Every year, public health professionals gather at the NACCHO360 Annual Conference to:
- Share opportunities, challenges, best practices, and success stories
- Engage with federal, state, and local partners
- Gain insight from public health experts
The 2023 NACCHO360 Annual Conference helped local health officials envision the future of local public health in their communities and provided them with the essential skills and strategies to achieve that vision effectively and efficiently.
This year’s theme, Elevating Public Health Practice for Today and Tomorrow explored how the local public health workforce and its stakeholders can move forward in the midst of an ongoing crisis while implementing traditional and innovative approaches to restructure a system built to protect the health of communities nationwide.
The 2023 RIM-focused session at NACCHO360 was entitled “Restructuring Local Health Department Capacity to Cultivate and Foster Practices Necessary to Effectively Serve RIM Communities.” LHDs face challenges in providing culturally/linguistically appropriate health and social services to RIM communities. This session provided tools and resources for LHDs to strengthen long-term integration of RIM needs in LHD structures. The panelists addressed these challenges and described the implementation of approaches to cultivate practices necessary to effectively serve RIM communities.
