Health Work Group April Notes

Prior to May HWG Meeting, Kristen will draft a mission statement and send to others for review via email. Each person will review another work group’s work plan and report back at the May meeting.

At the May meeting, we will discuss the communications plan (with Karen) and create a 1-2 page handout developed around the mission statement. We will then take this to the Joint Committee and other work groups in June and July.
In June & July, we will redefine the indicators (targets and baselines).

Attendees

Myriam Allouko Fiankan, Self Evaluation team

Ellen Beep, Self Evaluation team

Anna Dorman, La Clinica de La Raza

Mara Guccione, Urban Strategies Council

Kristen Graser, La Clinica de La Raza

Francell Haskins, Alameda County Department of Public Health

Joy Ramos, La Clinica de La Raza
Karen Stevenson, Core Communications

Maria Pilar Tudela, La Clinica de La Raza

Winnie Yi, Lao Family Community Development

Announcements

Health Insurance for Children – lobbying effort taking place in Sacramento and La Clinica and the Promotoras are participating. What is the follow up with the media?
MCO magazine is coming out and there is an article about asthma.
Food Stamp Training to be held on April 27th. Contact Winnie for more information
Joint Committee Candidate Forum on April 14th

Communications Plan

Karen gave an overview of her need to have time on next month’s agenda in order to talk about communications and to prepare the communications plan, including media, outreach to external audiences.

Proposal Guidelines

Mara clarified that these are guidelines for organizations currently applying for grants or in the future. She will resend the guidelines document.

Strategic Planning Next Steps

Anna gave an overview of the reason we conducted the strategic planning session and what we accomplished during that session.
A suggestion was made that we ask Frank Farrow about the AECF definition of health.
The idea came up to create a mission statement and present that to other work groups and the Joint Committee, and to create a 1-2 page handout for new members. Kristen volunteered to draft the mission statement and send to the group for review.
Members will review other work groups’ work plans and report back at the May meeting.

With this new information, members will attend other work group meetings to establish the connections.
In June, the group will look at redefining indicators (baselines/targets)

Next Meeting: Next meeting –Wednesday April 13h, 3:30-5:00pm