What We Do...

2040 Partners for Health informs, suggests and implements services to area community groups, nonprofit organizations, healthcare providers, and policy-makers through research and collaboration.  Our programming is made up of five primary areas:

Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Projects: 2040 brings active community members in partnership with academic institutions and nonprofit organizations to conduct research studies that inform common knowledge about current health and healthcare issues facing the five neighborhood region. Through these studies come opportunities for improved understanding of circumstances facing residents and employees as well as a joint responsibility between researchers and community stakeholders to take action and seek solutions to the area's health.

Since 2040's inception, the primary CBPR study has been the research study, entitled "Taking Neighborhood Health to Heart." The study has involved over 85 volunteers from the community, working in partnership with an academic research team from the University of Colorado.  The result was to establish a baseline data bank on the "state of the health" in these five neighborhoods.  Now with a stronger understanding of what health issues are facing the five neighborhoods, Taking Neighborhood Health to Heart in partnership with 2040 and the University of Colorado are designing interventions and action steps to begin turning knowledge into results.

University Partnerships: 2040 partners with the University of Colorado and other academic institutions to build awareness of and opportunities for CBPR.  Through presentations, trainings, and demonstrations of best practices, 2040 encourages the use of CBPR as a viable translational research method that simultaneously contributes to medical knowledge and community improvement.

Community Capacity Development: 2040 is a resource to community groups and active individuals by offering training and organizing discussion forums designed to increase skills and dialogue in the areas of facilitation, research methods, community engagement, coalition building, policy development, and more.  2040 believes that the more prepared community members are to actively lead their neighborhoods, the more likely it is that research and collaboration will lead to improved health and healthcare.

Organizational Evaluation: For many nonprofit organizations, having effective evaluation is both important and hard to find.  For those organizations focusing on health in the five neighborhood region, 2040 can work with them and a University evaluation expert to design and implement an evaluative study measuring the impact of their programming.  2040 uses these efforts to document progress being made over time by nonprofits to improve health and healthcare in the area.