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Get Involved!  Here are some ways you can get involved in public health workforce development:

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  • Review and provide feedback on the Diversity, Sufficiency and Competency workgroup plans by participating in an online survey and/or discussion board. Please note that the survey and discussion board will be available only through May 16. A webinar was also held to provide an overview and an opportunity for input.

  • Participate on a workforce workgroup.


  • Attend the kick-off of the Call to Action document at the Wisconsin Public Health Association-Wisconsin Association of Local Health Departments and Boards (WPHA-WALHDAB) Annual Conference in Madison on July 23.


  • Participate in the Workforce Track at the WPHA-WALHDAB Annual Conference in July to increase your knowledge related to current public health workforce initiatives and best practices.


  • Obtain a copy of the Call to Action and enlist your employer’s participation.


  • Identify 1 or 2 objectives from the Call to Action and assure that your professional association or agency is engaged in achieving those objectives.


  • Provide direct feedback (eg, successes and challenges) regarding public health workforce efforts to the Call to Action Executive Committee.


  • Keep up-to-date on workforce issues through the WPHA newsletter and other information sources. 


Project Background

This is a 1-year grant that extends from July 2007 through August 2008. Partners on the project include the Wisconsin Public Health Association (WPHA) as fiscal agent with organizational partners being the Division of Public Health (DPH), Wisconsin Association of Local Health Departments and Boards (WALHDAB), Wisconsin Area Health Education Center System (AHEC), and the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW).

The purpose of the project as described in the proposal is “first to advance the Healthiest Wisconsin 2010 public health workforce system priority focused on diversity, sufficiency, and competency by developing and disseminating a Call to Action report, and second to develop a sustainable process that generates a commitment to action and strong partnerships between broad public health system partners.”

The partners held a Public Health Workforce Summit for Wisconsin in February 2008 to ignite the planning process for a 'Call to Action' report. Three workgroups, centered around diversity, sufficiency and competency,will be continuing the planning process through June 2008. Input will be solicited on preliminary drafts of the 'Call to Action' report in April-May 2008. This website will have more information on those input opportunities as they are scheduled. Implementation of the report will begin in July 2008 following a kick-off event at the Wisconsin Public Health Association-Wisconsin Association of Local Health Departments and Boards (WPHA-WALHDAB) annual conference on July 23 in Madison.

Click here for a summary of the draft goals, objectives and activities from the sufficiency, diversity and competency workgroups.

If you would like to receive a copy of the policy report once it’s completed (early Fall 2008), please sign up here.
General Background

State Health Plan Implementation Plan
Healthiest Wisconsin 2010: An Implementation Plan to Improve the Health of the Public. The Implementation Plan contains detailed strategies for how public health partners are working to achieve the goals of the State Health Plan. (Click on the Implementation Plan and see pages 65-68 for the Workforce Priority.)

State Health Plan Workforce Priority Logic Models

State Health Plan Committee Policy Recommendations (Report to the Public Health Council, October 12, 2007)

Public Health Workforce Summit

Posted below are materials from the February 12, 2008, Public Health Workforce Summit for Wisconsin.

Workgroups

Workgroups are currently meeting to develop work plans around diversity, competency and sufficiency. Click here for draft workforce goals, objectives and activities.

Sufficiency
Summary of Sufficiency Workgroup with Proposed Model
Public Sector Public Health Workforce Projections

Competency

Diversity
IOM Report on Ensuring Diversity