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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPHAB 04-04-23 minutes Deschutes County Health Services Public Health Advisory Board (PHAB) Minutes Minutes April 4, 2023 12:00 – 1:30pm Facilitator Rob Ross, MD, PHAB Chair Staff Coordinator Tom Kuhn, Community Health Manager Scribe Aimee Burroughs Next Meeting May 2, 2023 Topic and Lead New Agenda Item! Gathering and Mingle Introductions Roundtable Rob Ross & Tom Kuhn Approval of February Minutes Peter motioned and Steve seconded. February minutes approved. Announcements and Unfinished Business  Legislative update Tom shared the legislative updates. Tom testified in front of the committee and requested $150million for modernization; Governor currently has it at $50million. House bill 3090 bans flavored Vape products and Tom was able to ghostwrite a letter for Commissioners to move forward. Work session; there are some amendments that were passed yesterday and opened up certain restrictions to vape products not a full ban. Bill 2574, makes post-HIV exposure prophylactic’s more available. Tom ghostwrite a letter in support and Dr. Fawcett testified at the meeting as well. With people coming off OHP there needs to be a softer place to land after the redetermination with some additional funding. There are lots of people over the 200% poverty level that will lose their access to OHP services. Colleen asked Kristen from PacificSource to come and speak with us for an update.  Member Appointment updates 4 new members will go before the commissioners tomorrow so hopefully will be confirmed tomorrow.  Health Heroes update Tom will circle back with everyone regarding awards. “To promote and protect the health and safety of our community.” Updated 1/30/24 Public Health Workforce – American Rescue Plan Highlights Sarah Baron, MPH, EdD, Assistant Professor, COCC Presentation Link: April 2023 Report APR Presentation Expanding PH Workforce-DRAFT.pptx (dropbox.com) American Rescue Plan This was the proposal that was submitted to the Commissioners and the plan focuses on creating a sustainable local public health career education path and career development. Reality of how are we supporting local peer support specialists and figuring out how we build that up in central Oregon. Public health education and career development COCC is creating educational pathways for Public Health. Focusing on the internships that can transfer into AA credits. Wants to get the other universities connected so that every Oregon school can be involved. COCC have done 60 trainings; they worked and people were hired from these trainings. Healthy Schools is working with the COCC classes currently. Scholarships, trainings and classes are seeing immediate results. Internships in PH areas Erin shared that they worked with different entities in the county. Interviewed 4 interns and 2 that matched with advance care planning; really worked well having a true project not just data entry. Big learning moment was that the age of the interns and so many of them were returning students or adults coming back to education with lots of life and job experience. Internships: Are they worth it? Heather started the conversation with the challenge at the county level is getting interns on- boarded. There have been times when having interns has been so helpful and amazing and really contributed to County work. What are the projects and how are they meaningful for both parties. That has been a challenge in the past and what needs to be addressed for an internship program to be successful. Once of the challenges is that BH has a very specialized dialed in internship program and PH does not. We don’t have the same requirements that are specifically public health and that are direct client related. Colleen lamented that with her organization, she isn’t sure what a student could learn and produce in a 10 week period. Ideas: Logan has a massive list of projects but wants to match the correct student with the right project and that they are passionate. Mentioned having a vetting process where potential interns match to projects with their interests so that students are applying for the project not the organization. COCC is now doing certificate of completion in Community Health, Advisory board guiding the certificate, which takes 1 year to complete “To promote and protect the health and safety of our community.” Updated 1/30/24 OHA/PacificSource are supporting Development of a Traditional Health Worker Summit Regional Workforce Summit Round table sessions, networking, good opportunity Target audience for this is going to be both the worker and the people developing the trainings for these workers. PHAB Priorities – Recommendations for Process Moving Forward Tom Kuhn & Priorities Committee Members  Identifying priorities Priorities subcommittee met and thought it was time to overhaul the priorities. We should have guidelines and processes in place to identify a priority.  Operationalizing priorities The group proposed changing how we operationalize our priorities. We will discuss again when there are more members here (June). Colleen suggested selecting priorities that surface organically in the community in order to be more timely and responsive. Adjourn 1:33pm In Attendance: Tom Kuhn Sarah Baron Heather Kaisner Dr Rob Ross Dr Peter Boehm Colleen Sinsky Steve Strang Dr. Logan Clausen Anne Kilty Erin Collins (Aimee Burroughs) “To promote and protect the health and safety of our community.” Updated 1/30/24