COMMITTEE REPORT OF 2012 ACTION PLANS

National Chlamydia Coalition Meeting 2012

Provider Education Committee

What are the major actions we plan to take in 2012? Begin Update of Why Screen? – revisions to begin and be

reported at March meeting Update Health Care Provider Resource guide as precursor

to electronic Provider Toolkit – resource guide to be sent to entire committee and updates compiled by March meeting

What partners and resources are we going to need? Research Translation committee to provide recommended

articles for inclusion into Tool Kit Public Awareness Committee advice on vetting process for

materials in CRE

Provider Education Committee

How are we going to work with the other NCC committees? Representative to Steering committee to interact with

other committee reps

- Beth Butler

How are we going to meet one other coalition-wide objective (working with the private sector or promoting health equity)? Work with Private Sector through State networking project

development of electronic Provider Tool Kit

Public Awareness Committee

What are the major actions we plan to take in 2012? Improving and Extending the Chlamydia Resource

Exchange Improving layout Outreach strategy (internal and external)

Setting a goal for uploads Improve review criteria and process Sustainability

Fiscal Staffing Creating linkages to other sites

Challenge all NCC members to upload public awareness materials by the end of February!

A call for topic-specific materials as issues arise (adolescent confidentiality)

Public Awareness Committee

What partners and resources are we going to need? Analyze membership gaps within the committee

Members with marketing and grant writing experience Look at grant writing

Fold into overall coalition grant writing endeavors

Public Awareness Committee

How are we going to work with the other NCC committees? Explore mechanisms to integrate and collaborate with the

Provider Education Committee Working with the SPG: Focus on gathering materials to

help adolescents (and their parents) understand their rights about confidentiality put on CRE

Public Awareness Committee

How are we going to meet one other coalition-wide objective (Membership)? Membership objective: Add questions at the end of the

CRE submission form to see if “uploaders” are interested in NCC membership

Research Committee

What are the major actions we plan to take in 2012? Officially change name to: Research Translation Committee Complete outstanding briefs and articles from 2011 Rename Article of the Month and Research Brief (Expert

commentary and Hot Topics) Use template for future briefs to keep focus for the reader

(obj, audience) Solicit topics and issues for dissemination and translation

from other committees “Expert commentary” posted on the website in addition to

the newsletter What partners and resources are we going to need?

Provider Ed Committee Private sector collaboration for dissemination

Research Committee

How are we going to work with the other NCC committees? Cross-pollinate Ask other committees: What are topics and issues that

need translation and dissemination? How can we help you?

Sit in on other committee calls and report back Theme research briefs and articles of the month around

other committee activities (supplemental) How are we going to meet one other coalition-

wide objective? Private sector: Make products more appealing with format

changes and feedback Health equity: potential hot topic issues. (ectopic

pregnancies)

SPG: Adolescent Confidentiality

What are the major actions we plan to take in 2012? Talk with AMA about coding and billing strategies and

bring other groups to the table like ACOG Collect and disseminate information and create a hub of

information on the NCC website for people working on this issue

Tell stories and disseminate best practices for protecting confidentiality--school-based health clinics, STD clinics, private health plans

Come back to the consumer point of view and figure out a way to help adolescents understand that they can get confidential services

Telling stories from parents’ point of view: parents who want confidential services for their children

What partners and resources are we going to need? Professional medical groups Health Plans (start with AHIP)

SPG: Adolescent Confidentiality

How are we going to work with the other NCC committees? All of our ideas connect to the other committees; it’s a

cross-cutting issue

How are we going to meet one other coalition-wide objective (working with the private sector or promoting health equity)? AHIP is on our committee and wants to work as a partner