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Annual Leadership Conference
UC Berkeley School of Public Health, Center for Health Leadership
August 25 & 26, 2011

Collaboration Matters:
Building effective partnerships within communities & health organizations and across sectors

Thursday, August 25: 8 AM – 5 PM

8:00 Registration & Breakfast

8:30 Welcome, conference overview, introductions, ice-breaker activity

9:15 Opening Panel: What does it take to create and work effectively in a collaborative? A case example

Mid-City Community Advocacy Network (Mid-City CAN), San Diego

10:30 Break

11:00 Small group sessions: In-depth learning from existing collaborations

Participants will have their choice of small group sessions featuring representatives from six collaborations, who will discuss their challenges and successes in forming and working within their collaboration, including:

The nature of the collaboration, which organizations are involved, their mission and goals
How the collaboration was started
How the collaboration is structured and operates
The collaboration’s decision-making structure and process
How the collaboration has worked across differences
What the collaboration has learned about how to create an effective collaboration
Key challenges the collaboration has faced

Featured Collaborations:

Mid-City Community Advocacy Network, San Diego (Venetian Room)
California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative, SF Bay Area (Terrace)
Alameda County Building Blocks Collaborative (Members Lounge)
Strategic Alliance for Healthy Food and Activity Environments, California (Julia Morgan Room)
Healthy San Bernardino Coalition, San Bernardino County (Tang Center, Class of '42 Room)
Sacramento Region Health Care Systems Collaboration (Ballroom)

12:15 Lunch

1:15 World Cafe Activity: Reflections on Learnings Thus Far

Participants will engage in a "World Cafe" activity to reflect on their learnings thus far within the conference, and explore applications for their own collaborations.

2:15 Break

2:30 Keynote speaker: Sam Kaner, Executive Director, Community At Work

Participatory Decision-Making in Multi-Stakeholder Collaborations

Issues of authority are part of every strategic initiative. Who makes which decisions? How? After how much input, and from whom? Questions like these are challenging enough, even within a single organization that has a underlying, consistent hierarchy of authority. They are especially challenging to conceptualize and implement when the initiative is a multi-party collaborative, whose participants belong to a variety of entities – nonprofit and profit and governmental, each with its own chain of command and its own priorities and available resources.

Sam Kaner’s writing on collaboration has been influential for two generations of leaders who want to put inclusive, participatory values into practice in their organizations and partnerships. This session provides a fast-paced overview of some of Sam’s key insights, models and tools for building consensus, making decisions, and, more broadly, exercising authority within a collaborative framework. Along the way, Sam will demonstrate practical methods for designing an overall "strategy map" that lets everyone see where the collaborative process is heading over time. The presentation combines lecture, group discussion, and small-group interactions that support you to apply his concepts to your own real-life situations. You’ll come away with a fresh perspective, and several tools you can use right away.

4:30 Wrap-up and Closing; slide show from conference "Photo-booth" project

Friday, August 26: 9 AM – 5 PM

9:00 Breakfast

9:30 Concurrent Workshops

Workshop 1: Creating High-Trust Relationships and Collaborations

Facilitators: Greg Hicks and Rick Foster, Leadership Consultants

(Ballroom)

Workshop 2: Evaluating the success of your collaboration

Facilitators: Traci Endo Inouye and Rachel Estrella, Social Policy Research Associates

(Venetian Room)

Workshop 3: Power Dynamics in Collaboratives

Facilitator: Kenneth Hardy, Professor, Drexel University, and Consultant

(Members Lounge)

Workshop 4: Do It Well! Being Successful with Partners from Multiple Sectors, Organizations, or Disciplines

Facilitator: Sarah Rubin, Center for Collaborative Policy, California State University, Sacramento

(Drawing Room)

Workshop 5: Money Can Change Everything: How Funding Can Both Support and Challenge Collaborations

Facilitator: Ignatius Bau, Health Policy Consultant

(Terrace)

Workshop 6: Community Engagement - Grass Roots to Grass Tops Intentional Relationship Building for Health Care Systems

Facilitators: Traci Van, Community Benefit Director, Sutter Health, and Paul T. Doyle, Healthcare Consultant

(Julia Morgan Room)

10:45 Break

11:00 Keynote Speaker: Kenneth Hardy

Working across differences in collaborations and partnerships

This session will address:

What it takes to work together across our differences, including race and class, educational backgrounds and professions, types of organizations, sectors, and all the other differences we bring to our collaborations;
Understanding structural and cultural issues that impede effective collaboration and developing strategies to address these challenges; and
Looking more deeply at what it means to be a leader of collaborations – how we work on our own personal issues as a leader, model the way, and create an organizational culture that facilitates working effectively across differences.

1:00 Lunch

2:00 “Collaboration Idol”

In the model of “American Idol,” a panel of “judges” will preside over an integrative session where conference participants brainstorm and present their ideas for creating and sustaining collaboratives through a range of challenging situations. Participants will draw on the new tools, approaches, and solutions they have learned during the 2-day conference.

Judges: Ken Hardy, Julie Brown, and Greg Hicks

3:15 Break

3:30 Closing Speaker: Dr. Sandra Hernandez, CEO, San Francisco Foundation

What's Mine is Yours: Infectious Collaboration

The speaker will offer a call to action for conference attendees to take collaboration to a new level. The key tenet of her remarks will be that as public health practitioners and advocates, we have to continue to magnify our networks and utilize broader systems for optimizing public health outcomes. She will cite examples of breaking silos, sharing power, making date more transparent, and multi-sector health solutions.

4:30 Wrap-up and Closing; slide show from conference "Photo-booth" project

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