This webinar shares the perspectives of the public health manager and health officer of a local county health department in Wisconsin, the environmental health director of the Ho-Chunk Nation Health Department, and executive director or the Institute for Wisconsin’s Health, Inc. regarding their experiences with shared services arrangements. For more information, contact phsharing@khi.org. It is […]
This document provides examples of existing agreements in use and a worksheet that can be used by tribal health departments considering development of a memorandum of understanding for service sharing between/among tribal health departments, local health departments and state health departments.
This is a press release announcing the receipt of a two-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to explore how cross-jurisdictional sharing might help Marathon County Health Department, with 18 other local public health agencies, fulfill its mission of protecting and promoting the health of the community. It was developed by the Northwoods Shared […]
Effective cross-jurisdictional service sharing requires governmental public health departments to clearly define and understand their public health authority. This practice brief explores public health authority and the value of tribal-state cross-jurisdictional service sharing.
The purpose of this guide is to provide basic information for federal disaster responders and other service providers who may be deployed or otherwise assigned to provide or coordinate services in American Indian/Alaska Native communities. Available online: http://store.samhsa.gov/shin/content/SMA08-4354/SMA08-4354.pdf
Observers have identified a strong need for states and tribes to coordinate responses to public health emergencies on Indian lands. This paper explores the need for such collaboration and the difficulties such cross-jurisdictional relationships face. Available online.
Staff from the California Rural Indian Health Board (CRIHB) interviewed representatives from the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), the National Indian Health Board (NIHB), and each of the 12 Indian Health Service (IHS) Areas in order to gather information about knowledge of CJS arrangements between tribes and counties throughout the nation. Available online: https://crihb.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/CJSNationalPolicyMatrix.pdf
This ongoing study will examine cross-jurisdictional sharing (CJS) between tribal and county governments in emergency preparedness capacity building and response. Investigators from the California Rural Indian Health Board, Inc., and partners from California Conference of Local Health Officers, Inter-Tribal Long Term Recovery Foundation, California Department of Health Care Services, and Indian Health Program of the […]
This poster presentation from the from the California Tribal Epidemiology Center at the California Rural Indian Health Board examined the types of emergencies relevant to tribal communities in California and the prevalence of cross-jurisdictional sharing (CJS) for emergency management (i.e., preparedness, mitigation, response, recovery) between California tribal and county governments. This study also explored whether […]
The Northeast Kansas (NEK) Multi-County Health Department is a collaboration between three rural counties: Atchison, Brown and Jackson. It operates as a single agency, but provides public health services in each county. It also operates a home health agency, which is located in the city of Hiawatha and serves all three counties. The arrangement allows […]