#154
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:17:05 -0600
From: "Cissell, William" <WCissell@MAIL.TWU.EDU>
Subject: CNHEO Working Agreement
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Karen, Michael and others interested in greater professional cohesion:
The latest revision of the Working Agreement, which is used to guide Delegates
from each of the 10 participating organizations/components in conducting the
business of the Coalition of National Health Education Organizations (CNHEO),
was ratified January 10, 2006. Please find a copy attached.
It seems to me that the most practical thing those interested in seeing greater
cohesion within the health education profession can do is promote strengthening
of the role and functions of CNHEO. CNHEO has a number of committees and task
forces that are working to advance our profession, including ones on
Synergy/Infrastructure, Ethics Enforcement, and Public Health Credentialing.
CNHEO collaborates with the National Commission on Health Education
Credentialing (NCHEC) and those organizations that are advancing our profession
through The Advocacy Summit, the Competency Update Project (CUP, and the
Transitional Task Force on Health Education Accreditation.
I believe some time and energy spent exploring ways to strengthen the
collaboration among the existing organizations in which health educators are
active and NCHEC and CEPH (which may accredit health education preparation
programs in the future) will benefit our profession more than trying to
establish a single organization for health educators. If you believe gaining
insurance reimbursement for health eudcation services is of high priority, lobby
CNHEO and its member organizations/components to work more vigorously to
accomplish this.
Bill Cissell
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#155
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 21:46:22 -0500
From: KDG Consulting <kdgconsulting@VERIZON.NET>
Subject: Re: Health Ed Orgs Working Together
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Of course there are issues and concerns and maybe some excuses. Let me
reiterate my challenge/hope: 2010 an international congress on health
education planned by all members of the coalition on the scale of APHA or
the ASA where all can see our unity and we can begin to work on it in person
and in earnest. And, forever putting my money where my mouth is - or vice
versa, I am glad to help be part of any planning committee toward that end.
Can the CNHEO and the National Center for Health Education sponsor such an
event with contributions from all health education societies and association
just so we can begin to talk? Any takers?
kdg
Karen Denard Goldman, PhD, CHES
Co-author, Health Education Tools of the Trade: Tools for Tasks That Didn't
Come with the Job Description
Health, Physical Education and Recreation
Kingsborough Community College
kgoldman@kbcc.cuny.edu
President, KDG Consulting
Training and Development for Health Education and Promotion Organizations
and Specialists
www.kdgconsulting.net
kdgconsulting@verizon.net
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From: HEDIR-L List [mailto:HEDIR-L@LISTSERV.SIU.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael
Pejsach
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 12:06 PM
To: HEDIR-L@LISTSERV.SIU.EDU
Subject: Re: Health Ed Orgs Working Together
** Leadership Unmatched--AAHE
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Consolidation is clearly needed, but it is loaded with excuses/issues:
1. "Employees with AAHE and SOPHE will lose their jobs." Staff will
be needed for a large single organization. If we consolidate, the
number of NATIONAL members WILL GO UP, therefore, the need for MORE
staff is a more realistic scenario.
This is, factually, an unknown. However, in my experience, watching
several hospital consolidations take place here in New Orleans, I can
agree only that there will be an initial loss, but not a long term
loss. In the long run, less than six months later, there a return to
the same number of staff as before the consolidation.
In addition, one organization was created after a major
consolidation, the Baptist Community Ministries, an average $30-
million (based on assets of $300 million) per year non-profit
community health organization. I managed to get a School Health
Education project underway before leaving for Central Michigan
University. This project was budgeted at about $6 million per year
(Pre-Katrina) in an effort to improve school health education efforts
in Jefferson and Orleans Parish School System. New employees and
staff were hired to implement this worthy program.*
2. "I like the size of SOPHE. I like small." (Actual comment made by
a former SOPHE board member). Special Interest Groups, "SIGs" within
health education, are plentiful (worksite health ed, school health
ed, school heath (different from school health ed), NGO health ed,
Volunteer Org health ed, community health ed, public health
education, et al) would be part os a single organization, and offer
the intimacy and focus anyone needs and wants.
We are what we believe we should be. If we believe we are small, we
will remain small, and small doesn't cut it, or sit well in academia
or in other worksites. More importantly, we need a unified approach
to support our graduates, and fellow health educators. Small can't
protect turf. If your students and former students are reporting to
you that starting salaries do not exceed $30,000, you should STOP
thinking small and think about empowerment, if not for yourself, for
others.
3. "I'm a Board Member of ____. I worked hard to get there." My
answer: "If I am not for myself, who will be? BUT if I am only for
myself, WHO AM I?" (Jewish Proverb, can be found, along with others,
@ http://healthbehavior.com/quotes.shtml
We are going to make sacrifices in the name of improving our
profession. We MUST do this.
Any other excuses out there we need to deal with, discuss and hash out?
Please note: Some time ago when I co-instructed a human sexuality
class at a large urban university, my con-instructor and I made an
agreement. We agreed never to CORRECT an error publicly, "in front
of the kids," letting a mistake go by, correcting it later after
discussing it privately. You and I know why that it a better
professional approach. While we rarely made mistakes (can you
imagine!), it was reassuring and as a result, we had a higher degree
of trust. We did agree with our individual right to disagree, as we
did on occasion, "in front of the kids," but to correct each other
privately (not even passive aggressive comments). As you can imagine,
I loved it, had a blast teaching and use this "do not publicly
correct" approach when co-teaching or presenting ever since.
My personal, more mature recommendation, during our heavy HEDIR
discussions, is to give a person making a mistake or error the
chance to correct themselves. If we need to get a fact corrected,
please feel free to do so, PRIVATELY with the person making the
mistake (we are human beings, and, therefore, make mistakes),
encouraging them to correct it on the HEDIR. Avoid, at all costs,
passive-aggressive comments as we all know they are attack techniques.
Michael
*in addition, the project used "Know Your Body," the K-6 school
health education curriculum (my recommendation to the Baptist
Community Ministry project before leaving for Central Michigan
University), which helped invigorate that worthy project, employing
many other health education and non-health education staff in several
other areas!
On Feb 9, 2006, at 8:54 PM, KDG Consulting wrote:
> ** Leadership Unmatched--AAHE
> ** www.aaheinfo.org
> **
> ** The HEDIR Bulletin Board
> ** www.kittle.siu.edu/comments2005
> **
>
> It's nice to see the dialogue zipping right along again. Thank you,
> colleagues for your reactions to my comments about community
> colleges as a
> launch pad for health ed careers and where health ed program are or
> might be
> housed in a college or university.
>
> Recently there was a revival of the topic of uniting the
> profession, so, for
> what it's worth I thought I'd fan the flame a bit by attaching an
> article -
> an opinion piece - I wrote on the topic a year or so ago. It
> reflects my
> passionate belief that there must be some way we can harness the
> talents and
> energies of the 10 organizations that currently represent health
> education
> into one organization which still involves all of our leaders and
> preserves
> the specialization differences that are so valuable. I welcome your
> feedback.
>
> kdg
>
> Karen Denard Goldman, PhD, CHES
> Co-author, Health Education Tools of the Trade: Tools for Tasks
> That Didn't
> Come with the Job Description
>
> Health, Physical Education and Recreation
> Kingsborough Community College
> kgoldman@kbcc.cuny.edu
>
> President, KDG Consulting
> Training and Development for Health Education and Promotion
> Organizations
> and Specialists
> www.kdgconsulting.net
> kdgconsulting@verizon.net
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