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Summit

Successful meeting. Over 300 attendees and good feedback from Expo.

Summer Students:

Becky Jungbauer’s project is to contact people who took the Cancer 101/CHW course for post-course evaluation

Michael Pfeffer will continue work on Social Network Analysis within the Alliance

Dongsul Kim will map community measurement data.

Status of Logic Model training: Update and planning

The logic model training will be led by Becky Sechrist from MIPH.

Date:                June 26, 2007 (either 10-2 p.m. or 11-3 p.m.)

Location:           Minnesota Room, Snelling Office Park, St Paul, MN

Audience:          10-15 participants who are task force or project team key leaders from around the state.

Topic:               Program-level Logic Models

Participant Objectives:

1)       Understand the key elements of a logic model.

2)       Develop a logic model to describe a program or initiative.

3)       Identify at least three ways a logic model can be helpful them.

After group discussion, Tom Griffin suggested adding another participant objective “How logic models fit within evaluation plan for Minnesota Cancer Alliance”

Tom suggested adding a follow-up component to the contract. For a fee, MIPH would be willing to provide an ‘enhancement’ for the logic model training. Participants 2 hours of follow-up consultation within 6 months of the training. He said this has been very helpful for other groups in the past.

Liz will provide Becky with background information

Liz will find out about cost of follow-up training, and finalize annual plan with MIPH.

Liz will send out invitations to Alliance participants to attend training.

Nominations for Evaluation Committee co-chair

• DeAnn will step down as Evaluation Committee co-chair as soon as another co-chair is chosen. 
• The responsibilities of the co-chairs are to set meeting dates, set meeting agendas, facilitate committee meetings; act as liaisons between evaluation committee and steering committee. 
• Self-nomination or nomination of others is encouraged!  DeAnn and Lisa will contact those nominated to discuss their inclinations before putting the nominations before the group.

Lisa will send out an email to group soliciting nominations

Future meeting dates

July 12, Aug. 16, Sept. 20, Oct. 10, Nov. 29, Dec. 20   (3:30-5:00 for all meetings)

July 12 is problematic and may need to be re-considered

Liz will put all dates on Meeting Wizard to find best dates for group to meet