The American Public Health Association builds a collective voice for public health, working to ensure access to health care, protect funding for core public health services and eliminate health disparities, among a myriad of other issues. Their website provides a large number of resources on many public health service related issues. Available online: http://www.apha.org/
Nancy Young, executive director of the Institute for Wisconsin’s Health, focuses on general issues related to CJS arrangements among local and tribal governments. In related presentations, Carol Rollins, environmental health director with the Ho-Chunk Nation Department of Health, and Christine Hovell, health officer with Jackson County Public Health, describe their specific experiences.
This primer on tribal health explores the history of health-related federal laws for tribal nations, the role of the state health official in establishing partnerships with tribal nations, and tips on how to work successfully with tribes and tribal organizations.
This website maintained by the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials highlights ASTHO’s work with tribal leaders and includes primers on tribal and state public health. Available online: http://www.astho.org/health-equity/tribal-health-resources/
This primer on state public health for tribal leaders explores the history of health-related federal laws for state health agencies, the state health governance system, the role of the tribal health leader in establishing partnerships with state health agencies, and tips on how to create successful partnerships between state health agencies and tribes and tribal […]
The project charter outlines the project objectives, assumptions, scope, milestones, and potential impacts. It also allows participants to identify the project coordinator and team members and briefly describes their roles and responsibilities.
This full report of Wisconsin tribal public health leaders’ exploration of service sharing between/among tribal health departments, local health departments and state health departments, as a strategy to increase capacity, efficiency and program effectiveness, identifies important areas of consideration.
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 presentation provides the perspective of shared services arrangements from a local county health department, a Wisconsin tribal public health leader, and the Institute of Wisconsin’s Health, Inc. Available online (pdf): https://phsharing.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/TSS_Webinar.pdf It is included in the CJS Resource Library under the category listed below. Select a link to find other resources in that category. […]