Transcript + Kurt Eggebrecht, MEd, MCHES and Laura Sauve, RN

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Kurt Eggebrecht, MEd, MCHES and Laura Sauve, RN
American Public Health Association Conference
October 31, 2011
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Presenter Disclosures
Kurt Eggebrecht and Laura Sauve
The following personal financial relationships
with commercial interests relevant to this
presentation existed during the past 12 months:
No relationships to disclose
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Presentation Overview
 HWLI
Background
 Community
Teams Program Learning Content
 Community
Teams Program Evaluation Results
 Project
Examples: Partnerships, Challenges and
Successes
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Healthy Wisconsin Leadership Institute
The Healthy Wisconsin Leadership Institute is a
continuing education and training resource
supported jointly by the University of Wisconsin
School of Medicine and Public Health’s Wisconsin
Partnership Program and the Medical College of
Wisconsin’s Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin.
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Community Teams Program
What is it?
Continuing education and training for teams who
want to build collaborative leadership and public
health skills as they mobilize to identify and solve
public health problems
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Building and maintaining strong
partnerships
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Policy, environmental and systems
approaches (social ecological model)
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Evidence-based public health
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Project planning, implementation and
evaluation
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Communicating public health
messages
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Inclusiveness
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Grantsmanship
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Sustainability
+ Community Teams Evaluation Results 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 Cohorts
 Pre-post Test,
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individuals reported:
Significantly increased knowledge across all competency areas
covered in program
 Follow-up Interviews,
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Expanded professional roles and responsibilities
 Follow-up Interviews,
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individuals reported (n=20):
85%
teams reported (n=10):
Strengthened partnerships
Increased media coverage
Increased grant funding
Expansion of preventive services and programs
90%
70%
60%
60%
Ceraso et al., J Public Health Management Practice, 2011, 17(4), 344-349.
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Project Examples: Partnerships,
Challenges and Successes
Team Members
Michelle Stellrecht
Lee Vogel
Kurt Eggebrecht
John Weinsheim
Yvonne DeGroot
Dawn Bolwerk
Nancy Whitton
Kathy Verstegen
YMCA of the Fox Cities
Fox Valley Family Medicine
Appleton Health Department
Affinity
ThedaCare
Thrivent Financial Services
Menasha Corporation
Kimberly Area School District
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Wisconsin
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Point of Decision Prompts
 Implemented
to encourage the use of stairs instead
of elevators and escalators.
+2006-07 Initial HWLI Class - Barron
County Safe & Stable Families Coalition
#1 in Methamphetamine
State Crime Lab
Submissions
Team Members
Donna Cordes
Shelley Hammes
Joey Johnson
Erny Heiden
Barb Goffin
Cathy Finseth
Karen Lettner
Laura Sauve
Barron County Board of Supervisors
St. Croix Tribal Behavioral Health Clinic
Children’s Service Society of Wisconsin
Marshfield Clinic Community Outreach
Drug Court Advisory Board
Chetek Area 925 Drug Awareness Committee
Barron Area Schools
Barron County Department of Health & Human
Services
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Learning Content Impact
in Barron County
 The
team shared all information with the full coalition and
county leadership.
 Provided a
common framework to gather data, plan and
evaluate that had been lacking.
 Practiced implementing
a project on a small scale while
working on coalition development and leadership.
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Funding Outcomes in Barron County
 County
leadership recognizes the value of the coalition
and provides staff time
 FUNDING for
Coalition Goals
 2006=$6,000
 2011= $496,000 plus >$150,000 in kind funding from
partners
 State Incentive Grant, Drug Free Communities
Support Program Grant, Healthier Wisconsin
Partnership Program Impact Grant, County Tax Levy,
Radio Sponsorship, Comprehensive Alcohol
ReDuction (CARD) Grant
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Additional Information
HWLI Website: www.hwli.org
HWLI Email: [email protected]