Orientation

This year, the North Carolina Association of Local Health Directors (NCALHD), the North Carolina Division of Public Health (DPH), and the North Carolina Public Health Academy have joined forces to offer an orientation program for those health directors who have been on the job for three months or less. The cohort for 2007 has already begun; however, if you would like to find out more about this program, please contact: info@ncpublichealthacademy.org

Upcoming Presentation

Date and time to be determined.

Past Presentations

9/24/07-"Public Health Finance" presented by Cheryll Lesneski, DrPH

• Council on Linkages Core Competencies- Financial Planning & Management Competencies
  http://www.trainingfinder.org/competencies/list_nolevels.htm
• Environmental Protection Agency- Financial Management Performance Indicators
  http://www.epa.gov/ocfo/govwide/dec04govwide.pdf
• Flex Monitoring Team- Financial Indicators for Critical Access Hospitals
  http://www.flexmonitoring.org/documents/BriefingPaper7_
  FinancialIndicators.pdf
• Journal of Public Health Management and Practice- PH Finance (free issue-enter "Public Health Finance" in Quick Search)
  http://www.jphmp.com/
• Public Health Foundation- Applying Cost Analysis to Public Health Programs
  http://bookstore.phf.org/product_info.php?products_id=227
• Public Health Foundation- Measuring Expenditures for Essential Public Health Services-State/Local Health Department Data Collection Instrument (crosswalking 10 Essential Public Health Services with current budgeting categories typically found in LPHA budgets)
  http://www.phf.org/Reports/Expend1/app4.pdf
• NACCHO- 2005 Profile of Local Health Departments
  http://www.naccho.org/topics/infrastructure/2005Profile.cfm
• NACCHO- 2005 Profile of Local Health Departments (see Chapter 3, Financing)
  http://www.naccho.org/topics/infrastructure/documents
  /NACCHO_report_final_000.pdf
  

7/24/07-"The Behavioral Event Interview" presented by Claudia Fernandez, DrPH, MS, RD, LDN

• Fernandez, CSP. The Behavioral Event Interview: Avoiding Interviewing Pitfalls When Hiring. J Public Health Manage Pract. 2006;12(6), 590–593. Available from URL: http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/JournalArticle.asp?
  Article_ID=674008.

6/4/07-"Quality Driven Performance Improvement" presented by Cheryll Lesneski, DrPH and Phred Pilkington, DPA

• National Public Health Performance Standards Program
  http://www.phf.org/nphpsp/
• Turning Point
  http://turningpointprogram.org/
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement
  http://www.ihi.org/
• Performance Measurement in Local Government (workshop), UNC School of Government
  http://www.sog.unc.edu/calendar/03.htm

3/26/07-"Accreditation: Your Role as a Health Director" presented by Monecia Thomas, MPH

• NC Local Health Department Accreditation Board website
  http://nciph.sph.unc.edu/accred/

11/16-17/06-Local Health Director Orientation, NC Division of Public Health

• NC Consolidated Agreement 2007
• "Staff Time Equivalencies" presented by Mitzi Parris
• "Developing, Managing, and Monitoring Local Health Department Budgets" presented by Mitzi Parris
• "Medicaid Memorandum of Understanding" presented by Mitzi Parris