Partnership Self-Assessment Tool (PSAT)
Successful public health interventions, both in program implementation and the pooling of human and funding resources, depend on healthy organizational partnerships. Collaboration generates population-based strategies that allow individuals to obtain necessary clinical services while their communities work to address underlying problems that center on health promotion and disease prevention.
The “Partnership Self-Assessment Tool” was developed using the “Partnership Synergy Framework” (Lasker, et al., 2001) to provide a measurement of the key indicators for successful collaboration and level of synergy. This 15-page “Partnership Self-Assessment Tool” contains a total of 67 questions.
Eleven sections deal with the following topics:
- synergy
- leadership
- efficiency
- administration and management
- non-financial resources
- financial and other capital resources
- decision making
- benefits of participation
- drawbacks of participation
- benefits and drawbacks of participating in the partnership
- satisfaction with participation
Each section uses a Likert scale and/or yes and no questions. A Coordinator’s Guide is the main instructional resource for this tool.