Fifteenth Annual Meeting:
Partners for a Healthier Community

The Center for Healthy Communities held its Fifteenth Annual Meeting on June 20, 2007. About 73 guests attended the event held at the Dayton Cultural and RTA Transit Center at 40 S. Edwin Moses Boulevard. Again this year, the meeting was a chance to update the community on some of the work the Center is doing, and to showcase some of the many wonderful collaborations among Dayton area health and human service providers that are targeted to improving the health of our community.
The 2007 Annual Meeting keynote speaker was Allene Mares, MPH, RN - Montgomery County Health Commissioner. Her "Public Health Update" included announcing a new name, "Public Health - Dayton & Montgomery County", and new logo. Click here for a .pdf of the presentation.

Carla Clasen, Co-director of the Center, presented the CHC Health Promotion Awards. These awards recognize collaborations between two or more groups that have contributed to improving the health of Montgomery County citizens. New program: Walk!Downtown Dayton Established program: Miami Valley / Dayton Consortium #4

Guests at the meeting also had an opportunity to learn about several other successful collaborations through a display of posters.
	For the second year, the Center for Healthy Communities solicited abstracts for posters that detailed work organizations have done in partnership with others (see a full list of titles and authors below). These posters allowed attendees to learn about many programs and initiatives that help Montgomery County residents to improve and maintain their health.
Center Director Kate Cauley, PhD explains some of the poster content.

As always, the Annual meeting sparked conversations, ideas and future collaborations to be concieved.

Poster Presentations at the Center for Healthy Communities Annual Meeting

DOWOP –Moving to the beat; Learning what to eat; Keeping Things Real; Share the DOWOP thrill
Through the collaboration of the CareSource Foundation, Subway, the Grandview Foundation, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company 2 (DCDC2), the Cassano Health Center and Nutritional ConCerns?.
Primary Author: Dr. Connie McCarroll, Diabetes Obesity Wellness Opportunity Program
Co-Authors: Dayton Contemporary Dance Company – Shonna Matlock; CareSource Foundation - Cathy Ponitz; The Cassano Foundation  - Jonadab Uzoho, D.O.; Lynn Wright , RN, Clinical Care Coordinator; The Grandview Foundation – Kelly Fackel – Vice President, Development;  Janie Ferrell, Development Coordinator, Nutritional ConCerns? – Alberta Scruggs, DTR; Owner; Subway – Raymond Wiley, Franchisee

Helping Seniors Unlock the Mysteries of Medicare D
Unified Health Solutions partnered with Family Service Association & the Wellness Connection of the Miami Valley.
Primary Author: Bill Feldmann, Unified Health Solutions

Brighter Futures: Community Nursing in the Nurse-Family Partnership
Primary Author:  Chris Arestides, RN, BSN, Help Me Grow-Brighter Futures
Co-authors: Pamela Albers, RN MS - Director of Help Me Grow- Brighter Futures, David Uddin, PhD - Director of Clinical Research, Miami Valley Hospital, Thomas Gariety, MBA – Data Quality Analyst, Clinical Research, Miami Valley Hospital

You Have a Right to Be Safe
Artemis Center collaborates with Premier Health Partners to provide services to Latino and Appalachian domestic violence victims and children at East End Community Center and East End Community School.  
Primary Author: Donna Gardner, MSW, LISWArtemis Center for Alternatives to Domestic Violence

Drug and Alcohol Awareness Among High School Freshman in West Carrollton, Ohio
Wright State Faculty and Baccalaureate nursing students collaborated with the West Carrollton Freshmen health classes to promote drug and alcohol awareness.
Primary Author: Lauren E. Stapleton, Student Nurse, Wright State University, College of Nursing and Health
Co-Authors: Erin L. Elsner, Student Nurse, Wright State University, College of Nursing and Health; Laura J. Herbert, L., RN, MS, Clinical Instructor, Wright State University, College of Nursing and Health

Baccalaureate Students Collaborate to Improve Safety in the Village of Enon, Ohio
Faculty and baccalaureate students collaborated with the Village Police Department and Dayton Children’s Medical Center, and Speedway Super.
Primary Author: Laura J. Herbert, RN, BSN, MS, Wright State University CoNH

Identification of modifiable factors associated with low birth weight infants
Primary Author: Lorena K. Royer, RN, MPH, Public Health Dayton & Montgomery County
Co-Authors: Brighter Futures; David Uddin PhD, MVH; Helen Oswald RN, PHDMC; Sara Paton PhD, Wright State University & PHDMC

Mothers with a Positive or Negative Depression Screen Evaluate a Mother’s Resource Guide
Primary Authors: Alyssa J. Gans, John Pascoe, Cameron Chumlea, Pediatrics, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, United States
Co-Authors: John Pascoe, MD, Sandra Specht, PhD1, Cameron Chumlea, PhD1, Marla Himmeger, LSW, Office of Children’s Services & Prevention, Ohio Department of Mental Health, Columbus, OH, United States; Amy Heneghan, MD, Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States.

Retrospective Comparative Analysis of the Socio-demographic Characteristics of Pregnant Abortion-minded Clients versus Pregnant non-abortion-minded Clients in a Crisis Pregnancy Center in Montgomery County, Ohio
Primary Author: Betsy Liliana Cote, MD, MPH
Co-authors: Dr Sara Paton, PhD; Wright State University, Combined Health District Montgomery County, Vivian Koob, MEd, MRC, Elizabeth’s New Life Center; Marjorie McLean, MBA, Elizabeth’s New Life Center

Education of women with previous preterm delivery, a survey of home health care providers, Montgomery County, Ohio.
Primary Author: Sara Paton, MD
Co-authors: Robert Stoughton, University of Dayton, Pam Albers, Brighter Future Help Me Grow, Elaine Vest, Public Health Dayton & Montgomery County, Suzanne Choiniere, Miami Valley Hospital, Mary Ann Swank, Children’s Hospital