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have established relationships with many
entities in their communities and engaged
in a wide range of collaborative activities.
Most grantees had relationships with health-related
organizations. The most common were with
State Title V, local health departments,
and WIC. More than 90 percent of grantees
identified collaborative relationships
with faith-based organizations (100 percent),
schools (93 percent), and welfare agencies
(92 percent). Entities with which grantees
were less likely to have relationships
included courts, where 35 percent of grantees
reported no relationship, ethnic organizations
with 25 percent reporting no relationship,
and disease-based organizations with 20
percent reporting no relationship.
Grantees reported relationships with
State Title V. The majority of grantees
(73 percent) indicated that they had informal
relationships (such as attending the same
meeting or casual contacts) with the State
Title V programs while 22 percent reported
a formal relationship (such as having
a written memorandum of understanding
or agreement) with the Title V agency.
Less than a third of grantees (28 percent)
reported that the State Title V program
funded some of their programming and services.4
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| Many benefits of collaboration
were cited by respondents, although no single
benefit was mentioned considerably more
than others. However, grantees indicated
that collaboration was beneficial in achieving
staff training, performing needs assessments,
and improving Healthy Start’s visibility
within policy arenas. This signifies that
grantees are on their way toward achieving
desired Healthy Start systems outcomes.
Nonetheless, the most frequently reported
challenge to collaboration with Title V
was insufficient staff resources (65 percent),
with almost half of the grantees indicating
that existing bureaucracy made it difficult
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4These percentages excluded the
10 grantees that are State health departments.
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