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Action Leadership Team Meeting Minutes for June 11 2018

Present:
Chair, Bo Greaves - Retired physician/Committee for Healthcare Improvement Chair Emeritus
Vice-Chair, Ramona Faith - Petaluma Health Care District
Dan Blake - Sonoma County Office of Education
Vince Harper - Community Action Partnership
Lisa Wittke Schaffner - John Jordan Foundation

Absent:
Alanna Brogan - Palm Drive Health Care District
Barbie Robinson - Sonoma County Department of Health Services

Other Attendees: Annemarie Brown (Santa Rosa Community Health), Naomi Fuchs (Santa Rosa Community Health), Kristin Fladseth (Health Services), Lori Houston (Health Services), Kellie Noe (Human Services), Natasha Ornelas (Health Services).

1. Welcome & Introductions

Bo Greaves called the meeting to order at 1:31 PM. and a round of introductions was conducted.

  • Action Item: Approve agenda
    Lisa Wittke Schaffner moved to approve the agenda and it was seconded.
    Aye: Dan Blake, Ramona Faith, Bo Greaves, Vince Harper, Lisa Wittke Schaffner
    Absent: Alanna Brogan, Barbie Robinson
  • Action Item: Approve May 10 minutes
    Lisa Wittke Schaffner moved to approve the May 10 meeting minutes and it was seconded.
    Aye: Dan Blake, Ramona Faith, Bo Greaves, Vince Harper, Lisa Wittke Schaffner
    Absent: Alanna Brogan, Barbie Robinson

2. Youth Members

Bo Greaves shared that eight applications were submitted and narrowed down to two recommended youth participants for the Health Action Leadership Team to appoint to the Health Action Council for a one-year term. The handout Bios of Recommended Health Action Youth Members 2018 was provided to the group and a discussion ensued.

  • Action Item: Approve youth members
    Ramona Faith moved to approve the two recommended youth members and it was seconded.
    Aye: Dan Blake, Ramona Faith, Bo Greaves, Vince Harper, Lisa Wittke Schaffner
    Absent: Alanna Brogan, Barbie Robinson

3. Debrief Council Meeting

The Health Action Leadership Team proceeded to debrief the Health Action Council meeting that occurred on Friday, June 1, 2018. Feedback included:

  • The meeting was engaging and lively
  • Breakouts worked really well
  • How people were sharing was different than in the past meetings
  • Having tangible things for people to do was a good way to lead the group discussions
  • It was useful to first set that platform with the information
  • What was being asked was very specific – questions were framed very well
  • One takeaway: Healthcare and Housing are still very “siloed”
  • The way the meeting was framed and having the chapters upfront worked very well
  • Having the chapter representatives in the discussion groups was a great opportunity for them to be heard
  • Having facilitators and the discussion groups break out by sectors was helpful
  • What is it that we are really trying to capture with the business sector title?
  • We need to be cognizant of the fact that the meeting time does not work for a lot of our chapter members

The Health Action backbone team will be following up on the strategies and commitments from the breakout groups and include a report out during the September Health Action Council meeting.

4. Debrief Rethink Health Convening & Plan Next Steps

The group proceeded to discuss key takeaways from the ReThink Health convening that took place in May.

  • From the presentation on equity, diversity, and inclusion we learned how some words are commonly misused when describing certain populations (Example: vulnerable, empower, under-served, non-white). Use term “under resourced” vs “under-served.”
  • It was useful to be around peers from across the country, learn how they engage with community health workers, and receive feedback on our projects.
  • It’s important that we emphasize the chapters as vehicles for community organizing and focus the group’s efforts and resources on the chapters and building them up.
  • Getting a clear emphasis on Health Action was really helpful.

The group decided on a retreat to engage the Health Action Leadership Team in planning the next steps for Health Action’s governance, distributed leadership, and chapter integration. The tentative date is scheduled for Friday, August 31, 2018.

The group proceeded to discuss potential ways to use the Rippel Foundation Grant and came to an agreement that the grant would be spent on community engagement with the Health Action chapters.

Action Item: Vote on use of Rippel Foundation Grant

Ramona Faith motioned to approve that the Health Action Leadership Team has decided to reach out to the Health Action chapters and let them know that this team is considering taking the $24,000 and using it to support chapter work. We ask that the chapters come back to the Health Action Leadership Team with a recommendation on how they think they can expand funding and what process they would like to use to distribute funding to support chapter work. The motion was seconded.

Aye: Dan Blake, Ramona Faith, Bo Greaves, Vince Harper, Lisa Wittke Schaffner
Absent: Alanna Brogan, Barbie Robinson

5. Sonoma Resilience Collaborative

Annemarie Brown, Santa Rosa Community Health, presented on the Sonoma Resilience Collaborative. The handout Sonoma Resilience Collaborative, Creating a Self-Healing Communitywas provided.

Chronic and overwhelming stress, like that experienced following a natural disaster or community trauma, disrupts every physiological function and contributes in significant ways to every major psychological and physical disorder including: heart disease, immune disorders, pain syndromes, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, alcoholism, and drug addiction. Low-income and vulnerable populations are at particular risk at the impact lasts and expands.

A solution and vision: We are proposing a three-year effort to build our community’s capacity for self-healing and strengthen cross-community bonds. Using an evidence-based, train-the-trainer model from the Center for Mind Body Medicine, the program will train 300 people in Sonoma County who will then lead Resiliency Workshops throughout the county – where people live, work, and congregate. Building on our value of equity and inclusion, the program will engage people and communities most at risk for experiencing the debilitating effects of trauma and not being fully considered or consulted in emergency-response, recovery- and re-building efforts.

The group proceeded to discuss how to identify Health Action’s role in the Sonoma Resilience Collaborative.

  • Action Item: Identify Health Action’s role in Sonoma Resilience Collaborative
    Lisa Wittke Schaffner made a motion for the Health Action Leadership Team to endorse and adopt this as part of the Health Action work and it was seconded.
    Aye: Dan Blake, Ramona Faith, Bo Greaves, Vince Harper, Lisa Wittke Schaffner
    Absent: Alanna Brogan, Barbie Robinson

6. Accountable Communities for Health (ACH) Wellness Fund Pilot

Naomi Fuchs, Santa Rosa Community Health, explained to the group how the goal of ACH is to establish and operate a wellness fund for all of Health Action. The handout Health Action Wellness Fund Plan was provided.

At a previous ACH Oversight Committee meeting, the core principles of a wellness fund were discussed: Trusted, Accountable, Inclusive, and Transparent. The long-term vision is for Health Action to establish a wellness fund as a source of sustainable financing to support Health Action initiatives that is operated by an independent entity and governed by an independent board or committee.

The California Accountable Communities for Health Initiative pilot (2018-2019) consists of the following:

  • Health Action Leadership Team will serve as the funding decision-making body
  • Funding decisions will be made based upon a set of standard criteria, as well as funding recommendations made by Health Action committees with content expertise as appropriate
  • There are current funding opportunities to support the Hearts of Sonoma County portfolio of interventions and early childhood education

7. Updates & Next Steps

Kristin Fladseth Heidorn shared that Health Action will be launching a new website. The Health Action logo will now appear with an orange color because the website needs to be compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The group provided positive feedback towards the new color and recommended that Health Action use only the orange color going forward.

For the July Health Action Leadership Team meeting, a consultant from ReThink Health will be here to hold a conversation on organizational capacity, community engagement support, and equity.

8. Public Comment & Conclude

There was no public comment.

The meeting was adjourned at 3:03 PM.