April 30th, 2018

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e-news     April 2018   NACCHO Announces New Chief Executive Officer April 30, 2018, Washington, D.C. – Today, the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) President, Umair A. Shah, MD, MPH, announced Lori Tremmel Freeman as the organization's new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Freeman returns to NACCHO having previously served as NACCHO's Associate Executive Director for Administration and Advancement from 2010-2014. Read more about Freeman here Health Equity invisible text National Academies Driving Health Equity Video Series Working in health equity can mean being regularly immersed in data on inequities, disparities, and explicit biases. This can sometimes get discouraging, which is why this produced by the National Academies of Medicine are so important. They chronicle three communities’ equity-focused efforts in housing, healthy social connection, and racial justice, detailing some inspiring successes through sustainable collaboration. Check them out here. News & Current Events invisible text Reflections on the Call to Action to Promote Healthy Communities Symposium CALPHO Executive Director Tracy Anselmo shares thoughts on her experience with the recent Call to Action event to promote healthy communities. Read it on the CALPHO blog here. invisible text CALPHO Hosting Open Conversation on LPH Role in Firearm Safety Like other high-profile public health issues, firearm safety is also politically polarizing. In social situations, many of us might refrain from speaking our minds about the issue lest it exacerbate painful and bitter divisions. As public health professionals, we should not shy away from discussing the issue, even if it might highlight political disagreements within our own field. Beyond the suffering of direct victims and their families, both chronic and mass-event gun violence takes a collective psychological toll that we do not measure. This mental health impact and mental health causal factors of gun violence are probably substantial, especially for children who frequently reminded that they may not be safe at school. Mental health is a PHIP priority for many LPHAs. Join this open, congenial conversation on the role of LPHAs in addressing firearm safety, May 18, 11:00am to 1:00pm. Please email us if you are interested in attending. invisible text NACCHO joins ASTHO and Others in Testifying for More LPH Support NACCHO Interim Executive Director & Chief of Government Affairs Laura Hanen testified in front of the Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS) and Education Subcommittee to request funding for the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) in FY2019. She joined more than 20 other organizations providing live and written testimony about health and health care including John Auerbach (Trust for America’s Health) and ASTHO President John Wiesman. Read Hanen’s statement in NACCHO News from Washington. Public Health Works invisible text Organizing Upstream: Boulder County’s BUILD Health Challenge Boulder County Public Health (BCPH) recently partnered with two organizations working in Lafayette to become a BUILD Health Challenge community. BPCH, Sister Carmen Community Center (SCCC) and Centura Health applied to BUILD in May 2017 and were accepted into the 2nd cohort of BUILD communities (along with Aurora and El Paso County). They partnered under the aegis of Raising of America, the seminal documentary series on the state of early childhood health in the United States. This series inspires their focus on improving health outcomes over the life-course by starting in early childhood, and they plan to continue engaging current partners and community members using episodes of this series. The partnership has four goals assigned to each partner (with one being the responsibility of all): 1) fostering more family engagement and leadership, 2) engaging workplaces to better support families, 3) building community organizing capacity, 4) fostering full health system collaboration on the first 3 goals. The partnership took advantage of structures already in place – including Communities that Care programs – for operational logistics and governance. Organizers aim to have families lead these efforts, not just participate, and a major anticipated barrier is helping families adapt to a partnership work structure (and adapting to their work styles whenever possible). They recognize that their movement’s sustainability relies on community members’ developing some of the same partnership operational skills and capacities that organizers used to initiate collaboration. Colorado was also well-represented in the 1st cohort of BUILD Health Challenged communities, including LPHA-involved partnerships in Colorado Springs, Denver, and Aurora. Learn more about the BUILD program and Colorado’s innovating awardee communities here. News from NACCHO invisible text Join a NACCHO Subject Matter Advisory Workgroup NACCHO invites local health department staff to apply to help inform and guide NACCHO's projects, programs, and policies. NACCHO will accept applications for the 2018-2019 subject matter advisory workgroups (Workgroups) starting Monday, April 16 and ending on Tuesday, May 15. All NACCHO workgroups will be accepting applications for 2018-2019, with two-year terms beginning July 1, 2018 and ending on June 30, 2020. Learn more here. Highlights from our Partners invisible text CIVHC Releases Condition Prevalence Report Based on Claims Data Payer claims are a promising potential source of surveillance, evaluation, and assessment data, but has been relatively difficult to access because on cost and ownership barriers. CIVHC has been striving to overcome those access issues to the All Payer Claims Database (APCD), and this condition prevalence report is a step in that direction. The data is high-level and more granular, county-level data is still unavailable without a substantial fee. It also does not include a specific minority of self-insured, uninsured, and federally insured Coloradans. This report demonstrates that claims can provide broad population health data that is likely useful for public communications and as a supplement to existing data sources. Check it out here. Opportunities & Resources invisible text Collaboration Multiplier Tool from the Prevention Institute Based on the understanding that sectors often have different understandings of issues and divergent reasons for engaging in the same effort, the Prevention Institute’s Collaboration Multiplier helps partners navigate differences to find approaches that advance their objectives simultaneously. Collaboration Multiplier can be used at different stages of collaboration, and is designed to complement and inform Prevention Institute's Spectrum of Prevention, which promotes multi-level strategic action as a best practice for primary prevention. Check it out here. invisible text Public Health 101 from the Center for Public Health Practice On-demand This web-based, interactive training can be used to provide an initial framework for orientation to general public health practice or a more program specific role. It is accessible, free of charge, and can be a selected part of new staff orientation or as an adjunct to staff professional development. Learn More and Register here. Books & More invisible text On the Media Podcast from WNYC With Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield This show casts a critical, sardonic eye on the way media outlets shape our perceptions of the world. Not surprisingly, they have some flaws, and often seem to reflect the same confirmation and other biases that filter our individual daily experiences. Their best work centers around deconstructing the panic-inducing facts that seems to spread across media like infections. Our media tends to focus on the dramatic at the expense of important details, and often reports probabilities as certainties. It also inhibits long-term awareness of an issue (remember the Iraq War? It’s still going on). EVENT CALENDAR   2018 Shared Risk & Protective Factors May 30 – June 1 Keystone, CO This conference focuses on learning and implementing strategies that take a shared risk and protective factor approach to prevent multiple forms of violence, injury and substance abuse. Register   2018 NNPHI Annual Conference May 22-24 New Orleans, LA The 2018 NNPHI Annual Conference and Public Health Workforce Forum will explore the role of institutes, training centers, and systems partners in creating shared value in cross sector partnerships and workforce development. Register   Improving Partnerships June 6 Aurora, CO This workshop, developed by CALPHO, OPPI, Trailhead Institute, and the RMPHTC, will cover the skills and capacities that support the public health assessment and improvement process. Learn More   LMS Comprehensive Breastfeeding Training June 19-21 Denver, CO Designed for WIC professionals, public health nurses, and others, this training aims to increase breastfeeding knowledge and skills. Registration opens early May. Learn More   Public Health Improvement Training (NNPHI) June 26-27 Atlanta, GA Improve outcomes and strengthen the performance of your organization by participating in the top training conference of its kind for health department leadership and performance improvement professionals. Register   2018 NACCHO Annual July 10-12 New Orleans, LA The theme of this year’s conference, Unleashing the Power of Local Public Health, highlights local public health’s opportunities to help health care move upstream. Register   2018 NACCHO Public Health Informatics August 20-23 Atlanta, GA This year's theme is "Connecting Systems and People to Improve Population Health." Registration opening soon. Learn More   2018 Public Health in the Rockies August 28-31 Copper Mountain, CO Save the date for CPHAs next Public Health in the Rockies Conference. More information on our region's most important public health gathering coming soon! Learn More   2018 CEHA Annual Education Conference September 18 Fort Collins, CO The theme for this year’s conference is “Growing Leaders, Driving Change”. The CEHA AEC provides a unique learning and networking opportunity. Learn More   2018 Public Health Law Conference October 4-6 Phoenix, AZ the combined efforts of practitioners, policymakers, lawyers, advocates and researchers are needed to advance critical public health protections and address growing health inequities. Register   Thank you for reading. If you have any comments or ideas for future CALPHO e-newsletters, please email us at info@calpho.org.    The purpose of this e-newsletter is to provide news updates, events and informational resources on hot topics in local public health and CALPHO. 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