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Year 11 Scholar, Lynda Kettinger, receives statewide recognition for work on Leadership Project addressing need for HIV care services in South Carolina
SC HIV/AIDS Care Crisis Task Force:
(from left: Dr. Bambi Gaddist, Executive Director of the SC HIV/AIDS Council, SC Representative Joseph Neal, and Dr. Lynda Kettinger, Director of HIV/STD Division SC DHEC)
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Some scholars’ leadership projects take years to get off the ground, oftentimes years after they graduate from SEPHLI, but last year, for Year 11 scholar Dr. Lynda Kettinger, Director of the STD/HIV Division in the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, momentum and timing was in her favor. With SC State Representative Joseph Neal and Dr. Bambi Gaddist, Director of the SC HIV/AIDS Council as partners, Dr. Kettinger led a powerful statewide advocacy for HIV Care initiative called the “8 in 8” Campaign ($8million in 2008).
Dr. Kettinger’s project, entitled, “‘8 in 8’ Campaign: S.C. HIV/AIDS Care Crisis Task Force Advocacy to Increase State Funds for HIV Treatment and Care in South Carolina,” sought to organize and lead a SC HIV/AIDS Care Crisis Task Force to advocate for $8 million in new state funds for FY08 for HIV treatment and care services.
By the end of the SEPHLI year, Dr. Kettinger had been appropriated $4 million from the SC state legislature ($3 million in recurring and $1 million in non-recurring funds), the most state funds ever received for HIV care in the state’s history; and at the SC STD/HIV Conference in October 2007, Dr. Kettinger and the Task Force received a leadership award for Excellence in HIV Care and Treatment Services for their hard work and achievements through the year.
“This project” Lynda writes, “provided opportunities to enhance my leadership skills around communication – being clear, providing a vision. At our December retreat there were two key concepts shared that helped me. The first was Dr. Ed Baker’s message ‘conversations vs presentations’ is a better mode of leadership style. Telling stories, sharing experiences that help people understand and care about our issue is how I tried to use Dr. Baker’s message. The second was Lisa Harrison’s sharing of Steven Covey’s principle ‘begin with the end in mind.’ I kept this principle ‘in mind’ often, such as planning remarks for the Press Conference, providing updates to our Commissioner and other leaders about this issue, planning media talking points prior to an interview, etc.”
Learn more about the Task Force and Dr. Kettinger’s Leadership Successes and Challenges. (Word document)
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