Ashley Roberts
Presentation Outline
• Organization Overview • Internship Responsibilities and Duties • Portfolio
The NKHD • Is a local independent health department
• They operate independently of the Kentucky Department of Public Health in Frankfort.
• They service Boone, Campbell, Kenton and Grant County offering additional programs that are not mandated statewide.
• They set their own salaries and position classifications for staffing and hiring.
• The director reports to the independent board of health.
• The Northern Kentucky District Board of Heath has appointed Lynne M. Saddler, M.D., MPH, as District Director of Health. She is expected to begin work on September 1, 2010.
Responsibilities and Duties
• Monitoring and maintain tobacco cessation facebook site
• Assist in development of tobacco text message program
• Job shadow various NKHD employees • Assist with projects within CHP • Perform workplace policy survey
• Being a government page all comments were researched based
• Made ads and movies • Grew from 55 fans and 34 monthly active
users to 204 fans and 926 monthly active users
• LIKE US!
Txt msg prog • Headed by Michelle Eversole, Sr. Health
Edu. and Eleshia Scholes, Sr. Health Edu. • Based on marketing social norms • Used positive data about using tobacco • Delivered via text messages and posters
with prize incentives • Approximately 52 students and 38 parents
are currently signed up for the program at Dixie Heights High School.
Job Shadowing
• HANDS • Health Access Nurturing Development
Services (HANDS) • Grant County clinic tour with Laura Johnson,
Clinic Coordinator • Home visits with Alice Scheffler, Public Health
Nurse • RJ Beck, Environmental Technician
• McDonald’s • Cherokee Grill • Dog bites
Job Shadowing • Gregory Swan, Communicable Disease Investigator
• Women’s Residential Addiction Program (WRAP) • Chlamydia and Gonorrhea
• Robert (Bob) Ford, Sr. Health Edu. • WRAP • HIV ~
• Kathy Gavin, Director of CHP • Jill Sinclair, Grants Manager • Alan Kalos, Health Planning Administrator
• Health Department Accreditation • Mary Singler, Manager of Health Promotion Team
• 5-2-1-0 • Healthy Monday
Job Shadowing • Stephanie Vogel, Manager of health promotion
team • Susan Guthier, Public Health Nurse
• Healthy Start • Cathy Winston, Nutrition Manager KCHC
• Tour • Susan Taylor, Clinic Coordinator CCHC
• Tour • Doug Thomas, Community Health Nurse BCHC
• Tour
Assist with CHP projects • Splash Camp
• Tommy Koopman, Sr. Health Edu. • Health Monday
• Material review • Focus groups with Marsha Bach, Sr. Health Edu.
• REACH CQI • Resources for Education to Achieve Coordinated
Health Team (REACH) • Stephanie Vogel, Michelle Eversole, Barbara Laing (Sr.
Case Manager), Monica Smith (Registered Dietician) , DaNelle Jenkins (Sr. Health Edu.) , Louise Kent (Admin.)
• Evaluate and improve program • Tobacco Coalition of Northern Kentucky
• Monthly meetings
2010 Workplace Tobacco Policy Survey • Partnered with the University of Kentucky
College of Nursing • Phone interviews with Human Resource
manager/director and took about 10 minutes to complete.
• Purpose was to collect workplace policy data for planning and monitoring change over time, to lay the groundwork for helping manufacturers with tobacco policy change, and to recruit partners for NKHD’s tobacco prevention and cessation coalition.
Portfolio
www.ashleyroberts.pbworks.com
• Available for everyone to view • Do not need to log-in • Internet Explorer browser recommended
for viewing documents
Any questions?
A special thanks to Megan Folkerth for setting up, guiding, helping, correcting, and encouraging me through out my
internship and the CHP division! https://sites.google.com/a/nkyhealth.org/nkhd-
showcase-your-division/community-health-promotion
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