Health Work Group

Lower San Antonio Collaborative
February 9, 2005
3:30-5:00pm
La Clinica de La Raza

Attendees:

Samantha Blackburn, Roosevelt Health Center
Anna Dorman, La Clinica de La Raza
Mara Guccione , Urban Strategies Council
Francell Haskins , Alameda County Department of Public Health
Darouny Somsanith, Al.Co. Access to Care Collaborative: Community Voices Project
Mapi Tudela , La Clinica de La Raza
Myriam, Self-Evaluation 

LSAC Work Plan Feedback

• Incorporated into new draft. Please see draft for details.
   

Brainstorming for Strategic Planning Session (all ideas, not final decisions)

Work Group Status

• The harder thing to do would be to stay with it
• There are concerns about melding with another work group
• Strategy meeting would help us thing through the best thing to do. It would allow us time to develop our ideas.
• Whether or not we join another group, we should work with them to help us operationalize our work (health care is abstract and institutionalized).
• Maybe we should just connect better with other work groups. We could attend ECE and Community Outreach work group meetings to see how we could link up.
• HIV family care network: similar network with similar experience.
• Two themes emerging: visit other work groups; network more
  

Content of meeting

• Look at outreach efforts and what that means (how you work with organizations that aren’t getting funded)
• Who are organizations we want to invite? Who do we need to get the work done?
• Need a facilitator who things differently
• Consider our connection with ECE, Community Outreach
• Ensure that who ever is at our table feels that our strategies and goals are part of theirs
• Once people come to the group, how do we get them to stay?
• Who else provides health service in the neighborhood and how can we say health in a broader way and link it to organizations/help them to believe it is applicable to their work?
• Relationship between leadership skills and health
• It’s helpful to know who the target population is (health stats, demographics, CAPE data)
• Look into strategic planning methodology/facilitator
• Safety – do we want to incorporate it into strategies? How? If not, how can we lend leadership to the groups doing it?
• Policy advocacy
  

Who should attend?

• Current participants
• Lao Family
• Asian Community Mental Health Services
• Asian Health Services
• Alice Lai-Bitker’s office
• SA Clinic Providers (they will need a month’s notice)
• Alameda Alliance for Health
• Healthy Families (do they exist?)
• ORTL
• Native American Health Center
• Highland Hospital – Darouny has a contact
• Safety?
  

Format

• Start with a town hall format with a large group session for informing and then go into small group sessions where we strategize.
• Investigate what others are doing and see if it aligns with their goals
• Start by asking: what are the main health issues in the LSA?
• Network in a large group: ask what are the problems we need to address? How should we address them? See who is already meeting, doing the work. Is there one person from these groups who can participate in the health work group?
• In order to revitalize the health work group, isn’t it essential to have other voices? Junious - consider what we mean by healthy and safe and then to think about our broad vision and what needs to be done to move towards this vision; i.e., what are the strategies, programs and interventions that will bring us closer to this result?
• Who comes to the table? Why are they there? Why is it worth it to be there?
• Plan recruitment session
• We haven’t set our vision and we need to do this first
• Session should help to develop our vision and outreach strategy. Call it outreach planning?
  

Next Meeting

• Next meeting – NOT CONFIRMED: Wednesday March 9th, 3:30-5:00pm