NACCHO is soliciting model and promising practices used by local health departments (LHDs) to facilitate effective and innovative public health practice. Submissions will be accepted throughout the year. Active NACCHO members whose submissions are selected as model practices will be eligible for a drawing for a stipend towards travel and registration for NACCHO’s Annual Conference. Additionally, all submissions chosen as model and promising practices will be catalogued in NACCHO’s searchable, online Model Practice Database (www.naccho.org).
About the Model Practice Program
Planning, implementation, and evaluation are essential elements of effective public health practice and result in interventions that: 1) address the needs of identified populations, 2) promote and foster collaboration, 3) ensure the effective use of resources, and 4) provide a framework for the development of future programs with the potential of more successful outcomes.
The goal of the model practice program is twofold: 1) to nationally honor and recognize outstanding local public health practice and 2) to promote sharing of these outstanding practices among local health departments. A model practice is an initiative, program, resource, administrative practice, or tool that demonstrates exemplary and replicable qualities in response to a local public health need. Model practices cut across all areas of public health, including infectious disease, emergency preparedness, community health, environmental health, and infrastructure. A promising practice exhibits the potential to become a model practice.
Criteria
A model practice meets the following criteria: local health department role, collaboration, innovation, responsiveness, and evaluation.
A promising practice meets the following criteria: local health department role, collaboration, innovation, and responsiveness, as well as some qualitative and quantitative evidence that the practice improves health outcomes.
Eligibility
All LHDs and NACCHO affiliate members are eligible to submit practices; however, only active NACCHO members will be eligible to be entered into the drawing for a stipend to the Annual Conference. A model practice submission does not have to be a traditional healthcare program, but can be an innovative idea, direction, or new way of doing business that can be evaluated. Previous model practice submissions have included fiscal innovations and partnership building. NACCHO encourages LHDs to submit both public health programs and non-programmatic initiatives that further efforts to improve the community’s health.
Judging
Submissions will be judged by NACCHO Advisory Groups, which consist of local health officials and other LHD staff with programmatic expertise.
How to Submit
Submissions can be completed:
If you are unable to submit electronically or have questions, please call 202-783-5550, Ext. 232.
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