CALPHO e-news: August 2017

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e-news     August 2017   Kudos & Accolades invisible text Fremont and Bent Counties Welcome New Directors Fremont County Department of Public Health and Environment recently hired Emma Davis, MPH, CTTS as their new director. Along with undergraduate and graduate degrees in public health, Emma brings over a decade of experience in the field. Emma was previously serving as Fremont’s Community Outreach Specialist focusing on tobacco cessation, mental health/substance abuse, and maternal health. She has also worked in population health for Centura as the Wellness Program Manager at St. Thomas More hospital. Bent County Public Health has appointed Omer Tamir, MPM as its new Director. Omer has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a Master’s in Public Management with a healthcare management concentration. He has been working in health and wellness for over 12 years, most recently as the physical therapy & wellness manager at Southeast Health group in La Junta, CO. Omer is “looking forward to this new challenge and hopes to bring positive change to Bent County.” Welcome to the CALPHO family, Emma and Omer! invisible text Colorado School of Public Health Names Dr. Jonathan Samet as New Dean After a nationwide talent search, CSPH appointed Dr. Samet, MD, MS, as their new Dean. Dr. Samet, who will start his post in October, has a distinguished career in public health academia, having held positions at two of the country’s most prestigious public health institutions: USC’s Keck and Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg. Read the press release here. Congratulations to CSPH on their great selection! Health Equity invisible text LPHAs Receive First Round of Health Equity Network Strengthening Grants Congratulations to the three LPHAs and two cross-jurisdictional LPHA collaboratives awarded Network Strengthening grants through CALPHO’s participation in the Colorado Trust’s Health Equity Advocacy Cohort. We were delighted to receive many excellent submissions, and you can read summaries of the awardees programs here. Below are the agencies and groups we selected: El Paso County Public Health Pitkin County Public Health Jefferson County Public Health West Central Public Health Partnership (collaborative of Delta, Gunnison, Hinsdale, Montrose, Ouray, and San Miguel counties) Metro Denver Partnership for Health (collaborative of Boulder, Broomfield, Denver PH, Denver PH, Jefferson, and Tri-County) invisible text RMPHTC Now Offering LGBTQ Health Equity Learning Series Eliminating health disparities and improving health among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) individuals is imperative to achieving health equity. The Rocky Mountain Public Health Training Center is offering this introductory online course about understanding the issues on a professional and personal level. In addition to learning about the action steps public health and health care can take to improve health outcomes for LGBTQ individuals, participants will examine themselves and work to better understand the experience of those in the LGBTQ community. The course is available this Fall (October to November), with additional opportunities in the winter and spring of next year. Learn more and register here. News & Current Events invisible text Public Health Funding and Financing: What Now? Last Friday the Center for Public Health Practice at the Colorado School of Public Health hosted a symposium on public health funding and financing. Local public health was well-represented, joining colleagues from CDPHE and academia to discuss chronic underinvestment in public health. Read more, including some thoughts from CALPHO attendees and analysis by Peter Manetta, on the CALPHO blog. For a brief summary of some public health funding reform strategies being discussed on the national stage, read this Health Affairs blog from August 22. Spotlight on Local Public Health invisible text Longmont Expands Outdoor Smoke-Free Areas Around Community Facilities After hearing from community members who stopped using their library, senior center and the St. Vrain Memorial Building because of the “gauntlet” of smokers crowding outside, Longmont city officials proposed an expanded no-smoking zone for an entire city block. Their city council approved the ordinance, which also applies to e-cigarettes, on Tuesday, August 8. The ban went into effect August 21, and violators could be fined up to $500. Read more about the ordinance. News from NACCHO invisible text NACCHO Director to Visit with CALPHO Directors in September NACCHO Interim Executive Director Dr. William Barnes will be in Colorado in September and plans to visit with CALPHO directors during their September meeting. NACCHO is making an effort to reconnect with state affiliates like CALPHO (its “State Associations of County and City Health Officials” or SACCHOs). This will also be an opportunity for newer directors to get a better sense of how NACCHO supports LPHAs on the national stage. Highlights from our Partners invisible text CEHA Annual Education Conference Registration Still Open The Colorado Environmental Health Association is hosting the 2017 AEC in Colorado Springs, from September 19-22. The conference venue is Double Tree Hotel and planning for the conference event is well underway. The theme for this year’s conference is “Environmental Health – Agent of Change.” The agenda is packed with thought-provoking sessions on the state’s most pressing environmental health challenges as well as timely discussions on emerging issues. Register here. invisible text Help PHNCI Improve the Foundational Public Health Services Model The Public Health National Center for Innovation (PHNCI) has launched a survey to determine the current usefulness and relevance of the Foundation Public Health Services Model to practitioners and agencies. The model was originally developed in 2013 and has been used to define the most basic package of public health services, often in concert with PHAB’s accreditation standards. Learn more and take the survey here. invisible text Upcoming ECHO Colorado Series: Share with Your Provider Partners ECHO distance learning for providers can help improve access to care in your community. These series take place over six weekly courses all online using Zoom videoconferencing. Share these opportunities with your partners in primary care and mental health: Mood and Anxiety Disorders: Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment October 12 – November 16 This series is designed to help primary care providers in Colorado better manage the common behavioral health conditions that present in their scope of practice. Pediatric Physical Abuse Assessment in Primary Care: Treating & Reporting September 26 – October 31 In this series, primary care providers will refresh on best practices, learn new skills, and practice evaluating different physical injuries for signs of abuse Care Coordination for Diabetes: Strategies to Support and Engage Patients October 5 – November 2 In this series, participants will learn about key skills, strategies, and resources to support and engage patients with diabetes in their own care. Opportunities & Resources invisible text Learn to Evaluate Cross-Sector Networks with the PARTNER Tool The CU Center for Network Science at the School of Public Affairs is hosting a two-day workshop on using the PARTNER social network mapping tool. The PARTNER tool is a valuable resource for evaluating intersectoral or other inter-organizational networks. “PARTNER can help you assess a network’s strength and impact, as well as make evidence-based decisions in order to effectively manage and improve network outcomes.” This is a great opportunity to develop network analysis skills that can bolster your agency’s community-based collaborative efforts, health in all policies goals, or health equity initiatives. The workshop is October 18-19 in Denver. Learn more about the PARTNER software tool here, and register for the workshop here. invisible text Get Granular with Social Data Using CDPHE’s Community Inclusion Map Looking for an easy way to view your county’s social indicator data by census tract? Check out CDPHE’s interactive Community Inclusion Map. This tool was originally developed to incorporate social data into emergency planning efforts to better understand the needs of disabled populations during an emergency. It has since been used for program planning, advocacy, and other public health efforts. In 2015, FEMA and the Americans with Disability Act National Network recognized the map as a “promising practice.” Learn more and access the map here. Below are some other data products CDPHE provides: The Colorado Health Indicators provides a comprehensive set of data topics available at the county, health statistics region and state level. It is designed for community health assessment and so it provides a very wide range of topics and less capability to break down the data by demographics. The VISION tool is focused around chronic disease data. It also provides data at a variety of geographies. It is more narrow in topic areas compared to Health Indicators but has the ability to stratify data by many demographics and crosstabs. The Community Level Estimates page uses small area estimation modeling to provide Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data at the census tract level. While it is not directly comparable to BRFSS estimates, the data provide great sub county data for planning purposes. invisible text Colorado Safe Routes to School Grant Applications Due November 1 The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) has launched its FY 2017-18 grant cycle for the Safe Routes to School (SRTS) program. SRTS was federally established in 2005 to advance safe, multi-modal school commuting and transit, and CDOT administers the program for the state. For this cycle, CDOT “will support both non-infrastructure (education, encouragement, and enforcement) projects and infrastructure projects (which require a separate application).” While LPHAs alone may not be eligible, this is an opportunity for them to collaborate with transportation agencies, schools, and other stakeholders on a wide range of active and safe school commuting initiatives. Learn more here. invisible text CDPHE Offers Training for "I am Moving I am Learning" Program The Colorado I am Moving I am Learning (IMIL) is a nationally recognized program for improving the quantity and quality of physical activity in early childhood. If you and your staff are planning around preventing early childhood obesity, this webinar offers some basic education on how the IMIL approach might work in your community. Learn more and register here. invisible text Legislative Analysis 101 Training with Health Equity Cohort Partner Through our membership in the Colorado Trust’s Health Equity Cohort, CALPHO members are welcome to virtually attend a free 1.5-hour training on legislative analysis by Seigel Public Affairs. The training is Thursday, September 7 from 10am to 1130am. In person spots are filled, but Zoom attendees are welcome. If you would like to attend, please email Peter Manetta and he will send you the Zoom link. invisible text Registration Still Open for the Rocky Mountain Leadership Program The Rocky Mountain Leadership Program (RMLP) from the CU School of Public Affairs is an intensive, one-week, residential, leadership seminar for government and non-profit professionals and elected officials. This year's program theme is "Leadership for High Performance" and the agenda includes a variety of speakers who will conduct sessions on everything from managing for peak performance to successful implementation. The program is held in Breckenridge and will run October 9 -13 with an online pre-session held the morning of September 12. The program fee is $3,650 and participants pay their own lodging (which ranges from $330-$550 for the week). There are partial scholarships available ($500-$1,500) for those whose employers don’t cover the cost. Apply by September 8. Learn more here and apply here. Contact the program administrator with your questions. Books & More invisible text National Academies Report: Microbiomes of the Built Environment Advances in microbial detection are spawning a new field in microbiome sciences – how the microbial communities in our built environment affect our health, and how built environment design affects those communities. These advances, which fall under the field of “metagenomics,” allow us to develop a probabilistic description of “the composition, structure, and function of microbial communities.” Combined with techniques for detecting toxic microbial byproducts and studies of human-environment microbiome interactions, researchers are using metagenomics to build the foundations for understanding what constitutes a “healthy” built environment microbiome. The NAS committee working on this still believes it is a long way from informing public health and healthy design, and this is probably a good thing. Analyzing and intervening on the built environment microbiome is likely to be expensive and complex, which could widen health inequities further. To their credit, the NAS committee makes this point early and succinctly, adding that research should support the equitable dissemination of future findings and methods. Listen to an excellent summary of this work from Science Friday’s August 25 episode. EVENT CALENDAR   2017 Safe States Annual Meeting September 12-14 Aurora, CO Join the Safe States Alliance and fellow injury and violence prevention professionals for their annual, exploring how to strengthen existing connections in order to elevate injury and violence prevention efforts. Online registration is closed, but you should be able to call. Learn More   Center for Health Progress Fundraiser Luncheon September 12 11:00am – 1:00pm Denver, CO Join Center for Health Progress at the Denver Art Museum for their annual fundraiser luncheon. This year’s keynote speaker is Rinku Sen, Senior Strategist at Race Forward. Register   2017 CEHA Annual Education Conference September 19-22 Colorado Springs, CO The Colorado Environmental Health Association's conference venue is Double Tree Hotel, Colorado Springs and planning for the conference event is well underway. The theme for this year’s conference is “Environmental Health – Agent of Change.” Learn More   2017 Public Health in the Rockies October 4-6 Keystone, CO This year’s theme is “Unlocking the Future: Embracing Innovation and Inclusiveness.” Space is filling up, so register soon. Register   Network Leadership Workshop: PARTNER tool October 18-19 Donnell-Kay Foundation Denver, CO The Center on Network Science is hosting a 2 day workshop for PARTNER users of all levels who want to build their capacity and learn more of the ins and outs of network evaluation, data analysis, and translating data to practice. Register   2017 Colorado Health Literacy Conference November 3 Aurora, CO Join the Colorado Health Literacy Coalition for their 3rd annual conference at the University of Colorado Hospital. This year’s theme is “Building Bridges Within & Between Organizations.” Register   2017 APHA Annual November 4-8 Atlanta, GA This year’s Annual will focus on climate change and health. Registration is open and you can save up to $100 by becoming a member. Register   2017 ACS CAN Tobacco Policy Forum November 16 7:30am – 9:30am Denver, CO This year’s event is dedicated to educating patients, providers, public policy makers, the media, and the public about the state of tobacco control and prevention in Colorado, emphasizing opportunities for improvement in youth prevention via strategic advocacy. Register   CCI Foundation Winter Conference November 26-28 Colorado Springs, CO Attended by many of our LPHA directors, the CCI conferences are opportunities to educate and connect with county leadership on pressing public health issues. Learn More   Civic Canopy: Collective Impact Summit November 29-30 Denver, CO The 2017 Collective Impact Summit will bring together nonprofit, business, government, philanthropic partners and community members from across Colorado and beyond, to build skills and knowledge around what it takes to ensure healthy and thriving communities. Register   CHI Hot Issues in Health December 7-8 Englewood, CO The Colorado Health Institute’s annual conference features robust discussions about health care and policy issues affecting the state. Keynote speakers include Alan Weil and Elisabeth Rosenthal. Learn More   2018 Agents of Change Summit Februray 12-13, 2018 San Diego, CA The Agents of Change Summit unifies and expands the community of professionals using marketing and technology to change people’s health behaviors for social good 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. Any staff person of a CALPHO member agency is welcome to join our email list to receive this e-newsletter. If you have a colleague interested in receiving this e-newsletter, please forward this message to them. 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