Healthy Mendocino Hires a Program Manager!

The Healthy Mendocino Steering Committee is pleased to announce that Patrice Mascolo, who previously worked part-time as the Healthy Mendocino Program Coordinator, has been hired as the Healthy Mendocino Program Manager. She will now be working full-time to oversee the Healthy Mendocino website and the collaborative work on the Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) and Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP).

Healthy Mendocino’s work over the last seven years has demonstrated the strengths of Healthy Mendocino: countywide collaboration, a strong nationally-used web platform, branding among our partners throughout the county, and an understanding of the unique challenges of our rural communities. The project has evolved from solely hosting the Healthy Mendocino website to spearheading a collaborative process to move from information to action. From our work on the collaborative health needs assessment and improvement plan, Healthy Mendocino is poised to move our Action Teams to implementation in the areas of Childhood Obesity & Family Wellness, Childhood Trauma, Housing, Mental Health, and Poverty.

In order to achieve our goals and continue the momentum of the Action Teams, the Healthy Mendocino Steering Committee concluded that it was time to provide increased staffing and enhanced program support. We will now have a more robust staff, which will include a full-time Program Manager, a full-time Inland Action Team Coordinator/Administrative support, and eventually two part-time Action Team Coordinators for the Coast and North County. This increase in staffing will enable Healthy Mendocino to strengthen community outreach and promotion, provide project evaluation, and offer action teams administrative and financial support to implement projects that will help them achieve their goals. Patrice will oversee Action Team Coordinators who will provide support to the Action Teams, to guide them through their SMART Goals, objectives and measurable outcomes through policy and system changes. (“SMART goals” are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound.)

The Program Manager will take Healthy Mendocino to the next level through direct support of Action Team projects, more robust use of the Healthy Mendocino website, and more focused work on the larger goals of Healthy Mendocino.

We want to see real change in health across our county. Using available tools, appropriate staffing, and investment from our partners, we have the opportunity to make a significant difference in the well-being of local residents.