Collaborative Alliance Worksheet (Assignment 2)
Collaborative Alliance Worksheet
Instructions:
Use this worksheet to identify potential partners and use their resources to begin to prepare a
culturally sensitive strategic plan for collaboration.
1. Involve community leaders. Development of the process innovation must involve at least
five Chinle community stakeholders, key conveners, or community leaders. Describe these five
individuals in the following chart. Use the Chinle Service Unit Profile to guide your answers.
Who? What? Why?
(Name, position, (Description of involvement) (Description of goal of
organization) involvement)
Advocate for the community with “Voice of the people”. Involved
Leaders of Navajo
various agencies. with health, environmental, and
communities
sanitation policies.
Leads clinical direction. Develop Medical credentials, held to
strategic goals for quality various government standards of
Chief Medical Officer
improvement management. care. Perceives cultural
perspectives.
Oversees hospital and medical Analyzes and improves quality
staff review process. Analyzes data. Responsible for continual
Chief Quality Officer
data to ensure compliance with QI surveying readiness.
standards.
Cultural healing practices that See traditional ways and ideas,
Traditional
maintain wellness in the help maintain Navajo nation
Healer/Medicine Men
community. independence.
Monitor patient care and staffing Working with other disciplines to
standards are meet. Participate in provide intervention, therapeutic
Chief Nursing Officer cross department decision process and nursing process for
making. Conduct performance problem solving.
improvement activities.
2. Leverage community assets. As the process innovation is introduced into the community,
proper incorporation of the community's resources is necessary. In the following chart, evaluate
, the use of each community entity in the process innovation. Use the Chinle Service Unit Profile
and readings in the course to guide your answers.
Potential Contribution to Collaboration
Community Entity
The Just Move It campaign promotes physical activity for
indigenous community. The Just Move It campaign
The Just Move It campaign encourages a healthy active lifestyle. The program offers
This campaign is facilitated by consultation, organizational development and community
health promotion staff within the engagement. The encouragement to share though other
Department of Public Health. Its
goal is to promote walking and stories on the Just Move It Website. Will help individual
running activities in Navajo Nation struggling to get started or maintain being active. In the fight
communities. against obesity, it takes more than healthy eating. The
collaboration of physical activity and healthy diet is key to
prevention and treatment.
Many people find it difficult to known where to start on their
Health coaches journey to a healthy lifestyle. Health coaches can address
Health coaches work in primary many of the question and doubts many people will have.
care clinics to help diabetic Diabetic patients have many things to take into count when
patients with exercises, healthy changing their eating habits, especially glucose levels. The
eating, and controlling glucose. extra support would encourage more people to start and
maintain the changes for their health.
Identifying the health issues are important to ensure the
right issues are being addressed for the Chinle community.
Chinle Health Council With out identifying the health issue the community cannot
This group identifies health place the appropriate resource to address the problems. The
priorities and forms task forces for Chinle Health Council is able to promote the multiple
increasing awareness about resources to the community, such as The Just Move It
healthy living. campaign, Health coaches, or Mobilizing to Defat Diabetes
from Four Directions. They are actively addressing the major
concerns in the community such as obesity and diabetes.
Outreach is an important piece of the process to improve
community health. If the community is unaware of the
resources offered, then those resource are not utilized and
Community nutrition staff
can be removed. Generally individual do better on changing
These specialists team up with
lifestyle habit if they have support. The support can come in
other outreach workers to
many forms, such as friends, Family, Health coaches, or
promote healthy eating in
exercise groups. Outreach also provides the education that
communities and schools.
many individual need to get started on their journey. Many
individuals do not know nutrition and exercise, the resources
help them identify the steps to take.