Resume of Past & Current Projects
Refugee Health Workshop
Series
Funded by: California Department of Health Services
Period: 2002
CCP offered a series of training workshops in collaboration and
leadership skills.
Leading Change Workshop
Series
Funded by: Los Angeles Department of Health Services and Partnership
for Public's Health
Period: 2002
CCP facilitated training for LADHS managers in partnership with
the Center for Health Leadership and Practice, a sister organization
within Public Health Institute.
Center for Collaborative
Planning Workshop Series
Funded by: Workshop Fees; co-sponsored by Partnerships for the
Public's Health and Sierra Health Foundation
Period: 2001
Provided 11 trainings entitled: Asset Based Community Development
- (ABCD) in Practice, Participatory Strategic Planning, Asset Based
Community Development (ABCD) Intensive, The Gifted Facilitator,
Collaborative Leadership, Collaborative Self-Assessment and Action
Planning, and The Right Question Project: Advocacy Tools, in locations
throughout California.
Collaborative Leadership
Trainings
Funded by: Office of Community Challenge Grants, California Department
of Health Services
Period: 1998 - 2000
Provided six regional trainings for the Office of Community Challenge
Grants on working collaboratively and collaborative leadership for
grantees working to prevent and reduce teen pregnancy.
Convening on Increasing
Diversity in the Health Professions and Champions of Health Professions
Diversity Award Dinner
Funded by: The California Wellness Foundation
Period: 2004 - 2005
Provided convening and planning services for an annual statewide
conference and award dinner for grantees of TCWF’s Diversity
in Health Professions priority area and other organizations and
stakeholders working to increase diversity in the health professions.
California Heart
Disease and Stroke Prevention Public Forums
Funded by: California Department of Health Services, California
Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program (CHDSP)
Period: January – June 2004
CCP coordinated and facilitated seven public forums throughout the
State. Forum panelists included stakeholders from various sectors
of the community because AB 1220 requires the establishment of a
statewide Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention and Treatment Task
Force. This Task Force will develop a State Master Plan to reduce
morbidity and mortality and the economic burden of heart disease
and stroke. Input from the forums provided the Task Force with immediate
input on heart disease and stroke in the state. Participant responses
were compiled in a site report, and a final report.
Agricultural Worker
Health Program Grantee Convenings
Funded by: The California Endowment
Period: 2002 - February 2004
CCP planned and facilitated semi-annual statewide conferences for
grantees, collaborating partners and community members working to
improve agricultural worker health. The convenings were designed
to promote networking, peer learning and the sharing of best/promising
practices. Participants engaged in dialogue on the future of California's
agricultural workers and shared their challenges as well as the
types of support necessary to successfully impact change.
Mental Health Initiative
Grantee Convenings
Funded by: The California Endowment
Period: 2001 - February 2004
CCP planned and facilitated semi-annual statewide conferences for
grantees, collaborating partners and community members working on
issues related to mental health service delivery. The convenings
were designed to promote networking, peer learning, and the sharing
of best/promising practices. In addition, the convenings were opportunities
to hear from other experts in the field and to participate in skill-building
workshops.
Falls Prevention Conference
Funded by: Archstone Foundation
Period: 2003
CCP helped plan and facilitate workgroup sessions for a statewide
conference for academics, researchers, policy makers and service
providers that focused on falls prevention among seniors. CCP facilitated
sessions during which participants created elements of a statewide
blueprint for action.
Asian and Pacific Islanders
Convening
Funded by: The California Endowment
Period: 2003
Coordinated and conducted community outreach efforts for a special
convening entitled "Working Together for Healthy Asian and Pacific
Islander Communities: Funding Opportunities with The California
Endowment," to assist organizations serving the Asian and Pacific
Islander communities in the greater Sacramento and Fresno regions.
Regional Policy Convenings
Funded by: The California Endowment and The California Wellness
Foundation
Period: 2002
CCP helped organize and facilitate a statewide series of convenings
for grantees to learn about the budget crisis and its impact on
health care.
Stakeholder Work Group
for Child Health and Disability Prevention (CHDP)
Funded by: California Department of Health Services
Period: 2002
CCP designed, in coordination with DHS staff, two day-long meetings
with stakeholders from all over the state to discuss CHDP. CCP facilitated
and recorded four separate workgroups developing findings and recommendations
for CHDP.
Women's Health Leadership
Alumni Convening
Funded by: The California Wellness Foundation
Period: 2000
Hosted the first WHL Alumni Convening entitled "Healing Ourselves
in Order to Help Others Heal: Body-Mind-Spirit." Almost 200 WHL
Alumni from the classes 1995 - 1999 attended, as well as friends
and supporters of WHL.
Maternal and Child
Health Conference
Funded by: California Department of Health Services
Period: 1995 - 1999
Conducted statewide annual Maternal and Child Health Conference
for five years.
Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Initiative
Funded by: The California Wellness Foundation
Period: 1996 - 2000
Provided planning and convening services for foundation staff, consultants
and grantees.
Welfare Reform
Funded by: The California Endowment
Period: 1997 - 1998
Convened The California Endowment's grantees working on welfare
reform issues.
Rural Health Summit
Funded by: The California Endowment
Period: 1996
Coordinated six regional forums in rural northern California to
identify key issues and resources for The California Endowment for
strategic planning purposes.
Community Partnerships
for Healthy Children (CPHC)
Funded by: Sierra Health Foundation
Period: 1993 - 2003
CCP monitored grant activities and provided training and technical
assistance for the CPHC initiative, a 10-year, $20 million effort
to improve the health of children through community building. At
the heart of the CPHC initiative was the idea that mobilized communities
have the capability to solve their own problems and that long-term
strategies will lead to long-term solutions.
Women's Health Leadership
Funded by: James Irvine Foundation, The California Endowment,
The California Wellness Foundation, The California Healthcare Foundation,
Community Technology Foundation of California, University of California,
San Francisco, National Center of Excellence in Women's Health,
Johnson & Johnson Corporation
Period: 1995 - 1999
The mission of the Women's Health Leadership (WHL) program is to
promote health and social justice by supporting and building leadership
capacity of women leaders at the community level. Through a yearlong
leadership development program, a statewide Alumni Network over
300 grassroots women leaders, and special projects focusing on mobilizing
the strengths of the Alumni Network, WHL has created an important
constituency for change at the local and state level.
WHL Women's Choices
Funded by: California HealthCare Foundation
Period: 2000 - 2004
Women's Choices' is creating the beginning of a community-based
movement regarding quality health indicators with graduates of WHL.
Twenty-two ethnically and geographically diverse WHL Alumni have
been trained as Women's Choices' Training Associates (TAs) and have
implemented culturally appropriate methods to raise quality health
care issues in their communities. The TAs will develop health care
quality policy recommendations based on their experiences and will
participate in strategies to see that these recommendations become
a part of the health care quality discussion.
WHL Alumni Network
Funded by: The California Wellness Foundation
Period: 2002 - 2004
WHL coordinates and strengthens the WHL Alumni Network through regular
electronic networking and regional gatherings, dissemination of
women's health policy and program information, and identifying new
funding sources to sustain WHL Alumni Network programs.
Leadership and Health
Through Technology
Funded by: The Community Technology Foundation of California
Period: 2001 - 2003
CCP has engaged in numerous activities, including developing a video,
conducting trainings, updating our website, and establishing communications
mechanisms to increase the capacity of grassroots women leaders
to access and use technology in their work. In addition, we have
focused on identifying opportunities to use technology to expand
leadership skills to grassroots women for improving health. Moreover,
we have worked to strengthen the infrastructure of WHL to pursue
policy goals for women's health in low-income communities by promoting
virtual community building and community action.
Alliance for Women's
Health Leadership
Funded by: The California Endowment
Period: 1998 - 2001
In collaboration with three partner organizations, the Los Angeles
Women's Foundation, The Women's Foundation in San Francisco, and
the Women's Health Collaborative, WHL specifically worked to increase
resources and grantmaking in grassroots communities by providing
technical assistance and support to WHL Alumni.
Partnership for the
Public's Health (PPH)
Funded by: The California Endowment
Period: 1999 - 2002
CCP served on the planning team for this innovative effort that
seeks to strengthen partnerships between health departments and
community groups. Since the launch of PPH, CCP has provided grantee
training including specially designed regional workshops in collaborative
self-assessment and tailored workshops hosted in grantee communities.
California Community
Action and Mobilization Project
Funded by: California Department of Health Services
Period: 1992 - 1993
Provided training and technical assistance in coalition building
and participatory strategic planning for 15 statewide ethnic coalitions.
Grossmont-East County
Healthy Neighborhoods Initiative
Funded by: Grossmont Healthcare District, East County Community
Clinic
Period: 1998 - 2000
CCP coordinated a community health assessment in east San Diego
County and provided training to local residents and organizations
on community development and strategic planning. CCP helped design
the grant-making process, provided training and technical assistance
to funded communities and conducted a qualitative evaluation using
a story telling process. Please visit our library to download the
assessment's Final Report or the evaluation report, Building Healthy
Neighborhoods Collaboratively.
Sacramento County Children
and Families Commission Visioning
Funded by: Sacramento County Children and Families Commission
Period: 1999 - 2000
To support the Commission's strategic planning effort, CCP coordinated
23 community- visioning forums in Sacramento County to identify
key issues and resources and trained 40 youth to illustrate visions
at these forums. The Sacramento County Children and Families Commission
used the visions to guide the strategic plan and identify priorities
for funding. The report, A Community Vision for the Future of Sacramento's
Children, is available online at http://www.sackids.saccounty.net/reports/visioning-report/index.html
Stanislaus Health Department
Consultation/Strategic Planning
Funder: Stanislaus County Health and Human Services
Period: 2001 - 2002
Provided consultation and strategic planning facilitation for department
staff and personnel with focus on asset-based planning and community
collaboration.
Call to Action
Funded by: First 5 Sacramento Commission (formerly the Sacramento
County Children and Families Commission)
Period: 2002 - 2003
With this planning grant, CCP is working with the Oak Park and Tahoe
Colonial communities in Sacramento to identify associations that
are interested in contributing to the prevention of child abuse,
child neglect and domestic violence. The effort is based on principles
of Asset-Based Community Development.
Community Partnerships
for Healthy Children (CPHC) Council
Funded by: Sierra Health Foundation
Period: 2002 - 2004
Provided support (technical, convening, fund development, fiscal
management and policy development) to the CPHC Council, an association
of collaboratives affecting health policy at both state and local
levels.
Sacramento Dyson Initiative
Funded by: Dyson Foundation
Period: 2002 - 2003
CCP is developing a curriculum and providing technical assistance
and training to physicians and community residents in Asset-Based
Community Development and collaboration.
WHL ACTION (Alumni
Collaborating To Improve Our Nonprofits)
Funded by: Johnson & Johnson through the UCSF National Center
of Excellence in Women's Health, Women's Community Health Leadership
Program
Period: 2002 - 2003
WHL ACTION provides culturally appropriate technical assistance
to graduates of WHL who have become nonprofit managers in community-based
organizations throughout California.
Collaboration for School
Readiness
Funded by: UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities
and First 5 California
Period: 2002
CCP authored a guidebook to collaboration for school readiness for
the Proposition 10 funded School Readiness initiative and facilitated
a series of regional companion trainings in four locations throughout
the state. The report may be viewed here
(requires Adobe Reader).
Shingletown Community
Center
Funded by: Shingletown Family Resource Center
Period: 2002
CCP provided technical assistance to Shingletown Community Center
to develop their strategic action plan for a family resource center.
Asset-Based Community
Planning: Strong Partnerships, Healthy Children & Families
Funded by: Santa Clara County Children and Families Commission
Period: 2001
Developed planning tools for coordinators working in the school
readiness and regional partnership initiative sponsored by the Commission.
Provided training in Asset-Based Community Planning and collaborative
development to build partnerships to improve young children's readiness
for school.
Los Angeles Unified
School District Nutrition Network
Funded by: Los Angeles Unified School District
Period: 2000 - 2001
Provided training and consultation in using Asset-Based Community
Development principles and techniques to build a nutrition network
to create healthier students. Healthy Choices, Healthy Children,
a video on this approach is available from the LAUSD Nutrition Network
at www.lausdnutritionnetwork.org/.
Health Policy
Advocates Retreat
Funded by: The California Wellness Foundation
Period: 1999 - 2000, 2004
Coordinated annual convening of statewide Health Policy Advocates
for networking and discussion of policy issues.
Stanislaus PPH Community
Collaboratives Retreat
Funded by: Partnership for Public's Health
Period: 2002
CCP designed and facilitated a three-day retreat for the three CPHC
community collaboratives working on Partnership for Public's Health.
The retreat served to strengthen relationships between all three
collaboratives, develop collaborative skills, plan next steps, exchange
ideas and have lots of fun.
Family Connections
Retreat
Funded by: Nevada County Children and Families Commission
Date: 2002
CCP facilitated a one-day retreat for members of Family Connections
- a new interagency collaborative effort supported by the Nevada
County Children and Families Commission and a grant from the Packard
Foundation. Members began the critical work of building relationships,
identifying shared values and planning future events.
Healthy Start Retreat
Funded by: California State University Sacramento Foundation
Period: 2000
Facilitated leadership retreat for Healthy Start Region Three coordinators.
Social Marketing Conference
Funded by: California Nutrition Network for Healthy Active Families
Date: August 8, 2001
In partnership with the Project Director for the Los Angeles Unified
School District's Nutrition Network, CCP presented a workshop on
Community Empowerment and Development and focused on using asset-based
tools.
Youth Services Provider
Network
Funded by: Sierra Health Foundation
Date: September 28, 2001
CCP provided a workshop on collaboration and facilitated the development
of a "Help Wanted Board" to create opportunities for collaboration
and partnership between youth service providers in Sacramento County.
Asset-Based Community
Development (ABCD)
Funded by: Ventura County Children and Families Commission
Date: October 26, 2001
Ventura County Children and Families Commission sponsored a one-day
ABCD training. Participants learned the basics principles of ABCD
and how to apply ABCD in their on-going work to improve the lives
of children aged 0-5 years.
Project Help Second
Annual Anti-Drug Summit
Funded by: Various
Date: October 22, 2001
CCP co-facilitated Asset Based Community Development training with
Jody Kretzmann of the National Asset Based Community Development
Institute at Northwestern University and members of CCP's Training
Associates Project (TAP).
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