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The Core Functions and Ten Essential Services of Public Health Workshop

Purpose

This two day workshop utilizes the MAPP -Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships model of public health planning to demonstrate how the Core functions and ten Essential Services of public health can be practiced to achieve the model standards of performance established by the National Public Health Foundation.  The workshop will provide opportunities for participants to learn and to practice MAPP and Core Function skills through simulation exercises and group consensus building. The skill sets of this workshop are organized under the three core functions: Assessment, Policy Development and Assurance.   At the conclusion of the training, participants will complete a mock MAPP process incorporating each of the three Core Functions and ten Essential Services to produce a sample community health improvement action plan.

Who should register?  

• Those who want to learn about the key public health concepts of the Core Functions and Essential Services, the National Public health Performance Standards and the MAPP model.
• Those interested in improving partnership and community organization leadership and facilitation skills.

·         Those involved in quality improvement, public health preparedness, assessment, community health improvement and strategic planning processes.

Workshop Objectives

At the completion of this workshop the learners will:

• Define the Core Functions and Ten Essential Services of Public Health and demonstrate how the MAPP model is utilized to carry out the practice of public health in accordance with the National Public Health Performance Standards
• Demonstrate ability to express public health data in verbal and written formats and state conclusions drawn from the data.
• Understand the four assessments of the Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnership model of community health improvement.
• Demonstrate skills related to identifying and prioritizing strategic issues in a group setting.
• Describe the “Action Cycle” phase of the MAPP
• Describe the elements of an effective evaluation including Utility, Feasibility, Propriety and Accuracy.
• Demonstrate skills related to developing action plans and logic models