From Lillian.Bensley@DOH.WA.GOV Mon Oct 25 09:40:36 1999 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id JAA47614 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 09:40:35 -0700 Received: from wagov-exchange1.wa.gov (hub1.dis.wa.gov [147.55.104.40]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.08) with ESMTP id JAA11846 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 09:40:35 -0700 Received: by hub1.dis.wa.gov with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 09:40:32 -0700 Received: from mail1.doh.wa.gov ([192.230.11.132]) by wagov-exchange1.wa.gov with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id VTM46JWD; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 09:40:25 -0700 Received: by mail1.doh.wa.gov with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id <482F63H1>; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 09:40:14 -0700 Message-ID: <213895AE8149D3118D9500508B0F20A01ABDE7@mail2.doh.wa.gov> From: "Bensley, Lillian" To: "'ph-assess@u.washington.edu'" Subject: RE: Substance abuse and violence assessment Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 09:40:07 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Good questions David; at this point the discussions about data are just beginning, so these issues have yet to be addressed by the workgroup. I will let you know what is discussed in the Nov 8 meeting and there will be opportunity for input after that. I agree it would be good if Julie could attend some of the meetings relevant to Vista and she has been invited, and I will also take your concerns to the group. If someone else wants to serve as a local health representative I would be glad to take it to the group and ask whether they can be added as a member. Otherwise stay tuned to the list-serve and I'll give another update after Nov 8 when we should have a draft proposal (or at least some ideas) to throw around! -----Original Message----- From: Solet, David [mailto:David.Solet@METROKC.GOV] Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 4:28 PM To: Washington public health assessment coordinators Subject: RE: Substance abuse and violence assessment Lillian, thanks for this information. What sorts of data are being considered by this group? Is it treatment or population-based data, survey or census? Will new data be collected? If so, do we have input into what sort of information is collected? Can there be local health representation (or at least from Don or Julie) at a meeting of this work group? It's hard to answer your questions without some of that information. Thanks... --David -----Original Message----- From: Bensley, Lillian S. [mailto:lsb0303@doh.wa.gov] Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 11:22 AM To: Washington public health assessment coordinators Subject: Substance abuse and violence assessment Good morning. This message has two purposes. The first is to let you know about some activities which have to do with assessment and planning at the local levels. The second, related to the first, is to ask if you use a formal model for using assessment information for planning, and if so what it is. More detail (LOTS more detail) follows. 1. There is an "Interagency Collaborative Needs Assessment Workgroup", led by DSHS/DASA. which has been meeting for several years as a Prevention Subcommittee of the Washington Interagency Network on Substance Abuse (WIN). Since May 1998, a major focus of the workgroup has been to streamline community-level assessment processes dealing with substance abuse and violence prevention. In many communities, a single prevention provider may receive funding through more than one state agency (e.g. DSHS and DCTED), and these agencies have different processes to satisfy their own planning, reporting and tracking requirements. The workgroup was interested in developing a common process. The workgroup was also influenced by efforts initiated through the State Incentive Grant process to identify prevention system efficiencies. So far, the group has developed a timeline, which is attached. As I understand it, DASA, DCTED and OSPI are planning to have their local substance abuse/violence coordinators use this timeline. I have explained to the group that DOH does not determine the assessment timelines for local health, and we do not expect LHJs to be bound by this timeline. However, you may wish to be aware of the timeline as it might affect you indirectly or you might choose to coordinate your activites with the timeline. The timeline includes activities in three areas: local provider planning timeframes, implementation of student surveys, and preparation for legislative session (e.g., decision packages) and data reports. The student survey timeline has been developed in coordination with the interagency committee for the student surveys and is consistent with its current draft plans (and both groups have representatives from DSHS, DCTED, OSPI, DOH, and the Family Policy Council, including many of the same individuals). The group is now planning to develop consistent data elements measuring substance abuse, prevention and violence which would be used statewide, as well as analysis protocols and a common model for using these data for planning. It might be that local health could benefit from these activites; Julie Alessio informs me that responses to the survey about Vista indicated that there was an interest in including information about substance abuse on Vista. Therefore, I would be interested in any comments you might have about this - what data would be useful, what the characteristics of the data should be (e.g., geographic level, frequency of measurement), and anything else you feel is important. The group is meeting on November 2 and I will take to the group feedback that I receive before then. 2. As noted in the last paragraph, another activity is to develop a common model for using assessment data for planning. If you use a formal model which you would like considered in this process, could you please send me information about the model, any references you have available, etc? The model which the Family Policy Council has provided for use by Community Public Health and Safety Networks is already included in this process. Let me know if you have questions or comments. Thanks. .