The American Public Health Association (APHA) recently announced its selection of six health departments, including the Cambridge, MA, Public Health Department, to receive funding to advance an innovative policy approach in response to a critical public health problem in their community.
The award program is designed to strengthen a health department’s capacity to reduce health inequities through policy and improve their ability to engage community partners in the policy process. With support from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Public Health Improvement Initiative, each health department will receive between $25,000 and $40,000 and no-cost technical assistance from APHA for a period of 10 months.
The selected health departments will be required to develop, implement and/or evaluate the innovative public health policy strategy they submitted for the award. APHA plans to work closely with the health departments to identify emerging and promising practices that can be replicated in other communities. APHA also plans to highlight the work of awardees by sharing information about their activities through various communication channels, and by developing resources, such as case studies, for health departments interested in adopting similar approaches.
The Cambridge Public Health Department is planning to use its award to develop a workplace domestic violence policy at the health department and create a step-by-step Employee Domestic Violence Policy Implementation Guide with companion DVD to help other workplaces develop policies.
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