from a space of strength (SOAR) • Shifting the Paradigm from silos to collaborations • Assessing your needs and identifying unified and shared vision • Using the 5 Elements of Collective Impact • Taking Action • Elements and misconceptions of a Backbone • Importance of Trust • Arizona Communities of Care • Lessons Learned
BUILDING A NEW FUTURE THROUGH ASSET-BASED STRATEGY USING S.O.A.R. WHAT IS S.O.A.R.? Results • How do we know we are succeeding? Aspirations • What do we care deeply about? Opportunities • What are our stakeholders asking for? Strengths • What can we build on?
SOAR: A NEW APPROACH TO STRATEGIC PLANNING • SOAR- Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations and Results • A more strength-based spin than SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) • A strategic planning framework that… • Focuses on strengths • Seeks to understand the whole system by including the voices of the relevant stakeholders. • Helps organizations focus on: • What they are doing well, • What skills can be improved and • What is most compelling to stakeholders. • Pushes organizations to develop strategic plans that are more dynamic, creative and optimistic.
Identifying the Organizations Core and Ethical Compass • Defining your mission, vision, and values • Develop a frame of reference so that everyone is on the same page. • If you do not have one, use the universal moral values to help make decisions. • Trustworthiness • Respect • Fairness • Caring • Citizenship
Take Action Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Healthy Communities
The Beginning of the Shared Vision and Need“Creating a Healthier and Connected Community” • Healthy and Safe Community Environments • Clinical and Community Preventive Services • Empowered People • Elimination of Health Disparities • Prevention Strategy Diagram National Prevention Strategy “America’s Plan for Better Health and Wellness” http://www.healthcare.gov/center/councils/nphpphc
Importance of Trust Based on concepts from A.T. Himmelman “Collaboration for a Change: Definitions, Models and a Collaborative . Process Guide” and a tool developed by Lancaster Community Health Plan from The Collaboration Primer by Gretchen Williams Torres, MPP and Frances S. Margolin, MA. Health and Research Education Trust in Partnership
17 “Collaborators in Change”Engaging the Community
Lessons Learned • Determine the problem, goals and individuals you want to help • Conduct an assessment of the problem • Assess why you need this collaboration • Ensure you meet each of the organizations guidelines and policies • Identify all potential collaborators and stakeholders • Bring together the key group of collaborators • Use the 5 Core Principals as the guide to your work • Develop evaluation and sustainability plan • Communicate often and Celebrate your successes!
RESOURCES County Health Rankings - RWJ http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/ National Organizations • www.chausa.org • www.communityhlth.org Healthy Communities • http://www.healthycommunitiesinstitute.com Collective Impact • http://www.fsg.org/OurApproach/CollectiveImpact.aspx
QUESTIONS? Marisue Garganta Director of Community Health Integration 602.406.6580 Marisue.Garganta@DignityHealth.org