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Denise Lopez, Maricopa County Department of Public Health, Maternal and Child Health Supervisor

Harumi Reilly, from NACCHO, MCAH team

Angela Cox, Henry County Health Department, Administrator

Cindy Fiester, Chronic Disease Coordinator, Public Health Nurse, Linn County Iowa.

Rainy Grafton; Lake County (California) Public Health, Accreditation Support Specialist. Good afternoon!

Melissa Papp-Green, Congenital Syphilis Coordinator, Division of HIV and STD Programs, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health

Allison Dye, Three Rivers Public Health Department. We are included in a Cities Readiness Initiative (CRI) grant and our three counties are a blend of rural and metropolitan - it presents unique challenges.

Calais S. Prince, AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow with the Department of Defense

Allison Wilson, Jefferson County Public Health, CO Lactation-Friendly Coordinator

Kris Dixon, TN Department of Health, Opioid Response Coordination Office (ORCO), Grants Manager

Oh....Emergency Response Coordinator. :)

Linda Kopecky, Boulder County Public Health, Breastfeeding Friendly Environments Project Coordinator - Boulder County has a broad range of incomes - from federal labs and Nobel prize winners to many new immigrants

Ana Coppola, Polk Co. Health Department Des Moines IA— public health planner

Sarah Kennedy, Generate Health St. Louis, Senior Manager of Epidemiology & Evaluation-- We are working to eliminate racial disparities in infant and maternal health.

Linae Bigfire, Accreditation Coordinator, Winnebago Public Health Department, we are a tribal organization

Hi everyone! Felicia Baez, Health Educator, Chickahominy Health District.

Lisa Klotzbach, Public Health Supervisor Informatics, Public Health Nurse, Dakota County PH, MN

Brittany Yarnell, Marion County Public Health Department, Syndromic Surveillance Epidemiologist.

Deborah Backman, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Maternal and Child Health team

Elsa Jimenez, Director of Monterey County Health, California, Focused on advancing health and racial equity

Jackie Ward, Maricopa County Public Health, Phoenix Az. Epidemiology, CHA/CHIP, chronic disease

Shay Baumbach, Health Promotion Manager Olmsted County Public Health- Rochester Minnesota

Megan DiMeglioProject Coordinator/ Accreditation CoordinatorNorwalk Health Department

Morgan Poole, Adolescent and Reproductive Health Community Improvement Specialist, Alamance County Health Department

Denise Meredith, Lincoln, NE DHHS Public Health, Emergency Preparedness, Grant and Audit Coordinator, work closely with UNMC

Kendra Fennell, Alamance County Health Department, Maternal & Infant Community Health Improvement Specialist

Kristen Larsen, Lincoln, NE DHHS Public Health, Executive Director for Nebraska Council on Developmental Disabilities

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Find attached available for download the Boulder County infant at work policy template.

A template from a health dept of a breastfeeding support policy

Here's some resources from JeffCo Family-Friendly Policies

I'm a non-profit so policies and procedures are made by the Executive Director and the Board. We are undergoing a revamp of all policies and procedures with a racial equity lens which is also the time to think about family friendly as well.

Flexible Schedules

I see more work from home and flexible schedules continuing past COVID

IT challenges have been a big issue for us.

Technology needs for working from home

Our group talked about how do we keep flexible schedules without expecting the parent to double work (watch kid and same amount of work)

Accountability

How to make sure folks are actually working when they are home (we all have those few folks who ruin this type of initiative for the rest of us)

WITHOUT requiring VERY detailed time sheets like we started originally doing

No more boundaries so the work doesn't really end.

spent more time documenting what I was doing than I did in doing it sometimes

how maintain peer support

Some services may not be as accessible.

difficulty with flexibility is when you're not on same schedule as coworkers

How to keep partners engaged

So many job sites and workers do not have the option of a flexible schedule so they have to choose-job or family? Or sometimes they are fired.

core hours for working

Infant at work (can you tell I'm bitter we "lost" it!?) I would love to see our department bring back the infants at work - even though we have not had HR and/or board of supervisor support in the recent history I know we would have support from our State partners.

We on-boarded 6 summer interns + 1 staff member 100% remotely... yes, we are a little crazy... but having a structured on-boarding process made all the difference + we held speed networking sessions so interns could meet staff

sorry - didn't mean to jump the gun there!

Communication with coworkers through tele-options. I've noticed a tendency to be a little less considerate in language or tone towards others than coworkers may be in-person

(That's work from home)

Infants at Work -- now that "work" is at home does the policy need to change if the language previously talked about office

I worked for a small business and was able to bring my infant to work - and it was the reason I stayed

Increased distractions for parent and those around.

calling attention to retention may help

Retention is HUGE. Cost of onboarding new staff is much higher than most of our family friendly policies.

staggered work from home schedules mean those you need to communicate may not be available at same time as you are

Relationships don't organically happen in a work from home setting.

I think most of what we talked about with flexible scheduling applies to working from home.

The cost of supplies needed for home.

Like setting up your home office

ergonomics at home

Good point Linae. Should employers pay part of the Wifi bill?

Vying for resources with your family members eg wifi and printers

I need a hot spot

bandwidth with too many devices when kids are home

difficulty for IT to support all the different internet set ups

I get more work done

Policy makers need to develop a way to ensure employees at home are actually working the hours they claim

Better work life balance, not commuting on road

More focused without all the office politics

I can get more done when I can stop and take care of personal needs and go back later when it's quiet (8pm) and finish

Kids get to see you working and appreciate what you do.

If have to commute a long way, working from home will help with employees making appointments and not having to take more time off than they normally would

Our county went to a 4-day week to save $. At health dept we have flexibility though on if we do 4 or 5 days (telework)

There's discussion about shared work spaces when staff members are in the office on different days (every other day, etc)

saves overhead

Can we talk about how all the reduced state funds and how the budget cuts are going to effect us. We will be asked to more with less and COVID is taking valuable time away from our normal responsibilities?

definitely saved commute expenses

Video conferences reduce travel expenses.

can hold more meetings when virtual

less conference room spaces needed, smaller building spaces overall

We can interact more easily with folks across the whole country now that we are in these zoom sessions together.

a negative … same as we're seeing with our kids on their phones and video games all the time … less social interaction

Long term positive for the children of parents working from home--mom or dad is there to see them off or get home.

our group talked about childcare needs

How to shift from short term support to the entire school year needs

If family leave isn't available, can parents use DSA when they care for kids? That may be a policy change

much could depend on the level of school openings vs online learning and "home schooling" involvement

Working from home does not solve the child care needs especially because it becomes much more of patch work rather than counting them being at school in one place ALL day.

We should be able to have much more flexibility to drive and pick them up when the do go into school.

split schedules - partially in office and other hours at home revolving around school hours

and time to volunteer at children's school

Great ideas, many thanks for sharing!

Thank you all for modifying your program and taking COVID into account!

We were happy to adapt! It was necessary.

thank you so much everyone for giving us grace with all the interactive tools we tried to use to replace the in-person interaction!

Thanks everyone, I am feeling motivated to move forward on adapting some of these needed policies/work!

Thank you!

Thanks all! This was great

Thank you everyone! Best wishes.

Thank you!

Thanks for all of your great ideas, and stay safe!

Will slides be made avaiable?

thank you I loved this session