Presentation on the 2012 Action Plans for the four NCC committees. Presented at the 2012 National Chlamydia Coalition meeting.

1. COMMITTEE REPORT OF
2012 ACTION PLANS
National Chlamydia Coalition Meeting 2012

2. Provider Education Committee
 What are the major actions we plan to take in 2012?
 Begin Update of Why Screen? – revisions to begin and be
reported at March meeting
 Update Health Care Provider Resource guide as precursor to
electronic Provider Toolkit – resource guide to be sent to entire
committee and updates compiled by March meeting
 What partners and resources are we going to need?
 Research Translation committee to provide recommended articles
for inclusion into Tool Kit
 Public Awareness Committee advice on vetting process for
materials in CRE

3. Provider Education Committee
 How are we going to work with the other NCC
committees?
 Representative to Steering committee to interact with other
committee reps
- Beth Butler
 How are we going to meet one other coalition-wide
objective (working with the private sector or promoting
health equity)?
 Work with Private Sector through State networking project
development of electronic Provider Tool Kit

4. Public Awareness Committee
 What are the major actions we plan to take in 2012?
 Improving and Extending the Chlamydia Resource Exchange
 Improving layout
 Outreach strategy (internal and external)
 Setting a goal for uploads
 Improve review criteria and process
 Sustainability
 Fiscal
 Staffing
 Creating linkages to other sites
 Challenge all NCC members to upload public awareness
materials by the end of February!
 A call for topic-specific materials as issues arise (adolescent
confidentiality)

5. Public Awareness Committee
 What partners and resources are we going to need?
 Analyze membership gaps within the committee
 Members with marketing and grant writing experience
 Look at grant writing
 Fold into overall coalition grant writing endeavors

6. Public Awareness Committee
 How are we going to work with the other NCC
committees?
 Explore mechanisms to integrate and collaborate with the Provider
Education Committee
 Working with the SPG: Focus on gathering materials to help
adolescents (and their parents) understand their rights about
confidentiality  put on CRE

7. Public Awareness Committee
 How are we going to meet one other coalition-wide
objective (Membership)?
 Membership objective: Add questions at the end of the CRE
submission form to see if “uploaders” are interested in NCC
membership

8. Research Committee
 What are the major actions we plan to take in 2012?
 Officially change name to: Research Translation Committee
 Complete outstanding briefs and articles from 2011
 Rename Article of the Month and Research Brief (Expert
commentary and Hot Topics)
 Use template for future briefs to keep focus for the reader (obj,
audience)
 Solicit topics and issues for dissemination and translation from other
committees
 “Expert commentary” posted on the website in addition to the
newsletter
 What partners and resources are we going to need?
 Provider Ed Committee
 Private sector collaboration for dissemination

9. Research Committee
 How are we going to work with the other NCC
committees?
 Cross-pollinate
 Ask other committees: What are topics and issues that need
translation and dissemination? How can we help you?
 Sit in on other committee calls and report back
 Theme research briefs and articles of the month around other
committee activities (supplemental)
 How are we going to meet one other coalition-wide
objective?
 Private sector: Make products more appealing with format
changes and feedback
 Health equity: potential hot topic issues. (ectopic pregnancies)

10. SPG: Adolescent Confidentiality
 What are the major actions we plan to take in 2012?
 Talk with AMA about coding and billing strategies and bring other
groups to the table like ACOG
 Collect and disseminate information and create a hub of
information on the NCC website for people working on this issue
 Tell stories and disseminate best practices for protecting
confidentiality--school-based health clinics, STD clinics, private
health plans
 Come back to the consumer point of view and figure out a way to
help adolescents understand that they can get confidential
services
 Telling stories from parents’ point of view: parents who want
confidential services for their children
 What partners and resources are we going to need?
 Professional medical groups

11. SPG: Adolescent Confidentiality
 How are we going to work with the other NCC
committees?
 All of our ideas connect to the other committees; it’s a cross-
cutting issue
 How are we going to meet one other coalition-wide
objective (working with the private sector or promoting
health equity)?
 AHIP is on our committee and wants to work as a partner