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Strengthening Community Leadership: Evaluation Findings From the California Healthy Cities and Communities Program

Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, and deputy director of the Emory Prevention Research Center

Barbara L. Norton, MPH

Department of Health Promotion Sciences, College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Robert E. Aronson, DrPH, MPH

Department of Public Health Education, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Collaborative approaches to community health improvement such as healthy cities and communities have the potential to strengthen community capacity through leadership development. The healthy cities and communities process orients existing local leadership to new community problem-solving strategies and draws out leadership abilities among residents not previously engaged in civic life. In an evaluation of the California Healthy Cities and Communities (CHCC) Program, leadership development was one of several outcomes assessed at the civic-participation level of the social ecology. Data collection methods included focus groups and surveys, semistructured interviews with coordinators and community leaders, and review of program documents. Findings suggest that the CHCC program enhanced capacity by expanding new leadership opportunities through coalition participation, program implementation, and civic leadership roles related to spin-off organizations and broader collaborative structures. Communities in rural regions were particularly successful in achieving significant leadership outcomes.

Key Words: community capacity • leadership development • community coalitions • community partnerships • evaluation

This version was published on April 1, 2008

Health Promotion Practice, Vol. 9, No. 2, 170-179 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1524839906292180


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