Midyear Meeting

June 16-17, 2015 • Hotel at Old Town, Wichita, KS

Looking to the Future Setting Priorities

AccommodationsHotel at Old Town 830 East FirstWichita, Kansas 67202(316) 267-4800www.hotelatoldtown.com

The 2015 Midyear Meeting is held at the Hotel at Old Town. The landmark 1906 building-recognized by its iconic cupola-has been transformed into a Victorian-era showcase. Elegant, turn-of-the-century style furnishings are complemented by inviting amenities. Complimentary wireless internet is available in the conference center and is not password protected. Garage and lot parking is free for conference attendees. Check out is noon. If you have any questions about the Hotel at Old Town please call 316-267-4800.

Nursing Continuing EducationTo request approval for Nursing Continuing Education credits complete and submit an Individual Offering Approval Form available at http://www.ksbn.org/cne/ioa.pdf. Additionally, the following materials available through the conference description on Kansas TRAIN must be provided; learning objectives, detailed agenda, and certificate of completetion. For more information, visit www.ksbn.org or call 785-296-3782.

Sign-In SheetsFor KALHD and Kansas TRAIN record-keeping purposes, we ask that all meeting attendees sign the pre-formatted sign-in sheets. All registered users are listed on the sheet with a space provided for a signature. In addition to signing the general session sheet during registration, attendees are required to sign-in for breakout sessions. Participants’ signatures serve as record of attendance and provide verification in the Kansas TRAIN system to attendees who wish to receive a certificate of attendance. Questions or comments can be sent to Heather.Richardson@kalhd.org.

Meeting EvaluationsEvaluations for the 2015 KALHD Midyear Meeting will be available on Kansas TRAIN beginning Monday, June 22. Questions or comments can be sent to Heather.Richardson@kalhd.org.

Public Health Leadership SeriesThe Purpose of the Local Public Health Leadership Series is to enhance the ability of local public health department staff to exercise leadership in the delivery of public health services to Medicaid-eligible residents in their communities. The series provides participants with a place to learn leadership principles and experiment with different ways of work-individually and together-to create meaningful community change.

The 2014-2015, four-part series was held in Wichita and Ottawa. Twenty-five public health professionals are being recognized for their commitment to strengthening the public health system by continuing their own professional development journey.

Congratulations to the following Public Health Leadership Series Graduates:

Lisa Ross Riley County Health Department Paula Bitter Russell County Health Department Pamela Guldner Rice County Health DepartmentChris Friederich Dickinson County Health DepartmentHeather Peterson Reno County Health DepartmentJan Scheideman Riley County Health DepartmentDavid Brazil City- Cowley County Health DepartmentShelly Schneider Barton County Health DepartmentMolly Brown Reno County Health DepartmentCindy Mott Riley County Health Department Jolene Croxell Lawrence-Douglas County Health DepartmentKim Ens Lawrence-Douglas County Health DepartmentTorri Nobo Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department Shelley Hays Riley County Health Department Breva Spencer Riley County Health DepartmentGail Chalman Riley County Health Department Jason Orr Riley County Health Department April Harter Butler County Health Department Mary Taylor Johnson County Health Department James Joerke Johnson County Health DepartmentLaura Wood Crawford County Health Department Heather Richardson KALHDRichard Brewington Johnson County Health DepartmentJulie Lowrance Franklin County Health DepartmentPatti West Franklin County Health Department

Day 1, June 16, 20157:30 AM - 8:00 AM

Breakfast and RegistrationConference Center Hallway

8:00 AM - 8:15 AMWelcome Presented by KALHD Executive Director Michelle Ponce, M.P.A.Keen Kutter Rooms A/B

8:15 AM - 9:30 AMDeveloping an Advocacy Agenda to Strengthen the Public Health SystemPresented by Jerry Jones and Rachel Marsh, J.D., M.S.W.Keen Kutter Rooms A/B

9:30 AM - 9:45 AM BREAK

9:45 AM - 10:45 AMDeveloping an Advocacy Agenda to Strengthen the Public Health SystemPresented by Jerry Jones and Rachel Marsh, J.D., M.S.W.Keen Kutter Rooms A/B

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM BREAK

11:00 AM - 12:00 PMDeveloping an Advocacy Agenda to Strengthen the Public Health SystemPresented by Jerry Jones and Rachel Marsh, J.D., M.S.W.Keen Kutter Rooms A/B

12:00 PM - 1:45 PMLunch Presentation: PHEP Planning for Routine vs. Novel EventsPresented by Lt. Col. David YoungKeen Kutter Room D (lunch buffet available at 12:00, presentation will begin at 12:30)

1:45 PM - 2:00 PM BREAK

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Breakout 1: The Media as a Community Engagement ToolPresented by Jason Probst, Bryan Thompson, J. Schafer, Phil CauthonConvened by Anne GrayKeen Kutter Rooms A/B

Breakout 2: Effective Meeting Management; The Tips and Tricks of the (Facilitation) TradePresented by Sonj Armbruster, M.A., and Vanessa Lohf, L.B.S.W.Convened by Barb JohannsenKeen Kutter Room CBreakout 3: Multijurisdictional Sharing Arrangements: What We Have LearnedPresented by Gianfranco Pezzino, M.D., M.P.H., and Jennifer Boden, M.A.Convened by Lougene MarshSimmons Rooms A/B

3:15 PM - 3:35 PM BREAK

3:35 PM - 4:50 PM

Breakout 1: The Media as a Community Engagement ToolPresented by Jason Probst, Bryan Thompson, J. Schafer, Phil CauthonConvened by Janice PowersKeen Kutter Rooms A/BBreakout 2: Effective Meeting Management; The Tips and Tricks of the (Facilitation) TradePresented by Sonj Armbruster. M.A., and Vanessa Lohf, L.B.S.W.Convened by Brenda NickelKeen Kutter Room C

Breakout 3: Multijurisdictional Sharing Arrangements: What We Have LearnedPresented by Gianfranco Pezzino, M.D., M.P.H., and Jennifer Boden, M.A.Convened by Pat HunterSimmons Rooms A/B

Day 2, June 17, 20157:30 AM - 8:00 AM

Breakfast and RegistrationConference Center Hallway

8:00 AM - 8:15 AMWelcomePresented by KALHD President Lougene MarshKeen Kutter Rooms A/B

8:15 AM - 10:00 AMKALHD Discussion: Definition of a Strong LHDPresented by Michelle Ponce, M.P.A., and Sonja Armbruster, M.A.Keen Kutter Rooms A/B

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM BREAK

10:15 AM - 11:00 AMKALHD Discussion: Definition of a Strong LHD - Next StepsPresented by Michelle Ponce, M.P.A., and Sonja Armbruster, M.A.Keen Kutter Rooms A/B

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM BREAK

11:15 AM - 12:15 PM

PHEP: Discussion and Overview over Dispense Assist and Inventory Management and Tracking SystemPresented by Laura Ross and Gary MartinKeen Kutter Rooms A/B

12:15 PM - 1:30 PMLunchPublic Health Leadership Series AwardsKeen Kutter Room D

1:30 PM - 3:30 PMKALHD Business MeetingKeen Kutter Rooms A/B

Session InformationDeveloping an Advocacy Agenda to Strengthen the Public Health SystemPresenters: Jerry Jones and Rachel Marsh, J.D., M.S.W.

Jerry Jones serves as executive director of the Community Health Council of Wyandotte County (CHC). CHC is a 501(c)3 leadership collaborative of local hospitals, safety net clinics, public health departments, health foundations and academic research institutions that is committed to improving the healthcare experience and community health outcomes.

Since joining CHC in 2013, Jerry has fostered a new era of communication coordination and collaboration among health improvement stakeholders in Wyandotte County. Enroll Wyandotte was launched from the CHC in the summer of 2013 in response to the need for educational outreach and enrollment assistance into the Health Insurance Marketplace. Since October 2013, Enroll Wyandotte has successfully helped to reduce the population of uninsured residents in the county by over 33%. Enroll Wyandotte’s efforts have been peer reviewed, and Jerry’s co-authored piece on Enroll Wyandotte is currently featured in the July 2015 edition of the American Journal of Public Health.

In addition to Enroll Wyandotte, Jerry is directing the CDC/KDHE 1422 grant to reduce diabetes, heart disease, and stroke in Wyandotte County.

Jerry’s relationship with public health spans over 9 years, including collaboration with the Kansas City, MO Health Department on the Community Transformation Grant and currently as the co-coordinator of Healthy Communities Wyandotte in Kansas City, KS.

Rachel Marsh serves as the executive director of Community Engagement and Legal Services for Saint Francis Community Services, an organization that seeks to strengthen Kansas families through child welfare and related programs. In her current role, Rachel works to integrate the connections between service delivery, court and community needs, and advocacy efforts. Rachel has practiced in communities across the state as a liaison and advocate between court personnel, community members, and social workers for Saint Francis Community Services for nearly 10 years. Rachel serves as a member of the Juvenile Offender/Child in Need of Care Advisory Committee for the Kansas Judicial Council. Before joining Saint Francis, Rachel worked in Wichita, Kansas as a family lawyer, an adoption case manager, and as a human resource director with a community mental health center. She also taught social work students and researched human rights issues in Kathmandu, Nepal. A native Kansan, Rachel received her law and social work degrees in 2000 from Washington University in St. Louis.

Session Information:In this session, participants will reflect on the connections between public health and advocacy. The interactive discussion will help participants explore the advocacy mindset, understand the tool of power analysis, and think strategically about developing an advocacy agenda.

Learning Objectives:Participants will • reflect on the relationship between local public health departments and public policy

development, • learn and practice power analysis as a tool for assessing the advocacy landscape, and• understand how to develop a strategic advocacy agenda within resource-limited environments.

PHEP Planning for Routine vs. Novel EventsPresenters: Lt. Col. Dave Young

Lieutenant Colonel Dave Young is the director of the Integrated Initiatives Office in the Kansas Adjutant General’s Department. In this role, he is responsible for strategic analysis, forecasting, and the development of future homeland security concepts for Kansas.

Prior to his current assignment, Young served as the special assistant for Continuity of Operations in the Office of Secretary of Defense. Previous to that assignment, he was selected to work on the Space Shuttle Columbia Accident Investigation Board as the deputy assistant to the chairman for Government Relations. Young received a master’s degree in speech communication at Kansas State University and a master’s degree in homeland security/terrorism studies from American Military University.

His nonmilitary experience includes positions in the governor’s office, lieutenant governor’s office, secretary of state’s office, Senate majority leader’s office and the United States Senate. He was a member of the 2011 Leadership Kansas class.

Learning Objectives:Participants will• gain an understanding of the differences between routine and novel situations and how those

differences affect problem solving approaches and success,• learn how novel situations alter how we manage risk, and• learn the reasons why this concept is increasingly important in a complex and highly networked

world.

The Media as a Community Engagement ToolPresenters: Jason Probst, Bryan Thompson, J. Schafer, Phil Cauthon

Jason Probst has been a writer and editor with the Hutchinson News since 2002, where he produces a variety of copy, including narrative features, detailed “hard news” stories and opinion pieces; supervises a 14-person staff of reporters, online editors, and news clerks; led the launch of several new products, including websites, advertising inserts, and books; works with a team of reporters and designers to create enterprise projects; and managed integration of online reporting to traditional print newsroom. Jason was awarded the Kansas Press Association Award of Excellence in 2006, 2012, and 2013 and a Kansas Correctional Association Media Award in 2006. Jason has a bachelor’s degree in mananagement from Baker University.

Bryan Thompson covers health issues -particularly in rural and western Kansas- for KHI News Service. Prior to that, he was Kansas Public Radio’s Health Reporter for almost 15 years. He’s a lifelong Kansan and a graduate of Wichita State University. Bryan spent more than 20 years serving as news director at radio stations in El Dorado, Liberal, and Salina before joining KPR. He and his wife, Cindy, are the parents of six outstanding children--one of whom now looks down on them from above. In his spare time, Bryan enjoys music and sports.

J. Schafer is the news director of Kansas Public Radio (KPR), at the University of Kansas. He’s also the managing editor of the Kansas Public Radio Network, which provides news and information to other public radio stations in Kansas and Missouri.

Before joining KPR in 1995, he spent 10 years as a commercial radio and TV newsman. During his career, he has filed stories for nearly every major radio news network in the nation including ABC, NBC, CBS, AP, UPI, the Mutual Broadcasting System, NPR, and the BBC.

He also worked for the U.S. State Department, traveling to central Asia to teach broadcast journalism at newly independent radio stations in the former Soviet Union. He produces feature stories, interviews, and newscast items for KPR and helps edit the work of other news staffers. One of his passions is Kansas; learning about and promoting the state’s rich heritage, people, and accomplishments.

A native of Great Bend, Kansas, he studied journalism and mass communications at Barton County Community College and at the University of Kansas. He was also an exchange student to Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany. The “J.” in J. Schafer stands for Jeremy, but he doesn’t really care for that name. Besides, he enjoys the pretentiousness of just using an initial for a first name!

Phil Cauthon is responsible for overseeing all communications for the Sunflower Foundation. This primarily includes capturing the stories behind the foundation’s grants by focusing on Sunflower grantees’ work and its effect on their communities. Phil is also responsible for informing the public of the foundation’s priorities, building relationships, sharing the personal perspective and culture behind staff members’ work, and developing the foundation’s social media presence.

Education: Bachelor of Arts degrees in Spanish and International Politics & Economics and a Master of Science degree in Journalism — all from the University of Kansas.

Session Information:This session will provide an overview of the interests and needs of journalists and how to craft a compelling story in order to provide information to the public in order to promote understanding

of the policies and strategies employed by local public health departments to improve population health via the media.

Learning Objectives:Participants will learn• how to tell compelling stories that will garner the interest of journalists and their audiences,• pitfalls to avoid when developing and pitching a story, and• effective communication strategies to employ when working with the media.

Effective Meeting Management; The Tips and Tricks of the (Facilitation) TradePresenters: Sonja Armbruster, M.A., Vanessa Lohf, L.B.S.W.

Sonja is the director of public health initiatives for the Center for Community Support and Research (CCSR) at Wichita State University. Sonja joined CCSR in May of 2013 to coordinate a new initiative aimed at strengthening the public health system in Kansas. Previously, she worked at the Sedgwick County Health Department where she served in a number of administrative roles, including program and policy development, health promotion program management, development of the strategic plan and performance management system, supervision of the QI and accreditation preparation efforts, and leadership of MAPP (community health assessment). There, Sonja was active in a number of national efforts such as the National Association of County and City Health Officials MAPP Workgroup, which oversees the national model for community health assessment and improvement planning and serving as a site visitor for the Public Health Accreditation Board.

Her formal education includes a Bachelor of Arts in secondary education and a Master of Arts in communication, both from Wichita State University.

Vanessa currently serves as a project specialist for the Public Health Initiatives Team at the Center for Community Support & Research at Wichita State University. A proud graduate of the WSU School of Social Work, she brings over 22 years of experience in direct service, administrative and training roles at organizations that include the Kansas Department for Children and Families, United Way of the Plains, Child Start, and EmberHope.

As a facilitator, Vanessa has worked with a wide variety of nonprofit organizations and community coalitions across the state who serve Kansans of all ages and abilities. Her work focuses on the many facets of organizational development, including collaborative processes for strategic thinking, outcome development, nonprofit board skill building, and peer learning.

Session Information and Learning Objectives:Who hasn’t experienced “death by meeting” sometime in their life? Whether it’s catching up with your team’s ongoing projects or pulling together members of the community to work on a tough issue, meetings should be well organized, engaging, and a productive use of everyone’s time.

In this interactive and skill-building session, participants will learn how to• discuss elements of effective internal and community-based meetings, and• introduce resources and tools that participants can immediately implement to improve the

quality of meetings, no matter what size and who attends.

Multijurisdictional Sharing Arrangements: What We Have LearnedPresenters: Gianfranco Pezzino, M.D., M.P.H., and Jennifer Boden, M.A.

Gianfranco Pezzino, M.D., M.P.H., senior fellow and strategy team leader, joined the Kansas Health Institute (KHI) in 2004. He oversees KHI’s work on public health services and systems.

Gianfranco’s work focuses on the development and dissemination of best practices for the organization, financing, and delivery of public health services. This work includes supporting local public health departments in their preparation for national accreditation and contributing to the field of applied public health services and systems research.

Gianfranco co-directs the Center for Sharing Public Health Services, a multiyear, multimillion dollar national initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation which focuses on cross-jurisdictional sharing as a strategy to create efficiencies in public health.

Gianfranco has international health experience and served as state epidemiologist and medical director for the bioterrorism program with the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. During this time, he was president of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists.

In addition to his work at KHI, Gianfranco serves as the Shawnee County, Kansas health officer and is a site visitor for the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB). He also serves on the Board of the Family Service and Guidance Center, a community mental health center for children. Gianfranco obtained his medical degree magna cum laude at the University of Bologna, Italy, and his master’s degree in public health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is a fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine, is board-certified in preventive medicine and public health, and is certified in evaluation practice from George Washington University.

Jennifer Boden, M.A., analyst, joined the Kansas Health Institute in 2014, specializing in applied econometrics and secondary data analysis. Before joining KHI, Jennifer was an economics instructor for the University of Kansas. Most recently, she worked as a graduate research assistant for the Institute of Policy and Social Research as a doctoral candidate at the University of Kansas. In this capacity, she managed and analyzed large cross-sectional and longitudinal datasets for discrimination, unemployment, and immigration projects. Jennifer earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of Northern Iowa and a master’s degree in economics from the University of Kansas.

Session Information:During this session, we will review the rationale for shared services and introduce resources from the Center for Sharing Public Health Services. Additionally, participants will engage in an interactive discussion of the success factors for each of the Kansas shared services case studies that have been conducted to date. Finally, participants will have the chance to brainstorm advantages, opportunities, and challenges to developing a shared services arrangement in their own organization.

Learning Objectives:Participants will• gain an understanding of the advantages, disadvantages, opportunities and barriers of different

models for sharing services for public health; • gain the ability to describe at least two governance structures for public health shared services;

and • gain an understanding of the factors that can facilitate or impede the success of sharing projects.

KALHD Discussion: Definition of a Strong LHDPresenters: Michelle Ponce, M.P.A., and Sonja Armbruster, M.A.

Session Information:In 2014, the KALHD board of directors set a goal of developing a membership-driven definition of a strong local health department. Having a unified message regarding what public health is and what public health does strengthens the collective voice that the association has to advocate on behalf of its members. During the spring of 2015, a facilitated discussion was held at each of the KALHD district meetings that included (1) a review of member agency mission statements, (2) the drivers of the work conducted by local health departments, (3) concerns about sustainability of the current public health system, and (4) the value that local health departments provide to their communities. During this session, we will have an interactive dialogue that will further explore these themes, clarify the audience we are attempting to address, reflect on the “sameness” of local health departments in Kansas, and discuss the purpose and need for development of a unified message. The goal of the session is to gain sufficient feedback from the membership to craft an ongoing definition and communication strategy to be used by KALHD and its members.

PHEP: Discussion and Overview over Dispense Assist and Inventory Management and Tracking SystemPresenters: Presented by Laura Ross and Gary Martin

Laura Ross is the medical countermeasure program manager at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment in Topeka, Kansas. Laura acts as the coordinator for the Strategic National Stockpile program at the state level. She manages and is the administrator for the medical countermeasure inventory management system, Countermeasure Response Administration (CRA).

Laura graduated with a degree in Biology and a degree in Chemistry from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. She started her career at Kansas Department of Health and Environment in the Neonatal Chemistry. She moved into preparedness in 2014 when she moved into the position as the State Training Coordinator. She moved into her current role in 2014.

Gary Martin is the Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Cities Readiness Initiative Program Manager for the Johnson County Department of Health and Environment in Johnson County, Kansas. He manages the emergency planning, training and exercise, risk communication, and cities readiness initiative staff in the public health emergency preparedness program.

Gary has a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Kansas and is a Certified Emergency Health Professional (CHEP). He retired from the Lenexa, Kansas Fire Department after a 20-year career as a Fire Captain and EMT. Before coming to Johnson County, he was the emergency preparedness manager for the University of Kansas Hospital Authority in Kansas City, Kansas for 5years.

Session Information:Once medical countermeasures (MCM) arrive at the state from the Strategic National Stockpile, they need to be inventoried and broken down into shipments to go to dispensing sites. Once at the dispensing sites, the MCMs need to be given to the public and tracked through local inventory management systems that collect important demographic data on the patient. Currently, the state of Kansas and local health departments use Countermeasure Response Administration (CRA) as their inventory management system. This discussion will give a brief overview of two mass dispensing inventory management systems, Dispense Assist and Inventory Management and Tracking System (IMATS), which working in tandem, may provide a more robust tracking system for the state and local health departments.

Learning Objectives:Participants will• gain the knowledge to discuss the key elements of the inventory management systems Dispense

Assist (DA) and Inventory Management and Tracking System (IMATS), and• gain the ability to compare the inventory management systems with products already in place,

notably the Countermeasure and Response Administration (CRA).