About

The Programmatic Partnership for Community-Based Prevention (P4CBP) is based within Ohio University's Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service. The P4CBP is a dedicated group of professionals working collaboratively to address the issues Ohio’s communities are facing related to behavioral health prevention and promotion.

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About Us

The P4CBP consists of Voinovich School Faculty and Professional Staff who are trained in a variety of disciplines: public health, social work, health education, prevention, communications, and sociology. In addition, a cadre of Undergraduate Voinovich Research Scholars and other student employees contribute meaningfully to the work. Much of the work is accomplished through external partnerships at the national, state, and local level including governmental public service entities, nonprofit organizations, behavioral health providers, behavioral health membership associations, and other institutions of higher education.

Current Initiatives include:

Previous Initiatives Include:

How We Serve Ohioans

As a strategic leader in the disciplines of behavioral health promotion and substance abuse prevention, we partner with a wide variety of organizations, including other institutions of higher education, state and local government, nonprofits, and community agencies across Ohio. We cultivate long-standing and collaborative relationships with partners in order to maximize the impact of our work. Our innovative approaches contribute to the field’s collective knowledge, capacity, and sustainability.

The P4CBP is honored to serve with so many passionate individuals, agencies, and organizations across Ohio. With determination and diligence all are working towards greater capacity to improve the communities in which we serve.

Models That Guide Our Work

Public Value Model

Access this tool kit for an in-depth look at the Public Value Model and resources to use within your community ¹ .

¹ Moore, M., de Jong, J, Moore, G, and Veth, G (2020) Public Value Toolkit. Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative website.

Community of Practice (CoP)

The P4CBP utilizes the CoP model to engage organizations and assist in building capacity throughout Ohio. By participating in a CoP, communities engage in a learning environment where they not only learn technical knowledge or skills, but also are encouraged to build strong inter-community networks. It is the shared and accumulated knowledge among the group that promotes communities to undertake larger and more complex activities ^{[1]
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This form of applied research supports and informs work in prevention and behavioral health.

^[1] Lesser, E. L. and Storck, J. (2001) ‘Communities of practice and organizational performance’, IBM Systems Journal 40(4), https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5386944/ . Accessed July 25, 2018.

Collective Impact

The Collective Impact (CI) approach recognizes that complex social and environmental issues, like the opioid crisis, cannot be solved by one sector alone. Instead, CI promotes multi-sector collaboration characterized by a common agenda, common progress measures, continuous communication, and mutually reinforcing activities. This collaborative work is facilitated and supported by a backbone organization in the community. ¹

¹ Collective Impact. (2020). https://collectiveimpact.mha.ohio.gov/innovation-science/collective-impact/collective-impact