Self-Paced Breakouts

Participants will learn the importance of how unique partnerships that promote community level prevention can be infused into existing health/social services like Community Health Worker training programs. This will provide an overview of the pilot program with St. Louis Community College Community Health Worker Program.

Speaker(s): Huvona Watkins, Partnership Development Coordinator

Contact Information: hwatkins@mocadsv.org,

Pharmacists are the most accessible healthcare providers in the state. As such, they provide quality healthcare support to very diverse populations. This presentation will describe to attendees the power that Community Health Worker/Pharmacist cooperation brings to healthcare in rural Missouri.

Speaker(s): Richard Logan, Jr., PharmD

Contact Information: rlogan@semorx.com

This presentation will define common health issues that older adults often experience, introduce brief and reliable screening tools, and provide training for implementation. As our nation's population continues to age it is important for health professions students, faculty, and clinicians to have a deeper understanding of the complex care older adults often require and develop skills and protocols for detecting common health problems. The Rapid Geriatric Assessment (RGA) developed at Saint Louis University includes a set of four screening tools that can be used by any healthcare provider to screen for common and modifiable health issues including frailty, Sarcopenia, nutrition, and cognition.

Speaker(s): Debbie Blessing, Marla Berg-Weger

Contact Information:

dblessing@atsu.edu, 660-626-2887

marla.bergweger@slu.edu

Video URL if problems: https://youtu.be/yF6SXvvWvAwI

The Missouri Rural Health Association, MU School of Medicine/Extension, Mo Hospital Association, and others developed an interactive self-directed online training tool to improve knowledge and skills to improve access to health and wellness across rural Missouri.

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to identify their community's transportation resources and barriers, communicate and advocate for consumers, identify funding resources to assist consumers with transportation costs, and identify requirements and restrictions of funding for consumers. The end result of the certificate program is a working tool kit to address the student's community and customer base.

Speaker(s): Mary Gordon, Sandra Morris

Contact Information: None

In this presentation, Valerie Bader and Kim Fanning present the importance of infection control and prevention efforts, especially as people contend with antibiotic resistance and the emergence of new infectious agents. The principles of OneHealth will also be described. Finally, Dr. Bader and Ms. Fanning will facilitate the exploration of the CDC's Project FirstLine material in teaching communities about infection control and prevention.

Speaker(s): Valeri Bader, Kim Fanning

Contact Information: None

The pandemic, social injustice, and a volatile presidential election raised city employee stress levels and challenged morale in 2019. This was the same time HEALTH 4410, a course created for students to partner with agencies to promote healthy employees was first implemented. This session will introduce HEALTH 4410 and the partnership between UCM Health Studies students enrolled in Health Program Implementation and Logistics and the City of Warrensburg, Missouri. This partnership was brought together to support the healthcare provider by increasing participation. The instructor, the City of Warrensburg Human Resource Assistant, and a current HEALTH 4410 student will share their experience. Finally, you will have the opportunity to explore your possibilities of a similar partnership.

Speaker(s): Karen Doyle, Kathy Henson

Contact Information:

kmdoyle@ucmo.edu, 660.543.4662

kathy.henson@warrensburg-mo.com

This presentation will provide information on the Double Up Food Bucks (DUFB) program that has recently been expanded into a number of new locations throughout Missouri. DUFB provides Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients the opportunity to double their SNAP funds to purchase local fruits and vegetables at participating farmers markets and grocery stores, up to $25 per day.

Speaker(s): Londa Nwadike, Jollyn Tyryfter, Jennifer Elms

Contact Information: None

Good health is about more than just good medical care it includes managing non-medical needs, integrating care, assuring health literacy, and so much more. The premise of the Mobile Integrated Health (MIH) model is to initiate primary care in the home with community paramedics (MIH clinicians) serving as the bridge between the patient and provider of care to prevent inappropriate or overutilization of high-cost emergency medical services or hospital emergency departments. While in the home, the community paramedic also conducts a variety of assessments, health, fall risk, COVID risk, social determinants of health, and helps identify appropriate resources to meet the patient's needs. Services are orchestrated with the assistance of CHWs. MIH impacts health outside the walls of hospitals and physician offices.

Speaker(s): Justin Duncan, BS, NRP, CCEMT-P, FP-C

Chief Executive Officer | Washington County Ambulance District

President | Missouri Emergency Medical Services Association

Tori Theiss, CHW

CHW Supervisor | Great Mines Health Center

Contact Information: jduncan@wcadems.org

ttheiss@gmhcenter.org

This presentation displays the discrepancies in resources and outreach support for the opioid crisis by providing current statics to prove the disparity to the Covid Pandemic . The purpose of the presentation is to change the stigma surrounded by substance use relevancy to mental health in the the African American communities. Information will shared about disparity statistics, harm reduction stigmas, mental health avoidance, instrumenting Narcan, and overdose education.

Speaker(s): Arial Collins CHW, Shellie Boaze Certified Substance Abuse Educator, Reverand Burton Barr

Contact Information: None

Most people are inherently relational by relying on cooperative partnerships to increase the odds of survival and advance societies. Across hundreds of studies, social isolation and loneliness, for example, are significant predictors of premature death, with stronger effects on longevity than many recognized public health determinants (e.g., smoking, exercise). Of course, however, the quality of our social relationships matter. In this brief session, we will discuss (a) the research behind relationships and health, (b) how relationships impact our health, and (c) how we can use this information to better our practice.

Speaker(s): J. Kale Monk, Ph.D.

Contact Information: None

This presentation is an overview of some of the benefits and resources available to CHWs servicing the Medicaid population in Missouri.

Speaker(s): Shelby Miller, Amy Westhoff

Contact Information: None

WyCo Connect: Connecting with Community Beyond COVID-19 will describe how our COVID-19 CHW response effort reached beyond the intended results and began to build interagency and community trust, build relationships, and create new partnerships. We will also briefly discuss how using GIS mapping can help CHWs understand their impact on neighborhoods.

Speaker(s): Kevin Ochoa, Alma Lopez

Contact Information: None

The Recovery Friendly Workplace Initiative is a new statewide program to provide training and support for businesses and industries who hire employees in recovery. Through a partnership with the Missouri Chamber of Commerce, the Missouri Department of Mental Health, the Rural Health Association, and the Missouri Hospital Association, the University of Missouri is developing training and technical support for businesses, agencies, and communities that will lead to a Recovery Friendly Workplace certificate. This poster presentation highlights the initiative and details ways to become involved, receive training, or support employees in recovery.

Speaker(s): Myra Gallooway, Ann McCauley

Contact Information: None