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This is an abstract topic page on Community Partnerships from AAHD's Health Promotion Resource Center.

The AAHD Health Promotion Resource Center for People with Disabilities is intended to provide visitors with current and valuable information about multiple aspects of health promotion and wellness for people with disabilities.

This article discusses successful strategic planning. The successful strategic planning process will examine and make informed projections about environmental realities to help an organization anticipate and respond to change by clarifying its mission and goals; targeting spending; and reshaping its programs, fundraising and other aspects of operations.

In this training, you will learn the keys to leadership at Centers for Independent Living from four successful CIL leaders from around the country. You will learn how to lead programs and organizations to new growth and sustainability, identify and improve your own leadership abilities, and prepare employees to take on more responsibility so you are always building new and improved leaders all around you.

Blog post about culture change in aging and disability community-based organizations (CBOs).

This fact sheet outlines strategies to help Medicaid stakeholders encourage partnerships between community-based organizations and health care organizations. States can provide: (1) financial support to build and sustain program capacity; (2) assistance in identifying metrics for evaluation; (3) incentives to providers to address social determinants of health; and (4) use of policy levers, including value-based contracts, managed care organization regulations, and state plan amendments.

This tool was designed for community-based organizations and health care organizations in existing partnerships. It provides a template to understand progress toward benchmarks characteristic of effective partnerships, identify areas for further development, and guide strategic conversation. This tool is meant to help partnering organizations work together more effectively and maximize their impact.

This is a resource about how to make stakeholder engagement meaningful for your company. It includes measuring the value of investing in engagement as a part of your stakeholder engagement strategy. Page 16 describes information to document during the engagement process in order to measure success.

This article outlines a three-phase stakeholder engagement process. Phase three is described as stakeholder engagement, which includes measuring and monitoring results. See the section on phase three for more information.

How to plan and hold effective community forums to gain insight into the needs of people with disabilities.