2022 Annual Conference
October 5-7 | Manhattan, KS
The 2022 Community Care Network of Kansas Annual Conference was an exciting gathering with members, partners, friends, and colleagues reconnecting in-person for the first time in over 2 years! With record attendance, the lineup of sessions, speakers, and activities will made this year’s conference an event to be remembered.
Presentations & Videos from the 2022 Annual Conference
2022 Conference Archive
Looking for a presentation from the conference? Want to share a video with a colleague? Searching for that book a speaker referenced? Below are presentations from the conference as well as recorded videos of all general sessions.
Presentations
- The Power of Cognitive Rewiring: Creating Long-Lasting Behavioral Change, Resiliency and Mental Well-Being
- The Legacy and Future of Health Centers & Community Clinics
- HIV Prevention & Care: 35 Years Later
- Effectively Using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to Manage Your Center
- 340B and Federal Updates
- Nutrition Equity
- The Time is Now: Building Critical Mass Toward Health Equity
- Clinic-Based Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners: Opportunities for Collaboration
- Community Health Centers and Practice Acquisition: Lessons from the Field
- Leaving Money on the Table
- Health Care on Wheels: Mobile Clinics Advancing Health Equity
- The Case for Mobile: Mobile Healthcare is good for communities AND good for business
- Utilizing Community Health Workers in the Clinic Setting
- Community Health Centers on the Frontlines of Environmental Health
- Operational Site Visit Panel
- Hot Topics: Kansas Volunteer Commission and Kansas Department of Agriculture’s KansasAgStress
- Burnout and Resiliency
Recorded General Sessions
The Power of Cognitive Rewiring:
Creating Long-Lasting Behavioral Change
Katie Levisay, PhD
Annual Membership Meeting
And 2022 Quality Awards
Community Care Network
The Legacy and Future of
Health Centers & Community
Lathran Woodard, BS and Julie Bawa, MPH
The Time is Now:
Building Critical Mass Toward Health Equity
Jamie Utt-Schumacher, MA
Health Care on Wheels:
Mobile Clinics Advancing Health Equity
Mollie Williams, MPH, DrPH
KDHE/KDADs/Medicaid Office
Panel Update
Janet Stanek, Laura Howard, and Christiane Swartz
Supporting Residency Programs: Keeping Kansas Healthcare Residents and New Professionals in Kansas
Robert Kraft, MD and David Dubé, DHSc, MSc, PA-C
Burnout and Resiliency
Closing Keynote Speaker
Anthony Blanco
THE 2022 ANNUAL CONFERENCE THEME
Power of the Past,
FORCE OF THE FUTURE
The 2022 theme — Power of the Past, Force of the Future — reflects the longtime commitment and growth of community clinics in providing high-quality, integrated health care across the state of Kansas, and to the future of further expanding access to care as a provider of choice. The network of community clinics is a force in tackling today’s toughest challenges in community health care head-on, by specializing in reducing barriers to care and offering integrated care, particularly for people living in poverty or areas where access to health care services is limited.
The 2022 annual conference keynote and general sessions fall under our theme of Power of the Past, Force of the Future, with an umbrella approach to health equity. Invited speakers focused their sessions on themes of:
- Post-pandemic Resiliency
- Special Populations
- Diversity/Equity/Inclusion
- Workforce Development
- Trauma-Informed Care
- …and much more!
Attendees were encouraged to use the #2022PowerfulForce hashtag when posting on social media to show their support of this year’s theme and connect with other attendees online.
THE FULL CONFERENCE SCHEDULE FROM 2022
Conference Agenda
The 2022 conference was packed full of amazing speakers, helpful resources, important updates, and fun gatherings. The Board of Directors Meeting was Tuesday, October 4, from 5 PM – 8 PM. All Pre-Conference & Conference sessions are listed below.
For full details on General Sessions and Breakout Sessions, please refer to your conference brochure.
MEET THE 2022 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Keynote speakers
LATHRAN JOHNSON WOODARD, BS
Thursday General Session
The Legacy and Future of Health Centers & Community
Lathran Johnson Woodard is the South Carolina Primary Health Care Association (SCPHCA) CEO and has been with the organization for more than 30 years. As CEO, Ms. Woodard works to ensure that federally funded community health centers are strengthened and have the capacity for growth. In addition, she is responsible for overseeing the South Carolina Agricultural Worker Health Program and the SC Health Center Controlled Network, both funded by the Bureau of Primary Health Care along with forecasting and planning the future direction of the SCPHCA.
She was also privileged to complete the Third Sector New England’s “Courage in Leading” Program in 2016. Ms. Woodard is a much sought-after trainer in the areas of non-profit board development, addressing [implicit] biases in health care, improving the patient experience, team building, and “The Triune Man: Inter-Relationship of the Physical, Mental and Spirit Health.” Her presentation “Health Care Practices and Beliefs in My Neighborhood” received such great reviews at a national health care association conference that she was asked to present the same session again the following year.
Ms. Woodard holds a degree in business administration from Southern Wesleyan University. She is a member of several state and national organizations, including the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC), the National Association of Female Executives, the National Rural Health Association, and the American Society of Association Executives. Currently, she is serving as chair of the board of
directors for NACHC.
Julie Bawa has over 20 years of experience in improving access to quality health care services and advocating health equity for underserved and vulnerable populations. She is currently a Deputy Director at the HRSA Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) Office of Health Center Program Monitoring / Technical Assistance and Assessments Functional Area. She joined HRSA in 2010 and has supported health centers with a wide range of programmatic and technical support.
Prior to joining HRSA, Ms. Bawa served as a Director of the Asian American Health Initiative (AAHI), a program that she developed and implemented from its root, as part of the Office of Minority Health at the Montgomery County Health Department in Rockville, Maryland. Her work at AAHI included strategic and operational development and implementation of innovative culturally/linguistically appropriate health programs, with a focus on the improvement of health outcomes for the underserved diverse Asian American subpopulations.
Julie Bawa, MPH
Thursday General Session
The Legacy and Future of Health Centers & Community
Throughout her public health career, she has co-authored several nationally recognized publications and has fostered multisector
partnerships in leading community needs assessment and data improvement projects at the county, state, and national levels. Ms. Bawa has served on a hospital board and numerous advisory committees as a subject matter expert on a wide range of topics including community health education and engagement, cross-sector partnership development, and the advancement of health equity. An immigrant originally from Myanmar (Burma), Julie comes from diverse background and is fluent in multiple languages. Julie received her B.S. in Health
Administration and an M.P.H in Community Health from Northern Illinois University.
Jamie Utt-Schumacher, MA
Thursday General Session
The Time is Now: Building Critical Mass Toward Health Equity
Born and raised in Western Colorado, Jamie Utt Schumacher has had a commitment to truth-seeking and justice from an early age. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Peace and Global Studies from Earlham College where he dedicated his studies to conflict resolution and Middle Eastern Peace Studies.
Education, though, has always been his passion. After Earlham, Jamie taught social studies on Chicago’s west side. Now Jamie is pursuing his Ph.D. in Education at the University of Arizona where he studies the intersections of race and schooling.
Jamie’s consulting and training offer educators and students tools for transforming educational environments to realize equity and justice in our school communities.
Since 2004, Jamie has worked as a consultant, educator, and trainer across the United States to build safer, more inclusive, and more justice-centered communities. One of the most dynamic new voices for change and inclusion today, his workshops and presentations have empowered thousands to take personal accountability for making this world a better place.
As the Founder and Director of Education at CivilSchools: Building Bullying-Free Culture, Jamie has designed a comprehensive, research-based program for actually preventing and responding to bullying and for creating truly inclusive environments in 6-12 schools. CivilSchools is currently being implemented in schools all around the United States to empower every member of school communities with
the tools necessary to build a positive school culture where bullying no longer takes place.
Mollie is Executive Director of The Family Van and Mobile Health Map and Lecturer of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
The Family Van is a mobile clinic that provides preventive health care and education in underserved Boston neighborhoods. She also leads the organization’s efforts to strengthen the mobile health sector nationally through the website mobilehealthmap.org.
Previously, Mollie was a Senior Director at Planned Parenthood Federation of America where she led a special initiative to improve access to sexual and reproductive health care in the southern United States.
Mollie uses her extensive experience in public health leadership, community engagement, organizational development, and fundraising to increase access to care in Boston through her work with The Family Van and to strengthen the mobile health care sector across the United States through Mobile Health Map.
Mollie holds an MPH from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and a DrPH in Health Policy and Management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Mollie Williams, MPH, DrPH
Thursday General Session
Health Care on Wheels: Mobile Clinics Advancing Health Equity
Robert Kraft, MD
Friday General Session
Supporting Residency Programs: Keeping Kansas Healthcare Residents and New Professionals in Kansas
Dr. Bob Kraft currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer (2019) and Chief Medical Officer (2018) at Salina Family Healthcare Center.
He has also been teaching faculty at Smoky Hill Family Medicine Residency Program since 2004. Smoky Hill and Salina Family have co-existed and grown together since 2004.
Dr. Kraft’s primary career interests have centered on outpatient primary care education and healthcare systems improvement.
He has guided two EHR launches, oversaw a practice transformation into a PCMH, and enhanced primary care/public health connections in Salina.
His primary educational pursuit is to build and teach the best outpatient clinical experiences possible.
Dr. Dubé is a Board-Certified Physician Assistant having graduated from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in 1997. Upon graduation, David worked providing emergency medical care in rural Oklahoma and later, in the field of Neurology, providing care to Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients. During this time, he obtained a Master of Science degree in the field of Kinesiology, conducted balance and gait research, and participated in multiple clinical trials involving new therapies for the treatment of MS.
Dr. Dubé worked in the pharmaceutical industry as a Medical Science Liaison where he assisted in the development of clinical trials, as well as MS patient management to providers in the Gulf Coast Region of the United States. During this time Dr. Dubé presented data nationally and internationally and is a published author in the fields of MS and community-based healthcare.
Prior to joining K-State, Dr. Dubé worked at the University of New England in Portland, Maine where he was an Assistant Clinical Professor and Clinical Coordinator.
David Dubé, DHSc, MSc, PA-C
Friday General Session
Supporting Residency Programs: Keeping Kansas Healthcare Residents and New Professionals in Kansas
Anthony has been coaching people and professional services for more than 22 years. He finds personal satisfaction in helping business owners, leaders, and teams find their significance, freedom, and create an impact. His passion is engaging people in their vision for their life and business and helping them pursue that vision.
Anthony helps business owners and leadership teams dream big and set achievable goals, while equipping them with tools to accomplish those goals. He is a lifelong learner who loves to teach. He is a triathlete, and was awarded Global Coach of the Year twice in the past four years out of 1000+ coaches in 76 countries.
Personally, Anthony and his wife, Evie, own a business in Topeka KS called SoulFire Nutrition where they serve the community with a healthy alternative to fast foods offering healthy smoothies and nutrition coaching. Anthony has 3 kids, Aidan, 18; Emme, 15; and Madi, 15…YES TWIN GIRLS!
PRECONFERENCE SESSION
The Power of Cognitive Rewiring: Creating Long-Lasting Behavioral Change, Resiliency and Mental Well-Being.
Katie Levisay, PhD
GENERAL SESSION
KDHE/KDADS/Medicaid Office Panel Update
Secretary Janet Stanek, MBA; Secretary Laura Howard; Medicaid Director of Operations Christiane Swartz
Special Thanks To The 2022 Sponsors
Sponsors
Platinum Sponsors
Diamond Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Silver Sponsors
Bronze Sponsors
About Community Care Network of Kansas
Community Care Network of Kansas is comprised of community care clinics with a common goal of providing high-quality health care that is accessible to all Kansans. Since 1989, our membership has collaborated to help educate lawmakers on healthcare and health policy issues, advocated for funding, and promoted the availability of services statewide. As the federally designated Primary Care Association (PCA) for Kansas, we represent 22 Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) or Look-Alikes, as well as 15 primary medical and dental clinics. Our member clinics have grown into a strong network of health care providers across the state. They are more than just a “safety net” for the underserved – they are providers of choice. They are community clinics.
Counties highlighted yellow indicate counties in Kansas where Community Care member Federally Qualified Health Centers, Look-A-Likes, and community clinics are located.
