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Community Engagement Committee

Strategic Goal:

Engage coalitions and key representatives across the health system with a Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Obesity Prevention (PANO) focus to serve as a repository, knowledge sharing and networking vehicle.

Provide outreach opportunities to increase access to existing programs and services with a Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Obesity Prevention (PANO) focus, regardless of income, race, ethnicity, gender identification, age, ability, citizenship status, or geography.

Potential Actions

  1. Create a health community list serve on the PANO website.
  2. Develop a repository of programs and best practices.
  3. Provide networking opportunities virtually and in-person for Coalition members and partners.
  4. Share data and published reports.
  5. Engage in partnerships with businesses, health care community, state systems, local government, faith-based institutions, the re-entry community, the unsheltered, public safety, and school systems.
  6. Encourage health care system collaboration.
  7. Establish relationships with leaders of growing special population groups.
  8. A Steering Committee will plan an annual conference.
  9. Evaluate the success of this goal and its outcomes.
  10. Partner with the Statewide Health Improvement Plan to conduct a needs assessment and convene town halls. Conduct a Town Hall meeting in each county (or participate with other planned town halls). Solicit input from the community and from all age groups on existing needs. Ask what the communities want and need. Partner with the SHIP or hospitals to obtain needs assessments and share data with health community.
  11. Remove barriers to health care in economically depressed areas.
  12. Increase visibility in the community of existing programs and services that are available especially those that help to reduce health disparities.
  13. Utilize community navigators, and community health workers, to assist the community with clinical questions and health system communication.
  14. Create mentoring and support programs.
  15. Evaluate the success of this goal and its outcomes.

Upcoming Meetings

Meetings are held on the third Thursday of the month from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

Contact us if you’re interested in attending.

Past Meetings

Committee Members

Peter Campbell

Peter Campbell
YMCA of Delaware

Chair

Tanya Haley
American Lung Association

Co-Chair

Shorel Clark
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.

Cassandra Davis
Department of Correction (DOC)

Kim Holmes
Bayhealth

Linda Hooks
Polytech School District

Maria Lepore-Stevens
Tether Foundation

Romie Lutz
Delaware Quitline

Harold Mack
State of Delaware (DOC) DHR

Kimberly Moore
4-H Cooperative Extension

Jamie O’Hara
Delaware Quitline

LaVaida Owens-White
Delaware State NAACP Conference of Branches

Debbie Smith
Bayhealth

Fatimah Smith
Bits of Goodness

Shawn Stevens
Wilmington University

Betsy Wheeler
Wheeler & Associates Management Services

Bet Key Wong
Nurses & Neighbors Collaborative Inc.

Allison Zuber
American Lung Association