Strategy 2.4
Increase collaboration with community partners to improve access for children and families to healthy food, physical activity, and healthy lifestyle services and supports.
Tactic: Forge formal referral relationships and collaborations with community partners operating food and physical activity programs, such as Hunger Free Colorado, City of Aurora, and YMCA of Metropolitan Denver. Track referrals and outcomes resulting from referrals. Referrals could originate from Children’ s Colorado or school and community based clinics.
Tactic: Build community capacity to integrate healthy eating and active living content into community based child and family programming by providing program models and content, professional development and technical assistance to community based providers such as schools, after school and summer programs, and child care.
Tactic: Explore additional tactics based on needs of targeted community or population.
Setting / Delivery Mechanism
Providers- Children’ s Hospital Colorado will partner with other community health clinic and pediatric practice providers to assess needs and develop a coordinated response involving one or more of the tactics listed above.
Schools- Children’ s Hospital Colorado will partner with schools and other school based providers to assess needs and develop a coordinated response involving one or more of the tactics listed above.
Home- Community based community health workers will utilize questionnaires to assess a child / family’ s needs and connect them with appropriate resources and supports based on needs. Referrals will be tracked and evaluated for effectiveness.
Internal Resources
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Children’ s Health Advocacy Institute( CHAI)
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Primary care clinical
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Corporate and Community Relations
External Partners
Partners will be defined based on targeted communities for intervention. Current partners include but are not limited to:
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City of Aurora Youth
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American Diabetes Association
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Local and state public health departments
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Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver
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YMCA of Metropolitan Denver
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Families Forward Resource Center
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Hunger Free Colorado
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Other community based organizations
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