The links below contained detailed information for the upcoming 2017 Safe States Alliance Annual Meeting, taking place September 12-14, 2017 in Aurora, Colorado.
Please note:
- A total of five concurrent sessions will take place during the Annual Meeting, and there will be up to five breakouts occurring simultaneously during each of those concurrent sessions. Within each breakout, there will be up to four presentations that take place.
- This online system does not allow us to embed the individual presentations within each breakout. Please note the session presentations listed under each Concurrent Breakout title for associated content.
- The on-site mobile app WILL embed these sessions for ease of use.
- A printable, detailed agenda can be found on the 2017 Annual Meeting website.
- If you have any questions, please contact info@safestates.org
- All session times and locations are tentative and subject to change. Safe States will continue to update these details as changes take place.
Using Public Health Indicator Data to Inform Teen Dating Violence Prevention
Learning Objectives
- Empower Local Health Departments to become Chief Health Strategists in their community through the usage of health indicator data in prevention and intervention programming
- Provide Local Health Departments with the tools to effectively utilize publicly available health indicator data to inform or assess the by-proxy impact of their respective teen dating violence prevention efforts
Statement of Purpose
To address emerging health demands, local health departments are taking on the role of “Chief Health Strategists” in their communities. Therefore, they must be skilled in acquiring, analyzing and translating data to inform practical intervention strategies. They have the potential to be leaders in teen dating violence (TDV) prevention utilizing data skills to understand the prevalence of TDV. This project explored publicly-available data as potential indicators of TDV that will inform and assess the impact of TDV prevention efforts.
Methods/Approach
An organized list of teen dating violence indicators were compiled through the aggregation of several teen behavioral health data points, into larger categories of indicators. Categories were formed based on known risk factors of teen dating violence that were also supported through a literature review.
Results
Six categories of teen dating violence indicators emerged from risk factors highly cited in the literature. Within each category are examples of measures that were extracted from national and local data sets. The data measures serve to indicate the potential for teen dating violence within a community, as well as a post measure of interventionary success.
Conclusions & Significance to the Field
CDC’s Dating Matters® (DM) initiative sought to determine TDV indicators by utilizing school and neighborhood data in four major cities. The local health departments in these cities collected community data from 2011 to 2016 to establish these indicators and found that localized data is key to achieving health intervention goals. Data sharing amongst community stakeholders also serves to enhance programs. The final toolkit created from this research provides sources and recommendations for acquiring such data.
Presenters
Melanie Ruhe, MPH, National Association of County and City Health Officials
Biography
Melanie Ruhe is a Program Analyst for the Safe and Healthy Families team at NACCHO. Her responsibilities include providing programmatic support for numerous teams, developing publications and policy tools to increase awareness about key health efforts and coordinating, creating and executing project activities. Melanie recently implemented child maltreatment prevention programs in local health departments, assisted in writing two grant proposals and is a leader of multiple NACCHO advisory groups. Prior to joining NACCHO, she worked for the National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and received her Master of Public Health degree with distinction from DePaul University in Chicago, IL.
Blaire Bryant, MPH, NACCHO
Biography
Blaire Bryant is an energetic and creative Public Health professional, whose career spans nearly a decade. Blaire holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Maryland, and is experienced in the field of health advocacy, peer health mentoring, and educational programming on topics such as sexual health, nutrition, smoking cessation, and chronic disease. In her current role, she provides programmatic and analytical support to the dynamic work being done at the National Association for County and City Health Officials, as a part of the Safe and Healthy Families team.