Sunday, October 19,2003

1:20-3:00 PM

Jeffrey Koshel: In a word, this is your MCH. These are our division directors and office directors along with the gentlemen you met this morning. They’ll be here for most if not all of the three days; seek them out. They are very friendly people. And we all want to be of assistance to you. So I’d like to thank this panel for their presentation and then we’ll welcome the next presentation immediately after. And will the two Cathy’s come up please? No, no, leave it there. We need it. No, no, no, leave it. It’s already plugged in. Okay. In the bureau. It goes back a long way, long before I ever came to the Bureau. Well, before I ever came to the Bureau and it’s a very close working relationship. As a matter of fact, when I was in the Secretary’s Office of Health and Human Services, it was widely acknowledged that MCH, the federal MCH agency had the best working relationship with its state grantees and partners, and that’s why this is legitimately entitled a partnership meeting. That’s what it historically has been and that’s really what it is. Let’s see. Let’s hope this doesn’t freeze. Okay. This is worth waiting for; bear with me for a second. While the computer starts, let me just give you some background on our two speakers. In no particular order, Cathy Hess is the former Executive Director of AMCHP, the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs. She was its founding Director and served in that capacity for 14 years. She’s now a private health consultant. We are thrilled to have her today to be here. She has a long list of credentials, which I won’t bore you all with, but there are many, many publications that AMCHP has authored that she’s the author of, and her co-presenter today is Kathy Peppe, who, as some of you will know, Dr. Virella, for example and Dr. Kochner know, she is the former Director of the Ohio Division of Maternal and Child Health, serving as its Chief for a number of years and ending in the mid ‘90s, wherein she became the Chief of the Family Community Health Division for the Department of Health in Ohio. She is past President of AMCHP, currently serving that position now and I guess one of the Deans of Maternal and Child Health Directors. The working relationship that I spoke of is such that the Bureau presents at the MCHP annual meetings every year. MCHP has it’s meetings, I guess in March, and we always present the skills building session, and in this particular instance we knew of a project that an MCHP was undertaking to develop a new leaders guide and that’s what their presentation’s about, and we thought what better forum for its maiden presentation but here at the new leaders meeting, so that’s what they will tell you about. And with a little bit of luck we should be able to see their presentation. Keep your fingers crossed as that hourglass goes away; come on presentation. Do you have a disk? I don’t know why this isn’t--well, right now it’s not opening anything. It seems to be freezing when I’m trying to open up a file. I called on the (inaudible) disk, which said it was there, but for some reason it’s not bringing it up and it looks like it freezes it.

Unidentified Speaker: Okay.