The Future of Community Health Center Executive Leadership A Mixed-Method Formative Evaluation

<p>This is a formative evaluation study of the California Primary Care Association's (CPCA) Leadership Equity Program, developed in response to the need for greater alignment between the communities accessing care provided by Community Health Centers and the representativeness of their future executive leaders. Community Health Centers (CHC) are a critical network of primary healthcare systems that deliver high-quality, comprehensive healthcare services to patients predominantly from under-resourced and marginalized communities of color. The study used a mixed-method concurrent triangulation design to describe how participants perceived the program achieved its goals and objectives using Kirkpatrick's Model and systems thinking. The study integrated quantitative data collected from retrospective pre-post surveys and qualitative data collected using the Most Significant Change (MSC) technique. Findings demonstrated that the Leadership Equity Program successfully reached its immediate goals and objectives in the first year of implementation to impact change at the individual level and build capacity at the organizational, community, and system levels. This study identified barriers and opportunities for this program to catalyze collective and collaborative leadership to advance Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) in CHC organizations and communities. The findings extend the leadership literature on how equity-grounded leadership development programs can advance diverse leaders who can create and sustain environments that advance health equity.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Public Health, DPH

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

School of Community and Global Health

Year dc:date.available

2023

Author dc:creator

• Bayardo Cardenas, Lizbeth

Contributors dc:contributor

• Shamini Dias
• Rachaline Napier
• Buddy Orange

• Community Health Center
• Equity
• Evaluation
• Kirkpatrick
• Leadership
• Most Significant Change
• Health Services Administration
• Public Health
• Public Health Education and Promotion

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/576

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarship.claremont.edu:cgu_etd-1598