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Session Title: Expanding Organizational Advocacy Capacity and Creating a Legacy for Change
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Panel Session 740 to be held in San Clemente on Friday, Nov 4, 2:50 PM to 4:20 PM
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Sponsored by the Advocacy and Policy Change TIG
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| Claire Brindis, University of California, San Francisco, claire.brindis@ucsf.edu
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| Discussant(s):
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| Astrid Hendricks, Hendricks Consulting, ahendricks2@gmail.com
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| Abstract:
In 2001, The California Endowment funded 19 statewide clinic associations to strengthen their capacity to support the policy and operational needs of community clinics in California. The Endowment partnered with the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, UCSF to implement a 3-part, participatory evaluation approach: 1) Mixed-method evaluation toolkit that used an outcomes framework; 2) Creation of a learning environment to strengthen grantee evaluation activities; 3) and Communications of the findings more broadly. The evaluation findings suggest that nearly all grantees made significant progress in achieving the Program outcomes, resulting in a strengthened health care safety net and access to care for millions of Californians. This panel is an opportunity to step back and reflect on the evaluation findings and their applicability to the field. Additionally, we will explore the evaluation experience from the funder, grantee and evaluator perspective and discuss what's useful to whom.
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Evaluating the California Endowment Clinic Consortia Policy and Advocacy Program Evaluation: Lessons for Evaluators of Advocacy and Policy Change
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| Annette Gardner, University of California, San Francisco, annette.gardner@ucsf.edu
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| Sarah Geierstanger, University of California, San Francisco, sara.geierstanger@ucsf.edu
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| Claire Brindis, University of California, San Francisco, claire.brindis@ucsf.edu
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Annette Gardner was the Principal Investigator of the 8-year evaluation of The Clinic Consortia Policy and Advocacy Program. In addition to designing and executing the mixed method evaluation, she and her UCSF colleagues have linked the design and findings to the broader discourse on expanding advocacy capacity. She will provide an overview of the evaluation findings, as well as the methods and tools that evaluators and advocates can readily use, including monitoring advocacy strategies, assessing impact, and providing real-time feedback on policy change strategies. Last. Annette will discuss the relevance of the evaluation findings for researchers and evaluators of advocacy and policy change.
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The Grantee Perspective: The Evaluation Experience and Leveraging the Findings
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| Louise McCarthy, Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County, lmccarthy@ccalac.org
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Louse McCarthy is the Vice President of Governmental Affairs and her organization was funded under The Endowment's Clinic Consortia Policy Program. The Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County (CCALAC) represents 45 non-profit community and free clinics that operate 132 primary care sites throughout Los Angeles County. In addition to participating in the longitudinal data collection activities, CCALAC's grant funded activities were described in a detailed case study, Expanding The Public-Private Partnership Program (PPP) to Meet the Needs of the Medically Underserved. Louise will speak to her role as a partner in the evaluation as well as the gains to her organization and member clinics from the evaluation findings and participating in the evaluation.
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The Funder Perspective: Supporting and Learning From a Multi-year Advocacy Capacity and Policy Change Initiative
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| Lori Nascimento, The California Endowment, lnascimento@calendow.org
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Lori Nascimento, Evaluation Manager, will describe The California Endowment's overall theory of change and programmatic goals for its Clinic Consortia Policy and Advocacy Program. She will explain The Endowment's interest in supporting clinic consortia as part of a larger initiative, the Community Clinics Initiative. Lori will summarize the ways that the UCSF evaluation has helped TCE advance it's thinking on health policy change and organizational advocacy capacity. She will also provide practical suggestions for others interested in developing and sustaining advocacy capacity. Last, she will describe the shifting context for foundation support in this arena and how TCE has evolved it's theory of change under The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
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