Building Community Leaders: An Advocacy Guide

“Building Community Leaders” is designed to get people comfortable advocating for change in various settings and to empower community members to make healthy changes in their communities. This training was adapted from the Maricopa County Department of Public Health Community Leaders Training for this online format by the Western Region Public Health Training Center.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe public health and community health. 
• Define advocacy.
• List the steps to advocate for an issue.
• Utilize a SWOT analysis to identify strengths and weaknesses within a community. 
• Practice communicating effectively in various settings (meetings, communicating with the right people, limited time).
• Identify the benefits of storytelling when advocating for an issue.

Target Audience: Public health professionals working with community-groups, school-groups, and others interested in advocacy.

Duration: 60 minutes

Continuing Education Information:  1.0 Category 1 CHES Credits, 1.0 Continuing Competency Credits

CHES Provider number:  99036

Format:  Web-based Training, Self-Study

Created: 2/2022

Author(s): Maricopa County Department of Public Health and the Western Region Public Health Training Center

Arranged by:  Allison Root, DrPH, MS, RDN

Disclosures:  The planners, reviewers, and authors have no declared conflicts of interest