HCL Institutes and Projects
 Missouri Public Health Leadership Institute (MOPHLI)
Established in 1990, MOPHLI is a collaborative program between the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (MDHSS) and the Heartland Centers. It provides an opportunity for participating scholars to enhance their leadership knowledge and skills to strengthen organizational effectiveness and positively impact the public health and senior service systems of Missouri. The mission of MOPHLI is to develop and to enhance the transformational leadership knowledge and skills of MDHSS managers and local public health agency administrators.
MOPHLI’s goals include:
- Provide a sequential leadership development model that supports the application of new knowledge and skills to the practice setting
- Strengthen linkages among health and senior service practitioners and develop collaborative networks with public health academicians
- Create and refine a model for development of transformational leadership skills at state and local levels
- Provide an academic program in which leaders have the opportunity to enhance and develop knowledge, skills and competencies that are vital to strengthening organizational and related systems in Missouri
 Kansas, Missouri & Oklahoma Regional Leadership Institute (KMOLI)
Academic and practice partners in Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma, including the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, the Heartland Center for Public Health and Community Leadership at Saint Louis University School of Public Health, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita, the Oklahoma State Department of Health, and the Oklahoma University College of Public Health partnered to form the KMOLI Regional Leadership Institute. KMOLI provides public health leaders in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma access to a comprehensive, competency-based leadership development experience to improve public health practice.
KMOLI’s goals include:
- Provide an intensive and comprehensive program that utilizes the strengths and adaptations of three pre-existin leadership institutes (Kansas, Missouri, & Oklahoma).
- Enhance leadership knowledge and competence of regional, tribal, state and local health officials and other professionals in the KMOLI region through implementation of residential and distance-based learning activities
- Provide an annual alumni leadership development session to improve competence and enhance networking
 National Environmental Public Health Leadership Institute (EPHLI)
EPHLI was developed based upon CDC priorities that identified a need for improving leadership capacity in environmental public health practice. The Institute is managed by the Heartland Center office for the National Public Health Leadership Development Network. Emphasis is placed on the core functions of public health as a foundation for achieving public health goals and the need for proactive environmental public health leaders to mobilize resources in response to the changing public health environment. The mission of EPHLI is to strengthen the country’s environmental public health system by enhancing the leadership capabilities of state and local environmental public health specialists from multiple agencies/organizations in diverse settings.
EPHLI’s goals include:
- Increase leadership capacity and skills of environmental public health personnel working in diverse settings
- Enhance the performance outcomes of public health core functions and essential services
- Promote and improve the environmental public health of communities
Crisis Leadership Institute (CLI)
The mission of CLI is to provide a series of competency-based program modules and exercises provided through a multi-year/building block format to enhance collaborative multi-sector, multi-discipline and multi-jurisdictional crisis leadership competence for improved capability; coordinated and seamless emergency/crisis anticipation, prevention, recognition, response and recovery. Crisis leadership influences others through the judicious use of moral, technical, positional or assumed authority.
CLI’s goal is to improve crisis leadership competence to utilize integrated systems and critical thinking skills and emotional
intelligence to ensure ability to make critical decisions and influence collective action impacting potential, emerging,
evolving and recovering emergency and crisis events
 National Public Health Leadership Development Network (NLN)
Established in 1994, the NLN is a consortium of organizations and individuals from academic institutions, national and international organizations, and local, state, and federal agencies dedicated to advancing the practice of public health leadership. Its mission is to build public health capacity by sustaining a collaborative and vibrant learning community of leadership programs in order to improve health outcomes.
NLN’s goals include:
- Collaborate with and promote linkages among organizations, agencies, associations, foundations and other stakeholders to develop and/or expand public health leadership programs
- Increase and diversify participation in public health leadership programs
- Disseminate information regarding need and access to public health leadership development programs
- Provide technical assistance to emerging and existing public health leadership programs
- Contribute to the body of knowledge regarding public health leadership and leadership development and improve utilization of public health leadership resources, assets, and knowledge
- Expand advocacy and visibility of the NLN and member institutes
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