NYSACHO Sponsored Webinar 8 Steps to Building & Sustaining Effective Coalitions Monday, February 13, 2012 10:30 am -12:00 noon

Have you ever thought that you could better address a health problem or initiative in your community if you had members of the community working together with you? Have you ever tried to convince your health director, mayor, county commissioner, school board, legislator, minister, or business owner to support your community coalition? It's not always easy, especially if he or she is not convinced that working in partnership is the best approach. This webinar will help you define coalitions, learn when and how to use them, and provide eight steps for building effective coalitions that prevent disease and promote health and a healthy environment. By focusing on these steps, your coalition will be poised to reach its goals and sustain itself for the long haul!

Program Objectives:
Describe 3 characteristics of effective coalitions & partnerships
Recount 3 successes and 3 barriers to coalition effectiveness and their resolution
Identify 8 essential steps for building and sustaining effective coalitions
Learn valuable lessons from actual community coalitions

Audience:
LHD Immunization Staff, Commissioners/Public Health Directors, NYSDOH Staff
LHD Immunization Coalition members and their partners

Frances Dunn Butterfoss is a health educator and President of Coalitions Work, a consulting group dedicated to building coalitions and partnerships for community health. She holds professorships at Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) and Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia and teaches in their MPH program. Fran is the founding director of CINCH, a community child health partnership, and PIV, a state immunization coalition. These coalitions promote immunizations, access to insurance/health care, asthma management, obesity and injury prevention, and data-driven health assessment. From 1995-98, she directed the national Immunization Coalition Training Institute and now provides consultation and training across the country on how to develop, sustain and evaluate coalitions for health promotion and disease prevention. Dr. Butterfoss has received research support from many federal agencies and foundations and has published widely in professional journals and textbooks. She completed undergraduate and masters’ degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and a doctorate in health promotion and education from the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina.