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Diversification of the U.S. Healthcare Workforce:
How We Should Train and Motivate Future Leaders
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Over the past several years, the severe shortage
in the healthcare workforce has been largely overshadowed by
political infighting concerning the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Nevertheless, it is a topic that deserves our immediate
attention, given the great impact it has on the quality of the
health care we receive and to our nation's overall health. In
this article, we review key lessons and strategies Community
Science team members have learned while conducting evaluations of
healthcare workforce development programs.
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SPOTLIGHT
ON:
Preparing for the Next Crisis in Public Health:
One Future Minority Health Professional at a Time
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With so many government public health workers
retiring and not enough new ones poised to replace them, there
will be an estimated shortage of over 250,000 workers by 2020.
Furthermore, Hispanics, American Indians and Alaska Natives, and
African Americans are underrepresented in this already-depleted
public health workforce. In response to the need for a
larger and more diverse workforce, the federal Office of Minority
Health (OMH) began the Youth Health Equity Model of Practice
(YHEMOP). Community Science was contracted by OMH to evaluate the
YHEMOP, a new initiative that seeks to diversify and educate
future generations of public health leaders and practitioners.
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Interviews from Notable Contributors to Community
Science
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Margaret (Meg) Hargreaves, Ph.D., and Amy
Minzner, M.S.C.R.P., M.A.
In continuation of celebrating Community Science's
20th anniversary, we are interviewing past and current major
contributors to the impact of Community Science. This issue in
the series includes a group interview with Margaret (Meg) Hargreaves,
Ph.D., Principal Associate, and Amy Minzner, M.S.C.R.P.,
M.A., Senior Associate. For detailed staff
profiles from each contributor, visit the Our Community page
on our website. The interview was conducted by Nour Elshabassi
(NE), Research Assistant.
NE: What brought you to Community Science?
Meg: Throughout
my career, I have been interested in and involved in doing
community-based work, especially in public health. I have been
interested in getting back to doing community-based work, even
when I was working for other research and consulting firms. Finally,
the stars aligned so that I could join Community Science and get
back to that topic more full time.
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Communities as Key Arenas for Innovation: Building
Community Capacity to Address Adverse Childhood Experiences and
Increase Resilience
Featured from the Intersector Project: A Guest
Blog Post by Margaret (Meg) Hargreaves, Ph.D.
Adverse Childhood Experiences (or ACEs), commonly
defined as 10 types of child abuse, neglect, and family exposure
to toxic stress, comprise a complex, population-wide health
problem with significant detrimental outcomes.
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Community Science Participates at the
Cross-Cultural Symposium
Community Science team members presented at the
Cross-Cultural Symposium: Empower and Educate symposium on June
29th in Hartford, Connecticut. The full-day, symposium examined
the ways in which direct service providers, policy makers,
nonprofits, corporate partners, government and the media can
collaborate to effectively increase civic knowledge, engagement,
and educated decision making in underserved communities. Check
out our team in action!
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Marcella Hurtado Gomez, Ph.D., Associate,
speaks to conference attendees on the topic of digital
storytelling.
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Brandon Coffee-Borden, MPP, Managing Associate, talks to the audience on how to use secondary
data.
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Staff Profiles: Summer Graduate Interns
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The development of the next generation of
community change professionals is a key contributor to our
mission to create healthy, just, and equitable communities. This
month, we feature our two graduate interns.
Reese
Crispen,
Summer Graduate Intern, is a master's student in
applied economics at Georgetown University, where he focuses on
identifying determinants of and solutions to economic inequality.
Abiodun (Abi)
Azeez, Summer Graduate Intern,
is a Ph.D. student in sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. She
has experience in research, analysis, and policy writing, with a
broad interest in interventions and social programs for
socioeconomically disadvantaged populations in the U.S. and
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Read
more
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Data Science and Child Welfare Webinar
Community Science's webinar, "Promoting Child
Well-Being by Using Machine Learning Algorithms" was hosted
on Friday, July 21, 2017. We recognize that many people
who sign up for a Friday afternoon webinar in the middle of July
might not be able to attend for a host of good reasons. So, we
wanted to share the webinar slides and recording for the benefit
of those who signed up, but couldn't make it. You can click on THIS
LINK to access the slides, and THIS
LINK to access the recording of the webinar.
We hope you enjoy the
recording, and don't hesitate to reach out if you have any
questions and/or if you are interested in learning more about how
you can get started using machine learning to advance and
evaluate social impact.
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American Evaluation Association 2017 Conference: Evaluation From
Learning to Action
November 6-11,
2017 Washington, D.C.
The 2017 conference will explore 4 ways that
communities can learn from evaluation to create better practices
and outcomes. Evaluation is dependent on learning from each other
and putting theory into action.
- Learning to
Enhance Evaluation Practices
- Learning
What Works and Why
- Learning
from Others
- Learning
About Evaluation Users and Uses
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Helping Small Towns Succeed: Clues, Capitals and
Community Resilience
What:
The Institute program will include reflection and
sharing on how Clues to Rural Community Survival has been applied
in community settings, how the community case studies have helped
practitioners build capacity and how 20 Clues have been used on a
world-wide scale. As an integral part of the institute, the
Community Capitals Framework will be explored as a tool for
categorizing key assets. Hear how the framework is applied and
reflect on new case studies created from a multi-institutional
collaboration on disaster preparedness and community resiliency.
When:
October 17 -19, 2017
Where:
Graduate
Lincoln Hotel
141 N. 9th Street
Lincoln, NE 68508
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About Community
Science
Community Science is an award winning research and
development organization that works with governments,
foundations, and non-profit organizations on solutions to social
problems through community and other systems changes. To
learn more, visit our PROJECTS page.
To discuss how Community Science
can assist your organization in learning how to have a greater
impact, contact us at (301) 519-0722 or info@communityscience.com
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Join Us!
We are always
eager to know about professionals who have experience in
producing community and systems change work of the highest
quality and who want to make a difference in this world. We
are currently recruiting for the following positions:
(Washington,
DC)
(Washington,
DC)
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