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Asthma Task Force

Board of Supervisors

City andCounty of San Francisco

 

Dial-In:  1 866 206-0240 code: 852051#

 

MINUTES

Planning Committee

Wednesday, October 4, 2006 4-6pm

Fox Plaza 1390 Market Street, Suite 230

 

Committee Members Present:   Gloria Thornton, Neil Gendel, Karen Cohn

Call-In:  Kate Lorenzen

Absent: Julie McKown,Marie Hoemke

Staff and Guests:  Anjali Nath

 

Discussion Item

Outcomes

I.                   Welcome/Review Minutes & Previous Meeting Outcomes

 

 

 

II.                Arrangements for Anjali Leave Time

Karen Cohn spoke with Karen Licavoli-Farnkopf from Breathe CA who was checking in.  Karen suggested revisiting CAFA budget to supplement staff time and having Karen Licavoli come and check in with the full ATF.

 

Goals in :

1. Revision of budget – Planning Committee will come up with proposal

2. Talk about plan for 6 week interim

3. Hiring someone for long-term staffing support

 

Agreed that we will have ATF members VOTE at next ATF meeting about use of budget for additional staffing support and to agree to meet with Breathe CA about this.

 

 

Anjali will check in with Beth regarding her availability and other suggestions.  Anjali will speak with Karen Licavoli about her desire to come to next ATF meeting to discuss staff time, and review budget.

 

Anjali will email updated budget to Karen and Gloria and highlight places for wiggle room

 

Anjali will have proposal to hand out at next ATF meeting.

 

Next ATF meeting will be

ACTION ITEM VOTE:  Pursuing more staffing; Send a rep to speak with Breathe CA

 

Next step is to have a meeting with Breathe CA

III.             ATF Workplan Update

a.       Communications Plan Development

                                                  i.       Asthma Management Flyer – no new updates

                                                ii.      Next educational piece is to focus on mobilizing parents around SFUSD Environmental issues. 

-Neil and Anjali sent comments are still working on this with PMC.

 

 

 

Gloria would like Chinese flyers for Chinese Community Health Fair o Oct 21st.

IV.              Funding Grants and Linkage Opportunities Update

                                                   i.      DCYF Update – already given at ATF meeting

                                                 ii.      Final Report to Board ’05-06 – submitted, but unsure if full Board received it.

                                                iii.      Asthma Educator Certification Project – Karen would like Clinical Committee to make a budget decision.  Does Clinical committee want to hire AAE to do case manager course, fund additional exams?

                                               iv.      SFUSD Care Plan Folder and flyer distribution – no new updates

                                                 v.      SFHA Mold remediation project – item not needed on future agendas

 

b.      Updates on expenditure of funds from Board of Supervisors

c.       Updates on grant opportunities – Discussed CPMC grant implementation. 

 

Committee agreed to change this segment of the agenda to be more simplified under the headings of “Fiscal Report” and “Collaborations.” 

 

Anjali will re-send Board Report to clerk

 

Put Karen’s question on next Clinical Committee

 

Agreed to change future agendas to simply reflect 4. Fiscal Report, 5. Collaboration

 

c.  CPMC grant – Karen will revise implementation plan and attach dates and parties responsible

V.                 Membership Update

a.       We will try to recruit from asthma educator network to get representation from a new medical system - Medical Professional or Lung Health seat - Angela Sun, MPH; Diana Williams; Andry Chow; Louie Leyva (UCSF), Wylie Liu (CPMC), Tiffany Sutter (CPMC)

 

Anjali will follow up with Miriam to get her application info for parent/advocate seat.

 

Gloria will contact Andry Chow re: ATF Medical Professional seat.

 

Karen will speak to Tiffany Sutter re: Lung Health Seat.

VI.              Support for Legislation

                                                   i.      No updates

 

VI.        Follow up on Community Committee Discussion

 

Anjali indicated that it seems we are addressing the initial intent of Kimberley Knox’s recommendations by having widely distributed the asthma management flyers and posters to all SFSUD administrators, principles and secretaries.  They were also included in teacher packets.  Committee suggested Anjali ask school principles if they would like additional information for their staff, etc.  Resources to pursue this further are limited.

Update Kim Knox on flyer distribution.  We need a champion to do targeted outreach to middle schools. Request middle school principle contacts.  

 

Anjali will update Louanne Lee as well and get her input on process.

VIII.        Create Agenda for October 23, 2006 ATF Meeting

 

Reminder about next meeting date:

 

Fiscal Reports

Collaboration – DCYF, SFE,

 

*ATF Staffing-

ACTION ITEM:  Pursuing more staffing

ACTION ITEM:  Send a rep to meet with Breathe CA

 

*Article 11

ACTION ITEM: Support specific sections of Article 11 (#582 & Training)

ACTION ITEM: Ask Board to reconsider the smoking in common areas section

 

Community Outreach

Reconnecting with Community – What are the deliverables?  How would you write a contract for someone to do this?  What’s the proof at the end?

 

Sustainability

What do we want from DPH that will help institutionalize work.

Other public entities? SFE, SFUSD

 

Anjali will contact Lorraine Woodruf, PPS to see if she can speak at the next ATF meeting.

IX.      Reviewed Meeting Outcomes

 

Anjali pointed out that the Clinical Committee was interested in knowing how the DPH MCH Resource and Referral line was working.  Karen pointed out that the public can call DPH MCH line to find out how to get asthma care, R&R.

Anjali will ask PMC to redo our letterhead

 

Anjali will check in with Dorothy Quan re: how the MCH R&R line is going in relation to asthma.  Invite to Clinical Meeting.  What are the real-life questions that they receive?  Would anyone else from staff want to come?

X.                 Announcements – none

 

 

Next Meetings:

Wednesday, November 1, 2006, 4-6pm, Fox Plaza