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Assuring A Competent Public Health Workforce Clark and Dubois Counties Indiana Local Public Health Workforce Development Mini-Collaborative.
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Assuring A Competent Public Health Workforce Clark and Dubois Counties Indiana Local Public Health Workforce Development Mini-Collaborative The Multi-State Learning Collaborative: Lead States in Public Health Quality Improvement is managed by the National Network of Public Health Institutes and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
What is Your Vision of Public Health? Clark and Dubois Counties Local Public Health Workforce Development Mini-Collaborative
Institute of Medicine, 1988Public Health In Disarray !! • Chronic underfunding • Lack of resources • Outdated technology • Weakened local public health infrastructure
Institute of Medicine, 2003The Future of Public Health • Focus on the Core Functions of Public Health • Assessment • Policy Development • Assurance • Have a Vision, a Purpose, and use the 10 Essential Services to guide delivery of your public health practice.
The Ten Essential Services of Public Health Essential Service 8
Assure A Competent Public Health and Healthcare Workforce Essential Service 8
Why Start With Essential Service 8? • Understand who we, the public health workforce, are. • Identify important factors that impact our practice. • Build our capacity. • Maximize our retention and professional growth. • Market ourselves!!
ES 8 Model Standards • MS 8.1 Workforce Assessment, Planning, and Development • Establish a process to periodically determine competencies, composition, and size of local PH workforce. • Identify and address gaps • Share what is learned with local public health system partners
ES 8 Model Standards • MS 8.2 Public Health Workforce Standards • Maintain licensure/certification requirements for all personnel. • Develop, maintain, and use written job standards and/or position descriptions for all LHD employees. • Conduct annual performance evaluations for all LHD staff.
ES 8 Model Standards • MS 8.3 Life-Long Learning Through Continuing Education, Training, and Mentoring • Identify education and training needs and encourage opportunities for workforce development. • Provide opportunities for all staff to develop core public health competencies. • Provide incentives for staff to pursue education and training. • Provide opportunities for staff to engage in mutually enriching practice/academic partnerships.
ES 8 Model Standards • MS 8.4 Public Health Leadership Development • Provide formal and informal opportunities for leadership development. • Promote collaborative leadership within the local public health system. • Assure staff have opportunities to provide leadership in their areas of expertise. • Provide opportunities for development of diverse community leadership to assure sustainable public health initiatives.
What is included in Essential Service # 8 ? • Education • Training • Credentialing • Performance Evaluation • Workforce Assessment • Life-long Learning • Workplace development programs • Partnerships with academia • Leadership development
Goals of Essential Service 8 • Develop plans for education • Provide continuing education • Assess the number of PH and health care workforce • Recruit and sustain a diverse workforce • Focus on enhancing skills • Assure competency through increased knowledge and functioning
What Activities in Our LHD Support ES 8? Discussion
LHD Activities Included In Essential Service 8 • Learning Management System • Regional Preparedness meetings • Drills and TTXs • Certification in Environmental Health • PHSQIP Project • Provide PHN experiences for nursing students • Sanitarian training • Staff meetings • Contact hours in nursing • ISDH Conference Calls • Public Health and Medicine Partnership Conference • MARPHLI
What Are Your Professional Goals? Discussion
How Do We Improve As The Workforce of This Local Public Health Agency? Discussion
INDIANA MLC-3: Getting Smart About Public Health In Clark County • S – we will be specific by planning one ES Brunch & Learn presentation each month. • M – we will measure what we understand and learn by completing individual online surveys after each Brunch & Learn. • A – We will be committed to accepting our responsibility to support our agency vision. We are a team….. • R – we must be realistic – we are, after all, very busy people – we will make time to come together monthly for a Brunch & Learn. • T – we will establish a timeline to complete all 10 Brunch & Learns by December, 2009.