What Would People See If Public
Health Was A Major Mission
Strategy?
November 7, 2013
What Would People See If Public
Health Was A Major Mission Strategy?
38 Answers fell into these broad categories:
– Tools
– Transformation
– Impact
– Influence
– Assessments
– Partnership/Collaboration
– Education
Top Four
1. Develop partnerships/collaboration between
ministry and government, Public Health (PH)
practitioners, academia and primary care
2. CHE taught as mission strategy in Christian
colleges and schools
3. Improved design, monitoring, and evaluation
of programs
4. Use CHE & church movements to attain
national community health goals.
Develop partnerships/collaboration between ministry
and government, PH practitioners academia and
primary care
• Develop Strategic Plan
– Assess/identify entities and opportunities
– ID priorities of communities and stakeholders (e.g. Embassy)
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Develop plan to meet these priorities
PH Practitioners
CHE
Educate CHE - library access
Comprehensive worksite wellness (health education, empower peo
ple)
• Provide a cross culture product or service (provide evidence CHE
works)
• Provide curriculum to teach PH to medical pros. provide exhaustive
library for multi cultural health needs for access by all.
Develop partnerships/collaboration between ministry
and government, PH practitioners academia and
primary care
Develop partnerships/collaboration between ministry
and government, PH practitioners, academia and
primary care
NEXT STEPS:
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Assess/Identify barriers and opportunities
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Develop creative ways to engage, meet perceived needs of entity
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Assess needs of the specific area
ASSETS:
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Global CHE Network
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CHE based curriculum
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Church
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Academic institutions
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CHE Library
NEEDS:
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Forum to bring together key academic curriculum.
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CHE Library expanded
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Re-educate existing public health professionals in community engagement
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Identify Christians in public health
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Create an association for them
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Publish data on the effectiveness of CHE
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Develop an academic curriculum to present to university and colleges
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Remote training via technology to teach curriculum once established
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Key people to write and develop curriculum including theologians.
CHE taught as mission strategy in Christian colleges
and schools
1. Convincing them (an education institution) to do it
• It can provide them reliable connections in the field
• Tell at least on story
• Selling the product
2. How do you implement CHE in the University/college setting?
• Offer it during “J terms” January and June
• Offer as a summer term program
• Internet mixed with immersion
• Offer internships
• “Me” school elective 9 -16 wks
• Use what we’ve learned by teaching CHE in public school setting
3. Challenges moving forward
• Curriculum approval (academic)
• Teachers - (qualified)
• Time constraints
• Funding
CHE taught as mission strategy in Christian colleges
and schools
• Assets & Needs
Improved design, monitoring, and evaluation of
programs
Improve Design
• local stakeholders input
• Culturally appropriate
• Stories/Examples
• Identify specific populations/strata
Improve Monitoring
• Participatory
• Partnership w/academia and government public health agencies
• Utilize ALL available assessment tools
Improve Evaluation
• Continual evaluation of
– Process
– Impact
– Outcome
• Adjust these when needed
• Locals must know how and why to evaluate and monitor
Improved design, monitoring, and evaluation of
programs
ASSETS:
• CHE DVD assessment tools
• People – Community members
• Internet access of information available (TEAR FUND,
etc) other than development agencies and educational
agencies
• Holy spirit and man does He operate!
NEEDS:
• Education – proper methods. Why it’s important to
assess.
• Practice
Use CHE & church movements to attain national
community health goals.
1. Explore opportunities for church to partnerships with government.
• Learn what already exists
• Identify common goals between church and government
• Introduce CHE (potential) movements to the health ministries
2. Cast vision with Church leaders/government officials
• Vision for holistic ministry
• CHE strategy
• Nationwide impact
3. Build coalition of churches and FBOs and mobilize partnerships
4. Churches approach government with plans that help government achieve their goals.
Incorporate CHE into national health care initiatives
5. Tran and equip churches to do CHE program
6. Churches and CHE trainers gather info and choose sites
7. Establish baselines and system for evaluation
8. Churches implement CHE
9. Document outcomes and impact
10. Report results to stakeholders
11. Celebrate success
12. Publish outcomes in journals.
Use CHE & church movements to attain national
community health goals.
ASSETS:
• CHE curriculum
• CHE practitioners
• Reputation and integrity through the church and the CHE model
• Partners globally
• Strategic opportunities (eg. South Sudan) collaboration/coalition through established NGO’s
NEEDS: PRAYER
• Country coordinators/chapters to dialogue at country levels (country champions/country
facilitators)
• Bring all organizations doing CHE together for strategic planners – they fund their own chapter and
choose their own coordinator
• Translation work could be shared
• Training in strategic planning for those country champions
• Country strategic plans shared throughout the network
• Who’s going to ram-rod this? Who is going to coordinate and facilitate country chapters?
• Funding
• Mobilizing collaboration of CHE trainers from various organizations
• PRAYER
Sustain
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Opportunity to brainstorm and share ideas
The lunch was healthy –catering makes it fast
Small group break outs
Richness and diversity of participants
Confirmation on current thoughts
New and original ideas
The short talks that set the stage for the day
Devotion
Improve?
• Don’t pass up the opportunity to form an
academic advisory group
• More time
• Why the focus on Public Health? It is historically
vertically aligned and goes against CHE’s
horizontal approach
• We need to get back to “Complete” or holistic
health approach
• Leverage CHE/CE to address the holistic approach
Questions?