CHaSCI to attend two conferences this October: Putting Care at the Center and APHA Annual Meeting & Expo
This month, CHaSCI is attending two conferences: Putting Care at the Center and the American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting & Expo! If you or your colleagues are attending one or both of these conferences, we’d love to see you there. Read more about what you can expect to see from CHaSCI at these events:
Putting Care at the Center
Pittsburgh, PA | October 16-18
About the conference
Putting Care at the Center is the annual conference of the National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs, an initiative run by the Camden Coalition that aims to improve the health and well-being for individuals with complex medical, psychological, and social needs. Putting Care at the Center is the only dedicated venue for members of the complex care field to learn, network, and create a shared agenda for improving care for people with complex needs. It’s attended by professionals in a wide range of sectors and institutions, including healthcare and social service providers, policymakers, researchers, advocates, complex care consumers and caregivers, and more. This year, the conference is co-hosted with UPMC Health Plan.
This year’s theme: “From partnerships to ecosystems of care”
This theme refers to the Camden Coalition’s ecosystems of care approach, a comprehensive network in which organizations across different sectors work together seamlessly to address the root causes of health among individuals with complex health and social needs.
Where you can find CHaSCI
We’ll have a table in the Beehive, where we’ll be presenting on CHaSCI’s training, policy, and workforce development initiatives and highlighting our work with Community Health Workers (CHWs) in the RUSH Cancer Center.
During the Beehive, we’ll also have a 2-minute Buzz titled “Care Without Borders and Without Assumptions: Understanding Eligibility in Complex Care.” This short presentation will describe considerations in accessing health care and social services for undocumented patients with complex care needs. Speakers will address misconceptions about what patients do and don’t qualify for, highlight the need for complex care providers to be well-versed in service eligibility requirements and resources in their area, and stress how important it is for providers to refrain from making assumptions about undocumented patients.
Join us at Putting Care at the Center!
Interested in attending the conference? It’s not too late! Register here.
Want to learn more? See the full conference agenda here.
Want to find CHaSCI at Putting Care at the Center? Reach out to Bonnie_Ewald@rush.edu.
APHA 2024 Annual Meeting & Expo
Minneapolis, MN | October 27-30
About the conference:
APHA’s Annual Meeting and Expo is the largest public health gathering in the US, convening about 12,000 public health professionals across a broad spectrum of disciplines. APHA provides an opportunity to learn from peers in the field of public health, hear from today’s leaders in a variety of public health disciplines, and connect with presenters and attendees from across the country.
This year’s theme: “Rebuilding Trust in Public Health and Science
Across the US, individuals and communities may have many reasons not to trust public health, science, and healthcare—including political polarization, underfunding of scientific research, historical reasons for distrust of scientific and medical research, and the spread of pseudoscience. But this lack of trust threatens the effectiveness of our nation’s public health systems and programs. This year’s theme explores strategies for rebuilding trust in public health and science.
Where you can find CHaSCI:
Join us on Wednesday, October 30 from 8:30-10:00am for our roundtable session: “Programs to support workforce diversity in social care: Examples from RUSH University Medical Center.” During this roundtable session, we’ll highlight the importance of the importance of having a healthcare workforce that represents the diversity of populations served is essential for rebuilding trust in public health and science. We’ll also discuss several initiatives within the Department of Social Work and Health at RUSH University Medical Center that are designed to increase the diversity of the social care workforce, including:
The Social Work in Health Care Training Program (SWiHC-TP), a seven-month program designed to increase knowledge, confidence, and practice skills in health care by providing continuing education courses and complementary supports that address barriers to professional development for under-represented social workers.
The Legacy Mental Health Fellowship, a program that supports two Black social workers in providing direct mental health care to members of the community. The fellowship provides two-years of full-time employment, supervision, and support in sitting for the licensing exam.
Focus groups with community health workers to determine interest, barriers, and facilitators to working within their fields and their desire to move into social work.
Other workforce development initiatives, including career fairs with middle and high school students and internship opportunities for students from local universities.
In this presentation, we will describe our programs, provide outcome data where available, and discuss future directions for both research and clinical practice in social work and community health work.
Join us at the APHA 2024 Annual Meeting & Expo!
Interested in attending the conference? Register here.
Want to learn more? View the full schedule and program here.
Want to find CHaSCI at APHA? Reach out to Bonnie_Ewald@rush.edu.