National Council of Urban Indian Health (Official)’s Post

📣 Calling all local authority and ICB commissioners / service leads 📣 Following on from our popular roundtable event on Local Area Coordination a few weeks ago, we have arranged a session on how to start / commission Local Area Coordination.   This 1 hour session will take place virtually via Teams on Thursday 18 July 2024 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM   It will cover: • What Local Area Coordination is and isn’t, including how it supports strategic prevention and community objectives. • Typical costings and how to make the case for it. • The programme design support from Community Catalysts in getting it going. • The role of the Local Area Coordination Network in sustaining and growing it. The session is aimed at Strategic Leads and Commissioners across ASC, Children’s, Housing, Public Health, Communities etc who are interested in this approach. You can register here - https://lnkd.in/eKdCCYxE Community Catalysts CIC  

Addressing community health in rural areas requires a comprehensive approach that goes beyond traditional clinical care, focusing on prevention, education, and collaboration with local stakeholders. Rural communities often face limited access to healthcare resources, transportation barriers, and socioeconomic disparities that impact overall health and wellbeing. Building strong relationships and trust within the community enables rural healthcare providers to better understand and respond to the unique needs of the population. Addressing community health in rural areas requires a comprehensive approach that goes beyond traditional clinical care, focusing on prevention, education, and collaboration with local stakeholders.

The Call for Papers for CAWRI's April 18-20 conference Fostering Creative Health, is extended to February 15! The conference seeks to explore ways in which arts, health, social care and education can collaborate to produce positive results without high costs. It encourages all kinds of submissions from single paper to symposium and panel, and looks for models of excellence as well as ideas to address the following core questions: • How do we best foster creative health across diverse settings? • What specific partnerships and programs of enquiry should we pursue to ensure optimal impacts? • How can we amass policy and financial support for partnerships and programs? For more information and to submit, see

CEAL Regional Teams from Alabama (AL), Mississippi (MS), and Louisiana (LA) combined community-based participatory research with existing emergency risk communication principles to build the Bidirectional Collaborative Community Engagement Alliance Response Model (BCRM). The BCRM was used in focus groups to: ◾ identify barriers to protective behavior, ◾ create culturally relevant messaging, and ◾ engage community leaders in disseminating health communication Check out the full article coauthored by MS CEAL’s Principal Investigator, Dr. Caroline E. Compretta from the University of Mississippi Medical Center, to learn more about how BCRM was used in AL, MS, and LA and how the model’s continuous community engagement design could be adapted for future health crises: https://bit.ly/3xxEJXU

Why is evaluation important in health programs? - Determine the extent to which goals related to improving health have been achieved. - To improve program implementation. - Improve the usefulness of program materials. - Determine what works, and what doesn't - To provide accountability to funders, the community and other stakeholders. - Contributing to building the scientific base for community public health interventions. - To inform policy decisions.

Let's listen to Niha, our Health and Social Care Level 3 and the things she likes about Coulsdon College. If you have an interest in the health and social care of people in the community, then this course is for you. Find out more about our Health & Social Care - Level 3 BTEC ➡️https://bit.ly/40PTAHN

Two years ago, a team of researchers from the University of Kent set out on a national project, funded by the NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research) as part of the National Priorities for Adult Social Care and Social Work, led by NIHR ARC Kent Surrey and Sussex, to find out what care planning approaches were available across England and what people thought of them. The findings of an initial review 'Wellbeing in Care Homes' - set out to identify and classify existing care home planning approaches. They found how most studies had reported on interventions that involved: training, information or resources and/ or changes in working practices. The majority of interventions involved members of staff (93%), compared to just over a third (35%) of friends and family. In addition, only around 10 per cent of studies referred to digital care plans. Read more here >> https://lnkd.in/gSZicwi8

Check out our article on incorporating ECHO model insights in virtual training settings for public health workforce development!

Aligning with American Public Health Association’s daily theme today for National Public Health Week - the Future of Public Health - we reflect on ASPPH’s Framing the Future 2030 reports which provide a roadmap for enhancing public health education and practice. Explore the reports and join us in this mission: https://lnkd.in/gv23Cexe

I'm excited to share some important findings from my dissertation! Check out this recent article which explores the many pathways to healthcare that are coordinated with or for youth who reside at emergency youth shelters in Toronto, and some key factors that affect these possible trajectories to care. Full article can be found here: https://lnkd.in/geqmUDBw