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Annual Health Education Advocacy Summit
Annual Health Education Advocacy Summit
• Started 1998• Coalition of National Health
Education Organizations
• SOPHE – Summit coordinator
SOPHE Overview
• Founded in 1950; relocated to Wash, DC – 1995
• Mission - To provide leadership to the profession of health education
• 4000 Members – nationally & in 20 chapters
• 2 Peer-reviewed journals
• 2 National meetings
• 4 Cooperative agreements– Policy/systems change
SOPHE ChaptersSOPHE Chapters
SOPHE CHAPTERS
Annual Health Education Advocacy Summit
• Early Summit focus on leaders, professionals– IOM Report: Who Will
Keep Public Healthy?
• Annual attendance – 200– 60% students, faculty– Student scholarships
• Website – www.healtheducationadvocate.org
• Open to other sponsors– Council of Accredited MPH
Programs– National REACH Coalition
2010 Summit Priorities
• Increased Appropriations for CDC NCCDPHP– Racial & Ethnic Approaches to
Community Health– Division of Adolescent and School
Health (DASH) – coordinated school health
– Preventive Health & Health Services Block Grant
• Reauthorization of the Elementary & Secondary Education Act to include Health Education
Summit Objectives
• Develop new advocacy knowledge & skills to become effective policy advocates at federal/state/local levels
• Articulate federal policy priorities related to school/public health education
• Develop/enhance personal relationship with policymakers
• Identify new colleagues to strengthen future advocacy efforts
Summit Agenda
Saturday Afternoon • Intensive skill building – tracks for beginner to
advanced (including dedicated faculty session)
Sunday• Climate of Congress• Presentation/Discussion of Priority Health Issues• Making Hill Visits – Presentations,
Demonstrations• Small group planning and practice
Monday• Capitol Hill Orientation (Life on the Hill)• Hill Visits• Online documentation of responses
Summit Presentations
Hill Visit Planning
Capitol Hill Briefing
Class Photo on Capitol Hill
Meeting with a Legislator/Legislative Aide
Experiential Learning
• Make own Hill appointments• Assigned Homework
– Research Legislator(s)•Committees, Priorities•Legislator’s History to PH issues
– Local ph stories, experiences • Onsite Role plays• Small group planning • Going on Hill visits• Follow-up
Experiential Learning• Make own Hill appointments• Assigned Homework
– Research Legislator(s)• Committees, Priorities• Legislator’s History to PH issues
– Local ph stories, experiences
• Summit role plays• Small group planning • Going on Hill visits• Follow-up
– Legislator– Class presentations, newsltr articles
Before
During
After
Other Post Summit Ideas
Connect to student service initiativesProvide program letter for student
portfolio Incorporate student “case studies”
in future coursesOrganize campus/local summitsEncourage ltr to editor, op-eds in
campus/local paper Involve Summit graduates in
presenting and/or mentoring other students at future Summits
Summit Student Testimonials
“I really enjoyed the experience that I had at the Advocacy Summit …it brought to reality what we had been studying in class; it made me change my concept that politics is something you cannot change.”
“The Summit helped teach me advocacy skills I am using now and will use throughout my future career.”
“Today, I feel comfortable and confident to speak out and push for change in my personal areas of interest .... I look forward to participating in next year's Advocacy Summit.”
What Faculty Can Do
Publicize on campus, dept.Tie to policy courses and
initiativesHave students and faculty share
past experiencesSeek internal/external fundingHold a preparatory meeting
– Discuss the process– Discuss outcomes and learning– Link to courses, student
organizations
Long-Term Summit Impact
CDC DASH appropriations increase Influence Congressional questions during
testimony Support/recognition of opinion leaders Enhanced organizational training by
summit sponsors Advocacy days on campuses/state
chapters Summit graduates moving into politics Increased capacity to mobilize across
profession
ROB SIMMONS, DRPH, CPH, MPH, [email protected]
ELAINE AULD, MPH, [email protected]
Thank you.
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