Joint Site coordinator and AHEc director minutes november 2008
Area Health Education Centers
Joint Coordinators and Center Director Committee
Conference Call
In
attendance: Malinda Turner,
Elizabeth Richmond, Amber Crist, Kendra Sullivan, Crystal Welch, Penny Asbury, Georgianna
Tillis, Lora Adkins, Anna Reno, Kathleen Greenlief, Carla Campbell, Parr
Thacker, Dalena Riggs, John Walters
Staff: Hilda
R. Heady, April Vestal, Sharon Giles, Sandra Pope, Jacki Novacich
Meeting
Facilitated by: Amber Crist
Kendra Sullivan
Meeting was called to order by Amber Crist
Motion to Approve Minutes from
Review of
Next Steps from
- Anyone
who continues to receive spam in their e-mail is to please contact Derrick
Day by e-mail at dday@hsc.wvu.edu to let him know. (Ongoing)
2. Dr.
Meckstroth and Gina Sharps wanted to remind the Coordinators and Center
Directors about the "The March of Dimes Project to Promote Oral Health during
Pregnancy." Please e-mail Dr.
Meckstroth at rmeckstroth@hsc.wvu.edu or
Gina Sharps at gsharps@hsc.wvu.edu a
letter of intent if you are interested, or a letter of regret if you are unable
to participate. (Done)
- Please
send April comments by
4. The
Service-Learning form link will be sent out in the next month for review and
comment. Please e-mail comments back to April Vestal at avestal@hsc.wvu.edu. (Done)
- Hilda
will have Kim resend the legislative talking points graphics. (Done)
6. Send
Hilda and Lew an email if you are setting meetings with any Legislators on the
Health, Education, or Finance Committees. Please e-mail Hilda at hheady@hsc.wvu.edu and
Lew Holloway at lew.holloway@nwvrhec.org. They would be more than willing to accompany
anyone on these visits, schedules willing. (Ongoing)
- April
will send quarterly updates as needed. (Ongoing)
- Derrick
will send out a web link one more time for feedback which will include a
deadline. Please send suggestions
to Derrick at dday@hsc.wvu.edu (Ongoing)
- April
will send out information concerning the updating of the Site capacity
information. (Ongoing)
- Sandra
will find out further information on the GEC Survey in regards to a
conflicting survey being done at the WVU Charleston Division. (on hold)
- Please
identify people in your communities/boards that would be willing to hold
face to face meetings with Legislators in your area that are on the
health, education and/or finance committees, and report back to Lew at lew.holloway@nwvrhec.org
for preparation for the meeting as well as for reporting purposes. This will replace the 3x3's to be sent
to April. (Ongoing)
Updates:
Office of Rural Health
Hilda
Heady reported that last year we received an additional $100,000 in the Health
Sciences Scholarship program to specifically review rural mental health. The Recruitment and Retention committee
approved this fund to mental health practitioners, limiting the scope of
eligibility to doctorial level psychologists, and licensed Social Workers. The issue is that this limits the number of
students to access the program. The Recruitment
and Retention Committee has formed a committee that will review placement
opportunities. If you know of any
licensed Social Workers, Psychologist, and/or Psychiatrists in your area that
are either in private practice or work with a primary care center, please send
their information to Hilda Heady at hheady@hsc.wvu.edu. The
information she is requesting:
·
Names of those
you know would be willing to take students
·
Information
about their location and how busy is their practice or center
·
They have to
be engaged in clinical service
·
Please look at
your rural none urban (restricted) area's first. If needed we will look at the urban areas
later.
Dr.
Richard Meckstroth contacted Hilda concerning the lack of response to the March
of Dimes Grant and the Save Face grants.
Why were there no more than 5 people interested?
The
response was that some sites had time constraints, and staff constraints for
the grant requirements. Some experienced
mixed signals when calling his office and asking about the grants. The person answering the phones stated there
were no grants available.
Hilda
was asked by Delegate Fleischauer to bring a proposal to the interim in
December on recommendations coming out of the
Hilda,
Margaret Novacich and Rose McCluskey are also working on a research grant for
Mental Health, on Community based programs serving returning Iraqi and
Afghanistan War veterans and families.
The research would be recruiting National Guardsman and families from
four different states, with a goal of at least 400 family units participating
for a longitudinal survey. The four
states would be
AHEC
Sandra
Pope reported that congress is currently in recess and will return November17,
2008. She and Hilda will be in
Just
as reminder, the National Rural Health Association's (NRHA)Policy Institute
will be holding meetings
The
WVAHEC office is still gathering information to complete the grant application
for 2009.
The
application is due January 13, 2009.
RHEP
April
reported that Margaret Novacich sent an e-mail out concerning quarterly reports
that were due
Kristi
Pritt sent out the final draft of the housing report. She would like for you to review the reports
and contact her with any corrections.
Work
continues on creating the new criteria and rubrics for the Partnership Awards
for
The
Annual Dinner Committee will plan to meet by conference call to discuss fund
raising and dinner events. More information
regarding the call will follow at a later date.
The
Annual Dinner Save the Date cards will be sent out within the next couple of
weeks.
The
WVSOM Rural Fair will be held
The
WVU Rural Fair will be held
The Faculty
Development Committee met
Legislative
Issues:
Updates:
Hilda and Lew continue to meet with legislators
with coordinators and center directors.
Make
sure you contact Lew or Hilda with updates on your visits.
Legislative Day Committee Update:
The committee is in the process of developing ideas
for Rural Health Day at the Capitol. We
We
have the entire rotunda reserved this year and need to make sure we fill the
space. The committee would like to invite RHEP/AHEC partners, e.g. schools that
participate in the program, hospitals and clinics, to display at the Capitol. April plans to meet with Hilda and Sandra
to discuss this further.
The
committee is also developing a message that would be linked to the displays and
people presenting that would unify everyone, and would be displayed in the Capitol. They have developed three different messages
they would like the Joint committee to vote.
This will be sent out by email and the group will be asked to vote on
their preference. Look for a message in
the coming weeks describing how to vote.
Once a winner has been chosen, we will send the winning message out to
everyone.
Some
suggested items that would display the message are, banners, buttons, display
signs, labels on the lunches, and hand spray sanitize pens.
Retreat
Committee Update
The retreat is scheduled for
2009 Meeting Schedule
Motion to
approve meeting schedule as presented (Georgianna Tillis/Malinda Turner)
Approved.
Next
Joint Meeting Date:
Facilitators:
RHEP: Chuck Conner
AHEC: Lew Holloway
Next
Steps for
- Anyone
who continues to receive spam in their e-mail is to please contact Derrick
Day by e-mail at dday@hsc.wvu.edu to let him know. (Ongoing)
2.
Send Hilda and Lew an email if you are
setting meetings with any Legislators on the Health, Education, and/or Finance
Committees. Please e-mail Hilda at hheady@hsc.wvu.edu and
Lew Holloway at lew.holloway@nwvrhec.org. They would be more than willing to accompany
anyone on these visits, schedules willing. (Ongoing)
- April
will send quarterly updates as needed. (Ongoing)
- Derrick
will send out a web link one more time for feedback which will include a
deadline. Please send suggestions
to Derrick at dday@hsc.wvu.edu (Ongoing)
- April
will send out information concerning the updating of the Site capacity
information. (Ongoing)
- Sandra
will find out further information on the GEC Survey in regards to a
conflicting survey being done at the WVU Charleston Division. (on hold)
- Please
identify people in your communities/boards that would be willing to hold
face to face meetings with Legislators in your area that are on the
health, education and/or finance committees, and report back to Lew at lew.holloway@nwvrhec.org
for preparation for the meeting as well as for reporting purposes. This will replace the 3x3's to be sent
to April. (Ongoing)
- Identify any licensed Social Workers,
Psychologist, and/or Psychiatrists in your area that are either in private
practice or work with a primary care center, willing to accept students
and send their information to Hilda Heady at hheady@hsc.wvu.edu.
- Annual
Partnership Award Descriptions will be sent out and posted by the first of
December.
- WVSOM
Rural Fair is scheduled for
- WVU
Rural Fair is scheduled for
- Legislative
Day Committee will send out messages for the Joint Committee to vote on
for Rural Health Day activities at the Capitol.
Motion to
adjourn the meeting: (Georgianna
Tillis/ Carla Campbell) Approved.