Memorandum of understanding. Keyport, Washington, (January 11, 2007) - Left, Rear Adm.
Richard Houk, commander, 13 Coastguard District, and Rear Adm. William French, commander, Navy Region Northwest, signs a Memorandum of Understanding with the Washington State Veterans Affairs. The agreement, signed by 32 organizations is to ensure all service members returning from combat zones can take advantage of benefits available to them. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) is describing a bilateral or multilateral agreement between two or more parties. It expresses a convergence of will between the parties, indicating an intended common line of action.
Strength_in_numbers_a_guide_to_building_community_coalitions_aug03. 1. Creating and Maintaining Partnerships. This story is adapted with permission from AHEC/Community Partners' Healthy Communities Newsletter, Mar.
-Apr. 2002 issue. Some coalitions are born of a crisis. Others, like EQUAL (the East Quabbin Alliance), in Barre, Massachusetts, are created by a desire to make long-term improvements in a community. Table of Contents. Toolkit. The United States does not have a commonplace method by which localities can set priorities and implement improvements.
Other countries authorize the County Council, Primary Care Trust, or public health offices to assess the community situation, set priorities, engage in debates among advocates, defend the interests of the vulnerable, and act responsibly in the public interest. In the US, local governments have very limited authority to control payments, services, or patterns of care. Individual state governments have some of these authorities, but they are generally too large to engineer local reform. No other authority usually exists. Therefore, most localities in the US will need to develop voluntary coalitions to guide change in their own sites.