Rural Health
Resources by Topic: Networking and collaboration
Rural Community Living Development Peer Mentoring: A Strategy for Sustainable Knowledge Translation
Describes a peer mentoring program supporting rural outreach and community development activities by Center for Independent Living staff. Discusses implementation, including participatory curriculum development, research uptake, program evaluation, and partnerships.
Author(s): Research and Training Center on Disability in Rural Communities (RTC)
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Center on Knowledge Translation for Disability and Rehabilitation Research (KTDRR)
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Describes a peer mentoring program supporting rural outreach and community development activities by Center for Independent Living staff. Discusses implementation, including participatory curriculum development, research uptake, program evaluation, and partnerships.
Author(s): Research and Training Center on Disability in Rural Communities (RTC)
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Center on Knowledge Translation for Disability and Rehabilitation Research (KTDRR)
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Capital Absorption Framework
Aims to help communities prepare for capital investment by outlining shared priorities, developing deals and projects that achieve the shared priorities, and developing platforms and relationships to get the deals and projects accomplished.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Center for Community Investment
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Aims to help communities prepare for capital investment by outlining shared priorities, developing deals and projects that achieve the shared priorities, and developing platforms and relationships to get the deals and projects accomplished.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Center for Community Investment
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A Guide to Funding Navigation: Training and Tools to Design and Sustain Equity-Advancing Investments
A collection of self-paced trainings and tools to help rural communities design and sustain investments that promote resilient and equitable communities. Supports users in locating funding to assist in advancing cross-sector initiatives.
Type: Tutorial/Training
Sponsoring organization: Georgia Health Policy Center
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A collection of self-paced trainings and tools to help rural communities design and sustain investments that promote resilient and equitable communities. Supports users in locating funding to assist in advancing cross-sector initiatives.
Type: Tutorial/Training
Sponsoring organization: Georgia Health Policy Center
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Tap Talk: The Drinking Water in Rural America Podcast
A podcast that discusses issues related to maintaining healthy drinking water supply and connecting professionals interested in public health infrastructure. Episodes focus on topics such as public health tracking, well water safety, healthy water initiatives in communities, and more.
Type: Audio
Sponsoring organizations: Rural Community Assistance Partnership, University of Illinois
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A podcast that discusses issues related to maintaining healthy drinking water supply and connecting professionals interested in public health infrastructure. Episodes focus on topics such as public health tracking, well water safety, healthy water initiatives in communities, and more.
Type: Audio
Sponsoring organizations: Rural Community Assistance Partnership, University of Illinois
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Rural and Frontier Health
Focuses on supporting local health departments (LHDs) in rural and frontier areas by building capacity and capability to serve their communities. Includes initiatives, resources, collaborations, news, and spotlights related to rural and frontier LHDs.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: National Association of County and City Health Officials
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Focuses on supporting local health departments (LHDs) in rural and frontier areas by building capacity and capability to serve their communities. Includes initiatives, resources, collaborations, news, and spotlights related to rural and frontier LHDs.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: National Association of County and City Health Officials
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Kansas Rural Champions
Provides information on individuals who are part of the Kansas Rural Champions network and the rural programs they serve, such as those focused on child care, housing, community infrastructure, and community development. The mission of rural champions is to help build capacity in rural areas and address public needs.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Kansas Office Of Rural Prosperity
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Provides information on individuals who are part of the Kansas Rural Champions network and the rural programs they serve, such as those focused on child care, housing, community infrastructure, and community development. The mission of rural champions is to help build capacity in rural areas and address public needs.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Kansas Office Of Rural Prosperity
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Integrated Rural Strategies Group
Project that offers resources and opportunities to bring funders together to address rural community needs, particularly related to rural organizing and justice-advancing efforts. Offers information resources, dialogues, and blog posts related to rural initiatives and partnerships.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Neighborhood Funders Group
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Project that offers resources and opportunities to bring funders together to address rural community needs, particularly related to rural organizing and justice-advancing efforts. Offers information resources, dialogues, and blog posts related to rural initiatives and partnerships.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Neighborhood Funders Group
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Our Vision: Achieving Health Equity - Faster and Together
Supports health equity by focusing on health as a national priority advocated by collaborators from all sectors. Offers a series of action areas to encourage cooperation, create healthier communities, strengthen integration of health services, and measure health outcomes and well-being. Includes a searchable collection of rural and urban communities working to promote health equity.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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Supports health equity by focusing on health as a national priority advocated by collaborators from all sectors. Offers a series of action areas to encourage cooperation, create healthier communities, strengthen integration of health services, and measure health outcomes and well-being. Includes a searchable collection of rural and urban communities working to promote health equity.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
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Addressing the Intersection of Suicide, Overdose, and Adverse Childhood Experiences: What Is the Capacity of Local Health Departments?: Results from the National Fielding of the SPACECAT
Provides survey results from local health departments (LHDs) regarding their capacity to address suicide, overdose, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Analyzes data from 101 LHDs that completed the Suicide, Overdose, and Adverse Childhood Experiences Prevention Capacity Assessment Tool (SPACECAT) from a sampling of small (serving 50,000 people or less), medium (serving 50,000-499,999 people), and large (serving 500,000 or more people) LHDs. Includes discussions centering around capacity issues such as networking and partnerships, strategic planning, staffing, data integration, and addressing concerns for at-risk populations.
Author(s): Katherine Palm, Lane Davis, Margaret Cunningham, Kyle Brees, Kellie Hall
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Association of County and City Health Officials
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Provides survey results from local health departments (LHDs) regarding their capacity to address suicide, overdose, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Analyzes data from 101 LHDs that completed the Suicide, Overdose, and Adverse Childhood Experiences Prevention Capacity Assessment Tool (SPACECAT) from a sampling of small (serving 50,000 people or less), medium (serving 50,000-499,999 people), and large (serving 500,000 or more people) LHDs. Includes discussions centering around capacity issues such as networking and partnerships, strategic planning, staffing, data integration, and addressing concerns for at-risk populations.
Author(s): Katherine Palm, Lane Davis, Margaret Cunningham, Kyle Brees, Kellie Hall
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Association of County and City Health Officials
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The Toolkit for Everyone Aligning and Measuring (The TEAM)
Toolkit for collaboratives to help measure the alignment of systems and actions across sectors to improve community health and well-being in sustainable ways.
Type: Tool
Sponsoring organization: Georgia Health Policy Center
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Toolkit for collaboratives to help measure the alignment of systems and actions across sectors to improve community health and well-being in sustainable ways.
Type: Tool
Sponsoring organization: Georgia Health Policy Center
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