Increasing your Reach: Local and State Health Department Collaboration

Ingoglia, Julie

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Exhibit Hall (Kansas City Convention Center)

Ms. Julie Ingoglia, MPH , Community Health, National Assocaition of County and City Health Officials, Washington, DC

Alison Sipler, MPH, CHES , Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Carissa Beatty, MPH, CHES , Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this presentation attendees will be able to:

Identify three ways local and state health departments are currently collaborating on tobacco control and prevention.
Describe three methods that state health departments can use to collaborate with locals and expand the reach of their activities.
Compare how the session participants have engaged in state-local health department collaborations to further tobaco control and prevention.

Audience:

In these tough economic times, the challenge of expanding the reach of tobacco control and prevention dollars and ensuring the sustainability of programming is of utmost importance. All state and local tobacco control program staff, particularly those at the governmental level will benefit from the information in this session.

Key Points:

This session will demonstrate the value of state-local collaboration by looking at the results of the 2010 National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), National Association of Local Boards of Health (NALBOH), and Tobacco Control Network (TCN) brief survey on tobacco control partnerships and other collaborations between state and local organizations. Highlighted will be examples of local and state health department collaborations, and strategies states can use to broaden the reach of their tobacco control efforts through work with their local health departments (LHDs), even when the state is not funding the LHDs. We will feature the story of a particular state where there was a deliberate effort to collaborate with LHDs and identify how they overcame barriers.

Educational Experience:

At the end of the session, participants will break out into small groups and participate in a facilitated “ask the expert” activity in which each person shares a barrier or issue they are struggling with and receives group member input on how to overcome it (3-5 minutes per person).

Benefits:

All participants will receive practical advice from peers that they can take home and apply in their tobacco control and prevention work.

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