Action Plan

Key

*Individuals and groups involved:

1. Community Health Advisory Team (leadership for Community Health Center) or CHAT
2. Webberville Area Healthy Community Network or WAHCN
3. Human Services Advisory Committee or HSAC
4. Office manager
5. Nurse Practitioner
6. Ingham County/MSU Extension Representative or just MSUE
7. Chair of CHAT
8. Key Stakeholders (major supporters)
9. All Stakeholders (including service providers)
10. Lead doctor
11. Vista/Americorp

Activities at the Center

Programming will focus programming in several areas:

1.      education

2.      health

3.      human services

4.      recreation

Medical Services

The goal is to have a full service health facility with an emphasis on primary care including health maintenance, disease prevention, counseling and patient education.   Project leaders are also optimistic about the opportunity to provide broad educational experiences for medical students/interns.

Community Activities (including education, human services, and recreation)

The local superintendent and elementary school principal are both involved with this healthy community initiative.  A potential partnership with the school is one of the chief motivating forces behind this effort.  A broad range of potential programs are under consideration including:

Key Partners

Several key partners have either already expressed interest or been identified as likely to be involved with this effort.  These include:

• 4H
• Alcoholics Anonymous

• Calvary Baptist Church
• Capital Area Community Services
• Community Mental Health and individual mental health providers
• Community Voices Projects
• Family Independence Agency

·        Ingham County Health Department

·        Ingham County Michigan State University Extension

• Ingham County Sheriff Department
• Ingham Intermediate School District

·        Ingham Regional Medical Center

• Lansing Community College
• LeRoy Township
• Locke Township

·        McLaren Health Care Corporation

• Michigan State Police
• Michigan State University
• Old Newsboys
• Salvation Army

·        Sparrow Health System

• St. Mary Catholic Church
• St. Vincent DePaul (Williamston Chapter)
• Van Zwon's Market
• Village of Webberville
• Webberville 4-H
• Webberville Boy Scouts
• Webberville Community Recreation Association
• Webberville Fire Dept
• Webberville Food Bank
• Webberville Girl Scouts
• Webberville Lions
• Webberville Masons
• Webberville School District

·        Webberville United Methodist Church

·        Weightwatchers

• Williamston United Methodist Church Small Goods Bank

Potential Projects and Programs

Several programs, projects, and issues/opportunities have been identified that may be applicable for the community health center.  Obviously, the associated agencies are likely partners as well:

• After-school programs
• ASAP-PIE (all kids connected to success)
• Childbirth Education

·        Community meeting space

• Computer Access
• Counseling and mental health services
• Elderly care
• Food and nutrition
• Foster Care
• Future Farmers of America

·        GED certification

• Head Start
• Independent Living Skills
• Loss support
• Nutrition education, diabetes, weight loss
• Parenting classes
• Place to volunteer or find out about volunteering
• Prenatal care services – nurse practitioner, midwifery services
• Retiree programs
• Service Learning – school projects
• Smoking Cessation
• Tutor programs
• Volunteens – teen volunteer projects
• Yoga
• Youth Service Corp/ Citizen Engagement initiatives

Management

A Board of Directors comprised 60% community members (living or working in the Webberville School District) and 40% institutional partners will provide leadership in developing the vision and handling major policy decisions.

(this section is under development – see list of individuals and groups on timeline)

Budget

Expenses

Staff

Clinician

Clerical Worker

Provider

Subcontractor(s) (billing, etc.)

Bookkeeper (collaborate with other Network Centers)

Fringe where applicable (FICA, MESC, Insurance, etc.)

Computers

Copier

Fax

Insurance

Meeting Costs

Other Equipment

Paper and Office Supplies

Phone:  5 lines

Printer

Professional Development

Remodeling, Maintenance, and Improvements

Snow removal/lawn care

Utilities (water, elec, gas, etc.)

Waste hauling

Revenue/In-Kind Contributions

Ingham Health Nurse

MSUE Associate

Rent/Room Use

Vista/Americorp

In-kind donations

Program revenue

Appendix A

Goals of the Community Voices Project
> From www.cacvoices.org

To increase access to healthcare for the underserved by:

• Establishing an Organized System of Care - one in which every uninsured person in Ingham County has access to a healthcare coverage strategy that is non-stigmatizing, user-friendly, and affordable. To do this, we must:

·         Build a broad base of community support for universal access;

·         Establish sustainable funding mechanisms that fairly distribute the financing of healthcare for the uninsured among stakeholder groups;

·         Develop new coverage options and adequate infrastructure to maintain them.
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• Mobilizing neighborhoods and communities to improve health access and positively impact the determinants of health as experienced by their residents. To do this, we must:

·         Empower residents of neighborhoods and communities to identify health indicators and strategies for impacting them) both policy change and new programming);

·         Assist in establishing sustainable, positive working relationships between neighborhood and community stakeholders (including residents, associations, faith institutions, schools, businesses, providers, and funding entities)

·         Provide universal access to information needed by neighborhoods and communities to advance their strategies for improving access to health, and measure their progress.

Appendix B

> Research on Social Interaction and Personal Health<
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Recent research conducted by Carmen Pricopi of MSU University Outreach reveals a several studies which link social interaction to personal health.  For example:

 

·  A 10% increase in overall trust across citizens leads to 0.6 few deaths per thousand people per year, or a one unit increment in group membership leads to 0.83 fewer deaths per thousand people per year (Kwachi et al)
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·   People who lacked social and community ties were more likely to die early than people with more extensive contacts
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·   Joining a community group cuts in half your odds of dying next year
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·   Joining a community organization for fun was better for health than giving up smoking (Berkman and Syme)