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Program Plan for the Development of Future Public Health Leaders the Teaching Health Department Amanda C. Mehl, RN, MPH, Administrator, Boone County Health Department Lynden Schuyler, MBA, MPH Public Health Prevent. Promote. Protect.

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Public Health

  • Prevent. Promote. Protect.

Boone County Health Department

Amanda C. Mehl, RN, MPH, Administrator, Boone County Health Department Lynden Schuyler, MBA, MPH CDC PHAP

Program Plan for the Development of Future Public Health Leaders – the Teaching Health Department

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Public Health

  • Prevent. Promote. Protect.

Boone County Health Department

Snapshot of Boone County, IL

  • The county covers an area of 280.72 square

miles, 2/3rds of which are rural

  • One third of Boone County’s population

between the ages of 18 and 34 are minorities (49% in the Health Professional Shortage Areas).

  • Boone County’s median income is $32,832.
  • According to the 2010

U.S. Census, the population was 54,367

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Population Snapshot of Boone County, IL

  • 12.75% have been determined to

have an income below the poverty line.

  • 22.8% of Boone County’s children

living in poverty

  • 31.5% of families are dependent
  • n SNAP or other public benefits.
  • In 2014, 43% of Belvidere students

were on the Free and Reduced Lunch Program increasing to 57% by 2016.

  • A recent study shows that 11% of

Boone County residents are food insecure with 21.2% of children are food insecure.

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Boone County Health Department

  • 17 full and part-time

employees

  • 20+ programs in Personal

and Environmental Health

  • RNs, LEHPs, health

inspectors, CHPs, case managers, emergency response staff, epi/data staff, breastfeeding pc, financial, and clerical staff

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Boone County Health Department

  • 2016 tax levy was 22.6%, down from 29% in 2012, a reduction of $60,000 in 5
  • years. In 2016, that levy was barely enough to cover operating expenses and

equipment.

  • 43% comes from grants

$237,263 $184,171 $63,201 $63,382 $1,442 $452,020 $49,507

2016

Local Taxes Permits, Licenses & Other Env. Services Health Protection Grant Clinic Fees Interest on Investments Program Grants Federal Funds for Service $296,966 $153,547 $62,569 $59,972 $4,424 $414,791 $32,486

2012

$1,025,007 $1,050,986

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# THE STRUGGLE IS REAL!

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As long as the water is clean, epidemics aren’t raging, and it’s safe to eat in a restaurant, the health department is invisible.

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“When we talk about the future of public health, it’s not just about shifting numbers; it’s about a new way of doing the work of public health.”

— Richard Hofrichter, Senior Director, Health Equity, National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO)

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What does it mean to find a new way

  • f doing the business of public

health?

  • Look beyond your own walls
  • Set new places at the table
  • Step out from behind the curtain
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How does it come together?

Students Projects Health Departments Academic Institutions

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Look beyond your own walls

  • Build partnerships with colleges, universities, nursing schools,

business schools

  • Build public health’s version of the teaching hospital/medical school

partnership

  • Create memos of understanding or contracts with educational

institutions

  • Don’t just limit your intern search to one particular field such as

public health or nursing students

  • Look to lessons learned through the Academic Health

Department (AHD) Learning Community which is a national community designed to support the development, maintenance, and expansion of partnerships

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For the learning institution

  • Contracts with area universities for practicum and capstone

projects fostering, coordinating, and monitoring collaboration among the academic, public health practice, and healthcare communities

  • Partnerships with hospitals and nursing schools to provide “a

day in the life of a public health nurse” as well as outreach

  • pportunities and hands-on practice promoting public health

education and training for health professionals throughout their careers

  • Developing and advancing innovative strategies to build

and strengthen public health infrastructure.

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Setting New Places at the Table: What it means for your Health Department

  • Provides time for staff development
  • Builds staff morale and interdepartmental team work
  • A think tank is created with new perspectives
  • Increased capacity to conduct ongoing assessment
  • Support for program innovations
  • Much like interns in a hospital, being a “teaching”

health department expands your workforce and resources along with your ability to do the work

  • f public health in a new way.
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What it means for the students

  • An opportunity to do real-world projects and gain real work

experience.

– Program development – PHAB – Data collection – GIS Mapping – Strategic Planning – Marketing – MAPP/IPLAN – Outreach

  • Provides practice-based education and

professional development

  • Creates a more knowledgeable future generation of

public health professionals

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What it means for the community

Being a teaching health department means greater outreach

  • pportunities through additional resources, but it also provides an
  • pportunity to teach the community about public health so as to

combat our own invisibility

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Let’s do an exercise

  • Make a list of projects and as well as essential

services that you just don’t have time for. (take a few minutes)

  • Anybody want to share?
  • How many of these could be accomplished by an

intern with little or no supervision.

  • What resources do you have available to fish for

interns?

  • Are you willing to try something new?
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Partnership Schools

List of Colleges, universities and nursing schools in Illinois and surrounding areas. These are some of the schools with whom we have partnerships.

  • Rock Valley College ADN Program
  • NIU BSN, MPH, and BS in Public Health programs
  • OSF RN-BSN, BSN, and NP Program
  • Rockford University
  • Rasmussen College
  • UIC School of Public Health
  • Utah State University Dietetic Internship Rotation
  • Beloit College, WI
  • Tulane University, LA
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Step Out from Behind the Curtain

  • Engage community in a concept of health

beyond not being sick.

  • Promote health and wellness in the

community through professional development forums and community conversations in partnership with the area hospitals and clinics.

  • Become a health resource for all community members. When

possible, utilize your intern to expand your reach and influence

  • In all things, engage in advocacy
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Final words

  • It’s not just about free labor. It’s about:

– Meaningful work – Increasing capacity – Collaboration

  • Remember you are working with tomorrow’s public health leaders.
  • Students offer valuable insight and assistance to the development
  • f programs plus an outside perspective.
  • Students offer eager talent to facilitate community projects and

programs.

  • It will take some planning and coordination on your part for this

to be successful.

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Before you say NO!

  • They wander around
  • They have no direction
  • We don’t know what they are

interested in

  • They aren’t dependable
  • They quit after a week
  • All they do is play with their phones
  • How do you get them to work?
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We accommodate the dreams of

  • thers.

Lynden Schuyler, MBA, MPH CDC Public Health Associate Boone County Health Department 1204 Logan Ave. Belvidere, IL 61008 sschuyler@boonehealth.org 815-547-8388

www.boonehealth.org

Amanda C. Mehl, RN, MPH Public Health Administrator Boone County Health Department 1204 Logan Ave. Belvidere, IL 61008 amehl@boonehealth.org 815-547-8591

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References:

Academic Health Department Learning Community. http://www.phf.org/programs/AHDLC/Pages/AHD_Mentorship_Program.aspx American Community Survey, U.S. census, https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs John Auerbach, Trust For America’s Health, April 2017, A Funding Crisis for Public Health and Safety: State-by-State Public Health Funding and Key Health Facts, April 2017 Boone County Health Department Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Richard Hofrichter, Senior Director, Health Equity, National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO), 2016 Sarah M. Martin-Anderson, William Snook and Elizabeth Walsh, November 2016, Answering Who We Serve: Battling the "Invisibility Curse" of Public Health NAACHO, 2010 National profile of Local Health Departments National Institutes of Health Trust For America’s Health (TFAH) and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), Investing in America's Health: A State-by-State Look at Public Health Funding and Key Health Facts, April 2013 US Census, 2010.