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Minutes
Deschutes County Health Services
Public Health Advisory Board (PHAB)
November 5, 2024
12:00 – 2:00PM
Stan Owen Room, Health Services Building
2577 NE Courtney Dr., Bend
LUNCH PROVIDED
Housekeeping
Gathering and Lunch
Introductions – Your name, who you represent, what do you hope to
accomplish today? – Rob Ross
Rob – guidelines for attendance and
Tom – strategic direction and a good vision
Sharity – How can I better support the board
Phil Chang – What do we want to focus on?
Ruth – wants to be a voice in the room of diversity
Logan – opportunities for collaboration and how to get the engagement here
Lindsay – learning about opportunities to collaborate and how to maximize
time; being actionable
Erin – collaboration; looking at what our future direction is
Colleen – same goals; want to know more action items
Not Present:
Tammy Pike
Melissa Brewster
Peter Boehm
Heather Kaisner
Purpose of the Retreat – Tom Kuhn
o PHAB be more proactive
o Education on PH Modernization
o Review PHAB survey
o Start working towards establishing committees
Priority Retreat Agenda Items
Public Health Modernization Overview – Tom (see presentation)
o Goals are defined by each community
o Goals are set by the staff of each county, doesn’t have community
input
o Focus on staffing was initially in CD, Prevention and Health
Promotion, and Environmental Health
o Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is also a big focus and shift in DC
PH
o The State gave some examples for goals but gave the counties a
lot of freedom to set their goals
o Accountability metrics are set by the State
o Modernization funding will go forward indefinitely with the
Accountability Metrics; want to make sure we are doing that work
o Statewide Goals = Modernization Accountability Metrics
o Funding distribution has changed, which means that local PH has
suffered because they have gotten less and less
o The argument for adding CBOs to the distribution was that it was
thought they could reach more of the population
o Lots of work to make the compliment work of CBOs and DCPH
more evident
o PHAB members showed a lot of interest in CBOs and other
modernization issues; more info to come
o We need legislative advocacy from PHAB!
PHAB Survey Results and Themes – Tom Kuhn & Rob
o 2 or fewer:
o Local faith based community
o Tribal serving organizations
o Communications (marketing)
o Local government
o Minorities serving organization
o Youth serving organizations
o Internal presentations of Health Topics
o Areas of expertise PHAB should think of adding:
Robust feedback from the survey around who should be
recruited from different organizations
o How can we utilize groups when everyone is stretched very thin
and maybe don’t have time to attend meetings
o Connecting PHAB and BHAB would be beneficial for being taken
seriously by the BOCC
Membership Expectations – Rob
o Please let us know if you can’t attend (Miss 3 or more that is a
reason to kick you off, but we haven’t kept to that)
o Please help us recruit!
Establish Committees – Tom
o Legislative Leads (in alignment with BOCC)
Identify potential legislative priorities
Develop written and oral testimony
o Colleen
o By-Laws/Membership committee (informed by PHAB Survey Results)
Review of membership criteria and recommendations for updates
Discuss potential changes to by-laws regarding attendance and
participation
o This needs the most work
o Sara; Rob
o Public Health Budget Advocacy – Tom w/ Heather Kaisner
Assign leads (should include at least one chair)
Present to BOCC when appropriate
o If you want to be involved, contact Tom
PHAB Retreat Takeaways for 2025:
PHAB Development Workgroup (Rob Ross & Sarah Baron)
o Work with Tom to assess current PHAB membership and gaps. (refer to survey
results; follow up to ask for specific affiliations.)
o Identify list of “seats” and identify gaps
o Identify recruitment priorities
o Revisions to bylaws
Define “seats” if appropriate
Increase number of PHAB members if needed
Attendance / proxy bylaws
o Make recommendations to PHAB
Legislative and Advocacy Workgroup (Commissioner Chang and Colleen Sinsky)
o Advocacy in alignment with Commissioners
o Public Health Modernization is the main Legislative Priority
o Work with Tom to identify Legislative priorities (info from CLHO)
o Develop written and oral testimony with support from Tom
Public Health Budget Advocacy (Rob Ross as Chair plus others as needed)
o Program areas in need of advocacy will be brought to PHAB
o When needed, meet with Commissioners to advocate
Workgroup to identify areas of overlap between PHAB and BHAB (Lindsay Atagi)
o Push this back out a few months
o Colleen Sinsky to participate only if it’s about homelessness
New PHAB member orientation
o To be initially developed by Tom
o Tom will meet with PHAB volunteers to review proposed orientation
Adjourn