Quarter 1 (2023) Strategic Plan Update

Public Health Workforce Update: Quarter 1 (2023)

Workforce Highlights

Had our first Professional Development Day! 

72% of full-time staff reported they participated in at least one professional development opportunity. The LGBTQ Center provided staff with trainings!

Hosted SUNY Cortland interns! 

Two full-time healthcare management interns completed projects related to immunization and Board of Health engagement.

Provided career education to students!

Our Public Health Director provided one presentation at SUNY Cortland about public health as a career choice.

Launched Employee Recognition Program! 

27% and counting of all staff were recognized through our newly launched weekly Employee Spotlight!

Next Steps for Workforce (how will we stay on track this year!)


Updates to Goals/Objectives/Measures for Workforce 




Communication Update: Quarter 1 (2023)

Communication Highlights

Re-branded social media! 

Re-branded our social media content to be data driven, community focused (with images, statistics and resources), and involve varied content (interviews, videos, and blogs). We  analyzed of over 800 social media posts to determine what type of content best reaches our community.


Improved accessibility!  

Provided image descriptions on nearly 50% of our Facebook posts  and and captions on 100% of our Facebook videos to make our content more accessible.

Re-launched newsletter!

Re-launched the Employee Newsletter to enhance internal communication between leadership and staff and among departmental programs. 100% of staff read the newsletter.

Promoted our services!

Represented CCHD and our services on 26 community coalitions or taskforces, participated in 12 community coalition/taskforce projects, and attended 44 community events to promote CCHD services.

Next Steps for Communication (how will we stay on track this year!)

Updates to Goals/Objectives/Measures for Communications

“% of non-static Facebook posts” was changed to “# of non-static Facebook posts” and the year-end target was set to 36 per year.


The year-end target for the measure “# of meetings where social media data discussed” was reduced from 12 to 4.


Added the measures “% of static social media posts with image descriptions” and “% of social media videos with closed captioning”


Collaboration Update: Quarter 1 (2023)

Collaboration Highlights

Launched CHIP Newsletter!


Launched a Community Health Improvement Plan newsletter for stakeholders, including partners and community members, to stay updated on CHIP activities. Over 139 stakeholders received the newsletter.

Facilitated data sharing!


Received legislative approval authorizing data sharing agreements with community partners for the Electronic Syndromic Surveillance System.


Provided data to partners!


Provided Community Health Assessment survey data to Access to Independence and CACTC for a grant application which resulted in grant award to address substance use in people with disabilities. 

Launched dashboards!

We developed data dashboards for 34% of Community Health Improvement interventions in collaboration with partner agencies.

Next Steps for Collaboration (how will we stay on track this year!)

Updates to Goals/Objectives/Measures for Collaboration

Based on the results of the review of 2022 BOH meeting minutes and a survey of BOH members conducted in February 2023. Goal 3.3 Strategy #1 was changed from “enhance BOH shared decision making” to “enhance BOH education on public health matters in Cortland County.”

 

The following objectives were added to Goal 3.3:

The following targets are added to measure this strategy.


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