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Leaning into Sustainability & Resilience:
What’s working and what’s driving success?

The Collaboration and Learning Forum (CLF – formerly the Education Forum) is designed to spotlight our members’ unique achievements, inspire collective inquiry and fuel collaborative action through PQMD member expertise, challenges, and achievements.

This year’s agenda challenges our membership to focus on what is working and understand what drives success within the changing face of health development. The sessions are built for maximum exchange with presentations, round tables and working groups focused on timely cross-cutting topics. Your active participation throughout the year drives the spirit and content of this special event.

Logistics

Access the latest agenda and speaker information on our online event program.

Sched: This year, we are managing our event schedule through the online application, Sched. Once you register for the CLF, you will receive a follow-up email from Sched inviting you to join the event as an attendee. We encourage you to take a minute to do so and create your Sched attendee profile for the event. Your profile will allow you to access advanced features including the ability to build and sync your event schedule/calendar; view and communicate with other attendees; and provide live feedback during the event.

The event is accessible on the Sched mobile app, which can be downloaded free via the App Store or Google Play (search PQMD within the app to locate the event). Scan the QR code here to download.

We hope you enjoy this new, interactive element of the Forum!

Hotel: We have arranged for a discounted group rate at the SpringHill Suites Lindale hotel (505 N Main St, Lindale, TX 75771).  You can book within our discounted room block here. Breakfast is included with your reservation. Booking deadline: September 21, 2024.  Please contact Sherri Mara with any questions or concerns regarding hotel arrangements. 

Airport: While Tyler Pounds Regional Airport is closer to Lindale, you may find it more cost- and time-effective to fly into Dallas/Fort Worth and rent a car to drive into Lindale. The drive takes approximately one hour and 45 minutes.

Transportation: PQMD will not be offering transportation for the CLF. Member reps are asked to plan for their own transportation to and from Lindale, TX and for local transportation during their stay in Lindale. We encourage you to carpool with your colleagues and share in transportation costs!

Please note:

  • The Dallas Fort Worth Airport (DFW) is 116 miles from the Mercy Ships campus (15862 TX-110 N, Lindale, TX 75771) – a 1 hour and 45-minute drive by car.
  • The Mercy Ships campus is 10.2 miles from the SpringHill Suites in Lindale – a 15-minute drive by car.
  • Mercy Ships is reserving a parking lot for CLF attendees on their campus, within easy walking distance of all events, and there is free parking at the SpringHill Suites.
  • The locations for the social events on Wednesday (Texas Music City Grill & Smoke) and Thursday (LaCascio’s Scratch Kitchen) are a short walk from the SpringHill Suites.
  • Uber and Lyft services are extremely limited in Lindale and will not provide reliable transportation from the DFW Airport, or locally during your stay in Lindale.

Meeting Locations:

  • The Forum program sessions will be held on the campus of Mercy Ships’ Headquarters (15862 TX-110 N, Lindale, TX 75771).
  • Wednesday evening’s Member Reception & Dinner will be held at Texas Music City Grill & Smokehouse (66 Miranda Lambert Way Unit 4, Lindale, TX 75771).
  • Thursday evening’s optional Social Dinner will be held at LaCascio’s Scratch Kitchen (75 Miranda Lambert Way Suite 8, Lindale, TX 75771).

Dress Code: Dress code is smart casual. Closed-toed shoes required for the warehouse tour, and comfortable walking shoes are recommended as there will be some walking between venues on campus.

Guest Policy: We are excited for PQMD member organizations to register two (2) complimentary member representatives for full participation in the meeting. If member reps cannot attend, organizations can send alternative staff in their place. Requests to register additional staff (beyond 2) are based on space-availability and requires an additional fee. Please contact Sherri Mara ([email protected]) for more information.

Photography/Videography Notice: As an event attendee, you will be in areas where photography, audio, and video recording may occur. By registering here, you consent to photography, audio recording, video recording and its/their release, publication, exhibition, or reproduction to be used for promotional purposes, inclusion on websites, social media, or any other purpose by PQMD and its event partners. Images, photos and/or videos may be used to promote similar events in the future and/or highlight the event.

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Skills Building Sessions

As a first this year, PQMD has arranged for peer-led skills sessions to close out the program on the afternoon of October 24th (after lunch). These will be longer sessions with learning outcomes and additional resources. You will be asked to select your preferred session when registering. We have provided detailed descriptions of each session below for your reference.

Fundamentals of Humanitarian Logistics (Facilitation by: Airlink)
This interactive session will offer participants an opportunity to learn about the requirements and key considerations for moving aid cargo by air to international programs. Looking at aid mobilization through the lens of an emergency scenario, participants engage directly with shipping documentation, cargo preparation, and arrangement of in-country receiving requirements in order to get donated goods onsite quickly following a disaster. This session is geared towards NGO members and Corporate members that routinely work in disaster response as a tool in building logistics capacity and assessing current or partner capabilities. Participants will walk away from this session with a deeper understanding of the documentation required to dispatch aid (whether procured or donated) to program sites using air freight, access to templates and guidance on preparing cargo for shipment by air, and a list of considerations for important consignee vetting to ensure shipments arrive where and when they are needed.

Mental Health & Resilience Training For Frontline Workers (Facilitation by: Project HOPE)
The Mental Health and Resilience Training program was originally designed for frontline healthcare workers and has been adapted to provide PQMD members knowledge, tools, techniques and practical guidance on building resilience, self-care and how to support themselves and others in times of crises. It will push participants to think about operationalizing mental wellbeing and advocating for organizational mental health practical initiatives. This training will provide insight into what humanitarian staff, emergency response volunteers, and frontline workers are faced with and provide helpful tools on how to support our own mental wellbeing and wellbeing of peers / personnel. The session will cover the continuum of stress; warning signs and responses to stress; common effects of stress on frontline workers; self-care techniques and skill building techniques to aid our teams through self care, support and assessments.

Operationalizing Climate Action – A Primer (Facilitation by: International Medical Corps)
The humanitarian sector is in the era of incorporating climate action into our programs and across our pursuits. In many of the geographic areas targeted by interventions led by PQMD’s members, larger numbers of people are likely to be severely affected by increases in water-borne and vector-borne diseases. The scientific consensus anticipates increases in the frequency and intensity of floods, extreme heat, wildfires and droughts, as well as increases in the intensity of tropical storms and the complexity and overlapping of disasters occurring simultaneously. Recognizing the profound threat that climate change poses to the communities with which our members work, this workshop will provide a high-level road map for how organizations, and the companies they partner with, can develop, implement and resource a multi-pronged approach to address the impacts of climate change – ultimately to better support the communities served as they adapt to changing healthcare needs in a hotter and more dangerous world. The session will cover areas such as: development of internal buy-in and working groups; measuring climate impact; program strategies for adaptation; capacity strengthening for local partners; and explore tools to measure the environmental impact of our own activities.

2024 Collaboration & Learning Forum July 23, 2024