Friday, November 22, 2024
11/22/2024
The Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, d/b/a the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD), seeks funding under the National Organization for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Program NOFO (DP18-1814), to implement the NACDD Learning and Leading Program. NACDD will build on successful efforts of its tree-years fun under DP15-1512 to enhance practice-based learning and leadership development opportunities for public health State Chronic Disease Directors (CDDs), State Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Staff and State Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Programs. NACDD’s Learning and Leading Program draws from Modernizing the Workforce for the Public’s Health: Shifting the Balance, the CDC's “National Public Health Workforce Strategic Roadmap, and the de Beaumont Foundation’s Call to Action for guidance and recommendations to address these factors. NACDD will provide practice-based learning, mentoring, and leadership development opportunities that support skill building, cross-training, and best practices to drive successful implementation of evidence-based chronic disease prevention and health promotion by the target population - the chronic disease prevention and health promotion workforce across all states, including communities and territories. Proposed training strategies and learning activities address Healthy People 2020 objectives, identified public health needs, and emerging public health trends, to improve public health practice and leadership at the state, territorial and local level. NACDD will apply coordinated and innovative methods that embrace the four chronic disease Domains to disseminate successful approaches and evaluate outcomes. Methodologies include peer mentoring, didactic training opportunities, online learning systems, a national chronic disease academy, Thought Leader Round Tables, chronic disease forums, publications, evaluation, partnership and collaboration, and use of new technologies, as well as other forms of leadership development. Using NACDDs Core Competencies and data tools, NACDD will prioritize leadership and development trainings and practice-based learning through the period of performance to achieve all short-term and intermediate outcomes: Short-term: 1. Increase peer-to-peer practice learning and sharing 2. Increase state health department organizational capacity 3. Increase dissemination of effective chronic disease prevention approaches and workforce development strategies among States 4. Increase in leadership and skills-based learning and training opportunities 5. Increase in Chronic Disease Director and staff leadership skills 6. Increase documentation and dissemination of successful leadership approaches 7. Increase documentation of systems and process improvements Intermediate: 1. Effective chronic disease prevention and workforce development strategies implemented 2. Increased implementation of evidence-based public health approaches 3. Increased effective use of public health tools and resources 4. Improved leadership capacity and skills 5. Increased availability and accessibility of learning opportunities addressing leadership and chronic disease prevention approaches 6. Improved systems and processes
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