CDC Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch

2009 Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnership Meetings

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Welcome:

Dear Colleagues:

It is my great pleasure to welcome you to CDC’s Lead Poisoning Prevention Partnership meetings. Our theme is “Readiness in Partnership”. The meeting is a tribute to the tremendous growth, vibrancy, and greater desire for impact in partnership elements. Recent decades have witnessed the rebirth of strong partnerships which are essential in engaging faith/community organizations in improving public health.

Since the Faith-Based/Community Initiative inception, the Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch have been honored to provide technical assistance, host meetings and provide partnership training at the National Lead Training Center. These gatherings have provided fora for the dynamic exchange of ideas, approaches, and lessons learned. Both legislative actions and self-regulatory schemes have emerged from the process of creative discourse and innovative thinking.

Building on these national, regional and local conversations, the time is ripe for a global sharing for modeled successes of organizational competency for proficient collaboration. While meaningful reform must be rooted in local context, common issues like establishing Healthy Homes programs and developing successful partnerships is a challenge for many communities and how to partner is confronting many. Thanks to your input from our last summit survey process, we were able to construct an agenda around these common themes. We recognize that each of you want to understand the potential for developing partnership using funded and unfunded activities.

We are honored by your presence. We look forward to your contributions to the discourse. Here at CDC we are always excited learning from one another and passing it on. And we are confident that further strengthening for enabling strategic partnerships worldwide will emerge from these sessions.

We also express our particular appreciation to Department of Health and Human Services, our administrative team, our colleagues, partners and many friends who made this event possible. Please do not hesitate to let us know how we can be helpful to you in making your time at these meeting most valuable. Above all, we send you good thoughts for continued and emerging success, and we look forward to opportunities to provide infrastructure for the ongoing “Readiness in Partnership”.

Cordially,

Rose Glass Pue

Public Health Advisor/Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Consultant

Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch

National Center for Environmental Health

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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General Information

Location Sheraton Atlanta Hotel 165 Courtland St Atlanta, Georgia

Meeting Room MACON

Conference Registration Desk The registration desk is located in the lobby in front of the MACON room and is open at the following dates and times:

October 28, 2009 1:30p – 2:00p

October 29, 2009 8:00a – 9:00a

Here you can collect your conference materials and, if you have any questions during the conference, you can direct them to staff at the desk. They will be pleased to assist you.

Meals Please note: Continual Breakfast and afternoon snack will be provided. However, lunch is on your own.

Evaluation Form Please help us in evaluating the “Readiness in Partnership” meeting. After the meetings please complete the Evaluation Form. Please return the forms to our staff. Your opinion matters!

Q/A Time Please speak clear and concise. As an alternative you may write your questions, place it on the parking lot board and we will ask the question on your behalf.

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Conference Overview

October 28, 2009 Sheraton Atlanta Hotel 165 Courtland St Atlanta, Georgia MACON ROOM

1:30 Registration / Snack

2:15 Welcome Rose Glass Pue, Public Health Advisor NCEH Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships (FBNP) Consultant CDC, NCEH/Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch

2:30 Opening Remarks / Introduction of Speaker Dr. Mary Jean Brown, Chief CDC, NCEH/Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch

2:45 Keynote Speaker Alexia Kelley, Director Center for Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

3:30 Q & A Final Wrap-Up

4:00 Adjournment

October 29, 2009

8:00 Registration / Continental Breakfast

9:00 Welcome Rose Glass Pue, Public Health Advisor NCEH Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Consultant CDC, NCEH/Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch

9:10 Opening Remarks Dr. Henry Falk, Director Coordinating Center for Environmental Health and Injury Prevention

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9:20 Opening Panelist Moderator: Rose Glass Pue Speaker: Dr. Chinaro Kennedy, Team Leader

CDC, NCEH/Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch Topic: The Anatomy of FBCO Partnerships Part I

10:00 Speaker: Dr. Gayle Weaver ORISE Visiting Researcher

CDC/ PSA/Public & Private Partnerships Branch Topic: Building Partnerships in Resource Rich and Resource

Poor Communities

10:30 10 Minute Break

10:40 Speaker: Kate S. Little CEO/Georgia State Trade Association of Non-profi t Developers (G-STAND) - Atlanta Georgia

Topic: Housing Advocacy Issues

11:10 Speaker: Teresa Chappell Vangard Enterprises, LLC - Atlanta Georgia

Topic: Strategies for Community Impact

11:40 Q & A

12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH on your own

1:15 Closing Panelist Moderator: Rose Glass Pue Speaker: Bishop David Huskins

Presiding ArchBishop International Communion of Charismatic Churches

Topic: Making a Difference in Our World

1:45 Speaker: Gladys Cohen EOA/Head Start Savannah, Georgia

Health Services Coordinator Topic: It Takes a Village

2:15 10 Minute BREAK

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2:25 Speaker: Dr. Chinaro Kennedy, Team Leader CDC, NCEH/Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch

Topic: The Anatomy of FBCO Partnerships Part II

2:55 Speaker: Dr. Hodelin F. Rene, Program Consultant CDC, NCHHSTP/DHAP/IRS/ Capacity Building Branch

Topic: Best Practices / Lessons Learned

3:20 Speaker(s): Rose Glass Pue, Public Health Advisor NCEH FBNP Consultant

CDC, NCEH/Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch Kimbrel Credle, Public Health Advisor National Lead/Healthy Homes Training CTR, Training Consultant CDC, NCEH/Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch

Topic: From Theory to Practicality

Final Wrap-Up with Q/A

4:00 Adjournment

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Alexia Kelley

Director, Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships

Alexia has served for over 15 years in faith-based and non-profi t organizations dedicated to community organizing and development, poverty reduction, and social and economic justice. Most recently she was the founding Executive Director of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, a nonprofit faith-based organization that works to advance social justice issues and the common good in the public square. She worked previously at the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, the US Catholic community’s national anti-poverty grant making program. Kelley is co-author

of A Nation For All: How the Catholic Vision of the Common Good Can Save America from the Politics of Division (Jossey Bass 2008), and is co-editor of Living the Catholic Social Tradition: Cases and Commentary (Sheed and Ward 2004). Kelley has a B.A. in Religion with honors from Haverford College and a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School.

Dr. Henry Falk, MD, MPH

Director, Coordinating Center for Environmental Health and Injury Prevention

Dr. Henry Falk is director of the Coordinating Center for Environmental Health and Injury Prevention (CCEHIP), one of CDC’s four coordinating centers. CCEHIP includes the National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR) and the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC). Dr. Falk is also a member of the Executive Leadership Board of CDC.

Dr. Falk has extensive experience in environmental health. In 2003, he was named director of the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) when it merged with the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). He remained assistant administrator of ATSDR, a position he held since July 1999. Before that time, Dr. Falk

was director of the Division of Environmental Hazards and Health Effects for 14 years.

Highlights of Dr. Falk’s work include contributions to the federal responses to Three Mile Island, Mount St. Helens, Hurricanes Hugo and Andrew, the September 11th attacks, and Hurricane Katrina. In the 1980s, he was instrumental in starting the injury prevention programs at CDC. He has authored or coauthored more than 130 publications and has received numerous awards, including the Vernon Houk Award for Leadership in Preventing Childhood Lead Poisoning, the American Public Health Association’s Homer C. Calver Award in environmental health, CDC’s William C. Watson, Jr. Medal of Excellence, and the Distinguished Service Award from the U.S. Public Health Service.

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Mary Jean Brown, ScD, RN

Mary Jean Brown is Chief of the Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Society, Human Development and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is the designated federal official for the CDC Advisory Committee on Childhood Lead Poisoning.

Dr. Brown has spent more than 25 years working on childhood lead poisoning and its prevention. She conducted research designed to evaluate the impact of home visiting on the blood and environmental lead levels, a benefit-cost analysis of removing lead paint from housing before children are lead poisoned and a study of the effect of housing policies on the blood lead levels of poisoned children. She has also studied community-level housing factors that predict risk for nonfatal pediatric injuries. She served on the board of directors of the National Center for Healthy Housing.

Bishop David Huskins, ThD

Bishop Huskins has a passion for community and the place of worship. He wants it to model the Kingdom of God through relationships. He is Senior Pastor and presiding Bishop of the Fellowship of Vineyard Harvester Churches. Bishop Huskins serves as Presiding Archbishop of the International Communion of Charismatic Churches which governs over 300 places of worship with effective sustainable community service. He is a much sought after speaker, and guest of International television. He has traveled extensively in this nation and twenty other nations. He has four wonderful children (Aaron, Zach, Isaac, and Michael). They have made their resident in Cedartown, Georgia.

Chinaro Kennedy, Dr., PH, MPH

Dr. Kennedy has been a public health practitioner for the past 15 years, with training in Infectious Disease Epidemiology from Yale and Columbia University. Dr. Kennedy has been at the forefront of public health practice. Her professional career in public health began in 1993 with the New York City Department of Health, Bureau of TB Control where she served as a Public Health Epidemiologist. Following her tenure with the NYC DOH, Dr. Kennedy served as Project Director on several NIH and CDC funded projects at Columbia University and Montefiore Medical Center, in New York City. In

1995 Dr. Kennedy was awarded an NIH Junior Investigators Award which afforded the opportunity to travel to Durban South Africa to embark upon a clinical trial to examine the effect of vitamin A supplementation on the morbidity and mortality among third trimester HIV-infected pregnant women. Her efforts in the conduct of both national and international studies were further awarded when she became junior faculty at the Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University. Currently, Dr. Kennedy serves as Team Lead in the Lead Poisoning and Prevention Branch’s, Epidemiology and Surveillance Section. She is also Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at Emory University School of Public Health.

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Dr. Hodelin F. Rene, PhD

Dr. Rene has over 25 years of Faith-based/Community expertise, with education in Philosophy, Theology, Health Care Planning/Administration, and Political Context of Public Health. He serves as a think tank that aims to ensure the integrity, identity and intent of faith and community standards and services are followed. Currently he serves as Program Consultant for the Division of HIV/AIDS, on the Partnership Team. He provides leadership and oversight for Cooperative Agreements with Faith Based National and Regional Organizations who provide capacity building assistance services to CDC. Dr. Rene consultation experience also includes, but are not limited to; writing federal and county government grant applications to fund HIV disease prevention

services, development of a detailed plan for the establishment of a community primary health care facility at Haitian American Community Association of Dade County Florida; successfully advised and coached staff during negotiations to obtain an increase in State AIDS Health care funds (from $300,000 annually to $1500,000 annually); conducted a public bid process to select subcontract service providers; organized and conducted the First Faith conference on AIDS; “AIDS And The Black Church.” His contributions and dedication to faith based and community organizations are numerous.

Kate S. Little

Ms. Little has a successful history connected to the affordable housing industry. She serves as the president and CEO of the Georgia State Trade Association of Nonprofit Developers (G-STAND), an organization dedicated to increasing the capacity of nonprofit housing organizations to develop affordable housing. Previously, she served on the staff of the Georgia Housing Finance Authority (later subsumed by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs), and for eight years was Atlanta Director of The Enterprise Foundation, working with nonprofits in neglected communities to improve housing conditions. Ms. Little also directed a reinvestment program in Atlanta’s Westview neighborhood, after working for the Atlanta Housing Authority for fi ve years.

Ms. Little received her B. A. degree from North Carolina Central University in Durham, N. C. She also holds a Master’s degree in Urban Studies from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.

Rose Glass Pue

Ms. Pue has been employed with CDC since 1989 and currently serves as Public Health Advisor for CDC’s National Center of Environmental Health (NCEH) Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch (LPPB). Her responsibilities include monitoring cooperative agreements in funded states, providing technical assistances/recommendations, training and national speaker. Additionally, she serves as Lead Consultant for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships supporting the branch and the center level of NCEH. Her sole focus within the NCEH/LPPB for five years was the Faith-based/Community Initiative, providing expertise to 40 state grantees of recommendations for

intervention strategies. Her community service for more than five years includes traveling to 2-3 states per Sunday to contribute to places of worship effective impact. Rose brings together top subject matter experts to help propel and perfect participations in effective partnership with diverse entities. Rose has earned a B.A. & M.A. degree in religion and possesses numerous training, education and experience in Public Health.

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Teresa Chappell

Ms. Chappell “Proactive Leader and Strategist” President/CEO, Vangard Enterprise, LLC. With over thirty years experience in senior and executive management positions. Ms. Chappell provides expertise in governmental affairs as it relates to faith-based programs, technical assistance and funding opportunities, consulting, event planning, revitalizing and optimizing client’s organizational structure, public speaking, public relations, measurement systems and marketing strategies. In this position Teresa Chappell served as a HUD Official in the Office of Field Policy and Management for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Region IV from May 2002 until January 2009.

Ms. Chappell also served as the Special Projects Coordinator, Regional Coordinator for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives and the Regional Coordinator for the Interagency Council on Homelessness in Region IV where she traveled extensively on behalf of the HUD agency.

She was HUD’s primary point of contact for Region IV with faith-based and community groups seeking information, technical assistance and funding opportunities in the Southeast/Caribbean. She has worked with community groups and homeless persons to identify housing needs as well as provided housing technical assistance to banks and community groups. Teresa also coordinated a region-wide simultaneously held Faith-Based and Community Initiatives “Capacity Building Training” for faith-based and community organizations. The region-wide training with a satellite broadcast reached 600 organizations with over 900 participants taking part in the training. Since 2002 as a result, of Ms Chappell efforts in coordinating the HUD Grant Writing Training in Region IV over 3,500 individuals received training region-wide. She also created a data base in Georgia of over 3,500 individuals seeking HUD services and products.

Gladys Cohen, RN

Ms. Cohen is a nurse with over 30 years experience in patient car. She is employed with EOA/ Head Start Savannah Ga. Her role is Health Services Coordinator, where she is responsible for overseeing the health needs of 900 plus children. She is a top activist in the community, where she serves as a lifeline for children. Gladys is the co-chair of the Worker Education Job Training Program advisory committee and an active member of First African Baptist Church. Ms. Gohen has put together numerous events showing that

community, faith-based, private sector and government can work together and have positive outcomes. In her fall festival last year over 1000 adults and 900 children were in attendance. 200 children tested for Lead toxicity. She exemplifies community working together for our children and through experience fi rmly believes that “It Takes a Village“.

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Gayle D. Weaver, PhD

Gayle D. Weaver, Ph.D, ORISE Visiting Researcher, works for the Public & Private Partnerships Branch which resides in the Division of Partnerships & Strategic Alliances at CDC. During Dr. Weaver’s tenure, her primary goals have been to 1) contribute to the advancement of science-based evidence for partnership practice and evaluation through the development of assessment tools, methodologies, and best practices that

support the maintenance of strategic partnerships; and 2) develop effective and sustainable partnerships with faith-based and community organizations.

Dr. Weaver is on faculty development leave from the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, Texas. She is an associate professor in the Division of Rehabilitation Sciences and core instructional faculty in UTMB’s Master of Public Health program. In her 17 years at UTMB, she has taught courses in aging, disability, and health behavior, and lectured extensively on varied topics. He has 25 journal publications and serves on many advisory boards and community organizations, and has chaired two community coalitions in Galveston: Cancer Coalition of Galveston County (January 2006–April 2008) and is president and co­founder of the Save Our Sisters Breast Cancer Awareness Coalition of Galveston County (2000–2003).

She received a PhD in social psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a bachelor’s degree from Howard University, Washington, DC. Her continuing education includes a certifi cate of spirituality and healing in medicine-V from Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Education in 1998 and 2006.

Kimball Credle

Kimball Credle is a Pubic Health Advisor for CDC’s Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch (LPPB) and assigned as the Project Officer for the states of Ohio, Minnesota, Delaware, Illinois, Missouri, and the city of Chicago. He’s also the Project Officer for the Lead Poisoning Prevention National Training Center, and National Healthy Homes Training Center and Network. He began his career with CDC in 1990 in communicable diseases (STD & HIV/AIDS). As a field assignee with CDC, he served as a Disease Intervention Specialist, Team Lead, Supervisor and Regional Manager in local public health programs

in Atlanta, GA, Washington, DC, Chicago, IL and Winston-Salem, NC. Prior to coming to the LPPB, Kimball was assigned to the National Syphilis Elimination Rapid Response Team in the Division of Sexually Transmitted Diseases. He has extensive experience in field investigations, case management, surveillance, and program management. Kimball has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, NC and completed the Graduate Certificate Training Program in Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta, Ga.

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