Kansas Governor's Public Health Conference

Tuesday, March 28, 2023 | 8:30a-4:45p

Core Drug Endangered Children Training—Community Awareness 
Jennifer Gassmann, Kansas Children’s Service League; chair, Kansas Alliance for Drug Endangered Children
The drug endangered children mission focuses on the formation of multi-disciplinary partnerships that coordinate existing agencies and their mutual interests and duties to meet specific needs of children impacted by caregiver substance use, sales, manufacture, and/or cultivation. The focus on these children’s needs extends until the child is in a permanent, safe, and positive functioning environment. The Core DEC Awareness training looks at overcoming challenges in aligning the systems responsible for preventing, intervening, and treating these issues to change the trajectories of the lives of children and break multi-generational cycles of abuse and neglect. 
Helping Traumatized Children Learn and Succeed 
Edward Jacoubs, MSW 
Edward Jacoubs recently retired from the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office after 22 years as the Director of Grants and Sponsored Projects. He was involved in the development of what is now referred to as Handle with Care and the promotion of “Helping Traumatized Children Learn” in schools. Childhood trauma, or Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), can have lasting, negative effects on health, well-being, and opportunity. Trauma-informed environments for children with ACEs is but one, albeit important, strategy in the overall prevention framework. Without trauma-informed care, the traditional prevention framework often misses the students most at-risk for addiction; those with ACEs. 
Marijuana and Children 
Amy Ronshausen, Drug Free America Foundation, Save Our Society from Drugs
Amy Ronshausen is the executive director of both Drug Free America Foundation, Inc. and Save Our Society from Drugs (S.O.S.) which are national nonprofit organizations that work to defeat drug legalization attempts, promote sound drug policies, and prevent drug use, abuse and addiction. She has assisted in coordinating successful grassroots advocacy campaigns to defeat marijuana legalization efforts, coordinated statewide prevention summits, analyzed and tracked state and federal drug policy legislation, and trained prevention professionals at local and national conferences. 
Current Drug Trends 
Chris Bumgarner, Kansas Bureau of Investigation 
This session will discuss information on the current drug trends in Kansas, including drugs most often abused. Some statistics regarding drug overdoses in Kansas will be shared. We will cover the elements of the crimes of endangering a child and aggravated endangering a child. Proper prosecution of these crimes will also be discussed.

Registration fee is $75. Lunch will be provided.

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Tuesday, March 28, 2023 | 8:00a-12:00p

The Maternal & Child Health (MCH) pre-conference session will provide an overview of the Bureau of Family Health Title V Maternal & Child Health (MCH) Program and State Action Plan. Participants will learn about the MCH Aid-to-Local (ATL) Restructure plan for State Fiscal Year 2025 (SFY2025) grant year. Participants will hear from the MCH Workgroup made up of current/past grantees from local health departments, community health centers, federally qualified health centers and a university. The restructure plan was built from the feedback from the 2022 MCH pre-conference interactive forum focused on assessing the current ATL model. Participants will have an opportunity to provide more feedback and input and identify ways to communicate the plan over the next year across the state. The session will be interactive and include an opportunity for Q&A with KDHE Title V staff. Attendance is strongly encouraged for all MCH grantees.

Presenters:

KDHE Bureau of Family Health Staff:

• Carrie Akin, Community Partnerships Unit Director
• Holly Frye, MCH Program Consultant
• Kelsee Torrez, Consultant Unit Director & Behavioral Health Consultant

Current and Future Local MCH Grantees:

• Julie Laverack, Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas
• Cari Schmidt, University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita
• Monica Reuber, Sheridan County Public Health Department
• Cortney Murrow, Mitchell County Health Department

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this session, participants should be able to:

• Provide a comprehensive explanation of the Kansas Title V MCH Program and State Action Plan.
• Identify the MCH ATL Restructure Plan for SFY2025 that includes eligible applicants, application pathways and funding allocations (floor/ceiling awards).
• Engage with KDHE staff and other available resources that provide training, education and technical assistance.

Registration fee is $75. Lunch will be provided.

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Tuesday, March 28, 2023 | 1:00p-4:15p

The Family Planning pre-conference session will provide an overview of the Bureau of Family Health Title X Reproductive Health and Family Planning Program. Participants will learn about Kansas Title X priority work and initiatives as well as resources available when implementing this work on the community level (technical assistance, training, etc.). In addition, participants will take part in an interactive forum focused on assessing the current ATL model and engage in collaborative work to identify areas for growth and improvement. The session will be interactive and include an opportunity for Q&A with KDHE Title X staff. Attendance is strongly encouraged for all Title X Aid-to-Local (ATL) grantees. 

Presenters

KDHE Bureau of Family Health Staff:

• Carrie Akin, Community Partnerships Unit Director
• Jeni McDonald, Program Manager
• Ivonne Rivera-Newberry, Clinical Consultant
• Toni Merrill, Program Consultant

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this session, participants should be able to:

• Understand findings from a recent Federal Site visit and identify collaboration methods.
• Identify opportunities for programmatic improvements and collaborative efforts.
• Identify what strategies their local program intends to focus on during the upcoming grant period as well as available resources that can support that work.
• Engage with KDHE staff and other available resources that provide training, education and technical assistance.

Registration fee is $75. Lunch will be provided.

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Tuesday, March 28, 2023 | 9:30a-3:30p

Recent (2021) Kansas Workforce Assessment data show that half of our Kansas public health workforce has worked in public health for less than five years. While the pandemic has elevated some understanding of one role that public health can play, now is the time for the public health workforce to connect and create healthier communities using new (and old) approaches. Success depends on a better understanding of the frameworks and models that provide the foundations of public health practice. This interactive workshop focuses on national models for public health practice with practical application to current and future Kansas local public health department activities. Innovation involves the deliberate application of information, imagination, and initiative. The workshop will include an introduction to Public Health 3.0, Foundational Public Health Services, Ten Essential Public Health Services, and more. Attention will be given to how these frameworks relate to state and local health department programs and services.

This session offers space to foster relationship-building and get back to public health practice roots. Topics include:

• Evolution of Public Health
• Public Health Frameworks and Models
• Public Health in Kansas: Funding, Organization
• Key Public Health Activities: Assessment, Chief Health Strategist, Systems Thinking

Presenters

This session will be facilitated by Sonja Armbruster, Tina Payne and Jessica Smith from WSU CEI’s Center for Public Health Initiatives, with guest speaker Dennis Kriesel, executive director of the Kansas Association of Local Health Departments. 

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this session, participants should be able to:

• Learn about the role of local public health.
• Understand how local public health is funded in Kansas.
• Be able to name and define one public health model.
• Explain the difference between adaptive and technical challenges.
• Connect with other local public health professionals.

Experiential Objectives

At the conclusion of this session, participants should be able to:

• Leave feeling increased confidence with public health terminology and plans.
• Understand the systems they work with better.
• Be actively involved with generating their own wisdom related to the training topics.

Registration fee is $75. Lunch will be provided.

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