Breakout & Skill-building Sessions

Sessions by Topic Track | Topic Tracks Defined | Session Types | Idea Exchange Sessions

The Association for Community Health Improvement is offering a rich blend of educational sessions for its March 4-5, 2010 national conference. All sessions will address one of the conference's three topic tracks below. Further, you will experience a refreshing blend of session styles, from skill-building mini workshops, to story-telling breakouts, to interactive time where you will create solutions and build relationships on your own terms.

Sessions by Topic Track

Practicing Evidence-based Community Health (Click for session descriptions)

BREAKOUT SESSIONS (60 minutes)

• Applying Public Health Principles to Improve Clinical System and Community Outcomes of Cancer Screening in Immigrant Populations
  Lisa Montouri Trimble, Director of Community Health Outreach, Cambridge Health Alliance, MA
  
  
• The CHILD Project: Building Capacity within Public Schools to Get Children Health Coverage
  Mandy Meloy, Outreach Specialist, Covering Kids & Families, University of Wisconsin
  
  
• Engaging Faith Communities in Evidence-based Health Promotion
  James White, Assistant Professor, Bemidji State University, MN
  Janet Drechsel, RN, BSN, Manager of Community Connections/Parish Nursing, MeritCare Health System, ND
  
  
• Healthy for Life: An Innovative Approach to Childhood Obesity
  Marie-Hortence Prosper, Research Analyst, St. Joseph Health System, CA
  
  
• Using a Primary Care Medical Home to Reduce Acute Chronic Medical Care
  Pam Farnham, Manager, Blueprint Community Care Team, Fletcher Allen Health Care, VT
  Randy Messier, Blueprint Grants Manager, Fletcher Allen Health Care, VT
  
  

SKILL-BUILDING SESSIONS (90 minutes)

• Maximizing Value from Community Health Workers Programs
  Carl Rush, MRP, Principal, Community Resources, LLC, TX
  
  
• Measuring Outcomes and Demonstrating Success for Community Health Programs
  Rudeen Monte, Director of Philanthropy and Community Benefit, Sutter Delta Medical Center, CA
  
  

Achieving Community Benefit Program Excellence (Click for session descriptions)

BREAKOUT SESSIONS (60 minutes)

• The Accountability and Charitable Expectations of Nonprofit Hospitals: Recent Findings from Maryland
  Bradford Gray, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, The Urban Institute and Editor, The Milbank Quarterly
  
  
• Community Benefit Journey to Excellence
  Adelaide Buckner, BSN, RN, Assistant Director, Corporate and Community Programs, Mary Washington Healthcare, VA
  Xavier Richardson, Executive VP, Corporate Development & Community Affairs, Mary Washington Healthcare, VA
  
  
• Determining the Value of Community Benefit Programs
  Mary Kay VanDriel, President, Value Health Partners, MI
  
  

SKILL-BUILDING SESSIONS (90 minutes)

• Collaborating with Local Public Health Departments to Enhance Community Benefit Programs
  Connie Evashwick, Professor, Saint Louis University, MO
  Douglas Scutchfield, PhD, University of Kentucky
  
  
• Using the IRS Form 990 Schedule H to Tell our Story, Improve our Programs, and Better Serve our Communities
  Doug Lyon, President, Lyon Software, OH
  Julie Trocchio, Senior Director, Catholic Hospital Association, DC
  
  
• Cultivating External Partners as a Strategy in Achieving Your Hospital's Community Benefit Goals
  Christopher Palombo, Project Manager, Access Leadership, Ascension Health, MO
  Cathy Maxwell, Chief Advocacy Officer, St. Joseph Health System
  Joy Tapper, Executive Director, Milwaukee Health Care Partnership
  Paul Westrick, VP Mission Integration & Advocacy, Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital
  
  

Creating Healthy Communities (Click for session descriptions)

BREAKOUT SESSIONS (60 minutes)

• HealthWorks! Kids' Museum: Imagination, Education, and a Healthier Generation
  Rebecca Zakowski, RN, Chief Infection Agent, Memorial Health Works! Kids Museum, Memorial Hospital South Bend, IN
  Laura Garvey, RN, Conductor of Creative Chaos, Memorial Health Works! Kids Museum, Memorial Hospital South Bend, IN
  
  
• Implementing a Health Initiative Grant Program in the Community
  Kahla Hall, Community Benefits Program Officer, University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina, NC
  Michelle Brooks, VP Community Benefit and Government Affairs, University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina, NC
  
  
• Multi-Sector Approach to Building Healthy Neighborhoods
  Eric Baumgartner, Director, Policy & Program Development, Louisiana Public Health Institute, LA
  Timolynn Sams, Neighborhood Partnership Network
  Bobbie Hill, Concordia, Inc.
  
  
• Multiple Benefits to Youth Health and Health Workforce Development from an Adolescent Advocacy & Mentoring Program
  Lynn Sherman, Director, Community Health Initiatives, Baptist Health Jacksonville, FL
  Michael Lanier, Vice President, Community & Behavioral Health, Baptist Health Jacksonville, FL
  
  
• Shaping our Community to Make the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice
  Laura Aiken, Director, Advocates for Health in Action, WakeMed Health & Hospitals, NC
  
  
• Using Community Balanced Scorecards to Manage Public Health Strategy
  Donna Sines, Executve Director, Community Vision, FL
  Belinda Johnson-Cornett, MS, RNC, MBA, Administrator, Osceola County Health Department
  
  
• Using County Health Rankings to Impact Community Health
  Julie WillemsVanDijk, Univ. of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, WI
  
  

SKILL-BUILDING SESSIONS (90 minutes)

• Addressing Health Inequities: One System's Approach
  Eileen Barsi, Director of Community Benefit, Catholic Healthcare West, CA
  Debbie Hull, Regional Director, Special Needs and Community Outreach, Catholic Healthcare West, CA
  
  
• Becoming a More Effective Community Health Partner & Advocate
  Walter Denero, Director and Senior Fellow, University of Georgia Fanning Leadership Center, GA
  
  
• Mobilizing Youth Assets for Community Health
  Nadine Rubie, Health Promoter, Bramalea Community Health Center, Ontario, Canada
  Ameera Hosein, Bramblea Community Health Center
  Chezlie Alexander, Bramblea Community Health Center
  
  

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Topic Tracks Defined

ACHI’s 2010 Spring Training Conference will deliver educational content across three complementary topic tracks filled with practical take-aways.

Practicing Evidence-based Community Health

Effective community health interventions with demonstrable results, focused on chronic disease prevention and management, access to services, or other types of community health programs.  Discussions of how presenters' initiatives: identified priority issues; selected, designed or adapted interventions for their community and organization; implemented the program and assessed results; promoted the initiative; and what others can learn from their story.

Achieving Community Benefit Program Excellence

These sessions will contribute to the positive evolution of community benefit program management by sharing experiences of and tools for leading practices in hospital community benefit planning and management.  Track content includes:  engaging governance and executive leadership; designing community benefit departments and staff positions; aligning hospitals’ strategic plans and priorities with community needs; connection with community; and communications/telling the story.

Creating Healthy Communities

These session will take us beyond specific health care and public health interventions by presenting collaborative, multi-sector approaches to creating the conditions for health, both for entire communities and for underserved or marginalized populations.  Content includes stories, examples, and tools for:  addressing social, economic, and environmental determinants of health; meaningfully engagement of non-health sector stakeholders; and creating and sustaining healthy communities champions, capacity and culture at the local level.

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Session Types

The ACHI 2010 Spring Training Conference offers session formats that engage you in learning, gaining new skills, and creating new relationships.

The conference will be fresh in its varied styles, will promote interaction, and will provide nourishing, relevant and practical application of its content.

Skill-building Sessions

Skill-building Sessions will deliver a mix of teaching and hands-on participation focused on transferring new knowledge, skills and tangible tools for you to take back home and put to work.  They will introduce a process, model, or a set of tools vital to achieving your goals, and will have a direct impact on you work.  (90 minutes in length)

Breakout Sessions

Breakout Sessions will convey the results of specific programs and initiatives to improve community health, to show "how-they-did-it."  The sessions are led by practitioners in the field sharing case examples that illustrate a program or approach, demonstrate its success and value, and provide transferable lessons for you to take home.  (60 minutes in length)

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