Assuring A Competent Public Health Workforce Clark and Dubois Counties Indiana Local Public Health Workforce Development Mini-Collaborative The Multi-State Learning Collaborative: Lead States in.
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Assuring A Competent Public Health Workforce Clark and Dubois Counties Indiana Local Public Health Workforce Development Mini-Collaborative The Multi-State Learning Collaborative: Lead States in Public Health Quality Improvement is managed by the National Network of Public Health Institutes and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. What is Your Vision of Public Health? C LARK AND D UBOIS C OUNTIES I NSTITUTE OF M EDICINE , 1988 P UBLIC H EALTH I N D ISARRAY !! Chronic underfunding Lack of resources Outdated technology Weakened local public health infrastructure I NSTITUTE OF M EDICINE , 2003 T HE F UTURE OF P UBLIC H EALTH Focus on the Core Functions of Public Health Assessment Policy Development Assurance Have a Vision, a Purpose, and use the 10 Essential Services to guide delivery of your public health practice. T EN E SSENTIAL S ERVICES IN E VERYDAY E NGLISH ES #1 Monitor health status to identify community health problems. What’s going on in my community? How healthy are we? ES #2 Diagnose and investigate health problems and health hazards in the community. Are we ready to respond to health problems or threats in our county? ES #3 Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues. How well do we keep all segments of our community informed about health issues? ES #4 Mobilize community partnerships to identify and solve health problems. How well do we really get people engaged in local health issues? ES #5 Develop policies and plans that support individual and community health efforts. What local policies in both govt. and the private sector promote health in my community? How effective are we in setting local health policies? ES #6 Enforce laws and regulations that protect health and ensure safety. When we enforce health regulations, are we technically competent, fair and effective? ES #7 Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable. Are people in my community receiving the medical care they need? ES #8 Assure a competent public health and personal health care workforce. Do we have a competent public health staff? How can we be sure that our staff is current? ES #9 Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and populationbased health services. Are we doing any good? Are we doing things right? Are we doing the right things? ES #10 Research for new insights and innovative solutions to health problems. Are we discovering and using new ways to get the job done? T HE T EN E SSENTIAL S ERVICES OF P UBLIC H EALTH Essential Service 8 A SSURE A C OMPETENT P UBLIC H EALTH AND H EALTHCARE W ORKFORCE Essential Service 8 W HY S TART W ITH E SSENTIAL S ERVICE 8? Understand who we, the public health workforce, are. Identify important factors that impact our practice. Build our capacity. Maximize our retention and professional growth. Market ourselves!! ES 8 M ODEL S TANDARDS MS 8.1 Workforce Assessment, Planning, and Development Establish a process to periodically determine competencies, composition, and size of local PH workforce. Identify and address gaps Share what is learned with local public health system partners ES 8 M ODEL S TANDARDS MS 8.2 Public Health Workforce Standards Maintain licensure/certification requirements for all personnel. Develop, maintain, and use written job standards and/or position descriptions for all LHD employees. Conduct annual performance evaluations for all LHD staff. ES 8 M ODEL S TANDARDS MS 8.3 Life-Long Learning Through Continuing Education, Training, and Mentoring Identify education and training needs and encourage opportunities for workforce development. Provide opportunities for all staff to develop core public health competencies. Provide incentives for staff to pursue education and training. Provide opportunities for staff to engage in mutually enriching practice/academic partnerships. ES 8 M ODEL S TANDARDS MS 8.4 Public Health Leadership Development Provide formal and informal opportunities for leadership development. Promote collaborative leadership within the local public health system. Assure staff have opportunities to provide leadership in their areas of expertise. Provide opportunities for development of diverse community leadership to assure sustainable public health initiatives. W HAT IS INCLUDED IN E SSENTIAL S ERVICE # 8 ? Education Training Credentialing Performance Evaluation Workforce Assessment Life-long Learning Workplace development programs Partnerships with academia Leadership development G OALS OF E SSENTIAL S ERVICE 8 Develop plans for education Provide continuing education Assess the number of PH and health care workforce Recruit and sustain a diverse workforce Focus on enhancing skills Assure competency through increased knowledge and functioning W HAT A CTIVITIES IN O UR LHD S UPPORT ES 8? Discussion LHD A CTIVITIES I NCLUDED I N E SSENTIAL S ERVICE 8 Sanitarian training Staff meetings Regional Preparedness meetings Contact hours in nursing Drills and TTXs ISDH Conference Calls Certification in Environmental Health Public Health and Medicine Partnership Conference PHSQIP Project MARPHLI Provide PHN experiences for nursing students Learning Management System W HAT A RE Y OUR P ROFESSIONAL G OALS ? Discussion H OW D O W E I MPROVE A S T HE W ORKFORCE OF T HIS L OCAL P UBLIC H EALTH A GENCY ? Discussion INDIANA MLC-3: G ETTING S MART A BOUT P UBLIC H EALTH I N C LARK C OUNTY S – we will be specific by planning one ES Brunch & Learn presentation each month. M – we will measure what we understand and learn by completing individual online surveys after each Brunch & Learn. A – We will be committed to accepting our responsibility to support our agency vision. We are a team….. R – we must be realistic – we are, after all, very busy people – we will make time to come together monthly for a Brunch & Learn. T – we will establish a timeline to complete all 10 Brunch & Learns by December, 2009. E SSENTIAL S ERVICE 8 S URVEY AND D ISCUSSION