Learning Session 6 in review!
Thank you to so many of you for attending Learning Session 6 just before the Thanksgiving holiday. We had representation from 85% of our C3 states with 30 participants and we covered a lot of ground in two hours!! I have tried to capture some salient details from our rich conversation on November 17 and include links to some of the resources we discussed.
Our Federal Project Officer from HRSA, Diane Pilkey kicked us off with a solid reminder of how important the work teams are doing in the CSLC is to fulfilling the 4 goals of the HRSA MCHB strategic plan:
- Access
- Equity
- Capacity
- Impact
We heard many strong examples of how this is being accomplished by strategy teams through the application of quality improvement methods and the CSLC change packages, including the following:
- Wisconsin’s BP team has been testing their cyberbullying prevention course originally designed for K-8 grades in high schools and building off the experience of their IVP team’s prior efforts implementing Sources of Strength to help identify new schools to partner with that are already aligned with prevention work.
- Kentucky SSHP has developed a community of practice as part of their Zero Suicide work to increase impact, and recently learned that some of the hospitals they already partner with are now integrating ZS training as well! Additionally, they launched a new tracker to collect data on QPR training across the state.
- The Tennessee SSHP team shared a rich update of their broad-spectrum of suicide prevention work, including an excellent example of running a PDSA with the Good Behavior Games, determining to abandon that approach in light of what they learned from the experience and pivoting to Sources of Strength as it is more flexible and can be implemented in multiple settings. They reported terrific increases in their social media and communication strategies and have created a mental health and suicide prevention services directory that is available for public download. Their excellent work expanding ESSENCE to all ages will be featured in the CDC MMWR publication in January 2023!!
We then shifted our focus to using data and creating data visualizations. Once again, our strategy teams shared robust examples of how they are achieving these tasks:
- Nebraska MVTS collects data from many sources, including the DMV, Dept of Transportation, Dept of Highway Safety, hospitals and school districts. Jeanne noted that “because of the CSLC, we have a great group of partners.” They continue to use a health equity approach in their current work, exploring access issues such as where driver education courses are offered compared to crash data, using SES data from the Dept of Education to further refine their outreach and enhancing impact by engaging community partners to customize their interventions to local contexts. Finally, they are finishing up a huge teen driving safety technical report that they will run PDSAs on with different local communities to ensure adequate fit.
- Louisiana SSHP had lots of partners stating how they wanted more real-time data since suicide death data are a couple of years behind and created a dashboard to showcase their data. To achieve this, they innovated to address a capacity challenge and built a strong external partnership to help cover the gap created by not having a dedicated epidemiologist at the Department of Health. This involved establishing a partnership between their ID-Epi team who handles the syndromic surveillance data, Office of Technology Services who has Tableau experts, and our team to create a data dashboard for suicide ideation and attempts using ESSENCE data. They ran PDSAs and received lots of partner feedback before finalizing it and have been sharing it with all our suicide prevention partners.
- California SUIDP has a variety of interactive data dashboards that are organized by population (maternal/infant/adolescent). Users are able to drill down to the county level and look back over a 5-year period to examine trends and changes.
Check out the CSN Blog for more thoughts on this topic!
Our CSN Director, Jennifer Leonardo, rounded out the day with a robust presentation on the phases of improvement and how to sustain your gains and move towards spread of your evidence-based strategies. A key reminder for us all is that this work is iterative!! You can be working in multiple phases and in multiple sites as you build your programs. Some useful resources that are posted in the CSLC Resource Library include:
If you missed joining us on November 17 or just want to go back for a refresher, you can access the LS6 slides and recording in the Learning Sessions section of the CSLC Web Portal (be sure you are signed in first!)