Concurrent Breakout Sessions

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The Association for Community Health Improvement (ACHI) is committed to producing professional education conferences of the highest caliber. More than 40 presenters in 30 sessions will deliver a learning experience that stimulates real change and real improvements in how community health programs are planned, run and evaluated.

Breakout sessions are excellent stories of community health improvement initiatives, with demonstrated outcomes and specific guidance for how conference attendees can take home what speakers have achieved and replicate it. 

Minimizing Chronic Disease and Addressing Social Determinants

• Comprehensive Risk Reduction in the Worksite, Clinic and Community
• Coordinated Mental Health Outreach and Services
• Stimulating a Nationwide Public Health Response to Social Determinants of Health
• Taking Action with Local Policies for Healthier Communities and Chronic Disease Reduction
• Tales of Two Hospital-School Partnerships on Youth Obesity
• Two Comprehensive Programs to Manage Childhood Asthma and Reduce Disparities
• Using Occupational Therapy to Motivate and Empower Individuals with Diabetes

Maximizing Access and Coverage

• Access Leadership Planning Program: A Collaborative Approach to 100% Access
• Community and Provider Models for Technology-assisted Health Coverage Enrollment
• Free Clinic Primary Care Practice: One Community's Story and the Keys to Replication
• From Emergency Departments to Medical Homes: Improving Access with Data and Partnerships
• Removing Economic and Literacy Barriers to Prescription Medications for Chronic Illness
• Richland Care's Medical Home and Specialty Care System (2007 AHA NOVA Award Winner)

Harnessing Data for Health Improvement

(Sponsored by Professional Research Consultants, Inc.)

• Applying Accreditation Concepts to Community Health Program Evaluation
• Community-based Programs and Information Technology: Real Solutions for Data-driven Decisions and Outcomes Measurement
• Community Health Needs Assessment and Effective Follow-up: Translating Information to Action
• Community Health Status Indicators: Employing a New Data Tool for Assessments and Planning
• Community Issues Management System: A Framework for Analyzing Health and Human Service Delivery and Outcomes
• Self-Rated Health as a Metric for Assessing Community Health
• A Tale of Two Surveys: Comparative Community Health Survey Techniques

Delivering Community Benefit

(Co-sponsored by the Catholic Health Association, VHA, Inc., and Lyon Software)

• Community Benefit and Performance Indicators for Critical Access Hospitals
• Community Benefit and the Role of Nonprofit Community Health System Boards
• Community Benefit Planning to Align Mission, Strategy, Needs, and Programs
• Doing Well to Do Good: A Community Benefit Extreme Makeover
• Evaluating Community Benefit Program Effectiveness
• What They Don't Know Can Hurt You! Communicating Your Outreach Programs to the Public

Breaking Silos with Public Health / Health System Partnerships

(Sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CCHIS/National Center for Health Marketing, Division of Partnerships and Strategic Alliances)

Public health and health system partnerships are infused into sessions across all topic tracks. The sessions below bring additional depth to this cross-cutting theme.

• Collaboration Infrastructure: Tools and Models from the "Healthy Carolinians" Network of Health Partnerships
• Maximizing Reach and Effectiveness: Strategies for Partnerships from "Steps to a Healthier Austin"
• Preparing for the Worst: Disaster Planning Tools and Community Partnerships for Health Care/Public Health
• A Public-Private Partnership for Creating and Testing Local Solutions to National Problems

David Broder, 2005 conference

"All the general sessions were moving, challenging, and even entertaining!"