HR Symposium..Motivational Interviewing..Medicaid Expansion..Join NCCARE360..Funding Opps
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October 2019 NCCAA Newsletter
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HR Symposium Experts
Exclusive Training Opportunity
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NCCAA Partners to Offer Inaugural Human Resource Symposium
Hear from our experts on a wide range of topics from Employment Law to Recruiting and Retaining Talent.
Register today!
Please
click here
for more information and to register.
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Front-line staff are at the heart of what we do as a Community Action network. One powerful technique case managers can utilize in daily work is
motivational interviewing
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By understanding and implementing basic motivational interviewing techniques (i.e., asking the right questions, reflective listening, empathy vs. sympathy, etc.), case managers can better inspire clients to achieve their goals.
Douglas-Cherokee Economic Authority, Inc. – August 15, 2019 – Morristown, TN
NCCAA Training Specialists recently conducted a highly rated Motivational Interviewing training and stand ready to provide this training for your case management team.
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NC's First Lady Pays Visit
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First Lady Kristin Cooper pictured during a visit to the Coastal Community Action Head Start Center in Newport with Everette S. “Rett” Newton, the Mayor of Beaufort.
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ECONOMICS
Medicaid Expansion -
Boost to Rural Hospitals, Economies
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Why Medicaid expansion is the right treatment for rural hospitals, economies
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This BTC report released by the NC Budget & Tax Center details the impact of full Medicaid expansion on rural hospital finances and why saving rural hospitals is essential to the long-term economic vitality of many communities in North Carolina.
The report highlights the projected fiscal impact, as well as an analysis of the ways the proposed work requirements and premium payment requirements of the bipartisan House version of Medicaid expansion (
H.B. 655
) could diminish the financial benefits to hospitals
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NC Justice Center concludes Medicaid expansion could, in one stroke, profoundly improve the physical and economic health of rural communities. Expansion would ensure lifesaving care for hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians, offer institution-saving support to rural hospitals currently facing financial ruin, and stave off the economic damage that follows hospital closures.
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Join NCCARE360
as a Network Partner!
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NCCARE360
creates a fundamental change in how NC delivers on the promise of health.
While this technology is robust and transformative, technology is just technology unless all network partners are trained and empowered to use it to better serve their patients and clients. NCCARE360 has a community engagement team working with community-based organizations, health plans, health systems, and governmental agencies to create a statewide coordinated network as new regions launch. See
Implementation Timeline
"This works because we know each other. This is our community. We are going to make it a success. We are going to transform lives." - KathyColville, Cone Health, NCCARE360 Network Partner.
NCCARE360 is rolling out across North Carolina and will be fully statewide by end of 2020. If you are interested in joining the network, reach out to the NCCARE360 team at www.nccare360.org/join.
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Community-Based Health Initiatives are programs and pilots undertaken to create better health in a local community. Oftentimes they are created and designed by people from the targeted community.
In Portland, Oregon the Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) Partnerships for Health is addressing the Social Determinants of Health of its poorest residents, decreasing the effects of transportation, health, and community engagement. For $5 a week, clinic patients receive fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes, worth around $27. For clients facing transportation barriers, Uber has partnered to sponsor rides.
Steps to Wellness/Pasos Hacia Salud, a culturally-relevant wellness program, was created.In the Gorge’s area of Oregon and Washington state where there is a high lo
w-inc
ome,
Spanish
speaking population. They face barriers in accessing healthcare and healthy foods, resulting in obesity, heart disease, diabetes and other health ailments. Steps to Wellness is a 12-week course taught by Community Health Workers in Spanish to serve this community.
HELP was developed for two rural Kansas counties targeting nine service sites to decrease early childhood obesity. To improve their health, HELP implemented 5 physical and nutritional programs to enhance children’s skills, help them learn while moving, story times related to food, hands on food activities, and build skills to make healthy food choices.
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RESOURCE
The Effects of Incarceration & Reentry
on Community Health & Well-Being:
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The high rate of incarceration in the United States contributes significantly to the nation’s health inequities, extending beyond those who are imprisoned to families, communities, and the entire society. Since the 70's, there has been a seven-fold increase in incarceration. This increase and the effects of the post-incarceration reentry disproportionately affect low-income families and communities of color. Examine the criminal justice system through a new lens and explore opportunities for meaningful improvements that promote health equity in the US.
Access proceedings
published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine from June 6, 2018 Round-table on the Promotion of Health Equity workshop that examined the connection between incarceration and health inequities at the individual, family, and community levels at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, which has one of the highest rates of incarceration of any major American city.
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Released:September 18, 2019
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FUNDING OPP
ZSR Foundation
Now Accepting Applications
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Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation Now Accepting Applications for Community Progress Fund
Sometimes, a local organization, idea, issue or project needs that extra boost at just the right time to continue to make progress toward an end goal.
ZSR’s Community Progress Fund seeks to support local communities by making time-limited investments at key moments and is intended to build on existing momentum to help move an issue, idea or organization forward.
The deadline to apply for a Progress Fund grant is December 3, 2019 at 12:00 p.m. (noon).
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SEACAA
Central Piedmont Takes Home SEACAA
Standing Award
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Myrtle Beach, SC -
Central Piedmon
t
Community Action, Inc.
Executive Director, Natasha Elliott, proudly accepted the Lonnie D. Burton Award, one of three Standing Awards presented at the 2019 SEACAA Awards Banquet held at the annual Conference in Myrtle Beach, on behalf of their customer, Linda Ellison, who turned her life around with the help of case managers at Elliott's agency. The Lonnie D. Burton Award is presented annually to an individual who through the assistance of a Community Action Program, has achieved a significant level of self-sufficiency and independence while recognition is given to the local Community Action Agency's role in helping the nominee(s) to help themselves.
Read Linda's story
Kudo's to Central Piedmont!
See the
photo gallery
on the SEACAA Conference webpage to view pictures from this event as well as the 2019 conference. Over 200 members attended the regional conference in spite of Hurricane Dorian's threat. The conference kicked off with a preconference panel discussion on community action's role in the social determinants of health moderated by
Roger McCann, Executive Director of Community Action Kentucky, featuring award-winning industry thought leader, Ellen Fink-Samnick. Other highlights included a hilariously funny General Opening by Keynote Speaker, Larry Weaver, Updates from the NCAF, and a Regional Town Hall panel discussion.
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GRATITUDE
Write It Down
Challenge
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Every day for the next 30 days (starting today!) write down three NEW things you are thankful for. By doing this,
you can literally re-wire your brain
to start scanning the world not for the negative, but for the positive first.
See Matt Hogan's
30 day Gratitude Challenge (and everything I learned in the process) here
.
So much of what we have we take for granted because we grow accustomed to it and forget about it’s importance. By expressing our gratitude for the people and things in our life that we’re thankful for by either writing it down or verbally communicating it, we make our gratitude real; tangible; felt. And as long as we’re expressing our gratitude with a genuine and full heart, it’s impossible for us to feel depressed in the same moment.
…And so let’s do it!
Let’s learn to speak less about our obligations and more about our privileges.
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River Run’s call for entries for the upcoming 2020 Festival is now open! Send your new work to consider for the 22nd Festival, which runs March 26-April 5, 2020!
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Setting a Child Poverty Target is the Way Forward to Ending the Crisis
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“Tackling child poverty through a comprehensive set of policies and programs that support all people in poverty is critical because children do better when their families do better. Moreover, investing in our nation’s children is the most cost-effective way to address inequality........ and setting a national target is an important first step toward these changes.” -
Heather Koball, Director of the National Center for Children in Poverty
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This new consensus study report from the Board on Children, Youth, and Families concludes that poverty causes negative outcomes for children, especially if it occurs in early childhood or persists through a large part of childhood.
More than 9.6 million U.S. children live in families with annual incomes below the poverty line and studies estimate that child poverty costs the nation between $800 billion and $1.1 trillion annually in terms of lost adult productivity, the increased costs of crime, and increased health expenditures.
The report identifies policies and programs that could reduce child poverty by half within 10 years, at a cost far lower than costs the United States currently bears.
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Resources
National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine study, A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty,
full version
and
highlights
State Resources
- What are the roadmaps to cutting child poverty in your state?
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Support for Litigation Addressing Social Justice in North America
The Impact Fund is dedicated to assisting nonprofit organizations, private attorneys, and small law firms who seek to advance social justice using impact litigation in the areas of civil and human rights, environmental justice, or poverty law. The final letter of inquiry deadline for 2019 is October 8. Visit the
Fund’s website
to learn more about the grant guidelines and application process.
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Nonprofits With Technology Solutions for Global Challenges Funded
Cisco Global Impact Cash Grants support nonprofit organizations in the U.S. and worldwide with scalable, replicable, and sustainable solutions that use Internet and network technology to benefit individuals and communities around the world. Visit the Cisco website to review the grantmaking criteria and to take the
Eligibility Quiz
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Funds Available to Improve Rural Health
The Rural Health Network Development Program seeks to improve access to and the quality of healthcare in rural areas through sustainable healthcare programs; prepare rural health networks for the transition to value-based payment and population health management;...... Application deadline is November 25, 2019
. (
Planning grants
for future programs are also available, wit
h a
deadline of November 29, 2019.)
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noun - something that supports or strengthens
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Usage Notes
On common nouns and falling leaves
25 Sep 2019
What to Know
The seasons spring, summer, winter, and fall are not proper nouns and are therefore not normally capitalized. Of course, as with other nouns, they should be capitalized at the beginning of sentences and in titles. One exception, in a more poetic vein, is that seasons are sometimes personified, or treated as beings, and in those cases they are often capitalized.
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PARTNERSHIP'S WEBINAR SERIES
Upcoming CAP Webinar Wednesday Events
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Wednesday, October 16, 2pm ET/1pm CT/12pm MT/11am PT
This webinar provides information on how good process management practices fit into the ROMA performance management methodology. A ROMA Implementer from CAP of Central Illinois will discuss where process is introduced as part of service/activity development and how process effectively incorporates accountability principles into the daily operations of performance driven organizations.
Presenter
: Alison Rumler-Gomez (CAPCIL)
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YUMMY
Recipe of the Month - got a good go-to fall recipe?
Please share & send to.....info@nccaa.net
Faye Minga from the NCCAA State Office shares her favorite
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MEET STEPHANIE
EAST MEETS WEST
- NEW ED joins Blue Ridge
"I am extremely excited to serve as
Blue Ridge Community Action, Inc.
’
s Executive Director. This opportunity/position brings me full circle in the Community Action Network. I was a child with a speech impediment that benefited from the Head Start Program and I am now serving as an Executive Director for a Community Action Agency. I can truly say Head Start gave me my head start in life. I am even more appreciative of the work in the community, the partnerships established, and the camaraderie of the staff that the former Executive Directors, Mattie Patterson and Kenneth Cox, left behind. My objective is to continue to build on the great work of their legacies in “helping people, changing lives."
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Wilkesboro -
Stephanie Ashley has been named the Executive Director for Blue Ridge Community Action Agency, Inc.
in Wilkesboro. She has worked in the Community Action Network for 15 years - working her way up from a Case Manager to a Program Director where she planned, directed and coordinated a broad range of activities prior to her newest appointment. Stephanie is a Certified Community Action Professional and proud recipient of the 2017 NCCAA Roselle Copeland Stewardship Award. She holds a master’s degree in Management and Leadership from Webster University and a bachelor’s degree in Social Work from Virginia Commonwealth University. A veteran of the US Army, Stephanie is excited about this next challenge in her career and truly embraces the mission of “helping people help themselves”.
Congrats, Stephanie!
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Passage Home's CEO Featured
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Passage Home'
s, CEO, Seth Friedman, was recently featured on Around the Triangle,
as a local non-profit working to end poverty in Wake County. Friedman shared details about their multi-pronged approach, which includes providing assistance in housing, workforce development and healthcare.
Way to go, Seth!
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Stand Up, Stand Out - Make a Difference
Today
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Join NCCAA's poverty-fighting network now - or renew your membership! Committed to the vision, mission of community action? - Stand Up, Stand Out and Partner with us by increasing the value of your membership support AND/OR pitch it to others - vendors, companies, nonprofits/organizations, external colleagues, friends, family...... who value what we do.
Purchase a
BRONZE
,
5 year membership;
SILVER,
7.5 year membership;
GOLD
,
15 year membership; or
PLATINUM
Lifetime membership.
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OCTOBER
Black Cats
and Ghosts
Halloween has always been a holiday filled with mystery, magic and superstition. Everyone associates October with Halloween, but did you know......
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16 -
Boss’s Day
(or National Boss’s Day) – Annually Oct. 16 unless it falls on a weekend. Then it’s the closest workday.
Did you know? One quarter of all the candy sold annually in the U.S. is purchased for Halloween.
On Halloween, when it was believed that ghosts came back to the earthly world, people thought that they would encounter ghosts if they left their homes. To avoid being recognized by these ghosts, people would wear masks when they left their homes after dark so that the ghosts would mistake them for fellow spirits.
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Warm up with a cup of NCCAA's signature coffee on those crisp, chilly fall mornings!
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OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
5
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NCCAA
Advisory Council
Meeting
,
Raleigh, NC
28/
Thanksgiving
Got thoughts, ideas, suggestions for
OUR
newsletter? We'd love to hear them. Please take a minute to share - send to info@nccaa.net. Thank you!
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