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Thursday, June 17, 2010

7:00 – 8:15 am

Registration Opens
Continental Breakfast

8:15 – 8:30 am

Welcome
Speakers: Janet McCabe, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Lisa P. Jackson, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

8:30 – 9:00 am

The Roadmap for Breakthrough Improvement in Community Asthma Care
The Communities in Action Campaign serves to mobilize communities to lead the nation in quality asthma care. Every community can put in place a sustainable System for Delivering High Quality Asthma Care. This session introduces the Communities in Action Campaign and what we know about the System—how and why it works—and how different communities are using this System to put key assets into action to improve community-level asthma outcomes.

Speaker: Tracy Enger, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

9:00 – 10:00 am

Communities in Action— Assets for Delivering High Quality Asthma Care
Hear critical findings from the landmark study by the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, "Changing pO2licy: The Elements for Improving Childhood Asthma," which identifies five essential elements for improving health outcomes for children with asthma. The report, commissioned by Merck Childhood Asthma Network (MCAN) and the RCHN Community Health Foundation, will serve as a foundation as we surface and describe the assets the Communities in Action Campaign delivers to help communities improve asthma care and results. Panelists will describe how their organizations address the report’s recommendations.

Speakers: Dr. Peter Grevatt, Office of Children’s Health Protection and Environmental Education, Environmental Protection Agency; Dr. Anne Rossier Markus, George Washington University, School of Public Health and Health Services

Panelists: Dr. Paul Garbe, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Dr. Herman Mitchell, Rho, Inc.; Dr. Seiji Hayashi, Health Resources and Services Administration; Dr. James Kiley, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute; Deborah Kilstein, Association for Community Affiliated Health Plans; Dr. Floyd Malveaux, Merck Childhood Asthma Network, Inc.; David Rowson, Environmental Protection Agency Paul Smith, DC Department of Health Care Finance
10:00 – 10:15 am Coffee Break
10:15 – 10:30 am Campaign Assets in Action – System Solutions for Your Community
Building from the previous session, reflect on the asthma burden and the system that exists in your community today to bring asthma under control.

Facilitator: Tracy Enger U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

10:30 – 11:30 am

 

Communities in Action Knowledge Base—Management Tools for Your System
This session explores how asthma programs can use the Evaluation of Partnerships as a strategic program management tool. Assess your program’s "readiness" to comprehensively address asthma and learn how to ground that work in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Evaluation Framework. Explore how to use the Framework to ensure your program targets, serves and affects asthma outcomes in the population you want to reach; and how leading programs use evaluation as a management tool to drive continuous improvement.

Speaker: Maureen Wilce, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Sarah Gill, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Rebecca Giles, Utah Department of Health

11:30 – 12:30 pm

 

Communities in Action Knowledge Base—Tailored Environmental Interventions
Hear from national experts about evidence-based best practices for implementing environmental interventions in home, school or clinic-based settings. Explore the science that demonstrates the impact and value of environmental interventions as must-have components of comprehensive asthma control systems, including findings from CDC’s systematic review of home-based environmental asthma interventions and an accompanying economic evaluation.

Speakers: Dr. Herman Mitchell, Rho, Inc.; Dr. Tursynbek Nurmagambetov, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Dr. Lani Wheeler, The Cadmus Group, Inc.
12:30 – 1:30 pm Regional Lunch
Meet leaders from your region and begin forging partnerships to meet your community’s asthma needs. 

1:30 – 2:15 pm

The Knowledge Base in Action—Building Your Community System
Assess your program’s assets and needs to build, scale up, and sustain environmental interventions in home-, school and clinic-based settings. Use this information to select a break-in session track where you will discover a range of effective approaches to implementing home-, school- or clinic- based environmental asthma programs.

Facilitator: Tracy Enger, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Speakers: Dr. Tyra Bryant Stevens, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Steven Conti, Seton Asthma Center; Dr. Megan Sandel, Boston Medical Center

2:15 – 4:30 pm

 

Organizing Your Community Asthma Control System—Establishing Your Game Plan
Building from the previous two sessions, back-to-back break-in sessions will prepare you to deliver and evaluate environmental interventions. Hear how leading programs are effectively implementing environmental interventions in home, school and clinical settings. Gain access to diverse leaders including health care providers and insurers, healthy homes programs, asthma coalitions, school-based programs, state health departments, CDC, and EPA as you:
  • Explore strategies you can apply to move forward on your action plan for building, scaling-up and sustaining environmental interventions as part of a comprehensive asthma control program (2:15 - 3:15 pm).
  • Focus on evaluation of intervention strategies and learn about tools and methods for integrating evaluation practice into your program design (3:30 - 4:30 pm).
Speakers:
Clinical Settings: Dr. Megan Sandel, Boston Medical Center; Dr. David Callahan, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Home Settings: Dr. Tyra Bryant-Stephens, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Sarah Gill, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
School Settings: Steven Conti, Seton Asthma Center; Rebekah Buckley, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Dr. Catherine Rasberry, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

4:30 – 5:00 pm

 

Campaign Assets in Action—Putting Your Game Plan to Work
Participants will share the plans for action they developed in the break-ins with others from their region in a marketplace exchange of knowledge, experience, resources, mentoring, program models and tools. Facilitators will help to make matches between participants, faculty, state, federal programs and national non-profits, and broker agreements for ongoing partnerships.

Facilitator: Tracy Enger U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

5:00 – 7:00 pm

 

Recognizing Excellence—National Environmental Leadership Awards
Join the celebration to recognize the winners of the prestigious 2010 National Environmental Leadership Award in Asthma Management.

Speakers: Mike Flynn, Director, Office of Radiation and Indoor Air, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency;
Gina McCarthy, Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency

Friday, June 18, 2010

7:00 – 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 9:00 am

Preparing for a Breakthrough—Controlling Asthma in Your Community
Everyone has a role to play in community-based asthma control and every player can meaningfully advance the quality and reach of a comprehensive community asthma control system. Sketch your community’s road map for improved asthma control and identify the areas of improvement you are personally ready to lead. Learn to identify your community’s greatest asthma control assets and needs; direct asthma programming to achieve the greatest impact; and broker the deals that will deliver and sustain breakthrough improvement in your community’s asthma care system.
Facilitator: Tracy Enger, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
Speaker: Maria Gomez, President and CEO, Mary’s Center for Maternal and Child Care

9:00 – 10:00 am

Charting Your Route Forward—Knowing Where You Want to End Up and Writing the Plan to Get There
Name the areas of your community's asthma improvement journey that you can drive forward. Then create the small group working sessions, or "clinics", you need to engage the national experts, federal, state and local health officials, national non-profit leaders, program models, payers and funders in the room to help develop your customized plans for action.

Facilitator: Tracy Enger, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency

10:00 – 10:45 am

Leading a Breakthrough—Realistic Requests and Bold Offers
Learn about how a Value Proposition – your program's promise for performance – can help you make things happen in your community. Hear from asthma programs that have developed a Value Proposition to help build and sustain their programs and develop the irresistible offers that bring the partners, providers and payers to the planning table.
Speakers: Jennifer Kosak, Kalamazoo County Health and Community Service Department; Margaret Reid, Boston Public Health Commission

10:45 – 11:30 am

Campaign Assets in Action—Deal Making to Resource Your System
Develop your own Value Proposition and action plan. Get real time feedback from people who know what funders, partners, and grant makers want to hear in an asthma program Value Proposition.
Facilitator: Tracy Enger, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
11:30 – 12:00 pm The Campaign in Action—Creating Our National Impact
Regional workgroups will report out on the action plans and collaborations developed in the room that offer the most promise for breakthrough asthma care improvement. We will celebrate the community health care systems we are creating and discuss how we can extend the impact of our asthma work to affect health care change at a national level.
Facilitator: Tracy Enger, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
Communities In Action Initiative Faculty

American Lung Association of Minnesota - Partners for Asthma Action (PAA)

Asthma Network of West Michigan (ANWM)

Bethlehem Partnership for a Healthy Community

Boston Medical Center

Boston Public Health Commission

Cambridge Health Alliance's Planned Care Program

California Department of Public Health/Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's Community Asthma Prevention Program

Children's Mercy Family Health Partners (CMFHP) Asthma Management Program

Genesee County Asthma Network

Improving Pediatric Asthma Care in the District of Columbia (IMPACT DC)

MaineHealth AH! Asthma Health Program

Monroe Plan's Improving Asthma Care for Children

New York City Asthma Initiative

Priority Health Asthma Management Program

Seton Asthma Center

University of Michigan Health System

Urban Health Plan's Asthma Relief Street Program