Key Considerations for Sustainability Planning

When planning for sustainability, health promotion/disease prevention programs should focus on the following:

• Identifying potential barriers to sustainability and strategies to address them.
• Identifying potential opportunities to leverage and build upon existing priorities, strategies, and interventions.
• Identifying and pursuing funding opportunities early in the development phase.
• Implementing data-driven decision-making processes.
• Emphasizing the intrinsic motivation that can exist in programs which maintain participant behavior change.
• Identifying ways to demonstrate cost savings and cost-effectiveness.
• Identify payment models that support and reward improvements in population health.
• Considering which partner organizations are best positioned to run the program over the long-term and or that can assume certain programmatic responsibilities when necessary.
• Exploring opportunities for partnering with existing federal, state, county, or community initiatives.
• Considering how services integration and care coordination strategies can support health promotion and disease prevention programs and population health improvements.