STAFF AND COMMITTEE REPORTS
September 22, 2015

Organizational Updates
In early August, Marsha and Laura moved into office space at Endorphin Power Company, located at 509 Cardenas SE. In addition to a secure office space, we will have access to a large meeting room that we can use for our monthly meetings.

SCALE - Spreading Community Accelerators through Learning & Evaluation

(See June 23 Staff Report for background on SCALE grant.)

The second Community Health Improvement Leadership Academy (CHILA) was held in Greenville, South Carolina on September 9-12, attended by Leigh Caswell, Enrique Cardiel and Marsha. The training was full of valuable tools and information. One of the highlights included refining our "aim statement" to focus on pedestrian safety on walking trails in the International District and South Valley, while still including increased involvement of community members with lived experience. An interactive presentation by Dan Heath, one of the authors of "Switch: How to change things when change is hard" was instrumental in helping us move toward this new refined aim. Another highlight was the key role that our own Community Champion, Enrique, played in facilitating productive discussions on race and racism. We will be following up by having Enrique facilitate similar discussions with the health council.
Next steps in the work of SCALE that we hope to include more people in include:

September-October: Refine

•Refine aim, driver diagram

•Create plan for equity

•Create plan for maximum appropriate community and stakeholder engagement

•Create plan for communication and dissemination

October-December: Develop implementation system

•Brainstorm potential solutions

•Apply Switch, feasibility-importance grid to your implementation plan

•Create workplan

•Plan for spread

•Create plan for sustainability

•Small-scale testing

October-April: Create system for continuous improvement

•Create a measurement and feedback system

•Do larger scale testing.

•Scale up and spread as appropriate

We will be using various approaches that we're learning through our involvement with SCALE and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Partners are participating in monthly calls with all SCALE Pacesetter Communities, as well as an additional monthly call with our 4 SCALE Peer Communities and Mentor Community with whom we will be sharing experiences, questions and ideas for the next year and a half.

Healthy Here: Communities Leading Healthy Change
A contract with BCCHC for Year 2 of the Healthy Here work will be finalized before the end of September, for the period from October 2015 to September 2016.

The Mobile Market pilot continues to provide affordable, fresh and locally-grown fruit and vegetables every Tuesday afternoon, rotating between the South Valley (Presbyterian clinic at Rio Bravo & Isleta SW and First Choice Community Healthcare's South Valley Commons) and the International District (First Nations Community Healthsource, followed by the UNM SE Heights Clinic). The Mobile Market accepts cash, credit, EBT Cash Card and EBT SNAP. In addition to BCCHC, partners involved in the Mobile Market include: Presbyterian Healthcare Services, Bernalillo County, Agri-Cultura Network, the Storehouse and the Streetfood Institute. More information and downloadable flyers are available at .

First Choice Community Healthcarewill be hosting community members in a Design Workshop aka "Charrette" September 23, 2015 at 5:30pmat Ernie Pyle Middle School Cafeteria. This is part of their series of charrettesfor the development of the new SV Community Commons Campus in the South Valley. Leveraging their role in the community to have an even greater impact on community health they have developed a plan to address upstream factors that determine health - jobs, education, access to quality services, positive environ-mental conditions. They are expanding their campus to provide a permanent home to Health Leadership High School; a workforce training center; a model early childhood development center; a wellness center; administrative space; a community garden; walking trails; and a farm to table–style restaurant.For more information and to RSVP for the Sept. 23rd event, please call Angelica at 924-8205.
The next Healthy Here Lead Team meeting will be Friday, September 25th at Endorphin Power Company.

Opioid Accountability Initiative
A new contract between BCCHC and Bernalillo County for FY16 has been finalized to begin in September. Laura and Marsha will both have the time they spend on the Initiative paid out of this contract. This year's contract includes an increased focus on data/metrics for measuring progress, as well as development of a plan for internal and external communications.

The Coordinating Committee and implemention teams - Prevention, Treatment, Narcan and Law Enforcement/Criminal Justice - continuemeeting regularly. Links to the videos, reports and handouts related to the Opioid Accountability Initiativecan be found on the BCCHC website at: .

Anyone who is interested in serving on any of the Implementation Teams for Prevention, Treatment, Narcan or Law Enforcement/Criminal Justice should contact Marsha or Laura for more information.
Early Childhood Accountability Partnership (ECAP)
The next meeting of the full ECAP Network, including all three strategy groups (Communications, Early Literacy and Family Supports) will be held at United Way on Thursday, October 1st from 8:30-10:30 am. Contact Tracy McDaniel, ECAP Coordinator, at for more information on ECAP and how to get involved.

Assessment & Planning

A final stakeholder meeting with anyone interested in the Healthy Communities Assessment Tool (HCAT) and how we can continue using it here locally will be held at the MFA facility on Friday, October 2nd. Rajiv Bhatia and Noreen Beatley, national consultants for the project will be present to help guide the discussion and answer questions. The focus of the most recent feedback round has been how different entities will be able to actually use the tool, as well as looking for a "home" for the website, since the HUD pilot will be ending in the fall. As a recap, this tool has been designed to help cities assess and monitor the physical, social, and economic roots of health in their communities, by comparing neighborhoods (locally we use the DOH small areas consisting of

several neighborhoods) on over 40 indicators related to healthy communities, ranked by top, middle or bottom thirds. The project is based locally out of the NM Mortgage Finance Authority (MFA), however the data input has

been done by the NM Community Data Collaborative, and BCCHC has been contracted for a community engagement process to gather feedback on the tool's format, content and usefulness. The pilot site can be

viewed at . Comments regarding both content and format are still being accepted and should be sent to Marsha at

New Mexico Alliance of Health Councils (NMAHC)

NMAHC is once again supporting an increase in health council funding to be added to the DOH budget. Health council members are encouraged to contact their legislators to share the value of health councils in general, using BCCHC as an example. We are particularly hoping to reach members of the Legislative Finance Committee who represent Bernalillo County. Contact Marsha for talking points and more information on how you can help.

NMAHC continues assisting health councils in the process of community engagement to gather input for the NM Health Systems Innovation (HSI) project, funded by the SIM planning grant from the Center for Medicaid & Medicare (CMS). We held ourthird round of the engagement process at our August meeting with a discussion of what is currently working and not working in our community, with a particular focus on undocumented immigrants, people experiencing homelessness, and incarceration. Marsha attended the HSI Steering Committee meeting on September 2nd, which is the group that will be approving the final plan to be submitted to the Governor after the final Summit in December at which the plan will be presented to stakeholders and anyone who is interested.

Marsha, along with Dick Mason from the Sandoval County Health Council, have met twice with Deborah Helitzer and Scott Olds from UNM who are developing the curriculum for the proposed College of Population Health at UNM. NMAHC was asked to assist UNM in the development of a summer course for the new BS program in Population Health that will be part of the new College. The purpose of NMAHC involvement (besides contributing to curriculum ideas and speakers) will be to put students in contact with the health council in their home county or pueblo to be able to work on a project during the summer break when it's hoped they might be returning to their home community. Local Bernalillo County organizations and initiatives that are interested in having an undergraduate student work with them during this fall semester to get exposure in the field should contact Marsha.

NMAHC has hired a part-time administrative assistant, Helen Henry, who will help with increasing communications among the state's health councils, among many other tasks. She also works part-time for Farm to Table in Santa Fe, where NMAHC hopes to have a small office.