National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools

CHNET-Works! and NCCMT have partnered to host follow-up discussions for a selection of winter 2011 fireside chats.

We would like to continue the discussion from today’s fireside chat that focused on the Kingston Gets Active (KGA) “Community Physical Activity Pass” program presented by Dr. Brenda Bruner.

You are invited to use the discussion forum to:

• Post questions and comments that we didn’t get to today
• Share your own experiences
• Network with other participants interested in this topic
• Share latest evidence and other resources

To make a new post, you must first register and become a member of NCCMT’s DialoguePH network. To do this, click on "Join NCCMT" on the left hand navigation. Once your account has been activated, you can simply log-in and create a new post to this discussion topic.

Have feedback for us? Please contact Kirsten Sears (searsk@mcmaster.ca) to share your thoughts!

Kirsten

Thanks for starting this discussion topic. It’s great to be able to continue to share after a fireside chat.

I really enjoyed Dr. Bruner’s presentation last Friday and have since thought about how my regional health authority could implement a similar Physical Activity Pass program in our community.

I think a key component of this program is forming partnerships with local organizations that support physical activity (e.g., parks and recreation, YMCA, sport associations, etc.). We currently don’t have a partnership like this in place, but would be interested in forming one.

Is anyone aware of a resource to help guide us in forming partnerships with local organizations?

In the “continue what we started” discussion topic, one of the postings referred to a method called the “Partnership Synergy Framework”. The Partnership Synergy Framework considers two questions: 1) Is collaboration better than efforts by single agents in improving the capacity of communities to achieve health and health system goals? 2) What can be done to realize the full advantage of collaboration?

This framework can be used to assess the degree to which a partnership's collaborative process successfully combines its participants' perspectives, knowledge, and skills.

This could be a useful resource to consult before forming a partnership with other community groups.

This resource is available in the NCCMT registry: http://www.nccmt.ca/registry/view/eng/8.html

Are there are any other tools available for building partnerships? Feel free to share!