Florida HIV/AIDS Advocacy Network (FHAAN)

Florida HIV/AIDS Advocacy Network (FHAAN)

Full StatewideMonthly Meeting

NOTES and ACTION ITEMS

Date: Monday – June 4, 2012

Time: 2:00 p.m. (ET) – 3:00p.m. (ET)

Facilitator
Rick Vitale
Co-Chair, Advocacy Committee
Administrator
Ted Howard, The AIDS Institute
Guest Speaker
Elizabeth “Liz” Murray
Clear Health Alliance
Vice President, Provider Relations
“HIV/AIDS Medicaid Specialty Plan” / Ken Bargar
Scott Brock
Clarisa Castro
Marty Clemmons
Meghan Daily
Lindsey Dawson
John Eaton
Jennifer Findley
Jesse Fry
Sylvia Hubbard / Registrants
Jason King
Layne Kinney
Tom Liberti
Butch McKay
Alelia Munroe
Laurence Osband
Latoya Osborne
Cathy Robinson-Pickett
Jeffrey Pope / Rob Renzi
Bob Reynolds
Allison Ruby
Michael Ruppal
Donna Sabatino
Robert Sandrock
James Talley
Rita Volpitta
Craig Wilkinson
Joey Wynn
Agenda / Discussion / Plan of Action
Welcome/Roll Call
Quorum Determination / Quorum = 33% of active members / Met?Yes (25 of 32 = 78%)
Meeting Guidelines /

• Please introduce yourself to the call.
• Mute phone (*6) when in listen mode, and unmute phone (#6) to speak.
• State your name prior to speaking.
• Do not place your phone on hold.
• Abide by our FHAAN Operating Agreement, Process and Code of Conduct.

Review of FHAAN Mission / Mission:
Florida HIV/AIDS Advocacy Network (FHAAN) advocates for statewide HIV/AIDS resources including education, policies, programs, funding and legislation.
Meeting Minutes Approval / Most Recent Meeting Minutes:
FHAAN Statewide Meeting Notes (2012.05.07) / Approved
Guest Speaker
Introduction by: John Eaton
FHAAN Structure Committee
Chair, South/Major Metro Region / Liz Murray Presentation on “HIV/AIDS Medicaid Specialty Plan”

Additional Notes:

• This is a Medicaid program, so no copays, no preauthorization for anti-viral medications.
• If medications are on the Medicaid formulary, then they are on CHA’s formulary … plus some additional medications.
• Roll-out: First counties (Miami-Dade): September 1, 2012. Additional counties: November 1, 2012.

Tom Liberti participated on the call and thanked FHAAN and call participants for their support to him throughout the years he worked at DOH, and he looks forward to working with us in his new capacity with CHA.
For more information:
Elizabeth “Liz” Murray
Vice President, Provider Relations
Clear Health Alliance
305.496.3011


Advocacy Committee:
Jesse Fry & Rick Vitale / Most Recent Meeting Minutes:
Advocacy Committee Notes (2012.05.14) / Next Meeting:
June 11, 2-3 PM EDT
888.627.7005, 110097#
FL DOH Restructuring / Senate: Working with counties for structure. Bill will come back to legislature next session. They will first offer DOH proposal. We won’t see anything until October.Committee can remove this item from next meeting agenda.
Medicaid Reform / They will probably receive approval. They removed the 2 objectionable items.
New provider for HIV – Clear Health. Liberti hired as consultant, as other powerful people from SFL. ED is Peter Jimenez. Liz Murray (From Gilead).
AHCA working on this now.
FHAAN will be active in keeping community informed.
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act / Pending US Supreme Court decision by end of June. Probable the court will break it out to 5 parts; approving some, not approve other parts.
House to propose bill, but Senate to hold it until after November elections.
RW reauthorization – no national consensus. Most want 2-3 (4) year extension until if/when ACA takes over. HRSA taking comments until July … FHAAN to comment. What is our FHAAN consensus? Especially funding formula. Jesse and Joey to pull a team of people together to create our statement. Due by July 31st. Ted sent email to full FHAAN to be involved:
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 9:17 AM
To:
Dear FHAAN Members:
Do you want to help formulate FHAAN's statement on the Affordable Care Act's impact in Ryan White Reauthorization?
If you are interested, please email and a FHAAN leader will contact you about how you can help with this important project.
HRSA is accepting community comments until July 31st, 2012.
Thank you,
Jesse Fry and Joey Wynn, Co-Chairs
Florida HIV/AIDS Advocacy Network (FHAAN)

TAI working on a template to send out within the next week.
ADAP Program Out to Bid / Jesse reviewed the previous discussion of a vendor outside BoHA to handle the ADAP program. The bid process still being worked on. Written and being routed internally for approval. April-June for procurement process. July-Sept for awarding, October 1st start date.
Jesse Fry: Asked the group “what do we want to do?” Public policy poling? What community and patients want to see out of the program? A survey type instrument conducted widely (as objective as possible).
Joey Wynn: Can we find out from Division of Management Services if there is going to be any information out soon? And what is a mechanism for us to provide input?
Public Affairs perspective-survey type instrument
All: we hope the Bureau has a public comment period- Need community input.
Jesse asked if anyone would work on the survey feel free to send him any suggestions ().
Michael Ruppal suggested Spencer Lieb could help out as well.
Joey Wynn to send Jesse the contacts at Division of Management Services.
Structure Committee
Alelia Munroe, James Talley and John Eaton / Most Recent Meeting Minutes:
Structure Committee Notes (2012.04.16) / Next Meeting:
May 21, 2-3 PM EDT
888.627.7005, 110097#
Web Page / TAI will be launching a great new website, including FHAAN pages, in summer.
Review our web pages ( for ideas and improvements.
If you have any suggestions, email to:
FHAAN News:

• Weekly News Brief
• Monthly Newsletter

/ Our Committee is asking FHAAN members to review our FHAAN News for ideas and improvements.
Streamlined approvers:
- Content: FHAAN
- Grammar/spell/format: TAI
Other states/FL DOH learning from our newsletters.
To full FHAAN for approval:
FHAAN News and Information Dissemination Policy and Procedures
If you have news to include, email to:
Full FHAAN Meeting Speakers (guest speaker selection, invite, and details) / Structure Cmte to have role of coordinating full FHAAN speaker
Tri-Chairs to write-up this new procedure for full FHAAN approval:
One pager, a week in advance.
Structure Committee tries to have potential speakers attend previous structure Committee meeting to learn more about their proposed topic.
Upcoming:
June: Medicaid/Medicare (Clear Health) – John confirmed with Liz Murray.
July: AVAC – Mitchell Warren - John to confirm with Mitchell.
Prospects:

1. Sherry Riley (not summer)
2. Spencer Lieb - FCHAR
3. Francis Hodge – FL Part B/some Part A. She told John maybe someone from public relations would be better.
4. Division of Disease Control and Health Protection Director
5. Florida CHAIN (David Brakebill – “ACA and the work they're doing in FL and how we might interact/join forces with them”)
6. AHF - Michael Weinstein

Anonymous Participation / Mick about caller-ID or operator-assisted.
Ted contacted Mick about options - Eliminated beeps and speaking name request, but record names and/or #s.
Upcoming Full FHAAN Meeting Facilitators / June: Rick Vitale
July: Cathy Robinson-Pickett
Committee Agendas / Templates sent to chairs to build their own agendas
Committee Duel Motions / “Committee chairs or FHAAN Admin may only make either a motion or a second, but not both in the same motion, where the committee chairs must be from different committees."Approved by CG, to full FHAAN approval.
FHAAN Admin Motions / Can FHAAN Administrator make motions, etc as a full participant? Yes. Approved in March CG meeting. For 6/4/12 full FHAAN approval.
FHAAN Social Media / Recruitment Committee about facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter – Layne Kinney lead volunteer. Within our outside TAI social medias? To Convening Group.
OK to stay with TAI, but would be great if FHAAN has independent accounts.
Layne can lead. Need team to maintain - Recruitment Committee to manage.
FHAAN Business Cards / Each Convening Group member has templateto personalize and use to promote FHAAN and recruit members.
Interns/Volunteers / Bryant Smith in Jacksonville, others? Ken to meet with Bryant in person.
Convening group and Members are asked to help promote our Internship positions with our Intern information and application link:

Needed Intern Position: Policy research, etc. description helpful to recruit - Advocacy Committee to draft.
FHAAN Photos/Videos / All FHAAN members asked to capture photos, video clips, presentation materials, etc to send to for use in newsletter, website, social media, etc.
FHAAN Organizational Structure Document Update / The image should be modified:
-PLWHA list first, then alphabetic.
-Committee titles should be listed.
Approved by committee and Convening Group. For 6/4/12 full FHAAN approval.
FHAAN Organizational Structure
Recruitment Committee
Cathy Robinson-Pickett &
Ken Bargar / Most Recent Meeting Minutes:
Recruitment Committee Notes (2012.05.16) / Next Meeting:
Wed, July 18, 10-11 AM EDT
888.811.6083, ID: 3978#
Membership Status / Full Members: 283. 2012 Goal = 500
Listserv: 1,298. 2012 Goal = 1,500
Member Recruitment
Use for info, and this link for folks to register directly online:
/

• Distribute the FHAAN “Who We Are” flier to groups to educate and recruit members to FHAAN (Planning Councils, Consortia, CAG, etc.) - Ken
• Dab Garner’s page with FHAAN Link – Cathy to ask.
• CBO E.D.s – Michelle Scavnicky Intern finalizing
• SHARP Florida Contacts – Bryant Smith to ask Dorothee.

Other opportunities:

• July Intl AIDS 2012 Conference – TAI Staff?

Any CG members? Broward will be a hub for virtual Global Village viewing, other virtual hubs in other parts of state?

• August/September “Keeping with the Pace” in Gainesville – Ken.

Members are encouraged to help recruit new members by asking them to sign-up at
Increase Technology Use for Recruitment / Podcast mic and computer to record folks with 1-2 min sound bites about what advocacy means to them and then we could put them together and use them for different events.
Cathy will.

• 3/9-11: Positive Living Conference
• Other opportunities?

Cathy working on technical issues to see if we can post.
Ted would post to website and send out to help recruitment.
Use facebook to connect members.
Ken to ask Layne Kinney.
Ted to add logo, Who We Are, Link, etc.
Committee Volunteers / Contact all volunteers expressing interest in helping this cmte. To help recruit those they know to become FHAAN members.

• Layne Kinney volunteered for data entry

1. Ken and Cathy to create script for volunteers to use when recruiting (maybe use previous FLAA wording)
2. Ted to email to all prospective volunteers

Meeting Frequency / This committee will meet every other month, on odd numbered months (Jan, Mar, May, Jul, Sep, Nov)
Ted updated website pages and GoToWebinar systems.

FULL FHAAN MEMBERSHIP

New Business:
AHF Letter on Gilead Quad / Joey Wynn/Jason King - Consensus to get a FHAAN sign-on for this letter?

FHAAN to distribute to members for consideration.
A FHAAN Committee can organize our FHAAN response.
Announcements:
Next Full FHAAN Meeting / Monday - July 2, 2012, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
888.627.7005, ID: 110097#
Facilitator: Cathy Robinson-Pickett