About Health Outreach Partners
At Health Outreach Partners
we are a creative team guided and informed by our core values:
Dignity
Compassion
Empowerment
Collaboration
Commitment to Learning
Work-Life Balance
Our Mission
Health Outreach Partners’ mission is to build strong, effective, and sustainable grassroots health models by partnering with local community-based organizations across the country in order to improve the quality of life of low-income, vulnerable, and underserved populations.
Our Vision
Our vision is a country in which all people are valued and in which equal access to quality health care is available to everyone, thus enriching our collective well-being.
Theory of Change
Beginning in fall 2016, HOP embarked on a year-long process to develop a new Theory of Change[1] (TOC). Our new TOC incorporates direct input and feedback from clients and partners at health centers and Primary Care Associations around the country, our funders, and HOP staff.
We believe that
- Health is a human right
- Health care is not a commodity
- Fighting for health equity means standing up for equal access for people to lead healthy and dignified lives.
- Outreach is key to creating trusting relationships and ensuring access to quality care for marginalized and vulnerable communities.
Problem Statement
- Failure to recognize health as a fundamental right denies marginalized and vulnerable communities access to health care and the opportunity to live healthy, thriving lives.
We partner with…
- Community health workforce, especially frontline staff
- Health center leadership
- Organizations ready to start or redesign their health outreach programs
- Advocates addressing the social determinants of health impacting marginalized and vulnerable communties
Strategies
- We demonstrate that organizations investing in outreach programs achieve great impact (through financial benefits, the generation of critical data, and strengthened relationships).
- We use methodologies that facilitate change at the individual, institutional, and community levels.
- We create learning environments based on adult learning principles that uncover solutions through peer-to-peer exchange
- We draw on the expertise of frontline staff to inform our work.
- We design our services with the client at the center.
Anticipated Changes
- Marginalized and vulnerable communities are accessing health care.
- Marginalized and vulnerable communities are represented within leadership positions, decision-making, services provision, and capacity building.
- Community health organizations provide care that recognized the whole person and use specific strategies to address multiple determinants of health
- Community health organizations have customized outreach programs that address the unique needs of their communities and prioritize the most vulnerable.
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