Healthy New Orleans Phase One

Phase I

During Phase I: Partnership Development (January 1998 - March 1999), the Partnership focused on five action areas:

• partnership development
• establishing an organizational framework
• involvement in state and national activities
• planning and conducting a health summit
• developing the community health improvement planning process

During Phase I, the Partnership achieved the following:

1. development of a partnership based on supportive relationships
2. awareness of the strength of a collaborative process in planning
3. momentum and energy focused on systems change
4. understanding of the need for an expanded view of public health
5. sensitivity to diverse and individual responses to health issues
6. acceptance that communities can find solutions to fixing complex health systems.