4 8 15 HLC Meeting Summary - Healthy Living Collaborative
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4 8 15 HLC Meeting Summary - Healthy Living Collaborative
Regional Partners Meeting of the Healthy Living Collaborative of SW WA nd 2 th Next Meeting: July 8 , 1:00-3:30pm North Pacific Union Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist th Church 5709 N. 20 Street, Ridgefield, WA 98642 Quarter HLC Meeting: April 8, 2015 ATTENDEES: See HLC Partnership Roster AGENDA DISCUSSION/DECISION Presentation on CHWs by Kathy Burgoyne from Healthy Generations Statewide Community Based Model Presentation on Community Health 1st Workers Health Compass Activity led by Kachina Inman Attendees had the opportunity to interact on key questions regarding a healthy community … What does community capacity mean to you? What would be outcomes of building community capacity in the arena of physical, mental, education, spiritual and emotional health? Diverse lens is important for real change. Health Communities 1422 Grant Work update by Caitlin Hill: mailto:caitlin.hill@esd112.org Kachina introduced Caitlin Hill, HLC’s1422 Grant Coordinator. The work focuses on preventing and managing chronic illness and diabetes. A one page summary is available on line. It is a comprehensive piece of work with 15 strategies. Worksite Wellness Update by Sandy Brown: mbrowns@wsu.edu Worksite Wellness is one of the strategies of 1422. It focuses on diabetes education and expanding worksite wellness through businesses. If you have a work site that would be interested in a presentation on worksite wellness and lifestyle change programs, contact Sandy Brown. Housing Stability and Educational Outcomes Update by Andy Silver: mailto:asilver@councilforthehomeless.org Michael Mirra is coming to Longview to talk about a school-housing partnership, which will kick off a regional conversation. State level (2million for a grant program for partnership between schools and homeless service providers), regional, and local. Connections Initiative Update by Barbe West The Connections Initiative (HLCs Data Collection Work Group) has a long term goal to focus on high-utilizers who face systems-barriers. This group work will start by sharing data (put together agreements) and then work with population based CHWs to gather more data from neighborhoods to influence at the neighborhood level. BUILD GRANT could potentially support this work. FOR ACTION If you are offering lifestyle change programs at your organization, please contact Caitlin Hill or Sandy Brown who is researching these at this time. E-Cigarette update by Joy Lyons for Deb Dandroff: deb.drandoff@esd112.org An E-cig training was held on Feb 13th, where attendees learned the language and how to write ordinances; Washougal was the first county to pass an ordinance. Clark Co Board of Health has a hearing April 22nd- 9-10am (1300 Franklin St at Council Chambers) looking at restricting use of inhalant delivery systems in public places. This work group issued a fact sheet available on Youth Data: In 2014 25% of our 12th graders in ESD reported using e-cigs or vaporizers and 21% of 10th graders. It’s larger compared to smoking. E-cigs is on local and state agenda. Bryce Hackett has been to the state legislature twice this session to bring the youth voice. He talks from a peer perspective. Healthy Eating Update by Sandy Brown: mbrowns@wsu.edu The goal of the Healthy Eating work group is to reach SNAP participants so they are eating more fresh produce. Please feel free to join the work group. Food Insecurity initiative – huge grant in WA – expanding access to produce to SNAP participants – thru farmers markets in season – and frozen in off season – also working with Safeway to provide incentives to purchase more produce … and offering grocery store tours. How can we leverage the funding within the communities? Legislative Brief by Andy Silver: asilver@councilforthehomeless.org For legislative updates reflected by the HLC, Andy referred to page 6 of HLC’s strategy document. Regarding water fountains and on site meals at schools, the House budget is 5 million; yet to see Senate budget … Safe Routes has money in both house & senate Supportive services benefit for Medicaid, (chronically homeless who need supportive services to stay housed using Medicaid) provides for DHS staff to write it; senate version does not include it. E-Cigs: The bill is still alive in the house Clinical Linkages Updates presented by Michael Neill: o'neillm@co.cowlitz.wa.us Another work group of the HLC has been formed called Clinical Linkages. Michael reported this day to be an anniversary. A year ago was identification of 3 sites; and now we have 26 trained CHWs and are getting started within each of those communities. Quarterly Communication Report HLC will produce a quarterly communication report before each HLC meeting. You can also see updates at the website by subscribing to the RSS feed. A quarterly newsletter is in the works for June.