Collective Impact for County & Neighborhood Health (CINCH)

STAFF AND COMMITTEE REPORTS August 15, 2012

Coordinator’s Report  The Lead Team (Michelle Melendez, Lora Church and Michelle Skrupskis), along with staff Marsha McMurray-Avila, Tracy McDaniel and Enrique Cardiel, met with Vince Murphy, Deputy County Manager for Community Services on July 23rd. Marsha presented a brief overview of the Health Council’s history and function along with examples of past successes and current projects in the context of the 10 essential services of public health. Lead Team members each commented on how the Health Council benefits their work and what they offer in return. Enrique shared information on his activities with Urban Health Extension and extended an invitation for a visit to the International District.  The Lead Team met on Friday, August 3rd to discuss options for using the monthly meeting to move us forward in the process of updating the County Health Profile. Also discussed was revising the job description of the previous Youth Coordinator position which was vacated in March. Current possibilities include changing the position to be a Health Promotion Specialist with a special focus on communications and messaging.  The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has awarded $3.11 million to the Santa Fe Community Foundation for a statewide Health Equity Partnership. (This was the proposal that Marsha worked on with Jerry Montoya and Kitty Richards.) The 3-year award will support three components: the NM Alliance of Health Councils; a statewide Health Impact Assessment (HIA) initiative; and an expansion of Place Matters Teams from the one that exists in Bernalillo County to three additional counties chosen by WKKF – McKinley County, San Juan County and Doña Ana County. The intention is to work toward the eventual establishment of a New Mexico Health Equity Institute that will "dramatically improve the capacity of local communities to address the social and environmental factors that affect their health through community-based initiatives and local policy and systems change, with the ultimate goal of closing the racial/ethnic and geographic health disparities gaps, particularly for vulnerable children." The NM Alliance of Health Councils will have a full-time coordinator who will work in collaboration with coordinators of the other two components. All three coordinators will be employees of the Santa Fe Community Foundation during the 3-year project period (June 1, 2012 – May 31, 2015) and will be supported with full operations budgets funded through WKKF. The overall Health Equity Partnership manager position that will supervise the three coordinators has been posted on the Santa Fe Community Foundation’s website h ttp://www.santafecf.org/ under Job Opportunities in the SFCF News section and was also sent out to the BCCHC distribution list. The other three coordinator positions will be sent out to the distribution list as they are posted.

Collective Impact for County & Neighborhood Health (CINCH)  The CINCH project held its second Training Academy session for the Leadership Team and Advisory Teams on July 26th, focused on strategic communications and messaging with the Media Literacy Project. The third Training Academy session is scheduled for September 7th and will be focused on understanding how policy changes can promote reduction of chronic disease.  Work continues to move forward on the two deliverables due to the CDC at the end of September: the Policy Scan contracted to the UNM Prevention Research Center, and the completion of the health assessment that will serve as a foundation for future planning.

Community Health Improvement Planning – Priority Results Areas

PRIORITY: “ Healthy and sustainable communities where all families and individuals have their basic needs met and prosper.” Economic Democracy – The focus is on living wages in Bernalillo County. There is also currently a petition drive to get an increase of the minimum wage to $8.50. Working America is coordinated that drive and we are awaiting results.

PRIORITY: “Improved health & education outcomes for children/youth from pregnancy to age 25.”

Early Childhood Accountability Partnership (ECAP) – The ECAP Organizing Team met on August 13 to focus on moving forward with the Results-Based Accountability (RBA) process of identifying headline indicators that speak to the issue of school readiness in Bernalillo County children. Once the 3-5 headline indicators are finalized, the full ECAP group will continue the RBA process to look at trends and baselines, stories behind the baselines and what would work to “turn the curve” on those trends. Action plans will then be developed to align activities that work toward the result “All Bernalillo County children will be ready for and succeed in school.”

PRIORITY: “ Improved healthcare access and quality of service for uninsured and indigent populations.”

Bernie Lieving has begun work as the contractor for the summit on opiate abuse and is currently pulling together the planning committee to set up a meeting schedule.

NM Alliance of Health Councils (NMAHC) Members of the NMAHC executive committee met with the DOH Secretary of Health on August 7th to discuss the role of health councils in the DOH process of seeking accreditation. That process will require assessment and planning at the county and tribal level that health councils are particularly experienced in and that could serve as fundable deliverables to restore some of the state funding that was suspended in 2010.

Urban Health Extension Enrique Cardiel continues working on the following activities: o Critical Health Literacy has been used with community members, Pathways Navigators, and there are requests for use at the School of Pharmacy and Dept. of Health. o Participating in the development and instruction of a new course at UNM through OLIT – along with Daryl Smith, Leah Steimel and Leigh Caswell, among others. “This 3-credit course is designed to challenge the student to examine the correlation between the social determinants of health (i.e. the environments in which a person lives, works, plays) and poor health outcomes, focusing on the greater Albuquerque community.” o Facilitating International District Healthy Communities Coalition (IDHCC) in working toward coordinating services and policies to make the International District a great place to raise Happy, Healthy and Safe Children. o Facilitating the Economic Democracy group - the focus is on living wages in Bernalillo County. There is also currently a petition drive to get an increase of the minimum wage to $8.50. Working America is coordinated that drive and we are awaiting results. o Working with SE service providers to seek better ways to support those who are publicly intoxicated. o Participating on the City of Albuquerque's Affordable Housing Committee and the HM1 Task Force for Family Friendly Jobs. o Working to mentor new public health workers and medical providers interested in population health work. o Working on a communications plan entitled “Promoting Community Health in Bernalillo County.” o Supporting the Place Matters Internet Strategies/Community Engagement Team.