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)

About this Promising Practice

Organization(s)
Penn Center for Community Health Workers
Primary Contact
215-662-8624
Vera.Jahnle@PennMedicine.upenn.edu
https://chw.upenn.edu/contact/
Topics
Health / Health Care Access & Quality
Health / Other Conditions
Organization(s)
Penn Center for Community Health Workers
Date of publication
Nov 2016
Location
Philadelphia, PA
For more details
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC50557...

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An Evidence-Based Practice meets the following HCI criteria:

  1. The program description includes at a minimum: the sponsoring organization, program goals, program implementation steps, and outcomes that have demonstrated program success in achieving the program goal in one or more localities.
  2. The results from an evaluation of the program include quantitative measures showing improvement in the outcome(s) of interest after the implementation of the program (i.e. increase in smoking cessation, not just the delivery of a smoking cessation program). The outcome measure(s) is/are compared at relevant time periods before and after the intervention or program implementation. Alternatively, the evaluation study compares the outcome(s) between an intervention group and an appropriate control group.
  3. The study is of peer-review quality and presents numbers in a scientific manner; measurements of precision and reliability are included (e.g. confidence intervals, standard errors), results from statistical tests show a significant difference or change in the outcome measure(s), and relevant point estimates and p-values are presented. Note: if the results from an evaluation of a program are presented in a scientific manner and the outcome measure is improved compared to the baseline measurement or the control group but the difference is not statistically significant, the practice is classified as effective and not evidence-based.