Insights & Evaluation
OUR IMPACT
Creating healthier communities through agile leadership training & cross-sector team collaboration since 1991
LONG-TERM CHANGE
Five ways our teams’ projects have produced lasting impacts in their communities
Teams participating in our Leadership Academy for the Public’s Health program work on a year-long Applied Health Leadership Project to address community issues and apply agile leadership skills.
New programs & environmental changes
New and expanded farmers markets and food pantries
Farm-to-school programs
Healthy corner stores
Community gardens
Improvements to the built environment
Advanced policies
Health in All Policies
Tenant protections
Smoke-free housing
Tobacco-free parks
Health component/lenses in the county’s general plan, zoning, and development codes
School food purchasing/farm-to-school
Housing access
Improved connectivity of systems
First responders connecting people with social services
Improving the coordination of services across sectors/agencies
Promoted use of data
Analyzing data about the opioid crisis to ensure a strategic distribution of resources
Conducting a data-driven study to inform community development
Additional funding
Increasing budget from $100k per year to $1M per year to accomplish their community health goals
CROSS-SECTOR PARTICIPATION
Program participants* represent a broad cross-section of roles and disciplines across the public, non-profit, and private sectors.
*Breakdown by sector of our program participants from 2011 through today.
BUILDING PROFICIENCY
Boosting participant mastery of five skill domains
Program evaluation of Leadership Academy (NLAPH & CALAPH) participants consistently reported a statistically significant increase across five skill domains and 17 competencies required to bring about social change through multi-sector leadership and collaboration.
Individual & team leadership
Working across sectors
Continuous quality improvement
Using data
Public health lens
PARTICIPANT FEEDBACK
The individuals we work with overwhelmingly report that program participation contributes to their growth as a leader, their team’s development, and the progress or success of their team’s project.
Download evaluation reports
NLAPH Cohort 9 - 2020 Evaluation
CALAPH Cohort 6 - 2020 Evaluation
¹ Cumulative end-of-year self-report from NLAPH participants since 2013
² Results from LAPH alumni retrospective survey
This program was transformative for me and for our rural community. I credit it with opening doors to national funding opportunities such as the Robert Wood Johnson-funded “Raising Places” effort. It sparked an intellectual curiosity that has expanded my leadership capacity while also nurturing a deep-seated sense of joy and purpose. I can’t thank the Academy enough!
CASE STUDIES
Teams across the country have applied our approach to leverage local partners & resources in their communities.
Building Adaptive Leaders: Lessons from the first 10 years of NLAPH
Supporting policy change for a more walkable Sacramento
Cross-sector coalition building in Colorado
Improving educational outcomes in Washington
