Dear Community Partners and Key Stakeholders,
As we welcome a new year and a new CHIP cycle we want to thank you so much for sharing this journey from CHA to CHIP! At our December CHIP Advisory meeting, we voted on two Focus Conditions to move forward in our 2018-2021 CHIP cycle. And on December 21st, the Buncombe County Health and Human Services Board endorsed and approved our recommendation to focus on Mental Health for this next three year CHIP cycle and Birth Outcomes and Infant Mortality as our focus for an expanded 10 year cycle! We hope you feel that your voice has been included in this CHA/CHIP process and we are committed to continue to work to better engage the community and those most impacted by these conditions as we move forward.
Don't forget that you can review our CHA/CHIP process notes and materials on our blog resources. You'll find a link to a directory of CHA documents on the right-hand menu bar with links to all the meeting materials (minutes, slides and supporting materials), data summaries for standout health conditions and materials that describe (and supported) the methodology used to get us to our new Focus Health Conditions. And, as always, feel free to reach out with your questions and data needs.
With the New Year we continue to work on improving our CHIP Operating Guidelines to provide more meaningful opportunities for engagement, broader leadership and improved communication. We will spend time in February considering approaches to addressing the social determinants of health that influence so much of our community's health and well-being. Beginning in March we will be reaching out to all of you to help us identify the stakeholders that need to be involved in shaping our work around Mental Health and with Birth Outcomes and Infant Mortality. In May we will be engaging many of you along with key stakeholders across the community in in a robust process to focus this new work and identify the strategies and process that can help us change the trajectory of these Focus Health Conditions.
In the meantime, our existing work around Birth Outcomes and Diabetes continues. Our Diabetes partners shared a wonderful update on their work at our last CHIP Advisory and you can view the slides from that presentation here. After much process work and planning their will be a meeting of our larger diabetes workgroup this month and a long awaiting reconvening of Food Security partners. You can learn more about this at our at our separate work group blog sites:
With the New Year we continue to work on improving our CHIP Operating Guidelines to provide more meaningful opportunities for engagement, broader leadership and improved communication. We will spend time in February considering approaches to addressing the social determinants of health that influence so much of our community's health and well-being. Beginning in March we will be reaching out to all of you to help us identify the stakeholders that need to be involved in shaping our work around Mental Health and with Birth Outcomes and Infant Mortality. In May we will be engaging many of you along with key stakeholders across the community in in a robust process to focus this new work and identify the strategies and process that can help us change the trajectory of these Focus Health Conditions.
In the meantime, our existing work around Birth Outcomes and Diabetes continues. Our Diabetes partners shared a wonderful update on their work at our last CHIP Advisory and you can view the slides from that presentation here. After much process work and planning their will be a meeting of our larger diabetes workgroup this month and a long awaiting reconvening of Food Security partners. You can learn more about this at our at our separate work group blog sites:
Don't forget to visit our additional blog pages to learn more on how you can Engage on important issues related to our CHIP priorities and Social Determinants of Health, Support our many partners, Learn. In particular, we invite you to visit the Resources page where we have posted a number of articles on Collective Impact lessons learned and best practices. Our CHIP support team will also be participating in a learning cohort with the Center for Nonprofit Management this year We'll be talking about this opportunity and why a renewed focus on collective impact at our January Advisory meeting. We'll also be reaching out to you in early January to give us a baseline assessment on the status of and support for CHIP as a collective impact approach.
