Coalitions and Partnerships in Community Health is a step-by-step guide for building durable coalitions to improve community and public health.
This important resource provides an in-depth, analytical, and practical approach to building, sustaining, and nurturing these complex organizations.
Author Frances Dunn Butterfoss includes all the tools for success in collaborative work from a research and practice-based stance. The book contains useful approaches to the issues, recommendations for action, resources for further study, and examples from actual coalition work.
Coalitions and Partnerships in Community Health explores
- Historical foundations of coalitions and partnerships
- Principles of collaboration and partnering
- Benefits and challenges of a coalition approach
- Coalition frameworks and models
- Cultivating coalition leadership
- Roles and responsibilities of coalition staff, leaders, and members
- Communication, decision-making, and problem-solving methods
- Vision, mission, and bylaws
- Effective marketing
- Planning for sustainability
- Approaches to assessment
- Developing strategic and action plans
- Implementing coalition strategies in the community
- Media advocacy, strategies, and tips
- Participatory coalition evaluation
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
PART I: MAKING THE CASE FOR COALITIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS
Historical Perspective of Coalitions
Principles of Collaboration and Partnering: Coalitions Defined
Why Coalitions
The Community Coalition Action Theory (CCAT)
PART II: BUILDING EFFECTIVE COALITIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS
Lead Agency, Coalition Staff, and Leadership
Coalition Membership and Teamwork
Essential Coalition Processes
Coalition Infrastructure
PART III: SUSTAINING EFFECTIVE COALITIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS
Marketing the Coalition and Its Agenda
Funding, Resource Development, and Sustainability
PART IV: COALITIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS IN ACTION
Community Assessment
Coalitions and Planning
Coalition Activities and Interventions
Evaluating Coalitions and Partnerships
Coalitions and Partnerships: Their Promise and Future
References
Name Index
Subject Index
Author Information
Frances Dunn Butterfoss Ph.D., is a well known researcher, theorist, educator, speaker, and practitioner. She is a professor and Division Director of Behavioral Research and Community Health in the Department of Pediatrics at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS). Dr. Butterfoss was recently awarded the EVMS Foundation Chair in Pediatrics.
