Event Recordings

• • • Sample LHIC Organizational Charts

    • Description: The Technical Assistance Team will go over elements to include in a charter or by-laws document. LHICs will hear from Charles, Garrett, Howard, and Worcester counties and have a chance to discuss their charters, governance, and membership processes.

• • • Description: Representatives from the CRISP Public Health Dashboard will teach attendees how to use the Dashboard to identify priority health concerns in their jurisdictions.

• • • Slides available here

    • Maryland Medicaid's HealthChoice DPP Providers by MCO

    • CareFirst Press Release on Investing $10.5M in Local Communities to Combat Diabetes Epidemic

    • Description: Speakers from CareFirst, CRISP, Maryland Health Service Cost Review Commission (HSCRC), Maryland Primary Care Program, HealthChoice DPP, and PreventionLink will discuss the various diabetes initiatives being implemented across Maryland.

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    • Description: Representatives from CDC's Division of Diabetes Translation will walk through the US Diabetes Surveillance System and share a new social determinants of health feature in the tool.

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    • Description: Learn from NACCHO (National Association of County and City Health Officials) staff about their community health planning resources and how you can use these for identifying and developing your diabetes strategy.

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    • Description: Join a panel discussion with Maryland organizations that have learned how to connect with diverse groups of people in their communities. You will hear about the people and groups they have been able to reach and the challenges and successes of the methods they've used. The 90-minute session will provide ample time to ask questions and discuss methods that might work for different LHICs.  

Prior to the panel, you can watch a recording of on-the-ground Hispanic outreach in Montgomery County during COVID-19: "Reaching the Hispanic Community in Times of Crisis – Lessons from Por Nuestra Salud y Bienestar" (password: +bb3FMK?). This was a plenary session at the 2020 Health Literacy in Action conference, co-sponsored by the Horowitz Center for Health Literacy. We are making the recording available as a free resource for LHICs. 

Speaker organizations: the Asian American Center of Frederick, the Garrett County Health Department, HealthCare Dynamics International (HCDI), United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore, and the University of Maryland Extension

• • • Slides available here

    • Handout: Identifying your Audience

    • Handout: Message Framework

    • Description: Presenters from FHI 360, a social marketing and communications firm with extensive experience in diabetes communication and programming, will share how to approach using communication to market healthy living programs and raising community awareness. They will focus on concrete examples that have worked well for other state and local health departments and community based organizations across the country.

• • • Slides from MDPCP

    • List of MDPCP Care Transformation Organizations and contact information

    • List of CareFirst PCMH Practice Consultants and contact information

    • Description: Talk with representatives from the Maryland Primary Care Program (MDPCP) and CareFirst's Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) program about how and why to connect with primary care practices in your county! These primary care practices are also working on diabetes prevention and management and can be partners as you implement your diabetes strategies. They can also be partners as your LHICs tackle other high priority topics. Discuss, ask questions, and connect!

• • • Carroll County presentation

    • Calvert County presentation

• • • Charles County presentation

    • Harford County presentation

    • Baltimore County presentation

    • Worcester County presentation

    • Washington County presentation

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    • Description: Building on the successes LHICs are having with their diabetes strategies, MDH sees an opportunity to expand the conversation into maternal and child health (MCH). Join us on Monday, July 19th for a special conversation with Shelly Choo, Director of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau at MDH and Cliff Mitchell, Director for the Environmental Health Bureau at MDH. They will present information about the Statewide Integrated Health Improvement Strategy (SIHIS) and the maternal and child health priority within it. You'll also be able to talk about MCH priorities in your communities. This conversation may identify new MCH opportunities that LHICs could pursue!

• • • Slides available here

    • Chronic Disease Burden Tables (Pooled Estimates)

    • Description: The MDH Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Control invites LHICs to a presentation and Q&A session on accessing population health data using BRFSS.

The Maryland Indicator Based Information System (IBIS) allows public access to data from the Maryland Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and the Maryland Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS). Data includes the frequency of chronic diseases, risk behaviors, demographics, and other health outcomes; many data points are available at the state and local levels.

The MDH team will walk us through the IBIS query system (https://ibis.health.maryland.gov/) and provide tips that jurisdictions and their LHICs can use to leverage these data for LHIC planning purposes. Additionally, the MDH team will walk through available data tables focused on chronic diseases, risk factors and deaths at the county level.

• • • Frederick County presentation

    • Cecil County presentation

    • St. Mary's County presentation

    • Howard County presentation

• • • Deliverables Report

    • Community Engagement Checklist

    • Data Guide

    • TA Request Form

    • Slides available here

    • Description: Join this convening to learn about the LHIC technical assistance structure and offerings through Sept 2022! During the convening, Pam Williams from the Maryland Department of Health’s Prevention and Health Promotion Administration will share the expectations for the year. The Horowitz Center will go into detail about the scope of their TA and the request process.

The Horowitz Center will also introduce a data guide that LHIC members can use when looking for information for needs assessments, identifying specific populations with health needs, planning activities and programs, and monitoring changes in health throughout the community.

• • • Community Engagement Checklist

    • Slides Available Here

    • Maryland Department of Health Slides

    • Description: During this meeting we will go over the community engagement checklist, which is part of deliverable 3a and 3b to MDH.

• Community Engagement Checklist

• Slides Available Here

• Maryland Department of Health Slides

• Description: During this meeting we have LHIC leaders share their diabetes strategies and outcomes, which is part of deliverable #4a and #4b to MDH.

• Community Engagement Checklist

• Slides Available Here

• Maryland Department of Health Slides

• Description: During this meeting, we have Dr. Typhanye Dyer sharing how to create an evaluation of your diabetes strategies, which is part of deliverable #4a to MDH. The meeting has been pre-recorded to be featured on the LHIC Resources Library webpage. When you watch the recording, please let us know so we can update our records as part of deliverable #1 to MDH.

• Community Engagement Checklist

• Slides Available Here

• Maryland Department of Health Slides

• Description: During this meeting we have LHIC leaders share their diabetes strategies and outcomes, which is part of deliverable #4a and #4b to MDH.

• Slides Available Here

• Community Engagement Checklist

• Maryland Department of Health Slides

• Slides Available Here

• Community Engagement Checklist

• Maryland Department of Health Slides

• Slides Available Here

• Description: During this meeting we will have Dr. Typhanye Dyer lead a discussion on how LHICs can create a diabetes strategy evaluation and what elements should be included. This will be a continued discussion from Part 1 back in March that we recommend that you watch before attending, linked here. The passcode is "8NTPq2X@". This discussion is part of deliverable #4a and #4b to MDH. We will record the meeting for those who need to watch it later. We will take attendance during this meeting as part of deliverable #1 to MDH. If you watch the recording, please let us know so we can update our records.

• Slides Available Here

• Description: During this meeting we invite you all to participate in a roundtable discussion on at least two of the following questions about your diabetes strategies:

1. What has been your biggest accomplishment?

OR

2. What is one lesson that you have learned?

AND

3. What are your next steps?

This will be our final scheduled convening for the UMD TA period. We would appreciate everyone's participation and look forward to connecting.