The Threads That Bind: Weaving the CSHP Blanket
Professional Development Consortium Event
November 29-December 1, 2005
EVALUATION RESULTS
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Albuquerque, NM 87190
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December 14, 2005
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The Threads That Bind: Weaving the CSHP Blanket
Professional Development Consortium Event: November 29-December 1, 2005
EVALUATION DAY 1: Tuesday, November 29
Total attendees: 81
Total evaluations returned:
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Percent return: 71.5%
Attendees were asked to rate the usefulness and quality of each presentation. Following are the definitions
provided for each area and the rating scale.
Usefulness: Will you be able to make use of the ideas provided in this activity or presentation?
Scale: 1 = not at all useful to 5 = very useful).
Quality: Do you feel the activity or presentation was organized, presented, and facilitated
effectively?
Scale: 1 = Very Poor to 5 = Excellent
Topic: The Current and Future Vision of CSHP
Quality, 4.71
Usefulness, 4.67
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Good reality information and appreciate the
inspiration!
Good to know that the CDC is keeping CSH
as a priority.
Howell is always great!
I love Howell's passion and commitment to
school health.
I really appreciated how Dr. Wechsler gave
us honest insight into fed budget cuts and
what tools will soon be available.
It's always great to hear from Howell and to
get the most current information about what's
going on in CDC and CSHP.
Surprisingly good!
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The future direction is clear and we should all
feel clear about what we need to be doing.
Updates are always good.
Very good information!
Very useful!
Area for improvement:
 AM group was tired and flat…. Needed an
energizer or quick mixer to get folks awake
before such important information was
shared.
Topic: Impact of Personal Style: A Team Relationship
Quality, 4.12
Usefulness, 4.05
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All of us have taken these sorts of personal style inventories and they are good! We need more time to
process and go in depth on how to work with each type, not so much time on which style we are.
Any way that we can identify personalities and how they impact team effectiveness is good!
Created very good conversation among team members.
Gave another look at our individualism.
Great exercise!
Helpful tools of handouts.
I loved it! Thanks
This was a good activity.
This was especially useful for us since it’s the first time some of us have worked together-A good
opportunity to get to know each other and do some team building.
This was fun - we need to do this with others back at the office
OK
Speaker was excellent and knowledgeable. Will be interesting to see how this impacts future work.
Areas for Improvement:
 Didn't feel as connected to the work as it could have been.
 Didn't have enough time to process-also what about external strengths, like computer, reading, setting up
systems, etc.?
 Great but how can you use it back in your state? Wanted more of this….. This session needed more time to
accomplish goals.
 I wasn't sure how to complete the last task (pg.3) in handouts - directions were not clear.
 Interesting more clarification on how to use strengths with team challenges and opportunities.
 Need more time to process and suggestions on how to apply information.
 Needed more time to work on worksheets
 This needed more time to process and think about.
 This session did not seem to fit into the rest of the day’s agenda. Needed to relate this process to CSHP
responsibilities in a more direct way.
 Too short-the idea that a person might be brought onto a team based on personal strengths is not realistic.
To use this as a hiring tool would violate equal opportunity principles.
Topic: Eight Priority Actions for Improving the Health of Young People
Quality, 3.93
Usefulness, 4.06
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Great sharing of what states are doing.
Some parts were helpful because they gave enough specific details.
Some presented better than others- but all information was good.
The state examples are extremely helpful. Thank you!
Washington-Excellent! North Carolina-Excellent! What happened to Iowa. Kentucky round table- Excellent!
Areas for Improvement
 Difficult session to listen to after lunch. Interactive session at this time.
 Guidelines for each state’s presentation, very hard to follow state initiative without visual. Acronyms are hard
to follow with multiple state presentations.
 I do not find this kind of reporting out very helpful. The presentations are boring and often times not
relevant.
 I have seen a lot of these programs before, would have been more beneficial to spend the time in state time.
 Liked hearing from the states-would suggest fewer states reporting and gear more time to limited,
successful programs like NC.
 Lost the group. Our team had ideas from the AM session, but couldn't utilize our time to work.
 Seemed disorganized
 Some good tidbits applicable to my state. But states are like apples and oranges and some activities
discussed are not applicable or relevant.
 Some states were interesting and useful and others didn't learn as much.
 State information wasn't that helpful.
 States should use visuals-especially the communications points.
 Would have been nice to get a one-page hand-out from each state that presented.
Attendees’ thoughts on Day 1 of the training:
High points of the day?
Howell Wechsler’s Presentation
 CDC report and state reports
 Dr. Wechsler's overview. Loved the PA break!
 Great energy! Dr. Wechsler's presentation about evaluation and surveillance.
 Howell' s presentation. Assessment of personal style.
 Howell, Direction of where CSHP is going.
 Howell's informative and inspiring presentation. Paula from NC is also very energetic and motivating.
 Howell's words of wisdom
 I enjoyed Howell Wechsler's presentation and the work that NC has completed. I liked the questions and
answers format at the end.
 Update from Howell (2)
 Updates and new developments at CDC
 Overview of CDC's initiatives and challenges facing CSH.
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Howell's address to kick off conference.
The opening session.
State Reports
 Hearing from different states.
 Hearing local states’ successes and examples of what is meant in the CDC language of goals, strategies,
etc.
 Hearing stories from other states
 The presentations from different states.
Personal Strengths
 Team relationships activity
 Working on team strengths and opportunities
 I enjoyed the personal strengths assessment. I also enjoyed the stretching to music.
 Identifying team strengths
 Impacts of personal style.
Multiple/Other Responses
 Dash updates, stories from states great. Healthy meals and snacks! Practicing what we preach.
 Finding out my individual strengths and how I can use these personal characteristics in assisting my state
CSH team.
 Great day - excited about moving forward in next two days.
 Great session and speakers. Slims process looks promising
 Great session!
 GRITS
 Hearing the ins and outs of where CDC is at. Team discussion
 Round table discussion- finding out how different states approach issues that come up.
 State presentations and Howell Wechsler
 Success stories
 The CDC presentation and the information about the new profiles and slim.
 The sharing of success stories and the round table discussions.
 The stories from the field (Improving the health of young people).
 Variety of presentation styles
 Large groups, small groups interactive.
Low points of the day?
State Presentations
 All state speakers should provide summary or handouts for future reference. Some presentations were dry
and others very good.
 Allow more states to share success stories with others.
 Examples from states-they were good, but not the best use of time.
 Some of the state presentations were weak.
 State presentations are so valuable, but I'm sorry I began to tune out.
 State presentations, lack of time.
 State report outs - the round table was much more helpful.
 State show and tell.
Other
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CDC funding and cut backs of verb.
Eight priority areas-speakers of varying quality, no handouts.
Jet Lag
Long day - tired due to travel
Missing the first two sessions due to travel.
No real points
None specifically
Not enough time to process the team strengths
Presentations right after lunch.
Round tables should be in separate rooms.
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Starting a little early
Temperature
The eight priory Actions for improving the health of youth people-multiple speakers from different states
make it hard to follow, need consistent format for each state,
The presentation session on the eight priorities seemed disorganized. States didn’t seem to know how to
address the priority.
The roundtables, some of the information was not pertinent
The team relationship session… did not seem to fit in with the day’s agenda
Too many talking heads, couldn’t hear at the round tables.
Too much information at once to digest
Afternoon presentations were so so. "Strengths" was so so. We need to be engaged in team work.
Listening to presentation after lunch was tough!
What attendees can use in their work back home?
Everything!
 All info
 Almost everything learned can be used back home - you should see my list.
 Everything! Pieces of all presentations will be useful in practice.
 Wow! Everything.
 We're still building infrastructure. All of this will beneficial as we continue the process of building.
Personal Strengths
 Personal inventory with staff and use with key stakeholders.
 Personal strengths
 Impacts of personal styles
 Will use the personal strengths team review to help fill new positions
 Use our personal strengths to prioritize our activities
State Presentation Information
 North Carolina's plan for assessment and accountability
 Planning that comes out of slim what I've learned other states.
 The think links and the NC model
 What I have learned from other states, Wow! What great ideas on how to implement CSH.
 State examples- try to adapt them to fit my state.
 I liked the state "talks" CA, WA, KEN,NC, and will take back some ideas.
Other Items
 Better awareness of overall programs
 CDC resources, successful initiatives from other states.
 Communication strategies
 Developing work plans with slims in mind
 Explore an implement slim. Create an ongoing teacher data analysis class to translate the data collected.
Mutilate and excite other schools to get involved with CSH.
 I wanted more logic model work, more team planning on identifying opportunities to work on CSHP
priorities.
 Information from other states to further our objectives and activities.
 Information on evaluations of programs
 Linking CSHP into school improvement plans.
 Marketing strategies
 Presenting the local statistic and how it impacts the state regional national perspective.
 Slims
 Slims would like to peruse success stories.
 The CDC resources
 The risk behavior cards (I would like the 24 packs).
Advice they would give to improve the Day 2 training:
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More physical activity
 Continue PA break.
 Have us move around a little more - morning and afternoon.
 More energizers throughout the day -Ask that our glasses and food not be cleaned off our tables so quickly.
 More movement
 Stretch breaks at tables every hour.
More state team work
 More state time.
 More talk story time and state team planning.
 More time on team activities.
 More time to work within state teams.
 We need team planning time
 What we can do when we return to our states. Some team planning time.
 I want more team work with CSHP. That's why we brought a team. Afternoon was a waste. To have your
team at a table for two and a half days is time we don't have back in our state. We need to use time
efficiently here in NM.
Other Advice
 Clearer instructions
 Eliminate show and tell and require more polished and reviewed presentations. It was hard to follow many
of the speakers.
 Hand outs from all speakers (for future training).
 Not run out of water
 Speak in the microphone
 Watch temperature of room.
No Advice but Positive Comments
 Awesome job - Keep it up.
 Very well organized.
 You all did a great job, I can’t think of any improvements.
 Today's flow was great!
 Nothing-Great job!
 Keep the energy going! Good job.
 Good Job.
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The Threads That Bind: Weaving the CSHP Blanket
Professional Development Consortium Event: November 29-December 1, 2005
EVALUATION DAY 2: Wednesday, November 30
Total attendees: 81
Total evaluations returned:
47
Percent return: 58%
Attendees were asked to rate the usefulness and quality of each presentation. Following are the definitions
provided for each area and the rating scale.
Usefulness: Will you be able to make use of the ideas provided in this activity or presentation?
Scale: 1 = not at all useful to 5 = very useful).
Quality: Do you feel the activity or presentation was organized, presented, and facilitated effectively?
Scale: 1 = Very Poor to 5 = Excellent
Topic: Coming to Consensus on Action
Quality, 4.36
Usefulness, 4.19
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Comments:
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First activity was helpful to our team - we will use this activity back home with our team members and stake
holders
Good choice on canceling this - we needed more time on SLIMS, and looking over the power point handout
- it looks like it might have led us off in a different direction.
Good presenters! Variety of learning activities.
Great! Want more
It was nice to have time with the team to process the work we did the day before. We never have time back
at the office to do this.
Limit group processing time - thank you for allowing input but becomes complex, convoluted situations in
extensive group activities. Keep it simple and generalized - we trust you!
The agenda change was helpful - nice to have team time. But it would have also been nice to have a
revised agenda posted somewhere.
Areas of Improvement
 Because some states are more advanced, it was not productive for everyone to hear where each state
needs to work.
 Not really that helpful even though everyone participated.
 State activity on chart boards, we did not need to share all of the states’ top two. What did you learn
yesterday that you can take back - took too long.
 This time was just a beginning - need more time to further explore and strategically plan.
Topic: Documenting and Communicating Impact
Quality, 4.18
Usefulness, 4.28
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Extremely beneficial learning activities.
Good Job!
Great Elizabeth - Thanks!
Great! Want more
Liz did a great job with SLIM stuff today
Thanks for being flexible.
Areas for improvement
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A little confusing, but the flexibility of presenters was appreciated. This evaluation form is not very useable
given session changes and title of sessions.
There were scattered points of view that were distracting. It was good to try the SLIMS on our own. It would
have been helpful to have the school health profile to help guide the activity.
Conflicting messages. Need more clarity interpretations from large group to tables not the same
Confusing - hard to find the direction that we were going.
Entirely too long
Excellent brain break but the time backed up to lunch was an interesting discussion. Enjoyed the weaver
and walk but it was disconnected to the discussion we were in.
Far too many instructions for effective breakout sessions.
I wish we would have had a better understanding of what we were going to do today. We had two people on
our team that benefit from the SLIMS discussion.
Report backs too long
SLIMS - Too much time spent in discussion framed to get "buy - in" when the group already sees the
importance of performance measures. Wanted to get to it could have used the time to give more
meaningful input and planning.
The group time to work on the SLIMS.
The initial presentation was fine- the activities were somewhat belaboring the point and too basic.
We just needed more time to work as a team.
Would have been better if done earlier. Weaving was great but would have been better later in the day
when we were all tired.
Attendees’ thoughts on Day 2 of the training as a whole.
The most important things learned.
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A better understanding of SLIMS (8)
Being flexible is key as we work toward SLIMS
Did this SLIM agenda usurp the stated goals and objective for this conference? We missed opportunity for
team time-we brought partners who wondered why they were here.
Diving into creativity sample SLIMS learning more about the overview of SLIMS
Helpful to understand details about what we mean by SLIM
How SLIMS are/will be developed. Thanks for the weaving component - nice break!
How SLIMS can incorporated Into other surveys
I have a good idea of what DASH is wanting regarding accountability. I liked what I hear.
Information about SLIMS, I liked the networking time and the weaving history.
More about how the SLIMS will work
More details on SLIMS
Process of SLIMS, breaking into groups and working on SLIMS
SLIMS break downs - criteria and categories
SLIMS clarity- developing SLIMS through brainstorming was helpful
SLIMS content
SLIMS input from states
SLIMS seems to be stuff North Carolina can find in fit, Healthy and ready to learn making it happen etc. We
have a lot of support from CDC and other state teams
SLIMS used to focus activities and set goals
That SLIMS is not at all what was presented yesterday
The feel, flavor, and better definition of SLIMS
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The need for documentary impact
The weaving session was very inspiring and related to our work. Thanks for this.
Trying to get a handle on SLIM as it relates to work to be done.
We are getting clarity on what accountability measures will be used for our efforts.
We need to document or record.
What is coming for us to address
Working together on drafting SLIMS
Working with SLIMS with the other HIV coordinators from the other states.
What still feels unfinished?
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Are SLIMS just measurable objectives?
Could have used more time to start coming up with the SLIMS - could have come up with much more.
Developing SLIMS and how it will work
Drafting appropriate SLIMS for my state. How will it be implemented?
Further discussion of SLIMS - implementation
Getting handle on content specific SLIMS-will be interesting to include information needed without too much
unusable information. I cannot use GLBTQ, sexual minority, etc. terms in my state.
Getting there-better understanding of SLIMS
I think profile is going to be a useful tool, but I think there are other data-collection issues to think through.
I would like to leave tomorrow with a good idea of what SLIMS own state will focus on and begin plans for
developing a logic model that begins a road map.
Linking the state level surveillance tools with SLIMS
Should feel unfinished- This should be an ongoing process (Between now and 2007).
SLIMS (6)
SLIMS categories ( Breaking them down - too broad)
SLIMS criteria
SLIMS development - but I realized this is a long process.
SLIMS, but I understand this is a process and thank you for including us.
SLIMS-Great start, but much more to do!
Specific content of SLIMS, I know this is still to come, but I don’t feel comfortable with the ones my group
drafted.
Success stories
Too little time to process
Understanding whether SLIMS will help us do more depth and less breadth. I just thought that was part of
the focus, but the SLIMS discussed really still focused on breadth.
We should have jumped into the SLIMS sooner - tasks prior to that were tedious
What to take back to our state and work on now
What the next grant period application will look like.
What can be used in their work back home?
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SLIMS aren't set in stone-no need to get "upper management" in a high panic factor yet.
Activity icebreakers are awesome
Activity we did this AM
All of this-program planning communications, etc.
Begin to relate SLIMS to HP2010 and other existing framework
Continue to work on creativity SLIMS using the profile, YRBS, etc. in creating SLIMS.
Focus of activities
Focus on a few priority areas
Great networking opportunities and now we can begin thinking more about how this will impact future work
How to write SLIMS
I have ten things I need to do as a result of today's discussion, gee thanks
I will be keeping SLIMS in mind for future survey development
I'm not sure yet. I need to think and process more first.
Information from the other states around SLIMS
Linking SLIMS to indicators
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Marketing information
SLIMS
SLIMS and relation to profiles, SHPPS, objectives
SLIMS are coming
SLIMS categories
SLIMS that were developed and weaving stories
SLIMS to inform our strategic planning process
SLIMS when it is complete
The SLIMS to better form our evaluation
Thinking how SIMS will apply to work plan objectives,
We will discuss SLIMS process concept with teams at home.
Advice for improving Day 3 training.
Kudos
 Continue to be ok with a bit of chaos in the room. The side conversations by me were all about the subject
matter.
 Great adoptions to today's agenda based on yesterday’s feed back. Very conducive to states needs,
 Great learning day! Thanks for PA
 It was chaotic but came together better at the end of the day,.
 Keep on keeping on
 Keep the heat up
 Keep up the good work
 Nothing just keep on task.
 TA well organized
 Thank you for adjusting today's schedule to meet the needs of our day one comments
 Thank you for the stretch break, walk, and weaving activity
 Well organized and time oriented day! Great job Laurie and Gus
Areas of improvement
 A lot of the information in today was very tedious. Weaving was great!
 Breaks it was a long day
 Changing the agenda was fine in meeting needs; however, it would have been helpful if the changes could
have been posted for us to follow. Exercising right after stuffing ourselves was not very good.
 Do job-a-likes. Should have had SLIM discussion in the early part of the day.
 Don’t do report outs where every state reports out. It is redundant - takes way too much time and people
glaze over after the second report.
 Encourage participants to be clear and concise with report backs, one or two minutes max.
 Give more appropriate break times.
 Handouts in the five folders makes it difficult to keep organized - a binder would be much better. Also
include scrap paper. I think it would have been more beneficial to start each day with teams identifying one
key take home message from the previous day and then at the end of the training, deterring the implications
for when we return home.
 Job alike time
 More team time for creation of SLIMS and additional articulation
 Provide an agenda in advance that is actually carried out on site. We feel there has been duplicity since we
feel misled as to why we are here. This is to work CDC's agenda, not for state team work.
 Review what received in SLIMS writing session
 Specific feed back on all of the SLIMS that we wrote.
 Start and finish on time - like you have been
 Stay on time for breaks
 Team planning
 The final breakout decision was a disaster.
 Too much team time. The time was divided up so much that we really didn’t get a lot out of it.
 Very disappointed with the day - far from what was originally scheduled for the day too few breaks- way too
much detail in explanations poorly organized day.
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The Threads That Bind: Weaving the CSHP Blanket
Professional Development Consortium Event: November 29-December 1, 2005
EVALUATION DAY 3: Thursday, December 1
Total attendees: 81
Total evaluations returned:
73
Percent return: 90%
Attendees were asked to rate the usefulness and quality of each presentation. Following are the definitions
provided for each area and the rating scale.
Usefulness: Will you be able to make use of the ideas provided in this activity or presentation?
Scale: 1 = not at all useful to 5 = very useful).
Quality: Do you feel the activity or presentation was organized, presented, and facilitated effectively?
Scale: 1 = Very Poor to 5 = Excellent
Topic: School Level Impact Measures
Quality, 4.15
Usefulness, 4.16
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Enjoyed time with my team! Enjoyed and appreciated time together to brainstorm and plan.
Getting it now – Thanks!
Good
Good conversation at the breakout tables with other states. Nice to get a different perspective. I get several
opportunities to hear the perspective of my team. Great to hear fresh ideas.
Great Job, Liz!
I think this is a great idea and appreciate helping with the skills.
Liz did a great job facilitating this session!
Areas for Improvement
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Day three was pretty slow and repetitive.
Do not use last activity or change it.
SLIMS - not rocket science. Only coordinators really needed to be here. Simply a measure for tracking
change/Impact at the local level.
Success stories - needed more positive, well written examples - less rational and more specific examples
would have helped me.
The way the worksheet led us through the excursive was redundant - one case study per group would have
worked just as effectively.
This activity was like beating a dead horse. Great start and good information, but we processed the
question too long.
This is going to be long; have to do it right
This was supposed to be about CONTENT! Not another rule out of measurements. Too many agenda
changes.
Too much processing of stories or it was at the wrong time slot in conference. We need help but it was a
disconnect - I think more processing in SLIMS would have been better.
We needed more direction on what the CDC expects of the success stories - template examples
Would have made more sense to assign one success story to each table and give specific feedback for
improvement.
Would like to hear how states are used.
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Self-reported representation of where attendees work:
No response,
23.50%
SHA, 22.20%
Other, 11.10%
SEA, 43.20%
Current position:
18.50%
14.80%
Health Education Coordinator
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HIV Coordinator
CSHP Director
Other
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27.20%
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How attendees rated the pace of the training:
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Mixed responses
No response
Evaluation of Training structure:
Question: Was there enough variety in the teaching strategy?
Response average: 4.01
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Question: Was there enough team time?
Response average: 3.33s
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Question: Was there enough networking time?
Response average: 3.55
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Most useful part(s) of the entire training.
Other State Strategies
Hearing examples of what other states they are doing
Hearing states strategies on various activities
Hearing what other states are doing networking
Getting tips from other states throughout.
Learning from other states
Howell Wechsler’s Presentation
 Howell's presentation
 Howell's presentation on first day
CDC update
 Dr. Wechsler's words of wisdom
 Overview in beginning
SLIMS.
 SLIMS (5)
 Knowing SLIMS are coming this early to have as much time as possible to prepare our leadership, team
etc.
 The slims information
 Writing of the SLIMS and seeing what others wrote.
 Time to formulate SLIM questions
 When we wrote SLIMS-Very helpful
Networking
 Meeting and networking with other states
 Meeting with project officer
 Networking
Working with State Team
 Break out with different states
 Team time
 Team time
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Team time of job alike
The time spent with my team.
Time for our team to address the priority actions
Working with our state team and hearing others ideas and practices.
Working with state team
Working with team and the flexibility of the trading staff
Miscellaneous/Multiple Responses
 I found the example success stories activity very helpful and effective.
 I loved Liz's training strategies.
 It was helpful to hear what other states are doing well as CDC,
 Job-a-likes informal meeting
 Learning about DASH vision and SLIMS
 Learning about the purpose of CSH
 More time to clarify exercise instructions
 Networking, SLIMS, and sharing stories
 New directions, fitness breaks. Nice balance of activities
 Not much was applicable to what I do.
 Personal style analysis
 Seeing what is coming down the pipe.
 SLIMS, Update from Howell, success stories, personal inventory.
 Staff time
 Success stories
 The direction of where CDC is going and future steps was great and I appreciate the openness and honesty
from the CDC staff. I don’t know if same of the information would pertain to some of the team members we
brought.
 The networking and the job-a-likes with a specific task.
 The story telling training
 Working on SLIMS, CDC - DASH updates
 Activities were good but too many, too short time-perhaps have stretched time for longer work periods and
less questions. Liked success and I really like SLIMS but wish had been limited and more team time.
 All had benefit (2)
 CDC updates, SLIMS, success stories
 Day one
 Day one mid day and day two mid day
 Day two was very interesting, useful, and informative. I appreciated the flexibility of it.
 Enjoyed time working with my team. Also enjoyed networking time.
 Group discussion- Report outs
Recommendations to Improve Training
More Team Time
 More team time
 More team time! You had us copy our CDL grant and we felt that this training went in a different direction
than what was stated in the original invite. We were disappointed with this.
 More time
 More time for team questions
 More time in state teams to focus on moving our work plan agenda forward.
 More time to work with our state team
 More time to work within state teams.
 More time with other states - you can probably never give us enough time.
 More work time with team but maybe looking at more examples
 Last session - more time for state team.
Miscellaneous
 Another full day
 Afternoon of second day was a bit wearing, other wise ok
 Change speakers more often
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Conduct during the summer to enjoy the environment
Content should have been the priority of the PDC. Our directors could have attended this meeting and
brought back the information on SLIMS.
Create a template for success stories and practice writing them
Extra day for TA training of choice. Not much time with repeating recorder/reporter format
First morning break should have been sooner, long time to 10:00am
Hotel choice - some places shabby and dirty
I think active time working on the individual strategic plans / SLIMS
I think it is apparent what needs to go into SLIMS. CDC should draft and put these out as soon as possible.
So the states can begin experimenting with them.
Job alike time
Less reporting out
More clarity in instructions
More depth. We looked at personal strengths and then didn’t have directed time to use the model.
More examples from other states. States bring examples of communication tools
More job-a-like time since HIV is so sensitive, etc.
More learning from other states
More structured reference to day two
Need more breaks. Don’t let people talk during presentations, too much big group sharing.
Panel of state teams talking about more challenges and how they tackled them
Provide template of how CDC would like to see articles written in appropriate form.
Should have provided a copy of indicators for teams to look at during last activity. Copy of profiles would
have been helpful for people unfamiliar with it.
Teaching Time
The stories examples - wow- I am shocked that you used actual examples from these states and then
highlighted how bad they were. Poor form
Three full days - Wednesday was very good, but very draining. Would have liked more time to draft SLIMS.
To build in on the first day more processing time with our teams.
Trying to cram all of the SLIMS information and training into one day since they are going to be so
important.
We did not meet the stated objectives. We seemed to focus on bullet points one and four, but two, three,
and five - the state program enhancement activities - were not adequately addressed.
Working with the job-a-likes having more time
It was good
Day one was great
Not much, Great Job!
Was great
Just like that you adjusted based on our needs
Topics recommendations for future trainings
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Bringing HIV to the forefront - Everything you plan on doing at future HIV training especially HIV and NCLB.
Connection, structure, involvement with local health departments for CSH-PANT
CONTENT
Continuation of SLIMS during the development phase - SLIMS part 2
Coordination with stack holders outside of state government.
Creative writing success stories-skills development provide excellent success stories.
Definition and interpretation of indicators
Developed communication skills
Developing, writing, publicizing success stories. SLIMS and Data analysis
Evaluation
Gathering and using data
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How to write good success stories. SLIMS - what has changed or advanced from our input, how to
implement them.
How to do strategic planning across state agencies to develop a state CSHP plan.
How to utilize other state wide, local, and other unusual partners
How to write these success stories (2)
Ideas and suggestions for a more useful training tracker.
Involving local health departments in CSHP
Just keep it coming
Logic model and strategic planning with teams. "Folding" in SLIMS into our continuation application to
CDC.
Marketing
Might want some breakouts for beginners who need some foundation stuff.
More connection to USDDE
More CSHP Coordinator skill building
More on SLIMS (3)
More state - level development opportunity
More success stories from different states
More time to design work plans based on the priority action areas
Most effective strategic in HIV prevention
Not sure
Process stuff - how to implement various policies/strategies
Professional development to exclude writing for impact.
SLIMS and success story templates
Strategies for promoting compliance with policies
strategies for wellness policies and local wellness committees
Technical writing skills.
Templates for the success stories
The writing of success stories. Maybe looking at more examples of SLIMS
Time for state work and conversation around goals for activities far too complex
Writing human interest, success stories. Indicators - to know if I am doing it correctly.
Writing skills.
Overall training rating
The following graph represents a response from 84% of the meeting attendees. The average score
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Conference Hotel was great.
Great job everyone! Look forward to funded partners meeting.
Great Job! I enjoyed it and learned a lot! Wonderfully planned, can’t wait until the next one.
Great presenters!
Liz-Good job! Once an education always an educator
Nice to meet other teams as a team vs. individually (like @ ASHA) and other project offices.
One of the most organized meetings I have ever been to. We were well taken care of. Food was great!
Arrangements made were awesome.
Thank you for a wonderful training!
Thank you so much for working to involve state input in the direction of SLIMS.
Thanks for the PA!
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As nice as this session has been, it felt more like CDC wanted information from us, as opposed to how we
could grow as a team.
Disappointed that we were not able to work as a team. The direction was not what we had anticipated.
Liz too loud - sounds like this is yelling at us all the time.
Note pads were missing
Too long of a shift from first day to SLIMS to second day SLIMS. Needed some more process time.
Confusion between Elizabeth's perspective and Howell's.
Too much processing - need to move to the actual work more quickly. It would be good to emphasize the
importance of helping build local capacity not just state level.
Why were we asked to send our CSHP work plan?
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