Kick-Off Conference | Six-Month Meeting | Twelve-Month Meeting

Twelve-Month Meeting

Dates and location TBD

Goals

The goal of the Twelve-Month Meeting is to provide a culminating experience to the year-long Institute. Fellows will acquire additional understanding of alternative styles of leadership, understand how to achieve effective organizational and community change, gain new insights relating to utilization of the three core functions and ten essential services, and develop effective communication skills. The Twelve-Month meeting will reinforce the importance and utility of learning new skills, and focus attention on personal leadership development.

Objectives

• Provide a forum for discussing communication tools.
• Through discussion of individual reports prepared and presented by the Fellows, achieve a clearer understanding of how the concepts presented in the literature and discussed throughout the year relate to styles of effective leadership.
• Discuss the Technical Assistance Projects in terms of the three core functions and applicable organizational and leadership practices.
• Provide a unique set of presentations essential to the understanding of communication skills, with special emphasis on communicating with elected officials and the media.
• Present Mentor/Agency Projects for discussion.

Mentor/Agency Projects

By mid-January, each Fellow is to designate a Mentor/Agency Advisor from the Fellow's home agency or community. This Mentor/Agency Advisor will be invited by the Institute to serve as a Mentor to the Fellow in a community-based project. The Fellow, in collaboration with the Mentor/Agency Advisor, will select a project that will address a problem that is of current concern to the agency, board or community.

The project should incorporate one or more core functions and should highlight or provide an opportunity to utilize one or more of the leadership practices. The project should be designed to assist a local agency to address a current or future public health issue. This can be accomplished by assisting in the implementation of an existing project, designing a future project, or addressing a leadership issue within the public health system.

Over a period of six months (January-June), the Fellow will explore the problem in detail and will develop a written plan for addressing the problem. In addition, the Fellow will explore the ways that the core functions and the leadership practices that MARPHLI stresses impact on the solution to the problem selected. The Mentor/Agency Advisor at the agency should be consulted by the Fellow when exploring the issues related to the problem.