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The Heartland Centers academic and practice partners have extensive expertise in public health, academic administration, workforce development and preparedness/response capacity improvement. The Heartland Centers support local, state, regional, and national partners in efforts to enhance public health leadership, workforce development and preparedness capacity development.
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Academic Partnerships
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Kansas University School of Medicine)
Partnership with the KU School of Medicine has provided opportunities to improve academic capacity to exchange and develop preparedness, public health sciences, and leadership development in Kansas.
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Kansas WALD Center
WALD partnership has provided increased opportunities to reach the Kansas public health workforce with satellite development opportunities, development and implementation of the KS Public Health Leadership Institute, and provision of the KS Public Health Certified Program.
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Saint Louis University Medical School-Preventive Medicine Department (PMD)
The PMD has collaborated with HC and the Missouri AHEC to identify methods to expand broad sector workforce development, including use of HC’s Learning Management System.
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Saint Louis University School of Nursing
The School of Nursing collaborates with HC on nursing preparedness programs and products, Learning Management System functions, and provision of nursing CEUs.
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Saint Louis University School of Public Health Institute for Bio-Security (IBS)
The partnership with IBS includes joint dissemination of educational programs and products and expertise brokering.
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Saint Louis University School of Public Health Prevention Research Center
The PRC collaborates with HC to expand capacity for workforce development including the CDROM project (11 CD set) on Evidence Based Decision Making.
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State & Local Partnerships
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Kansas Association of Local Health Departments (KALHD)
The HC works with KALHD to identify and monitor public health workforce education and training and develop and implement competency-based education and training programs to meet assessed needs in bioterrorism/preparedness and general public health workforce development.
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Kansas Association of School Nurses (KSASN)
HC partners with KSASN to help develop and deliver bioterrorism/emergency preparedness programs and skill enhancement activities to school nurses in KS.
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Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE)
Partnership with KDHE has enhanced bioterrorism/preparedness and core public health workforce assessments, competence improvement, and capacity development.
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Kansas Health Foundation (KHF)
HC has provided consultation and technical assistance to KHF to help facilitate the provision of grant funds to KU and KDHE for the support of a KS Public Health Leadership Institute that includes Crisis Leadership Development.
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Kansas Public Health Association (KPHA)
Similar to the partnership with MOPHA, the partnership with KPHA has resulted in collaboration to provide “interest-raising” training sessions as well as more in depth training and education programs held in conjunction with the annual statewide conference.
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Kentucky Department of Public Health
The goal of the partnership between KDPH and HC is to provide bioterrorism/preparedness education and training programs to the KY public health workforce in order to improve their capacity to respond to emergency situations.
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Missouri Area Health Education Centers (MOAHEC)
The HC is partnering with MOALPHA to complete the assessment of the local public health workforce in Missouri. This partnership provides a vital link to the administrators and staff in Missouri’s local public health agencies.
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Missouri Association of Local Public Health Agencies (MOALPHA)
The HC is partnering with MOALPHA to complete the assessment of the local public health workforce in Missouri. This partnership provides a vital link to the administrators and staff in Missouri’s local public health agencies.
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Missouri Association of School Nurses (MASN)
HC partners with MASN to help develop and deliver general public health skill enhancement activities and bioterrorism/emergency preparedness programs to school nurses in MO.
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Missouri Center for Safe Schools (MCSS)
HC partners with MCSS to develop and deliver education and training programs to school nurses on bioterrorism/emergency preparedness.
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Missouri Council of Public Health Nursing
HC provides curriculum consultation in the area of critical thinking, program delivery (Systems Thinking) and development of teaching materials.
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Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (MDHSS)
The HC works with MDHSS and local health departments to conduct needs assessments at the state and local levels and assist in developing and implementing education and training programs. The goal of the partnership between MDHSS and HC is to improve the bioterrorism/preparedness and general public health workforce competence and capacity.
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Missouri Institute for Community Health (MICH)
The HC partnership with MICH has provided the capacity to develop a statewide coalition and workgroups/collaboratives to develop alliances among all stakeholders to improve the health of communities through strategic workforce development, including preparedness and response and local public health agency accreditation.
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Missouri Public Health Association (MOPHA)
HC collaborates with MOPHA to provide “interest-raising” training sessions as well as more in-depth training and education programs held in conjunction with the annual statewide conference.
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Saint Louis City Department of Health
HC continues to collaborate with and provide technical assistant to the St. Louis City Department of Health in workforce development activities including bioterrorism/preparedness programs.
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Saint Louis County Department of Health
HC collaborates with and provides technical assistant to the St. Louis County Department of Health in workforce development activities including bioterrorism/preparednes programs.
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National Partnerships
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Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL)
HC has provided technical assistance to APHL on workforce development and serves on the APHL National Center for Public Health Laboratory Leadership Advisory Board which is focusing on Laboratory Leadership and Workforce Development Programs.
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Association of State and Territorial Health Officers (ASTHO)
Work with ASTHO has included collaboration on “Public Health Ready,” joint membership on the “Collaborative,” and collection of racial composition data for the public health workforce in conjunction with the National Public Health Leadership Development Network.
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Center for Risk Communication
HC collaborates with the Center for Risk Communication to develop and refine five levels of workforce development curriculum on Risk and Crisis Communication, including completion of a 2 CD-ROM Program Set on the topic.
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Columbia University A-CPHP
Collaboration with the CU A-CPHP, including the School of Nursing, has involved work on the NACCHO Project “Public Health Ready” and technical assistance on competency framework development projects.
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National Association of City and County Health Officers (NACCHO)
HC continues to expand collaboration with NACCHO through co-sponsorship of regional training events such as Incident Management for Public Health, serving on the NACCHO Workforce & Leadership Advisory Committee, and an ICS CD-ROM development project and plans for another regional conference.
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National Association of Local Boards of Health (NALBOH)
HC is part of a national rural health workforce development interest group.
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National Rural Health Association
HC is part of a national rural health workforce development interest group.
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Turning Point Leadership Development National Excellence Collaborative (TPLDNEC)
HC has worked with the TPLDNEC in conjunction with the National Public Health Leadership Development Network to market several products and curriculum relevant to Collaborative Leadership development.
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University of Illinois-Chicago A-CPHP
Collaboration with the School of Public Health at UIC has recently resulted in development of Learning Management System (LMS) with similar capacities to form an integrated approach to expand access to workforce assessment, development, and evaluation in the Midwest region.
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University of Iowa A-CPHP
Collaboration with Iowa has resulted in development of Learning Management System (LMS) with similar capacities to form an integrated approach with the UIC A-CPHP to expand access to workforce assessment, development and evaluation in the Midwest region.
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Other Community/Agency Partnerships
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Missouri Primary Care Association and FQHCs
HC and IBS provided briefing books containing information for bioterrorism/WMD preparedness planning. HC provided technical assistance in the development of emergency response cards for key staff of Peoples Health Center as part of the FQHC interface for the project.
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St. Louis City Department of Corrections
HC has been engaged as technical advisors for the Department for Forensic Epidemiology training and for review of the Bioterrorism/WMD Preparedness planning and emergency response.
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St. Louis City Department of Public Safety, Urban Area Security Initiative (8 contiguous counties in eastern Missouri and Illinois)
HC provides technical assistance input to the Initiative on how Homeland Security funds will be allocated for equipment and exercise development in the areas of biological, chemical, and radiological for area wide emergency response agencies.
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St. Louis City Parole and Probation Department
HC has been engaged as technical advisors for the Department to develop capacity to support region wide Forensic Epidemiology response and integrate into SLMMRS MEDCOMM operations.
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St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department
HC is co-sponsoring a regional Forensic Epidemiology Conference with the police department. The HC Associate Director is serving as a technical advisor to the Department on Bioterrorism/WMD Response and Incident Command.
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St. Louis Regional FBI Office
HC is collaborating with the FBI to expand workforce development in Forensic Epidemiology, Unified Command Structures, and Bioterrorism/WMD Exercise Development. In addition, the HC and IBS co-sponsored a meeting at Saint Louis University with the agent in charge of the St. Louis FBI Office to identify gaps in bioterrorism preparedness with the FBI’s Incident Command Structure.
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United States Attorney’s Office for Eastern Missouri (USAO)
HC collaborates with USAO to expand co-sponsorship of workforce development and training for trainers programs in Public Health/Law Enforcement Forensic Epidemiology Investigation and Unified Command Structures. This is a regional effort provided within the structure of the St. Louis Metropolitan Medical Response System (SLMMRS) to link key stakeholders at the federal, state, and local law enforcement level with public health and hospital communities to expand access and form an integrated approach to cross-sector workforce development programs.
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