Community Health Needs Assessments

This session will provide a deeper overview of the MA Department of Public Health SDoH focus areas selected by each hospital and provide examples of mid to upstream initiatives in these areas. Then participants will break into small groups based on each social determinant prioritized for your hospital service area. Baystate staff and community advisors will explain why each focus area was chosen and what kinds of systemic change goals and strategies they will be looking for in the application review process.

This workshop will delve into the world of “PSE” and explore how to focus on upstream and midstream strategies to achieve health equity.

In this workshop, seasoned coalition conveners from Communities That Care will discuss how to build authentic, effective relationships with partners to achieve bold health equity goals.

This workshops is designed to help people understand instructions and terminology, how to write with clarity and tailor writing to funder/reviewers, and the importance of, and how to, visually communicate a program and expected outcomes through a logic model.

Building on the pre-recorded session Tips for Writing an Effective Grant Proposal, this workshop will help you craft logic models and develop appropriate success measures for your proposal.

Designed for beginners, this workshop will help you document community need and plan evidence-informed programs. We will look at helpful websites to locate information on local demographic trends, health needs, and community organizations.

This 1-hour introductory workshop provides a foundation for participants to gain a basic understanding and history of Cultural Humility and its four tenets.

This workshop will build on the pre-recorded introductory Cultural Humility workshop. Learn about local organizations that are modeling cultural humility internally — among staff, board and leadership — as well as in their programmatic work with external stakeholders.