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6 Breakout Session: Moving Toward a Population Health Workforce Exercise
Pages 63-66

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... Participants were specifically directed to consider potential funding sources for 1This section describes the discussions that occurred during the breakout session. Statements, recommendations, and opinions expressed are those of individual participants and should not be construed as reflecting any group consensus.
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... DISCUSSION After 40 minutes of small group discussion, the workshop participants reconvened to share key takeaways from each group's conversation. A representative from one of two groups focused on school absenteeism spoke first.
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... A second group addressing school absenteeism was led by Lisa Kaplowitz, a physician in a job transition who was returning to local public health. Kaplowitz explained that her group spent time discussing the reasons for absenteeism, including violence, homelessness, and health issues, and how each of these reasons could bring additional partners to the table, including law enforcement, homeless shelters, school nurses, health care providers, and parents.
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... There was also a suggestion that the public health sector receive training on economic development and potential financing mechanisms for the new store and that the economic development sector receive training on the role of food access in ensuring healthy and prosperous communities. In closing, Gold acknowledged that while it may have been difficult for workshop participants to identify numerous workforce or training strategies in the limited time for the exercise, the activity helped them consider the information presented at the workshop.
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