Step-by-Step Approach to Sustain a Community Health Worker Intervention
An Evidence-Based Practice
Description
When successful community interventions begin as grant-funded initiatives, finding sustainable funding streams in the long-term is imperative. Community-based programs can follow an 8-step framework to engage both low-income patients and funders, determine outcomes, and calculate return on investment.
Goal / Mission
To find, explore, and implement a sustainable funding stream for community-based healthcare interventions.
Results / Accomplishments
Implementing a step-wise approach to financial sustainability can be achieved utilizing the following 8 steps:
1) Identify stakeholders with common problems
2) Find champions within stakeholder groups
3) Define shared problems and metrics
4) Identify an at-risk population
5) Understand the end-user perspective
6) Use qualitative data
7) Evaluate the intervention
8) Calculate Return on Investment (ROI)
1) Identify stakeholders with common problems
2) Find champions within stakeholder groups
3) Define shared problems and metrics
4) Identify an at-risk population
5) Understand the end-user perspective
6) Use qualitative data
7) Evaluate the intervention
8) Calculate Return on Investment (ROI)
About this Promising Practice
Organization(s)
Penn Center for Community Health Workers
Primary Contact
Topics
Health / Health Care Access & Quality
Health / Other Conditions
Health / Other Conditions
Organization(s)
Penn Center for Community Health Workers
Date of publication
Nov 2016
Location
Philadelphia, PA
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