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Evaluating community-based public health leadership training. J Public Health Manag Pract 2011;17(4):344-9

Date

05/28/2011

Pubmed ID

21617410

DOI

10.1097/PHH.0b013e318212c67e

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-79958846741 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   11 Citations

Abstract

CONTEXT: Addressing the nation's increasingly complex public health challenges will require more effective multisector collaboration and stronger public health leadership. In 2005, the Healthy Wisconsin Leadership Institute launched an annual, year-long intensive "community teams" program. The goal of this program is to develop collaborative leadership and public health skills among Wisconsin-based multisectoral teams mobilizing their communities to improve public health.

OBJECTIVE: To measure the scope of participation and program impacts on individual learning and practice, including application of new knowledge and collective achievements of teams on coalition and short-term community outcomes.

DESIGN: End-of-year participant program evaluations and follow-up telephone interviews with participants 20 months after program completion.

SETTING: Community-based public health leadership training program.

PARTICIPANTS: Sixty-eight participants in the Community Teams Program during the years 2006 to 2007 and 2007 to 2008.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Professional diversity of program participants; individual learning and practice, including application of new knowledge; and collective achievements of teams, including coalition and short-term community outcomes.

RESULTS: Participants in the Community Teams Program represent a diversity of sectors, including nonprofit, governmental, academic, business, and local public health. Participation increased knowledge across all public health and leadership competency areas covered in the program. Participating teams reported outcomes, including increased engagement of community leadership, expansion of preventive services, increased media coverage, strengthened community coalitions, and increased grant funding.

CONCLUSIONS: Evaluation of this community-based approach to public health leadership training has shown it to be a promising model for building collaborative and public health leadership skills and initiating sustained community change for health improvement.

Author List

Ceraso M, Gruebling K, Layde P, Remington P, Hill B, Morzinski J, Ore P

Author

Peter M. Layde MS, MD Emeritus Professor in the Emergency Medicine department at Medical College of Wisconsin

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Communication
Community Health Services
Community-Institutional Relations
Competency-Based Education
Curriculum
Education, Distance
Leadership
Problem-Based Learning
Public Health
Public Policy
Social Marketing
Wisconsin