Learning + Resources: Grantee Meetings

Thursday, October 12, 2017 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Bangor.
This is the second grantee meeting for MeHAF's Rural Health grant program.

Registration is required; please contact Charles Dwyer, Program Officer or Holly Irish, Program & Communications Assistant for more information.

Wednesday, September 13, 2017 at the Augusta Civic Center. This will be the second grantee meeting for MeHAF's Expanding Patient-Centered Addiction Care grantees.
Registration is required ; please contact Holly Irish, Program & Communications Assistant or Kathryn Rouillard, Program Officer for more information.

You will see that each project team is signed up for a ten-minute rapid TA session with Eric Haram.  Please note that, unless you are one of the few groups that signed up for a slot from 3:30-4:00, the meeting will adjourn at 3:30.  

The day will include a panel discussion focused on the important topic of Effectively Communicating, Engaging, and Empowering Patients and Families in the Recovery Process .

In the afternoon there will be focused, facilitated table discussions on pre-determined topics.  The following topics were generated by grantees on the July Technical Assistance Call:
- How to Address Social Determinants of Health To Reduce Barriers to Treatment and Recovery
- Developing a Peer Recovery Coaching Model
- Community Organizing-Educating about Recovery, Reducing Stigma, Community Inclusion
- Rapid Access and Group MAT models

Wednesday, July 26, 2017 at Maple Hill Farm in Hallowell.
The featured topic area will be Promoting Sustainability.

Space is limited and registration is required. Please contact Holly Irish, Program & Communications Assistant, or your program officer for more information.

Wednesday, June 14, 2017 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Bangor.
This is the first grantee meeting for MeHAF's Rural Health grant program.

Registration is required; please contact Charles Dwyer, Program Officer or Holly Irish, Program & Communications Assistant for more information.

Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at Maple Hill Farm in Hallowell. This will be the first grantee meeting for MeHAF's Expanding Patient-Centered Addiction Care grantees.
Registration is required; please contact Holly Irish, Program & Communications Assistant or Kathryn Rouillard, Program Officer for more information.

As grantees are thinking about who should attend the meeting, at a minimum, we ask that you attend with your project leader, a clinical leader (if possible), and a project manager.  If you are able to attend with additional project representatives, we would suggest inviting a clinical social worker, a key partner/leader in your health system or community, and/or your project point person for outcomes/data.

The meeting will provide an opportunity for networking with other grantees and learning from experts about culture, policy, and practice change related to addiction care.  You will also hear from Quality Counts and USM Muskie, who will spend some time introducing the technical assistance and evaluation components of the program. 

Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at the Maine Hospital Association in Augusta.
Registration is required; please contact Ruta Kadonoff for more information.

Grantee's will have time for networking and discussion pertianing to their grant projects, and will also particpate in a Power Analysis exercise. See more information below.

Using Stakeholder Power Analysis to Affect Change
Stakeholder power analysis is a community organizing tool that helps groups:

• Clearly define an objective
• Identify the key individuals in your community who have power to make decisions that affect your ability to achieve that objective.
• Develop a plan to draw on your assets for engaging with those individuals in order to enlist their support for your issue or objective.

We will share the power analysis framework and tools as well as illustrate its application with members of a TiP community partner network.

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 at Maple Hill Farm in Hallowell. The featured topic area will be evaluation.
Space is limited and registration is required; please contact Holly Irish, Program & Communications Assistant, or your program officer for more information.

Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at Maple Hill Farm in Hallowell
Space is limited and registration is required; please contact Holly Irish, Program Assistant, or your program officer for more information.

Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at Maple Hill Farm in Hallowell
Registration is required; please contact Holly Merithew, Program Assistant, or your program officer for more information.

Registration is now open for the MeHAF Healthy Community Grantee Meeting from 12:00PM to 3:30PM on Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at Maple Hill Farm in Hallowell. You’ll notice that it will be a shortened day. We will begin with lunch and time for you to connect with one another. Cathy Luce will join us to discuss some of the new aspects of the application and discuss some to the budget nuances that can sometimes trip applicants up. For this meeting, it is encouraged you bring up to two others from your project who will be involved in developing the application.

Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at Maple Hill Farm in Hallowell
Space is limited and registration is required; please contact Holly Merithew, Program Assistant, or your program officer for more information.

Tuesday, May 3, 2016 at Maple Hill Farm in Hallowell.
Registration is required; please contact Becky Hayes Boober or Holly Merrithew for more information.

Debra Halms from the Office of Aging and Disability Services will be our keynote. York County will be our Peer Showcase for this meeting, sharing innovative strategies they used to map where people live compared to where services are and ease to access services.

Wednesday, March 30, 2016 at Maple Hill Farm in Hallowell.
Registration is required; please contact Charles Dwyer or Holly Merrithew for more information.

The day will begin with an opportunity for people to connect with others from communities working on their same or similar priority health issue. No content expertise needed, just a willingness to take responsibility for eliciting the topics that others have thought of and opening the conversation.

Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at Maple Hill Farm, 11 Inn Road in Hallowell.
Registration is required; please contact Becky Hayes Boober or Holly Merrithew for more information.

Wednesday, December 2, 2015 at the Maine Hospital Association in Augusta.
Registration is required; please contact Charles Dwyer or Holly Merrithew for more information.

Grantees will delve into how to use Power Analysis to support equity and inclusion within your project. Now that the concept has been introduced, this meeting will be an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of why this is a valuable tool and how to apply it more specifically to meet your project goals.  

Tuesday, November 3, 2015 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Bangor.
Registration is required; please contact your program officer for more information.

The morning keynote will be given by Kathleen Otte, the Region I and II Administrator for the Administration for Community Living in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She will share innovative practices from across the nation and resources and priorities of the Administration.