CALPHO e-News mid-September 2019

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--  E-News   September 16, 2019  --  Urgent News                                Hello CALPHO! You may have noticed that our newsletters have grown to an excessive length. To keep it shorter, we are switching to a twice-per-month schedule.   $19 Million in SAMHSA and CDC Opioid Grants Coming to CO in 2019 U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced the release of funding awards to all states and a few counties and municipalities to fight the opioid epidemic. CDPHE will receive about $4 million from the CDC to improve overdose and use surveillance. For the first year of its State Opioid Response (SOR) program, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) awarded about $15 million to Colorado’s Office of Behavioral Health (OBH), part of our state’s total $38 million two-year award. Most of this funding will improve treatment access and recovery support. The most preventive efforts will expand the alternatives to opioids (ALTO) in emergency departments and programs that target the families of those in treatment and recovery. While we have been eagerly anticipating this funding and welcome the expansion of much-needed treatment efforts, there is a clear lack of attention to upstream prevention. That’s partly why CALPHO’s Substance Use Disorder Subcommittee is hosting a 2-hour “deep dive” into prevention strategies on September 20th, from 11am to 1pm (immediately following the CALPHO Directors meeting). Anyone is welcome to join via Zoom, but please register first.    Upcoming Events  Click HERE for full event calendar 2019 CEHA Annual Education Conference September 17-20 Keystone, CO  The Colorado Environmental Health Association’s annual conference. The theme this year is "Climbing to New Heights" --REGISTER--> 2019 San Luis Valley Rural Philanthropy Days September 17-19 Del Norte, CO  Rural Philanthropy Days (RPD) is a three-day conference that convenes nonprofits, funders and local governments to share ideas and develop collaborative opportunities in order to build the capacity of local organizations and communities to address regional social issues. --REGISTER--> CALPHO “Deep Dive” Substance Use Prevention September 20 11:00am to 1:00pm CDPHE Carson Room  In this session following the CALPHO Directors meeting, we will explore Substance Use prevention, funding, programs, and strategies for the coming year(s). --REGISTER--> Click HERE for full event calendar  Transformation                                                               Preliminary Assessment Report Findings to be Presented September 19 Habile Consulting will be presenting preliminary cost assessment findings and data “exhibits” at the combined CALPHO and Steering Committee meeting September 19, 1pm to 4pm. Please join us for this exciting first look at the results of your work on the Cost Assessment. For additional information on joining the meeting, please email Peter Manetta.  Health Equity                                                                CHI Releases Comprehensive Housing Needs and Solutions Scan Commissioned by the Health Equity Advocacy Cohort, this report shares the results of CHI’s extensive scan of Colorado’s housing issues, the multiple ways housing is linked to health, and potential solutions from here and across the country. The solutions are organized into eleven priority areas, including mobile home park ownership conversions and certifying “health workers” as building health inspectors. The report offers a thorough view of the equity-housing-health intersection in Colorado. Download it here.   News & Current Events                                                   City of Boulder Bans Vaping Flavors; Sends 40% E-Cig Tax Question to the Ballot  In a productive session, Boulder’s city council voted unanimously to ban flavored e-cigarette products, raise the tobacco purchase age to 21, and send a ballot question to voters on implementing a 40% sales tax on all vaping products. Read more in this Daily Camera article. Other Colorado municipalities are also considering or implementing flavor bans, including municipalities in Summit County. Also, the FDA has indicated they will be cracking down on “unauthorized, non-tobacco flavored e-cigarette products.”  HCPF Gets the Ball Rolling on Hospital Community Benefit Accountability House Bill 19-1320 requires tax-exempt nonprofit hospitals to be more transparent about their community benefit activities and to seek input from stakeholders on those activities. HCPF has just released an approximate timeline for this annual process and the initial implementation steps. First on the timeline is HCPF’s outreach to stakeholders on this process itself, which should be taking place over the next couple months. We will keep you informed on how to ensure a public health perspective is included. See the full timeline here.  U.S. Senate Transportation Bill is a Boon for Active Transit The bipartisan transportation reauthorization effort includes several measures aimed at improving biking and walking infrastructure. There’s plenty of good news in there for those of you partnering on active transportation projects. Read more about it in this blog from the League of American Bicyclists. Some of the highlights include: Total 40% increase for the Transportation Alternatives program (from $850 million to $1.2 billion) Planning agencies from smaller communities (less than 200k population) will become eligible for Transportation Alternatives funds and all planning agencies will have more flexibility in program development and implementation The bill creates a “center of excellence on new mobility” to study self-driving vehicles, e-scooters/e-bikes, and ride share programs, including equity implications  News from NACCHO                                                       NACCHO Hosting Local Health Information Technology Virtual Conference Featuring a keynote on national data and technology opportunities with Karen DeSalvo, this conference on local health IT will be entirely virtual. It will be held on September 25, from 12pm-5pm ET. Its purpose is to be “an online space for IT staff to meet virtually and share replicable best practices with an emphasis on cybersecurity, telehealth application, websites, among others.” Registration is $99 for NACCHO members and $199 for non-members. Register here.  Highlights from our Partners                                              Census Outreach Messaging Webinars from the Funders Census Initiative Many of your agencies are partnering with local nonprofits or other local agencies on Census outreach for hard-to-reach populations. The Funders Census Initiative (FCI) has produced a series of recorded webinars, each about message testing for specific hard-to-reach populations. Access them here.  CDPHE Seeks Board Members for Front Range Waste Diversion Program Senate Bill 19-192 established the Front Range Waste Diversion (FRWD) grant program and they are now seeking board members for three-year terms. To ensure a diversity of perspectives, the board must include 3 members from state agencies, 2 from front range cities, 2 from front range counties, and 6 from nonprofit and for-profit recyclers.  Apply here. Email Rachel Wilson-Roussel  at CDPHE for more information. Manufactured (Mobile) Home Parks Issues and Policy Survey Proponents of the Mobile Home Park Act Oversight Bill (HB19-1309) have developed a survey to collect input on remaining gaps in act. Any public health professionals who have been involved in mobile home park issues should fill out this survey, so please forward it to your interested colleagues. Access the survey here.  CCI Releases Final Draft of State-County Wildfire Cooperative Agreement After conducting an extensive stakeholder process, Colorado Counties, Inc. released their final draft of the agreement, meant to function as a base template for county-state cooperative agreements on wildfire protection. Your commissioners can still comment on the draft through COB Wednesday. Access the draft here.   Co-Responder Services Program Request for Applications Colorado Dept of Human Services released this RFA on September 12, with a deadline of September 19. Behavioral health co-responders accompany law enforcement officers on calls where mental health and substance use are incident factors, with the aim of preventing unnecessary incarceration and increasing system efficiency.  Learn more about the program here and access the RFA here.  Opportunities   Colorado Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) Expansion Program (Deadline: September 16) Local Foods, Local Places 2019-2020 (Deadline: September 30) Economic Impact Initiative Grants (Deadline: on-going through local Rural Development office) The Colorado Health Foundation Funding Opportunities (Deadline: various in October) Community Facilities Direct Loan & Grant Program (Deadline: on-going) 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. Copyright © Colorado Association of Local Public Health Officials 2019, All rights reserved.   Our mailing address is: 1385 S. Colorado Blvd., Bldg. A, Suite 622 Denver, Colorado 80222

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