| Session Title: Expanding Advocacy Capacity: Findings From the Evaluation of The California Endowment Clinic Consortia Policy and Advocacy Program |
| Demonstration Session 904 to be held in Mineral Hall Section C on Saturday, Nov 8, 3:05 PM to 3:50 PM |
| Sponsored by the Advocacy and Policy Change TIG |
| Presenter(s): |
| Annette Gardner, University of California San Francisco, annette.gardner@ucsf.edu |
| Claire Brindis, University of California San Francisco, claire.brindis@ucsf.edu |
| Lori Nascimento, The California Endowment, lnascimento@calendow.org |
| Abstract: In 2001, The California Endowment funded 19 California clinic consortia for two three-year funding cycles to undertake policy advocacy activities and improve the financial stability of their member clinics. The Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco has evaluated these activities since 2002 using a combination of both quantitative longitudinal measures and qualitative interviews with grantees, partner organizations, the media and targets of grantee advocacy activities. In addition, UCSF developed three policy advocacy case studies and 17 best practice case studies describing exemplary grantee activities. In this demonstration, we describe the evaluation design and results for the years 2001-2006. The findings indicate that individually and collectively, grantees are achieving not only short-term outcomes, such as increased policymaker awareness of clinic policy issues but also longer-term outcomes, such as increased funding to clinics and increased access to care. |