Jan. 16, 2014 CNG Meeting Summary

Opening Remarks: JoAnn Stormer

JoAnn open the meeting with the net message that says:

"We are piloting what we had agreed upon from our last meeting. We are holding monthly meetings with this one being the first one. We can adjust the operational style if we find that we are not meeting the group objective of:

Our goal (common agenda) is to increase awareness and understanding of public, private, non-profit organizations' plans and needs. We aim to share and identify key community needs and plans so that individually and collectively we will be more effective in carrying out our mission of serving the community.

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Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) Report and Planning - Pete Giesen

Pete Giesen presented the Community Heath Needs Assessment Plan. His presentation is based on the Executive Summary of the online resources .

 

Takeaway

Focus groups are being formed in each of the 5 above areas to:

• Formulate actions
• Leverage and align community partnership efforts

Collaboration Opportunities:

• Align individual community org's activities to impact Olmsted County health needs
• Example: Rochester Library's wellness center effort is aligned with Vaccine/Preventable Diseases
• They are trying out a third-party Dashboard app. that can drill down on community metrics
• Results Based Accountability (RBA) Home Page: http://www.resultsaccountability.com/ RBA Scorecard: http://resultsscorecard.com/
• Could sync up with Dr. John Bachman's quest notion ?

Key Messages

• Marathon not a sprint
• County-wide scope

 

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DMC Planning Activities - Heidi Mested

Presentation and conversations

• General material can be found on the dmc.mn site and also has been reported by the PB. Heidi will forward her material to us later.
• 8 focus areas each is going through community input collection phase
• Large public forums are planned

• DMC's data-gathering activities will be the largest community wide requirements collection effort ever in Rochester and surrounding area
• However, funding/development focuses by EDA and DMCC are downtown-centric
• There will be items identified in the requirements gathering phase that require community partners to step up to fulfill (see Al Lun's diagram below):

Collaboration Opportunities

• CPG exchange can serve as an exchange, interlocking forum to identify:
• Gaps
• Data points re-uses
• Align efforts and measurements

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Market Street Plan - Chamber/RAEDI

Deferred to next meeting

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Next Meeting Items Include

• Continuous communication enablement -- web tooling (Al Lun)
• Al will also get together with Dave Beal to incorporate his PlanScape model to the dmcbeam tooling presentation.
• Collective Impact