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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)Â focus, regardless of income, race, ethnicity, gender identification, age, ability, citizenship status, or geography.
Potential Actions
- Create a health community list serve on the PANO website.
- Develop a repository of programs and best practices.
- Provide networking opportunities virtually and in-person for Coalition members and partners.
- Share data and published reports.
- 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.
- Encourage health care system collaboration.
- Establish relationships with leaders of growing special population groups.
- A Steering Committee will plan an annual conference.
- Evaluate the success of this goal and its outcomes.
- 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.
- Remove barriers to health care in economically depressed areas.
- Increase visibility in the community of existing programs and services that are available especially those that help to reduce health disparities.
- Utilize community navigators, and community health workers, to assist the community with clinical questions and health system communication.
- Create mentoring and support programs.
- 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.
Past Meetings
Committee Members
Peter CampbellYMCA of Delaware
Chair
Tanya HaleyAmerican Lung Association
Co-Chair