1. How to Build Partnerships Examples from experience with the Hispanic/Latino Population, Priscilla Cantu, MBA & Annette Sokolnicki, MSA Michigan State University Extension Health and Nutrition Institute

2. Agenda for our Session  Explore why you are here (Activity)  Look at Michigan/County Data  Questions to ask myself  How to Connect with our diverse Communities (Activity)  Why they don’t come running to my classes?  Building Relationships, Gaining Trust  Priscilla Cantu – My Story! What’s yours?  Barriers and benefits (Activity)  Setting goals for the next steps (Exit Dot Survey)

3. Tell Us Why You Are Here  What are your expectations?  Take your sticky notes and write up to three expectations that you have of this session. One expectation per sticky note.  Sharing…

4. Background: Why are we concerned about this topic  Health disparities - Health outcome of people of color, especially our Hispanic/Latino populations  County Ranking Data

5. Prevalence of Self-Reported Obesity Among Non-Hispanic White Adults by State and Territory, BRFSS, 2012-2014

6. Prevalence of Self-Reported Obesity Among Hispanic Adults by State and Territory, BRFSS, 2012-2014

7. County Health Data Saginaw  http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/app/michigan/2015/overview http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/app/michigan/2015/overview

8. Questions to ask myself  Who am I intentionally trying to reach, who is the audience?  What am I trying to accomplish?  Am I actively listening  Do I understand when/how to contact/connect with this specific group?  Can I help this audience – or can they help me?  Why do I think I can help this target audience?

9. How to Connect with our Diverse Communities  First steps –Relationships  Bridges out of Poverty – Generational poverty. How we survive ~ relationships  Gaining/Building Trust, what is your approach?  Activity - Sharing (record responses)  Listening, Listening, Listening

10. We have this great programming, they have this great need…I don’t understand why they don’t come running to my classes?  Lack of participation, Why?  Am I Not informed  Are they not informed, my communications are not being received, why?  What do I understand about their relationships and their family communication?

11. Building Relationships, Gaining Trust:  Building relationships can take time…Listening  Listening help us become more culturally competent…to individual communities.  Supporting the people involved will help build trust  This may not, at first, mean you program. It may involve things like helping the partnerships with events or fundraiser's within their organization or connecting them with other more necessary or addressing a more immediate need resource.

12. Priscilla Cantu – My Story!

13. What’s your story? Or how do you visualize your story? (Activity (5/7 card – write your success story, real or imagined).

14. Some Frame work to help develop your story The Action Center Developed by Forum One, under the direction of the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute in collaboration with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Burness Communications. Forum One is a digital agency that partners with influential organizations to craft solutions for the world’s most pressing problems. Forum One provided the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps program team with digital strategy, user experience, and technical development. http://www.countyhealthrankings.or g/creditsForum OneUniversity of Wisconsin Population Health InstituteRobert Wood Johnson Foundation Burness Communications

15. Barriers and Benefits in your communities  Another sticky note activity  Discuss at your table/group barriers write them on sticky notes and put them in the barriers board (i.e. I am not Hispanic)  Discuss at your table/group benefits write them on sticky notes and put them in the benefits board (i.e.the resource of the Mexican American Council in Saginaw)

16. Overcoming Barriers and Making the most of the Benefits  Intentionally seek to develop and work with the partnerships (Relationships)  Visit with the participants (Listen, Listen, Listen, build relationships)  Share any resources in the community (listen for needs, support relationships)  Use materials that are related to their language (listen to how you can be culturally competent)  Networking with other organizations or partnerships that might already have a connection (again, listen)

17. Learning Together Next steps  Set intentional goals  I will work to identify ___community organizations that serve the Hispanic/Latino audience.  I will attend ___meetings with groups that impact or work with the Hispanic/Latino population  I will increase my programming to my Hispanic/Latino audience by____% in 2016  I will_____ What will your goals be moving forward? (Dot survey)

18. Did we meet your Expectations?  Revisit why you came to this session – Sticky notes  Did we meet those expectations?

19. Questions?