Invitation to "Identify Strategic Issues" Forum

Juneau MAPP “Identify Strategic Issues” subcommitee would like to invite you all to attend

A grand forum to identify strategic issues in our community.

When: 12/12/12 8:30am to 11:30am

Where: Frontier Suits Hotel meeting room - http://www.frontiersuites.com/index.html

What: To brainstorm and identify strategic issues in our community based on four MAPP assessment findings

Quick Announcement:

-   Our community health profile has been updated – please share with others (posted 9/26/12).

-   If you are interested in becoming a part of the subcommittee, please let me know. We are meeting on 10/31/12 10-11am at the Juneau Public Health Center to further plan for this forum.

-   Will send you more detailed invitation in November – please RSVP then.

Objectives for this phase “Identify Strategic Issues”

-   To analyze and synthesize the data from all four MAPP assessments

-   To determine which issues are critical to the success of the local public health system

-   To identify the fundamental policy choices or critical challenges that must be addressed in order for a community to achieve its vision

Tentative agenda

8:30am to 8:45am Meet and Greet/Brief overview of MAPP

8:45am to 9:45am Small group discussions – subcommittee members

-   Which issues suggested by the assesmsne findings must be addressed in order to achieve the vision?

o   Strategic issues are important and forward-thinking and seize on current opportunities

-   What are the consequences of not addressing this?

9:45am to 10am bathroom and networking break

10am to 11:15am large group discussions

-   Arrange issues into an ordered list – reflecting which issues should be addressed first.

o   Logical, Impact, or Temporal order

11:15am to 11:30am wrap-up and adjourn

Updated Juneau Health Profile

Correction on Life Satisfaction data.
Juneau Health Profile

Local Public Health System Assessment Report

Juneau MAPP LPHSA Report

Juneau Local Public Health System Assessment Answers

#1 Essential Service - Monitor Health Juneau Answers
#2 Essential Service - Diagnose and Investigate Juneau Answers
#10 Essential Service - Research Juneau Answers

Next Juneau MAPP Local Public Health System Assesment Subcommittee Meeting

Dear community partners,

Our next Juneau MAPP local public health system assessment (LPHSA) subcommittee meeting is on 3/22/12 from 1:30pm to 3:30pm at the Juneau Public Health Center 1F conference room.

We will be answering the following two essential public health service questionnaires.

Agenda

1:35pm-2:30pm: #1 – Monitor Health Status to Identify Community Health Problems

o   Accurate, periodic assessment of the community’s health status

o   Utilization of appropriate methods and technology, such as geographic information systems, to interpret and communicate data to diverse audiences

o   Collaboration among all local public health system components, including private provides and health benefit plans, to establish and use population health registries, such as disease or immunization registries

2:35pm-3:30pm: #2 – Diagnose and Investigate Health Problems and Health Hazards in the community

o   Epidemiological investigations of disease outbreaks and patterns of infectious and chronic disease and injuries, environmental hazards, and other health threats.

o   Active infectious disease epidemiology programs

o   Access to a public health laboratory capable of conducting rapid screening and high volume testing

Please review the attached questionnaire before the meeting.

Essential Service #1 Monitor Health Questionnaire
Essential Service #2 Diagnose & Investigate Questionnaire

Juneau MAPP Local Public Health System Assessment Subcommittee Kick-Off Orientation Meeting

26 community partners came to our LPHSA orientation meetig!
If you were unable to come to the meeting, you can still learn about LPHSA.
Local Public Health System Assessment Orientation Presentation
Local Public Health System Assessment Orientation Slides/Go with the Presentation Above
Let's Start a Conversation About Health . . . and Not Talk About Health Care at All
Juneau MAPP Overview Slides

Juneau MAPP Progress Report

Juneau MAPP Progress Report March 2012

The above link takes you to the Juneau MAPP progress report as of March 2012.

Invitation to Juneau MAPP Local Public Health System Assessment Orientation meeting 3/1 at 1:30pm

Dear Friends and Community Partners:

We’re pleased to invite you to attend the inaugural kick-off meeting of the Juneau MAPP (Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships) Local Public Health System Assessment Subcommittee.

This local public health system assessment is one of four Juneau MAPP (Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships) community health assessments and is integral in gathering necessary information for our next phase identifying strategic issues in our community. 

A public health system is made up of all public, private and voluntary entities that contribute to the delivery of essential public health services within a jurisdiction. On March 9, 2011, a group of fifty-plus community members met, brainstormed, and collectively gave life to their vision for a healthier community:  “Juneau, a thriving community – engaging in a diverse and intergenerational population and ensuring access to an exceptional quality of life.” 

In order to measure the performance of our local public health system, it is important to have those representatives from organizations and sectors involved in our local public health system participate.  The CDC will analyze our completed assessment, and provide feedback- in a report that can be easily used to identify strengths and weaknesses of the public health system in Juneau.

As a Juneau resident, being a member of the Juneau MAPP group provides you with a unique opportunity.  A person with your agency’s experience and insight would be the perfect partner in spreading the word with people, just like you, who want to help improve the quality of our health and life by contributing their input a vision of a healthier Juneau.

Our orientation and first assessment meeting will be conducted in the Egan Room of Centennial Hall on Thursday, March 1, 2012. The full process will run from 1:30pm to 4pm.

We will begin promptly at 1:30pm with registration, followed by a brief orientation at 1:45pm, with the actual assessment process at 2:30pm; a packet containing the assessment tool will handed out we will discuss and complete it together, and finish at or before 4:00pm.

Subsequent meetings to complete the rest of the assessment tool will be held on Thursday, March 22, 2012, Thursday, April 5, 2011, and Thursday, April 19, 2012 from 1:30pm to 3:30pm at the Juneau Public Health Center. 

We forward to having you join together with other community partners in taking a close look at our public health system. 

We are also most grateful for your willingness to grant us your time on such short notice.

Please RSVP to Lisa Anderson by emailing to (lisa.anderson1@alaska.gov) or calling her at 465-3353.