Leanne Jeffers, MPH, PCC

Experience

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  Jefferson County Department of Health and Environment

  Sept 1997 - Sept 2002

  Health Educator

  Assisted individuals, organizations and community groups in building capacity to provide health education and promotion services throughout the county and surrounding communities. Supported and advised community groups with needs assessments, resource identification, and program planning, implementation and evaluation. Developed health promotion and marketing materials including health curricula, brochures, flyers, posters. Designed, developed and coded Web site content. Coordinated, planned and implemented educational conferences. Designed and supported the implementation of professional training and development programs. Conducted community health education presentations and outreach activities. Established and facilitated collaborative partnerships and coalitions. Designed, built and maintained electronic databases to manage health promotion activities, projects and resources. Show less

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  Regional Institute for Health and Environmental Leadership

  Jan 2003 - now

  Responsible for directing the Leadership for Healthy Community Design (LHCD) Program. The intention of the LHCD program is to improve the health of people and the environment by building the capacity of Colorado communities to lead, plan and execute healthy community design initiatives or projects. The 15-month long program brings together multiple geographically-based Community Teams from around Colorado to develop their leadership capacity and explore practical approaches to and applications of healthy community design. Each Community Team includes 4-6 members who each represent a different discipline or interest area related to healthy community design (e.g. urban planning, transportation planning, public works engineering, public health, environmental health, parks and recreation, law enforcement, school systems, food systems, elected office, etc.). The overall program includes five in-person multi-day retreat training sessions held at various locations across the state, assignments between sessions, a 360 degree assessment of personal leadership behaviors, action learning projects, and team coaching sessions. Show less Responsible for managing the Advanced Leadership Training Program (2006-2013), all RIHEL Coaching Programs, and other educational programs offered by RIHEL. This includes program administration, marketing and promotion, recruitment management, event management, curriculum development, training facilitation, participant coaching, and evaluation. Responsible for developing and managing the institute’s portfolio of built environment related activities, which includes developing and implementing training, technical assistance and capacity building for the public health workforce and other relevant community partners. Supports the general administration, planning and development of the institute. Show less

  • Program Director, Coaching Services

    Jan 2018 - now

  • Program Director, Leadership for Healthy Community Design

    Jan 2014 - now

  • Training Manager

    Jan 2003 - Jun 2016