CCPAA Project Proposal

Feedback and Data for the California Center for Public Health Advocacy (CCPHA) Youth City Presentation

CCPHA encourages community participation in the city planning process. The organization worked with high school students to understand the role of city planners and speak with key decision makers. I coordinated a walkability audit with the students to support a local elementary school. Students recorded their results and captured photos of concern areas. The group of youth decided to speak to city planners about their experiences conducting walkability assessments. I assisted in students in reviewing their results and provided additional resources from California Department of Public Health and the National SRTS website to frame their experience. With this information, students created a presentation. This resulted in a future agenda item of reviewing current policies for maintaining infrastructure.

California Smoking & Tobacco Outreach Prevention Program (STOPPP GIS Map for Store Evaluations

STOPP plans to evaluate 250 stores about their overall impact of health through the amount of negative advertisements and availability of products. I taught the community outreach worker how to create an online map with ArcGIS. For the
map, I provided a list of all of the high schools addresses within the county. The map incorporated this information with the store locations to assist in recruiting high school students with store evaluations. I also explained to the staff how to add layers and a mile radius buffer which represents the regions within walking distance. This map will support the STOPP program creating walking route directions, and determining isolated regions that might need additional resources for evaluation.

Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) documentation of the Community Health Needs Assessment

For accreditation, local health departments are required to provide artifacts to prove their fulfillment of standards.
The CHNA provides a crucial role in evaluating the current health status and forming partnerships, which strengthen the public health system. I read the manual for accreditation standards, competencies, and supporting documents related to the CHNA. I assisted in collecting artifacts and organizing this information from steering committee and core group meetings. I shared this information with staff in my unit to assist with documentation of their current work plans. I reviewed the draft of the final CHNA report and provided my host site supervisor with suggestions and a corrected list of stakeholders and
organizations.

San Joaquin County Public Health Services (SJCPHS) Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Network Newsletter

SJCPHS distributed a quarterly newsletter to provide information about current active transportation activities in the area. For this newsletter, I trained another staff using the web-based newsletter platform. I made a checklist of steps to draft and approve the newsletter. I found information about events and resources in the community. I drafted articles with the other staff. For the articles about third parties, I contacted organizations for approval to distribute. Finally, I made revisions to the newsletter after the the Public Information Officer, Health Educator Manager, Department Supervisor, and Senior Deputy director provided feedback. The newsletter gets distributed to over 100 community leaders and physical activity advocates.

Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) Health Equity Training with Prevention Institute (PI)

PHAB suggest increasing local health department ability to address health equities by facilitating a training. I have worked with my host site supervisor to determine a potential all staff training to follow the professional development screenings of documentary, Raising of America. I discussed with my host site supervisor areas of interests and training logistics. I also communicated with PI about their current capacity, scope of work, and curriculum for trainings. A plan to craft a training that was more tailored specifically to employees integrating health equity into their daily practice. This required additional conversation and planning. Most recently, I worked with Fresno State University to determine additional activities.

Accomplishments

This month, my abstract which was approved by my host site and CDC supervisors was approved for an oral presentation. I submitted presentation slides to be approved as well. For the Safe Routes to School network, I assisted in a Walk to School Day that had over 150 student participants. The network distributed another quarterly newsletter. I provided support to my host site. This included training staff on a web-based programs including ArcGIS and the web-based newsletter. I provided documentation and additional resources about health equity trainings to support staff activities. Finally, I assisted in the preliminary planning of three activities include Bike to School Day, Walking Symposium, and the Health Equity Training at San Joaquin County.

Lesson Learned:

This month, I learned a lot about prioritization of activities. This includes determining how to handle conflicting deadlines. Through conversations with my supervisor, I learned about balancing my workload. I learned more about supporting and training staff. This provided additional opportunities to apply emotional intelligence skills when interacting with staff. I responded to changes and adaptations for the CHNA, which provided opportunities to engage in problem solving. Finally, my last major lesson learned included the importance of being comfortable of describing and requesting support to finish tasks. Through the teamwork of other employees, I had opportunities to work with a variety of employees to ensure tasks could be complete.