Building Healthy

PartnershipsPARC Conference 2007 - February 5, 2007

Nicole Gauthier, Prevention Coordinator, Sudbury Regional Hospital, Regional Cancer ProgramCarol Coffyn, Public Health Nurse, Sudbury & District Health Unit

Agenda

• Introduction

• Partnerships 101

• Let’s get moving…for the health of it!

• Questions/comments

What does Partnership Mean?

Common points:• Between organizations, groups, agencies,

individuals, disciplines• Common aim or aims, vision, goals, mission or

interests• Joint rights, resources and responsibilities• New structure(s) and processes• Autonomous, independent• Improve and enhance access to services for users

and careers• Equality

Why work in partnership?

Belief that working in partnership rather than alone has benefits that outweigh the costs.

“…the quality and cost effectiveness

of services can be significantly improved

when organizations work well together.”Fruitful

Partnership

Benefits

ResourcesComplete an initiativeInformation sharingFundingAccess to clientsAvoid duplicationLobby

Creative solutionsShare knowledgeComprehensive programsCapacityAccountabilityParticipationSustainability

Challenges

Financial risk

Reporting

Change to organization

Values

Tension & conflict

Time

Loss of identity

Before Partnership

Vision and purpose

Commitment

Time

Capacity

Welcoming culture

Funding

What Kind of Partnership Do You Want?

Tasks?

Time?

Other partners?

Various Types of Partnerships

Glendinning 2003• Macro, meso, local

Pratt, Gordon & Plamping 1999• Competition, co-operation, coordination

and co-evaluation

Gray 1989• Collaboration, co-operation, co-ordination

Partnership Continuum

Cooperative

Model

Collaborative

Model

Integrated

Model

The Partnership Toolkit 2001

Develop a Partner Profile

Type of organizationSize of organizationLocation Type of servicesType of experienceStrengths & skillsFinancial stabilityCultural sensitivity

Features of Successful Partnerships

Entering into partnerships• Welcoming culture• Membership• Mutual benefit• Common mandate/purpose

Successful Partnerships

Maintaining partnerships• Shared vision• Common and compatible goals and

objectives• Division or roles and responsibility• Balanced power and authority• Effective communication• Supportive structures and processes• Commitment• Trust and respect• Commitment of time

Successful PartnershipsMaintaining partnerships

• Leadership• Resources• Partnership agreement• Continuous nurturing• Mutual recognition• Adaptability and flexibility• Building capacity• Evaluation

RPN - Membership

RPN Inception

• Initiated in 2000• Purpose: to share information

and to offer support to its partners in cancer prevention and screening.

Cancer 2020

•A solid provincial plan to expand cancer prevention and early detection.

•A framework to monitor progress.

RPN – After Cancer 2020

• Our goal is to help reduce the incidence and mortality of cancer and to improve the quality of life for residents of Northeastern Ontario.

Cancer Care Ontario

Cancer 2020 Network

Provincial Cancer Prevention & Screening

Council

Cancer Prevention &

Early DetectionNetworkCentral

South/West

Southwest Cancer

Prevention &Early Detection

Network

CCO Region –East PreventionAnd Screening

Network

Cancer PreventionNetwork –

South Region

Central East – Regional Cancer

Prevention &Screening Network

Northwest Prevention and

Screening Network

NEO – RPNPrevention, Screening &

Early Detection

Prevention &Screening

Network for Southeastern

Ontario

RCPs

Ministry of Health Promotion

What makes the RPN a successful partnership

Entering a partnership• Trusting relationship• Mutual Benefit• Similar interests• Common mandate

What makes the RPN a successful partnership

Maintaining partnerships• Shared vision• Common and compatible goals and objectives• Division or roles and responsibility• Balanced power and authority• Effective communication• Supportive structures and processes• Commitment• Trust and respect• Commitment of time

Maintaining partnerships• Leadership• Resources• Partnership agreement• Continuous nurturing• Mutual recognition• Adaptability and flexibility• Building capacity• Evaluation

What makes the RPN a successful partnership

Accomplishments

• NEO Tobacco Summit• NEO – A Healthy Place to Live

Roundtable Symposium• Time of Your Life Campaign• NEO SSWG, PAWG incepted• Lay Health Educator Project• Let’s Get Moving … For The Health

Of It! Media campaign

A look back…

Making NEO a healthier place to live:

• Developed a partnership with CTV - Fall 2004.• Launched a three-year (2005-2007) television

campaign.• Focused on physical activity and policy.• Targeted parents of children ages 2-14 in their

social environments of family/community, school and workplace.

Goals

• Increase community awareness and capacity for policy change, behavior change and supports for physical activity.

• Help advance Cancer 2020 physical activity targets in Northeastern Ontario.

Implementation Plan

• Weekly news segments

• Commercials

• Call back line

Expected Outcomes

1. Increase awareness of existing connection between social support/environments, policy and physical activity.

2. Increase knowledge around ways to affect policy change and provide positive social support/environments.

3. Changing attitudes and behaviors necessary to take action on producing policy change.

What have we accomplished

• Forty eight news stories

• Approx. 400 call back line entries

• Eighteen call back line winners

• Eight 30 second commercials

• Comprehensive environmental/policy scan

Environmental/policy scan

• Six reports developed – baseline data

• The purpose is to find out whether or not the initiative has:– spurred positive policy change,– inspired behavior change, and – increased supportive environments for

physical activity in Northeastern Ontario.

Policy/environmental scan Interim results

• Community readiness for walkability

• Need for the provision of education to particular sectors

• Initiated new partnerships with other sectors interviewed

A walkable community…

• Encourages citizens to walk more and rely on their cars less.

• Supports walking as a form of everyday transportation.

• Is well-designed where people can walk to school, work, stores, parks and restaurants.

Where do we go from here?

• Complete year three of CTV media campaign

• Investigate new partnerships – regional and provincial

• Seek additional sources of funding

• Develop and pilot policy workshops (pilot in at least one district)

Questions/Comments?

Thank you!

Nicole GauthierPrevention Coordinator, Sudbury Regional Hospital, Regional Cancer Program(705) 522-6237 ext 2533ngauthier@hrsrh.on.ca

Carol CoffynPublic Health NurseSudbury & District Health Unit(705) 522-9200 ext 357coffync@sdhu.com