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2. 50% or more of implementation funding must be allocated to community entities, or
governmental or non-governmental organizations.
3. Efforts must be coordinated with multiple sectors, such as transportation, planning, education,
health care delivery, agriculture and others.
The CDC has provided some guidance on project design.
First, efforts should focus on implementing policy, environmental, programmatic and infrastructure
changes aligned with strategic directions to achieve changes in weight, proper nutrition, physical activity,
tobacco use prevalence, emotional well-being, overall mental health and other outcomes. It defines these
areas of change in the following ways:
1. Policy – Educate the public and stakeholders about evidence- and practice-based policy
intervention to improve population health and foster healthy behaviors.
2. Environment – Create social and physical environments that support healthy living and ensure
that healthy choices are the easy choice.
3. Program – Increase access to prevention programs to support healthy choices and contribute to
wellness, ensuring integration of their use in a variety of community and clinical settings.
4. Infrastructure – Establish systems, procedures and protocols within communities, institutions
and networks that support healthy behaviors, including improving linkages between public health
and health care systems.
Second, efforts should choose from evidence- and practice-based intervention strategies. Third, CTG
recipients should include intensive strategies that target population sub-groups that would help to achieve
reductions in health disparities. Finally, recipients cannot use CTG funds to support clinical care, servicedelivery,
research or lobbying. CTG funding must be used for implementing policy, environmental,
programmatic and/or infrastructure changes only; there is no funding for services.
Learn more on the CDC web site at www.cdc.gov/communitytransformation.
Coalition Next Steps for 2012
▪ Build a Leadership Team
▪ Build the Healthy Sacramento Coalition
▪ Complete a Community Health Assessment
▪ Develop a Strategic Communications Plan
▪ Begin development of a Community Transformation Implementation Plan
Timeline
▪ Planning Year One: September 30, 2011 – September 29, 2012
▪ Planning Year Two: September 30, 2012 – September 29, 2013
▪ Apply for Year Three Implementation funding in Spring 2013
Learn More
Visit the Healthy Sacramento Coalition web page and sign up to receive coalition e-mail notices at
www.sierrahealth.org/healthysacramento. Please send inquiries to programs@sierrahealth.org.
www.sierrahealth.org/healthysacramento
Funding for this project is provided in whole by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC)
Community Transformation Grant, 1U58DP003522, as part of the Prevention and Public Health Fund of the
Affordable Care Act. The views expressed in this project do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the CDC or
imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. Learn about Community Transformation Grants at
http://www.cdc.gov/communitytransformation.