State Community Health Services Advisory Committee

Contact Info

SCHSAC
651-201-3880
health.schsac@state.mn.us

Standing and active SCHSAC workgroups

A great deal of SCHSAC work is conducted through workgroups. Each workgroup usually meets for one to three years, depending on its charge and duties.

If you are a current SCHSAC member and would like to get involved in a workgroup, please contact the MDH Center for Public Health Practice at health.schsac@state.mn.us and staff will connect you with workgroup leads.

Executive Committee

Charge: The Executive Committee meets five to eight times per year. It briefly meets prior to the full SCHSAC meetings to make final changes to the agenda and to discuss related issues. Additional meetings are scheduled throughout the year, as needed. It also:

  • Assists MDH in preparing issues for discussion by SCHSAC and conducts interim SCHSAC business
  • Assists SCHSAC in managing its business efficiently
  • Under special circumstances, acts in the name of SCHSAC (subject to formal approval by SCHSAC at its next meeting
  • Prepares the annual SCHSAC work plan
  • Examines ways to increase the capacity of SCHSAC

Members: The SCHSAC Executive Committee consists of representatives from each SCHSAC region. Each region also has an alternate to the Executive Committee. For a full membership list, visit: Roster of SCHSAC members, alternates, and workgroups.

Awards and Nominating Workgroup

Charge: The Awards and Nominating Workgroup solicits and selects nominees for the Community Health Awards presented annually at the Community Health Conference, and prepares a ballot to elect the SCHSAC chair, each December.

Members: The workgroup consists of three to five community health board representatives and one representative of the Center for Health Equity Advisory Committee. The workgroup meets two to three times per year via conference call.

EHCIB (Environmental Health Continuous Improvement Board)

To learn more about the EHCIB, please visit: Environmental Health Continuous Improvement Board.

Foundational Public Health Responsibility Funding Workgroup

Charge: The Foundational Public Health Responsibility Funding Workgroup will develop for consideration and approval by SCHSAC a set of recommendations to the Commissioner of Health that includes, but is not limited to:

  • A funding formula that would determine allocations to community health boards for funding to implement foundational public health responsibilities
  • A method for incorporating equity into the funding formula
  • Reporting and accountability mechanisms for this funding

The workgroup will align its efforts with relevant foundational public health responsibilities framework discussions and decisions. It will not provide recommendations related to funds for Tribal governments.

Meetings: 

Members: For a full membership list, visit: Roster of SCHSAC members, alternates, and workgroups.

IDCIB (Infectious Disease Continuous Improvement Board)

Charge: The IDCIB works to ensure an effective and efficient state-local partnership in the infectious disease area of public health responsibility. The group serves as a forum for regular communication, identification of issues, and joint problem-solving. The group also ensures the DP&C Common Activities Framework remains a relevant, useful document.

Members: For a full membership list, visit: Roster of SCHSAC members, alternates, and workgroups.

Member Development Workgroup

Charge: The Member Development Workgroup leads efforts to educate and develop SCHSAC members and assists Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) staff in conducting member development activities.

Members: For a full membership list, visit: Roster of SCHSAC members, alternates, and workgroups.

Performance Measurement Workgroup

Charge: The Performance Measurement Workgroup leads efforts to measure and assess the performance of Minnesota’s governmental public health system and its capacity to carry out public health responsibilities. This workgroup: 

  • Develops and recommends to SCHSAC a set of performance measures for Minnesota’s governmental public health system
  • Sets and monitors performance-related goals for Minnesota’s governmental public health system
  • Analyzes data to assess the performance of Minnesota’s governmental public health system
  • Develops system performance reports and communicates findings to SCHSAC, LPHA, and MDH
  • Issues recommendations for continued system performance improvement and accountability to SCHSAC, LPHA, and MDH
  • Engages subject matter experts and other interested parties, including other SCHSAC workgroups and the Joint Leadership Team for Public Health System Transformation, for feedback and discussion about performance measures, goals, analysis, and recommendations related to system performance measurement
  • Considers health equity in all aspects of its work
  • Advocates for performance management and using data for decision-making

Members: For a full membership list, visit: Roster of SCHSAC members, alternates, and workgroups.

PHEP Oversight Group (Public Health Emergency Preparedness)

Charge:

  • Advise on strategic planning for local and tribal health preparedness activities of public health emergency preparedness in Minnesota
  • Provide ongoing review of local and tribal public health emergency preparedness programs and issues
  • Oversee the continued development of capacity assessment and related measurement outcomes for Minnesota's local and tribal public health emergency preparedness programs
  • Advocate for resources that sustain and maintain local and tribal public health emergency preparedness capabilities.

Publications:

Members: For a full membership list, visit: Roster of SCHSAC members, alternates, and workgroups.

Past workgroups

To view workgroup materials or final reports, please contact the MDH Center for Public Health Practice.

For a roster of SCHSAC workgroups prior to 2013, please contact the MDH Center for Public Health Practice.

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Last Updated: 09/18/2023