Capability Cliff Notes Series

PHEP Capability 2—Community Recovery

What Is It And How Will We Measure It?

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Learning Objectives

• Become familiar with Capability Functions• Become familiar with Tasks that complete the

Functions• Understand how these Functions and Tasks

are measured or may be measured in the future (Performance Measures)

Community Recovery

• Community recovery is the ability to collaborate with community partners, to plan the rebuilding of public health, medical, and mental/ behavioral health systems and restore their functioning to at least pre-incident levels, if not improve them.

• How can health departments help their communities plan for recovery? What goes into making communities able to recover from disasters?

Community Recovery FunctionsWhat Can Health Departments Do to Plan for

Community Recovery?

1. Identify and monitor recovery needs covered by public health, medical, and mental/behavioral health systems

2. Coordinate recovery operations involved in community public health, medical, and mental/behavioral health systems

3. Implement corrective actions to lessen damages from future incidents

Health System Terms

For purposes of simplicity, “public health, medical and mental/behavioral health” will be referred to as “ESF 8”, since all of these systems fall within ESF 8.

Capabilities and Measures ResourcesThe presentation will be an overview of what the functions and tasks mean, linked to

the performance measures.

Please note that since the capabilities PDF document has come out, more performance measures have been developed. If performance measures have come out since the creation of the capabilities document below, they have been included in these tutorials following their function slide, even if the PDF lists that there are no measures for that function. For functions that still have no measures, questions for health departments to begin thinking about measures have been included instead.

For exact lists of the capabilities and performance measures, and data collected for the measures, documents can be found at these links:

For Capabilities, Functions, and Tasks:• http://www.cdc.gov/phpr/capabilities/DSLR_capabilities_July.pdf

For PHEP Performance Measures:http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/CDPHE-EPR/CBON/1251643573938

Function 1: Identify and Monitor Health System Needs

Tasks: What things can health departments do to be aware of the ESF 8 (public health, medical, behavioral health) needs?

1. Determine short- and long-term health service priorities and needs, in collaboration with partners. What should be addressed first?

2. Determine the services that can be provided to fill those needs by different partners that were identified before the incident, and by new community partners that arrived during the incident response.

3. Activate mutual assistance plans with partners to provide services that the health department does not have the ability to provide during and after an incident.

4. Determine the community’s emerging health service priorities and needs that are the responsibility of public health, with information from community partners.

Function 1 MeasurementHow does the CDC measure if health departments have

planned well to get an accurate idea of ESF 8 needs?

Pre-Existing Evaluation Tool Provided by CDC covers all Functions

• This tool can be found in the PHEP Performance Measures Guidance on page 19-23:

http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/CDPHE-EPR/CBON/1251643573938

• It contains types of questions that: – Outline the scope of the incident, how large, how severe?– What services were available in the community before the incident?– What services were disrupted by the incident?– How quickly were services restored?

Function 2: Coordinate ESF 8 Operations

Tasks: What things can health departments do to effectively coordinate operations?

1. Make sure that needed health services can be provided to recover from injuries or illness from the incident, with particular attention to the needs of at-risk persons.

2. Make sure the community is aware of ESF 8 services available to them, and how these services can address the needs of at-risk people?

3. Share health department’s service restoration plans with the community through their trusted sources.

Tasks continued on next slide:

Function 2: Coordinate ESF 8 Operations

Tasks Cont’d: What things can health departments do to effectively coordinate operations?

4. Ask for community input about their health service needs during and after the acute phase of the incident.

5. Partner with ESF 8 professionals and other social networks (e.g., faith-based, volunteer organizations, support groups, and professional organizations) to educate people about recommended health interventions, using their own networks.

6. Inform the community of any disaster or community case management services being offered for people impacted by the incident.

Function 2 MeasurementHow does the CDC measure if health departments are

effective in coordinating recovery operations?

Pre-Existing Evaluation Tool Provided by CDC covers all Functions

• This tool can be found in the PHEP Performance Measures Guidance on page 19-23 : http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/CDPHE-EPR/CBON/1251643573938

• It contains types of questions that: – Outline the scope of the incident, how large, how severe– What services were available in the community before the incident?– What services were disrupted by the incident?– How quickly were services restored?

Function 3: Improve actions to lessen the impact of future incidents

Tasks: What things can health departments do to improve?

1. With partners, assess recovery activities for ESF 8, using after-action reporting.

2. Collaborate with community leaders to collect community feedback and identify how to improve actions for the next incident.

3. Train in the improved process before or during the next incident.

4. Encourage and support collaborations among government agencies and community partners to reduce barriers to improvement.

Function 3 MeasurementHow does the CDC measure if health departments are

effective in coordinating recovery operations?

Pre-Existing Evaluation Tool Provided by CDC covers all Functions

• This tool can be found in the PHEP Performance Measures Guidance on page 19-23 : http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/CDPHE-EPR/CBON/1251643573938

• It contains types of questions that: – Outline the scope of the incident, how large, how severe– What services were available in the community before the incident?– What services were disrupted by the incident?– How quickly were services restored?

Questions?

Please contact:Rachel ColesProgram Evaluator--CDPHE303-692-2764rachel.coles@state.co.us