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POSTCN1 - Building Coalitions for Community Needs Assessments (Separate Registration Required)

Saturday, February 8, 2025
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET
Location: Salon 3 (M2)
Knowledge Level: Basic
CPE: 4.2
CME: 3.5
CE: 3.5
CEU: 3.5
Session Description: This interactive 4-hour workshop is designed to highlight what goes into effectively planning and executing community needs assessments in a coalition model. Health Centers interested in partnering with Primary Care Associations (PCAs), health departments, hospitals, and community-based organizations on their needs assessments are encouraged to attend. Participants will gain insights from case studies including Maricopa County’s Synapse Hospital and Healthcare Partnership and other coalitions featuring Health Centers, hospitals, health departments, and more.

These real-world examples will be leveraged for small group activities to collectively identify community needs, create community health improvement plans, explore financial implications and resource savings, staff teams for continuity and integration, improve diverse community member buy-in, and drive systemic change.

Registration:
This workshop requires advance registration. Register before December 31, 2024 for a discounted rate!

Registration Fees:
- $99 through December 31, 2024
- $199 from January 1 - February 8, 2024

Learning Objectives:

  • To describe key factors and strategies to successfully build a needs assessment coalition drawn from case studies of health centers in partnership with health departments, PCAs, and hospital systems
  • To explore what roles, expertise, and staffing capacity are needed to build a sustainable needs assessment coalition team across organizations
  • To identify how needs assessment coalitions can leverage findings to inform health center programming.