Last October, the City of Hamilton Public Health Services offered a Building Community Partnerships Workshop where everyone had a great time sharing recommendations for partnerships, discussing partnership challenges and brainstorming solutions. At the workshop, we announced that we would send a summary of our group discussions, workshop and toolkit evaluations. Then--- H1N1 hit! Although long overdue, I would like to share key highlights from our discussions.
Factors for successful Partnerships:
• Key people/stakeholders, including a motivational leader
• Clear, realistic, goals aligning with partner mandates
• Effective communication that builds respect and support
• In-kind resources are a necessity
Challenges in Partnerships:
• Lack of leadership, decision making power
• Lack of community engagement
• Commitment by partners change which slows down work
• Unbalanced responsibilities in partnership
• Lack skills for proposal writing, evaluation
• Organizational barriers
• Differing Goals in partnerships
• Funding challenges
Recommendations for Partnerships and Solutions for challenges:
-Define roles, goals at beginning of partnerships
-Celebrate successes, appreciate partners
-Strive to maintain community engagement
-Review partnership functioning, Terms of Reference, timelines frequently
-Build public support for project/program
-Engage decision makers into partnership in some role
-Build in training for partnres to increase skill set
-Ensure effective communication and co-ordination in partnerships
Thanks for the great discussions at the workshop. Let's carry on the discussion here. What do people think? Any other recommendations and solutions?
Building Community Partnerships Workshop Key Highlights.
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Hack, Tricia 2010-07-23 |
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