Case Stories
Case stories highlight promising practices in leadership and management of chronic disease prevention and health promotion.
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STAR Case Stories
This collection of stories features the work of various state health departments and may also connect to STAR Framework components. Topics include partnerships to address Adverse Childhood Experiences, bi-directional collaboration to advance Public Health 3.0, leadership to create a culture of results, organizational capacity building, and more.
Colorado: Cross-Cutting Teams Put Learning into Action
Iowa: Spotlight on Peer Support in Iowa’s Cross-Program Communication Strategy
Louisiana: Multi-Sector Support to Scale Evidence-Based Practice
Michigan: Leadership through Innovation and Inquiry to Advance Work to Address Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
New Mexico: Organizational Restructuring – but First, Culture
Oregon: Developing Local Leadership to Achieve Public Health 3.0
Pennsylvania: Establishing a Collective Purpose through Transparent Communication and Inclusive Decision Making
South Carolina: Flipping the Script – Reverse Mentoring
Washington, D.C.: The Equity Imperative in DC Health’s Workforce Development Efforts
Root Causes of Health Initiative Case Stories
In 2019, NACDD collaborated with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) to launch the Root Causes of Health Initiative (RoCHI). This initiative helped State Health Departments implement improvement plans to create meaningful change addressing the root causes of health in their states by applying IHI’s Psychology of Change Framework to Enhance and Sustain Improvement. This work is grounded in the STAR Framework. The below case stories describe how Michigan, Washington DC, and West Virginia built organizational capacity to address root causes of health in their states through their involvement in RoCHI.
DC Health Cancer and Chronic Disease Prevention Bureau
West Virginia Health Equity Action Team: A Call to Action
Michigan’s Real Adaptive Changes to Equity Team
Read more case and success stories and submit your own via NACDD’s What’s Working Database.