Community Development
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Community
Development Links
The National Health
Service Corps
What is Community Development?
Community Development is a process for bringing various sectors
of a community together to understand a need, identifying common
goals, and mobilizing resources within a community to achieve
those goals.
Community development staff at CPCA works with communities to
increase access to healthcare and to reduce health disparities
through community health centers.
The focus of community development at CPCA is The President’s
Initiative for Health Center Growth. CPCA works with CT community
health centers to increase access to primary care, dental care,
mental/behavioral health services, pharmacy, and other health
services through expansion of existing community health centers.
CPCA also assists communities in starting new community health
centers. Technical assistance is provided to these communities
around the 10 Critical Elements of Managing Growth:
Identification/Verification of Need
Community Development
Board Development
Workforce Development
Capital Financing (including facilities and necessary equipment)
Operating Systems (including clinical, business and management
operating systems and electronic medical systems (EMR)
Continuum of Care Linkages
Leveraging Resources (federal, state, private)
Outreach to Special Populations (e.g., homeless, farm workers,
school based, public housing etc.)
Service Delivery to Special Populations
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