Volume
58
Issue
3
Abstract
Entities that seek to provide quality community-based health education need sustainable funding to maintain their efforts. With dwindling funding sources, it has become important to have diverse financial support for program stability. A promising new practice for expanding funding involves partnering with third-party payers. Michigan State University Extension created a multistep approach to prepare organizations to receive third-party payments. This approach includes (a) assessing readiness, need, and capacity; (b) conducting organizational preparation; (c) conducting staff preparation; and (d) formalizing partnerships. The result is the creation of an infrastructure that allows for partnering with varied funding sources for sustainable community-based health education programming.
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Recommended Citation
Contreras, D. A., & Anderson, L. A. (2020). Approach to Establishing an Infrastructure for Delivering Third-Party-Reimbursable Community-Based Health Education. Journal of Extension, 58(3), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.34068/joe.58.03.04