"I received valuable tools that I have been able to use and share with others." - 2008 conference participant
Concurrent Breakout Sessions
Topic Tracks and Session Titles | Idea Exchange Interactive Sessions
The Association for Community Health Improvement is offering a rich blend of educational sessions for its March 11-13, 2009 national conference. All sessions will address one of the conference's four topic tracks below. In addition, the overall conference will reflect the cross-cutting theme of working to achieve health status equity. Stay tuned as complete session descriptions are added by January 5.
Topic Tracks and Session Titles
Leading Community Health Assessments to Set Priorities, Programs, and Policies
- CHANGE Tool: Assessing Policy, Systems and Environmental Change Strategies for Identifying and Addressing Community Priorities
Ann M. Ussery-Hall/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Healthy Hall: One Community's Practical Guide to Conducting Successful Community Assessments that Lead to Powerful Outcomes
Christy Moore/The Medical Center Foundation, Inc. at Northeast Georgia Health System, Inc., Olivia Erbele/Georgia Department of Human Resources, Division of Public Health, and Bill Stiles, Stiles Healthcare Strategy, Inc.
- Techniques for Collaborative Hospital-Community Health Assessment
Patricia Isennock/Franklin Square Hospital Center, and Terri Kingeter/Baltimore County
- Turning Health Assessment Data into Community Indicator Systems for Action: "Health Matters in San Francisco" and "Healthy Carroll (Maryland) Vital Signs"
Abbie Yant/Saint Francis Memorial Hospital, and Patricia Supik/The Partnership for a Healthier Carroll County
- Using Prevention Quality Indicators (PQI/PDI) and Inappropriate ED Utilization Data to Characterize Primary Care Need and Uncompensated Care Burden
Brad Walsh and Sue Pickens/Parkland Health & Hospital System, Dallas County Hospital District
- A Voluntary Public/Private Collaborative Approach to Community Health Needs Assessment
Kristin Garrett/Community Health Improvement Partners, Michael J. Moder/Moder Research & Communications, Inc., Anette Blatt/Scripps Health, and Leslie Ray/San Diego County Health and Human Services
Achieving Community Benefit Excellence
- Community Benefit and Health Workforce Diversity
Kevin Barnett/Public Health Institute
- Community Benefit Scorecard: Bridging Community and Health System Goals
Alice Yoder/Lancaster General Hospital
- Community Benefits: Structure Matters, Organizational Independence and Visibility
Carol Paret and Deborah Ganelin/Memorial Hermann Healthcare System
- Integrating Community Health into the Mission, Vision, and Strategic Plan of a Hospital
Joan Quinlan/Massachusetts General Hospital
- Recipe for Developing and Sustaining a Successful Community Benefit Framework
Catherine Rees/Middlesex Hospital, Michelle Davis and Winfield Brown/Lowell General Hospital
- Strategic Alignment of Governance, Management, and Community in Community Benefit Programming
Richard J. Bogue, PhD/Center for Health Futures at Florida Hospital
- Telling the Hospital Story: Going Beyond Schedule H
Donna Melkonian/American Hospital Association
"Enabled me to learn about exciting evidence-based practice related to community benefit planning." - 2008 conference participant
Improving Health by Addressing Our Social and Built Environments
- From Assessment to Action: The Community Health Councils Model for Community Change
Gwendolyn Flynn/Community Health Councils, and LaVonna Blair Lewis/University of Southern California, School of Policy Planning and Development
- CDC’s Steps Program: Improving Health Using Social and Environmental Change Strategies
Ann M. Ussery-Hall and Phyllis Nichols/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Lori R. Martin/Santa Clara County Public Health Department
- Community Health Behind Bars: Opportunities in Correctional Health
Camille Miller, Klaus K. Madsen and Liza M. Creel/Texas Health Institute, Vondie M. Woodbury/Mercy Health Partners, and Gary Packingham/Community Health Ventures, Inc.
- Designed for Disease: The Link Between Local Food Environments, Obesity, and Diabetes
Rajni Banthia/PolicyLink
- Towards Healthy Communities and a Healthy Environment: Working at the Nexus of Community Health and Environmental Stewardship
Kathy Gerwig and Loel Solomon/Kaiser Permanente, and Gary Cohen/Healthcare Without Harm
Building the Skills of Community Health Leaders
- Community Benefit and Health Workforce Diversity
Kevin Barnett/Public Health Institute
- Engaging the Un-Usual Suspects as Community Health Leaders
Steve Wenger/Heartland Health and Suzanne Alewine/Community Asset Builders, LLC
- Integration as a Strategy for Achieving a High Performing Health System: A Case Study
George B. Hernandez and Jean R. Setzer/University Health System
- Mass. Partnership for Healthy Communities: Six Years of Success in Growing More than 400 Community Leaders across 37 Communities
Peter Lee, Steve Ridini and Susan Downey/The Medical Foundation, and Cathy O'Connor/Mass. Office of Healthy Communities
- Return on Community Investment (ROCI): A Model and its Application to a Healthcare Access Program
Josh Brinkley/Ascension Health and Cynthia Taueg/St. John Health
- South Los Angeles Community Health Leadership and Training Program: A Community Success Story
Nancy Watson/Community Health Councils, and Jennifer Ito/SCOPE
- Using Games to Translate Knowledge to Action in Chronic Disease Prevention Programs
Lisa Ulmer/Drexel University
Session Types
Session leaders have successful experiences, tools, and approaches that reflect their work in community health or community benefit. The conference has a strong bias toward presenting and discussing practical solutions and tools, and an emphasis on sharing work that has demonstrated results.
Interactive sessions feature relatively little formal presentation (approx. 20-25 minutes of an 80 minute session) a lot of facilitated dialogue, group exercises, and/or exploration of new ideas. Presentation sessions are more traditional breakouts with 50-60 minutes of presentation followed by audience discussion and Q&A.
ACHI's conference participants have told us they value interactive learning, and the program will include some of each session type.
 Introductory/Intermediate or Intermediate/Advanced:
ACHI's conferences attract veteran community health leaders, newer professionals, and experienced professionals who are new to the field. Sessions will be categorized as to being best suited to those with five or fewer years of experience (introductory concepts, how-to steps, and case examples) or more than five years of experience (advanced concepts, techniques based on practice, management issues).
Urban/Suburban, Rural/Suburban, or All Areas:
The conference will include a balance of sessions from both urban and rural settings. Some sessions, particularly those focused on tools or methods, may be equally applicable to communities of any size. |
