Sustainability

Healthy Tomorrows Partnership for Children Program Sustainability Tip Sheet
(www.aap.org/commpeds/htpcp/tip_sheet.pdf)
This informational sheet has been compiled by AAP Healthy Tomorrows staff. It takes lessons learned by Healthy Tomorrows projects to provide helpful tips to increase the sustainability of your project.

An Interactive Teleconference on Sustaining Your Project: Steps to Developing a Sustainability Plan
(www.cyfernet.org/interactrain/devsusplan.html)
This workshop teleconference presented by the Children, Youth and Families Education and Research Network (CYFERnet) is intended to help community-based programs focus on and begin to work through issues that are relevant to sustaining their programs. In this teleconference, you go through a step-by-step process to help programs work their way through the process of future sustainability.

Planning for the sustainability of community-based health programs: conceptual frameworks and future directions for research, practice and policy
(http://her.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/13/1/87)
This paper goes over the concepts and planning that are necessary for health intervention project to achieve sustainability. It initially discusses planning for sustainability with the concept of sustainability and operational indicators that may be used in monitoring sustainability over time. Then the paper goes over programmatic approaches and strategies that favor long-term program maintenance.

Discovering Community Power: A Guide to Mobilizing Local Assets and Your Organization's Capacity
(www.sesp.northwestern.edu/abcd/kellogg/)
This workbook, published by The Asset-Based Community Development Institute (ABCD), is a useful tool for helping to assess readiness and capacity in communities and organizations, and can be customized to meet the needs of specific program areas.

Afterschool Alliance: Funding and Sustainability
(www.afterschoolalliance.org/funding_main.cfm)
This Web site by the Afterschool Alliance provides a variety of  useful information for afterschool programs to fund and sustain their programs. This information can serve as a useful tool for community-based health programming.
  
The Community Tool Box: Sustaining the Work or Initiative
(http://ctb.ku.edu/en/dothework/tools_tk_16.htm)
This resource, part of the Kansas University Community Toolbox Initiative WorkStation, provides a framework and supports for planning for the long-term sustainability of a community initiative. The Web site provides tools, examples and tips on sustaining your work.