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Community Teams Program: Building Collaborative Leadership for Public Health

Learn about the Healthy Wisconsin Leadership Institute's Community Teams Program, which provides training and education for teams working to address public health issues. Discover the program's learning content, evaluation results, and project examples showcasing partnerships, challenges, and successes.

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Community Teams Program: Building Collaborative Leadership for Public Health

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  1. Kurt Eggebrecht, MEd, MCHES and Laura Sauve, RN American Public Health Association Conference October 31, 2011

  2. Presenter Disclosures Kurt Eggebrecht and Laura Sauve The following personal financial relationships with commercial interests relevant to this presentation existed during the past 12 months: No relationships to disclose

  3. Presentation Overview • HWLI Background • Community Teams Program Learning Content • Community Teams Program Evaluation Results • Project Examples: Partnerships, Challenges and Successes

  4. Healthy Wisconsin Leadership Institute The Healthy Wisconsin Leadership Institute is a continuing education and training resource supported jointly by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health’s Wisconsin Partnership Program and the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin.

  5. Community Teams Program What is it? Continuing education and training for teams who want to build collaborative leadership and public health skills as they mobilize to identify and solve public health problems

  6. Community Teams Learning Content • Building and maintaining strong partnerships • Policy, environmental and systems approaches (social ecological model) • Evidence-based public health • Project planning, implementation and evaluation • Communicating public health messages • Inclusiveness • Grantsmanship • Sustainability

  7. Community Teams Evaluation Results - 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 Cohorts • Pre-post Test, individuals reported: • Significantly increased knowledge across all competency areas covered in program • Follow-up Interviews, individuals reported (n=20): • Expanded professional roles and responsibilities 85% • Follow-up Interviews, teams reported (n=10): • Strengthened partnerships 90% • Increased media coverage 70% • Increased grant funding 60% • Expansion of preventive services and programs 60% Ceraso et al., J Public Health Management Practice, 2011, 17(4), 344-349.

  8. Project Examples: Partnerships, Challenges and Successes

  9. Team Members Michelle StellrechtYMCA of the Fox Cities Lee Vogel Fox Valley Family Medicine Kurt Eggebrecht Appleton Health Department John Weinsheim Affinity Yvonne DeGroot ThedaCare Dawn Bolwerk Thrivent Financial Services Nancy Whitton Menasha Corporation Kathy Verstegen Kimberly Area School District

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  11. Point of Decision Prompts • Implemented to encourage the use of stairs instead of elevators and escalators.

  12. 2006-07 Initial HWLI Class - Barron County Safe & Stable Families Coalition #1 in Methamphetamine State Crime Lab Submissions

  13. Team Members Donna Cordes Barron County Board of Supervisors Shelley Hammes St. Croix Tribal Behavioral Health Clinic Joey Johnson Children’s Service Society of Wisconsin Erny Heiden Marshfield Clinic Community Outreach Barb Goffin Drug Court Advisory Board Cathy Finseth Chetek Area 925 Drug Awareness Committee Karen Lettner Barron Area Schools Laura Sauve Barron County Department of Health & Human Services

  14. Learning Content Impact in Barron County • The team shared all information with the full coalition and county leadership. • Provided a common framework to gather data, plan and evaluate that had been lacking. • Practiced implementing a project on a small scale while working on coalition development and leadership.

  15. Funding Outcomes in Barron County • County leadership recognizes the value of the coalition and provides staff time • FUNDING for Coalition Goals • 2006=$6,000 • 2011= $496,000 plus >$150,000 in kind funding from partners • State Incentive Grant, Drug Free Communities Support Program Grant, Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program Impact Grant, County Tax Levy, Radio Sponsorship, Comprehensive Alcohol ReDuction (CARD) Grant

  16. Additional Information HWLI Website: www.hwli.org HWLI Email: hwli@mailplus.wisc.edu

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