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Resources by Topic: Networking and collaboration

Community Mental Health Information Community Partnerships Toolkit
Resources designed to help community organizations, healthcare providers, educators, and other partners address mental health information needs in their communities. Offers guides, templates, and strategies to establish partnerships, develop mental health programs, and promote mental health awareness and support. Includes a section on rural mental health information.
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Network of the National Library of Medicine
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USDA and Rural Health Care
Fact sheet on USDA Rural Development resources supporting community development and healthcare availability in rural communities. Details loan and grant programs as well as partnerships through the Rural Partners Network (RPN).
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: USDA Rural Development
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Developing Partnerships in Rural Communities: At the Intersection of Suicide Prevention, Overdose, and Adverse Childhood Experiences
A fillable worksheet that guides the user in determining how to address suicide prevention, overdose prevention, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) at the societal, community, relationship, and individual levels. Provides tailored information and planning for rural health departments on risk and protective factors, data sources available to them, and potential partnerships.
Type: Document
Sponsoring organizations: Community-Led Suicide Prevention, edc.org, National Association of County and City Health Officials
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Build Healthy Places Network: Rural Resources
Provides resources which support community health and health equity through rural community and economic development. Includes a playbook of strategies and case studies for the health partnership model of investment, a primer on rural multi-sector health partnerships, webinars, essays, organization profiles, and more.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Build Healthy Places Network
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Using Project ECHO and Patient Navigation to Improve Care for Cancer Survivors in Rural Areas
Case study describing a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded pilot study to reduce health inequities among rural cancer survivors at National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program (NCCCP) sites in Kansas, Montana, Nevada, and South Carolina. Discusses implementation of patient navigation and the Project ECHO telemonitoring platform in order to improve access to care and services.
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Growing and Sustaining Community Partnerships: A Use Case
Offers 2 case studies from West Virginia on community partnerships to support community-engaged research. Case studies discuss emergency response efforts and a community ambassador program. Includes 2 toolkits on working with the community and partner compensation for successful community-based participatory research projects.
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Institutes of Health Community Engagement Alliance
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Non-Congregate Summer Meals
Provides an overview of the interim final rule allowing non-congregate summer meals in rural areas. Includes information on rural definitions, meal types and distribution, associated research on non-congregate meal offerings, implementation and outreach strategies, and additional resources and webinars.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: No Kid Hungry
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PARTNER Program: Promoting Active Rural Transportation with Need and Equity-Based Resources
Provides resources dedicated to explaining and implementing the PARTNER Program, a community-led and equity-focused process for developing walking and bicycling routes in rural Alabama communities. Covers topics including collaboration, planning, implementation, and funding.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Alabama Extension at Auburn University
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Health Equity Through a Rural Lens – ECHO Mini Series
A series of 8 webinars focusing on health equity and social determinants of health in rural Louisiana. Discusses trauma informed care for LGBTQ+ people, community health workers, race and ethnicity, syphilis, maternal mental health, food insecurity, and the healthcare workforce. Captions include in video player.
Type: Tutorial/Training
Sponsoring organization: Louisiana Rural Health Association
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Project ECHO: PHR 6/5S Tobacco Prevention and Control
A virtual learning network for healthcare and other professionals interested in reducing tobacco use in youth in Public Health Region 6/5S in Texas.
Type: Tutorial/Training
Sponsoring organization: Texas Health and Human Services
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