Monthly News & Updates

🍁🍂 November 2022 🍁🍂

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November 2022 Quarterly Partner Meeting (QPM)

A recap

We hope you were able to attend our November QPM last week! In case you missed it, check out the full recap here, and watch the recording below. Please use this meeting passcode to access the recording: Y9*$.h8w

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Data Advisory Committee

Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS)

Image: Timeline of accomplishments of the DAC

Access to reliable, actionable, and meaningful data is key to addressing health disparities. In recognizing the expertise of community members and stakeholders in collecting, consuming, and acting on public health data, the ADHS formed the Data Advisory Committee (DAC).

Community stakeholders identified the need for the DAC during the development of the AzHIP Health Equity Priority Action Plan, which focuses on how health equity can be infused in all parts of the health system.

Main projects that the DAC is engaged in, along with ADHS staff and consultants, include:

Promoting the use of Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR)
Adapting the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) to reflect the needs of Arizona communities better
Completing a Data Equity Gap Assessment

The DAC will continue to provide input and insight to ADHS in their next state health assessment (SHA) and future data projects.

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From county public health

MCDPH Nurse Family Partnership

The Nurse-Family Partnership® (NFP) is an evidence-based nurse home visiting program that positively transforms the lives of vulnerable babies, mothers, and families. NFP connects first-time pregnant moms to a MCDPH Nurse who will provide support, advice, and information needed to have a healthy pregnancy, a healthy baby, and the tools to be the best mother they can be.

Nurse Family Partnership is FREE to any woman who meets the set criteria.

Click here to get connected!

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Dengue disease surveillance

A person with confirmed dengue, a disease spread through mosquitos, may have been exposed by a mosquito in Maricopa County. MCDPH teams will be visiting neighborhood residents to offer free, at-home blood testing to learn if others in the same neighborhood have been infected.

Click here for the latest.

Lastly, before you head out for the holidays...

Don’t let the flu or COVID-19 keep you down this season. Get your shot or booster to prevent getting a nasty illness that causes you to miss out on all the fun times.

Click here to find vaccines to protect against both.

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Host a community session for pregnant & postpartum families

South Phoenix Healthy Start, a community-based home visiting organization, serves the needs of pregnant people and families to address infant and maternal mortality in Maricopa County. They are currently looking for organizations to partner with and/or co-facilitate small listening sessions for pregnant and postpartum families to assess services to meet community needs. Sessions can take place between now and spring/summer 2023.

If you're interested in hosting, please contact Mary Glidden, Program Evaluation Analyst at mary.glidden@maricopa.gov.

Meet the Public Health Liaisons!

MCDPH Public Health Liaisons are active in Maricopa County, serving as connectors between public health and local organizations, municipalities, schools, and tribal communities. This month, we interviewed Alexandra Oropeza, Public Health Liaison and Team Lead, to better understand her role and the support she provides to the community. Alexandra also serves as a member of the HIPMC Steering Committee.

What does a typical workday look like for you?

A typical day for me includes meetings with internal or external stakeholders to learn about who they are as individuals, what kind of work they do and why they selected the work they are involved in. Meetings typically take up most of my day, followed by action items that are identified during the meetings. If gaps are identified, and internal MCDPH programs can address the gaps, then I link the program to the stakeholder to work on those gaps. As the lead for the team, I meet with each PHL weekly as a team which allows me to support their work and answer questions for the team, and I also conduct one-on-one meetings with each PHL.

What type of support do you provide to community organizations?

During meetings with community organizations, my goal is to learn about the health issues that their audience/clients are dealing with. My goal is to learn about the health issues and how that community organization is addressing those issues or if they need support in doing so. I work on linking the community organization to a community stakeholder who can address the issues. If the issue is something that MCDPH is addressing, then I will link the organization to the appropriate internal team. I am also able to share data that we have gathered on the city, town, or population that the organization is serving. From time-to-time organizations share that they did not know that MCPDH conducts surveys and were unaware of their ability to request this data.

How can an organization get in contact with you?

Organizations/Companies can call, text, or email me at 602-761-0952 or alexandra.oropeza@maricopa.gov

Click here to read about challenges Alexandra faces in her role and what she says is the best part of her job!

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