Center for Community Health and Evaluation: Experience

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Experience

Over the past two decades, the Center for Community Health and Evaluation (CCHE) has evaluated major initiatives designed to improve health, many of which involve working with ethnically diverse communities. An emerging CCHE specialty is evaluation of the long-term legacy of grant making programs funded by foundations. To appreciate the depth and breadth of our experience, please consult the complete list of CCHE projects.

Current projects

• Kaiser Permanente Safety Net Program: Regional cross-site evaluation of ALL (Aspirin-Lovastatin-Lisinopril), a population-based intervention in selected community clinics to provide secondary prevention of cardiovascular morbidity.
• Kaiser Permanente Community Benefit Program: National cross-site (eight regions) evaluation of the Community Health Initiative. The initiative is an intensive, place-based, partnership-driven effort to address chronic disease prevention and control through encouragement of healthy eating/active living.
• The California Endowment: Legacy evaluation of the Partnership for the Public's Health, a $40 million, five-year initiative. This initiative developed partnerships between community organizations and 14 health department jurisdictions to improve the health of communities and build the capacity of participating organizations
• The California Wellness Foundation: Legacy evaluation of the Sabbatical Program for executive directors of community-based organizations. The program seeks to promote retention and enhance effectiveness by providing opportunities for rest and rejuvenation.
• Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation: Evaluation of the 10-year Growing up Healthy: Kids and Communities initiative, which funds 15 projects to address the social, economic, and environmental determinants of children's health.
• Care Oregon: Evaluation of Care Support and System Innovation Program, an $8 million program funding more than 50 health plan providers (hospitals, primary care centers) to design and develop new ways of providing and improving the quality of health care services
• Group Health Community Foundation: Implementation and evaluation of the Children's Access Fund, a Group Health-funded initiative to improve access to health care for underserved children in Washington State outside of the Seattle area.
• Public Health-Seattle and King County: Evaluation of the King County Health and Fitness Initiative, a W.K. Kellogg Foundation-funded program to address health disparities by improving access to affordable, locally grown, healthy food and to children's play spaces.
• Public Health-Seattle and King County: Evaluation of the five-year King County collaboration that is a part of Steps to a Healthier America.
• Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky: Evaluation of Healthy Kentucky's primary care and advocacy initiatives. The initiatives include grants to over thirty non-profit organizations working to increase primary care access and to build the capacity to advocate for efforts to improve the health of Kentuckians.
• Northwest Center for Public Health Practice: CCHE provides consultation to support the evaluation of the Northwest Center's ongoing training programs and projects and assists in the development of training programs related to evaluation.
• Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium: Evaluation of the Steps to a Healthier SE Alaska program. This site is one of the twenty federally funded programs to address chronic disease and disparities through community collaboration and prevention.
• Healthcare Georgia Foundation: Consultation to develop strategies for evaluation of foundation performance and to establish a process for evaluation technical assistance to non-profit, health-related organizations.

Complete list of CCHE projects

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