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Waiting for Change: A Direct Service Provider’s Guide to Self-Care and Grief Literacy

The past year has been filled with challenges and opportunities for growth. While we continue to move forward as a community, there are unique needs for those providing direct service care. How do we help others heal while we are also experiencing the same stressors? This presentation will review the impact of COVID-19 on mental health, address the unique challenges of providing direct service care, discuss self-care for self and others, and review grief related coping skills and education.

Learning Objectives: 

  1. Describe the negative impact of COVID-19 on mental health.
  2. Discuss protective factors and risk factors for anxiety and grief.
  3. Identify self-care and coping skills to address anxiety and grief.
  4. Review crisis resources available to the community.

Target Audience: Direct service providers including nurses, social workers, dietitians, and other public health professionals.

Duration:  1.5 hours

Continuing Education Information: 1.5 Credits for CHES

CHES Provider number:  99036
 

Format:  Recorded Webinar

Recorded: 9/2021 

Author(s): Mestisa Gass, PsyD., Program Director at Mental Health America of Hawai'i

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

Making the Most of Mentoring

You are about to begin a training in which you become the mentee and the course becomes the mentor. Sound strange? Well, look at it this way, ‘why did you choose this course?' Are you trying to make a decision crucial to your own professional growth but caught not knowing what is the right decision for you at this point in your life? Or, are you seeking a continuing education session which surprisingly may give you new ways to improve your own mentoring skills? This training discusses the benefits of mentoring and presents motivational interviewing as an approach for mentors to guide mentees in clarifying their goals and values and for enhanced communication. We also present considerations for ethical practices in mentoring relationships, choosing a mentor, and how to evaluate progress during a mentoring relationship. Many scenario examples are presented throughout the training for perspective and context.

Learning Objectives:

  • Define mentoring and its benefits
  • List and demonstrate motivational interviewing techniques to enhance communication
  • Differentiate mentee and mentor roles and goals as well as the mentoring versus coaching approach
  • Evaluate techniques for choosing a mentor and the format: face-to-face or virtual
  • Describe ways to evaluate mentoring using a tracking form

Target Audience: public health workforce

Duration:  60 minutes

Continuing Education Information: 1.0 Continuing Competency Credits for CHES

CHES Provider number:  99036
 

Format:  Web-based Training, Self-Study

Created/Updated: 1/2022

Author: Gail Frank, DrPH, CHES, RDN

Arranged by: Allison Root, DrPH, MS, RDN

Audio by: Gail Frank, DrPH, CHES, RDN

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

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 

Nutrition Assessment Methods

Nutrition assessment is a useful and important tool to assess a person's food intake or to reveal patterns in food intake for a group or population. This training will review various nutrition assessment methods and present benefits and limitations for their use in different settings. This training will also present ways of using nutrition assessment in local programs.

Learning Objectives:

  • Define and identify differences in various nutrition assessment methods
  • Recognize potential measurement issues in nutrition assessment
  • Apply the most appropriate nutrition assessment method given a particular situation
  • Discover new approaches and technological advances in nutrition assessment methods
  • Identify ways nutrition assessment can be used to improve local programs

Target Audience:  Public Health Professionals

Duration:  45 minutes

Continuing Education Information: 0.75 Category 1 CHES Credits, 0.75 Continuing Competency Credits 

CHES Provider number:  99036
 

Format:  Web-based Training, Self-Study

Created: 1/2022

Author(s): Brandy Todorovich, BS; Allison Root, DrPH, MS, RDN

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

Sexual Violence Training for Community Health Workers/Promotoras

This course introduces basic knowledge and skills useful in assisting and responding to victims of sexual violence.  The course consists of six self-paced modules, which include reflection activities, videos, self-check questions, and a role-play scenario. A collection of comprehensive resources for further use are included.

Learning Objectives: 

  • Identify sexual violence and define types of sexual violence.
  • Respond appropriately to victims of sexual violence.
  • Relate your role to the role of other community partners in responding to and supporting victims of sexual violence.
  • Recognize signs of burnout and vicarious trauma and ways to cope.

Target Audience: Community Health Workers, Registered Nurses, Registered Dietitians, and other public health professionals

Duration: approximately 2 hours

Continuing Education Information:  2.0 Category 1 CHES Credits, 2.0 Continuing Competency Credits

CHES Provider number:  99036

Format:  Self-paced online training

Created/Updated: Nov. 2021

Authors: Arizona Rural Women's Health Network, Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence, Western Region Public Health Training Center

Arranged by:  Allison Root, DrPH, MS, RDN, Western Region Public Health Training Center

Narration by: Allison Root, DrPH, MS, RDN and Lorraine Ramirez, MPH

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

Bioethics in the Time of COVID

The COVID-19 pandemic has battered the entire world over the last two years, with no clear end yet in sight, though some populations and some locales have fared better than others. This public health disaster has thrown into stark focus many shortcomings in health care policy and delivery across the world, and has raised profound ethical concerns at international, national, state, community, and personal levels. Bioethics has been called to apply its conceptual approaches and deliberative tools to help shape policies and assist decisions with life-and-death consequences "in the time of covid".

Learning Objectives: 

  1. Review basic foundations and theories of bioethics
  2. Review applications of bioethics to epidemics and disasters
  3. Assess events in the COVID-19 pandemic through the bioethics lens
  4. Identify needed changes to better prepare for the "next pandemic"

Duration: Approx. 1 hr 30 min.

Continuing Education Information:  1.5 Credits for CHES

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (Academy) and Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) are not responsible for the provider’s interpretation of the Academy/CDR Code of Ethics for the Nutrition and Dietetics Profession or its enforcement as it relates to the scenarios and content presented in this activity.

CHES Provider number:  99036

Format:  Recorded Webinar

Created/Updated: Recorded 11/5/2021

Author: Linda Axtell-Thompson, DBE, MBA

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

Setting Yourself Up for Success as a Supervisor

This training will prepare you for your role as a new supervisor in the public health field. We'll start with tips to get you started in your first weeks on the job, then present ways to develop your supervisory skills over time. You will learn ways to build trust with your team and gain ideas for what to discuss during one-on-one meetings with staff. This training also presents a six part tool that can be used to help employees think about their performance or for your own performance. As your supervisory experience grows, this training will help you consider ways to be more influential in your role. We explain the "Four I's" of transformational leadership originally described by Bernard A. Bass in 1985, which have been used as a guide for countless supervisors to help employees go above and beyond instead of merely completing tasks. 


Learning Objectives: 

  • Describe ways to build rapport and trust with your team.
  • Recognize ways to support your team's success.
  • Describe how to set expectations for your team.
  • Identify ways to evaluate your performance.
  • Describe ways to create a motivating work environment. 
  • Discuss factors that lead to transformational leadership.

Target Audience: New supervisors working in public health.

Duration: 45 minutes

Continuing Education Information:  0.75 Category 1 CHES Credits, 0.75 Continuing Competency Credits

CHES Provider number:  99036

Format:  Self-paced online training

Created/Updated: 11/2021

Authors: Kathy Spicer, EdD; Allison Root, DrPH; and Abby Stoica, MPH from the Western Region Public Health Training Center.

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

Native Food Sovereignty

Environmental factors and federal policies have had a large impact on the health and cultural identity of our Indigenous populations.  With increasing rates of diabetes, obesity, and cancer in Native American communities, strengthening Native food systems offers an opportunity to improve Native economies, health, and culture. This course is meant to give an overview of how health departments and public health workers can help strengthen Native food sovereignty, for the purpose of improving Native health and revitalizing Native cultures.

 

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify contributing factors to the high prevalence of diet-related diseases in Native Americans.
  • Introduce how to use a Food Sovereignty Assessment to identify a community’s food system assets.
  • Identify funding sources for projects aimed at strengthening Native food sovereignty.
  • Explain how tribal food policies can be used to strengthen Native health.
  • Provide examples of how knowledge of Native foods can be used to improve food sovereignty.

 Target Audience:  Dietitians, Policy/ Planner, General Public Health Staff, Public Health

 

Duration:  ~ 45 minutes


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


CHES Provider number:  99036

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

Format: Web-based Training, Self-Study

 

Created/Updated:  3/15/2017; 11/3/2021

 

Author(s):  Abigail Stoica, MPH


Presenter(s): Jennifer Richards, DrPH candidate


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Motivational Interviewing

Motivational Interviewing is a communication technique that helps empower patients to make desired behavior changes to improve their health. It has been used effectively by professionals to guide changes in many different contexts, including smoking cessation and weight loss. Available literature demonstrates the use of motivational interviewing in patients with diabetes significantly enhances adherence to treatment recommendations and weight loss efforts. This training will get you familiar with the concept of motivational interviewing in the context of weight management.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe the key concepts and steps in motivational interviewing
  • Demonstrate ways to lead a client through the steps of motivational interviewing
  • Describe how using motivational interviewing can produce better results with patients than other instructional or interviewing methods.

Target Audience: Allied Health Professionals, Dietitians, Physicians and Other Clinicians, Social Workers, General Public Health Staff

Duration: 30 minutes

Continuing Education Information: 0.5 Category 1 Credits for CHES, 0.5 Continuing Competency

CHES Provider number:  99036

Format: Web-based training, Self Study

Created/Updated: 8/2021

Author(s):  Randa Kutob, MD, MPH; Allison Root, DrPH, RDN

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

Public Health Essentials in Action

Look at the most fundamental aspects of public health to break down the overarching goals and strategies of the field. You'll gain an understanding of the Three Public Health Core Functions and the Ten Essential Public Health Services* as a framework for the responsibilities of local public health systems, and how this framework serves to improve health equity.

If Spanish is your preferred language, you may take the Spanish language version of this course here. 

*This training has been updated to align with the revised version of Essential Public Health Services. 

Learning Objectives: 

  1. Define public health. 
  2. List the social determinants of health. 
  3. Recognize the three Public Health Core Functions. 
  4. Identify ways each of the Essential Public Health Services works to improve health equity.
  5. Identify the role your work plays in public health.

Target Audience: Educators/Trainers, General Public Health Staff

Course Duration: ~60 minutes

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

CHES Provider number:  99036

Format: Self-Study

Updated: June 2022

Author(s): Ray Andrade, Ed.D; Sana Khan, MPH; Abby Stoica, MPH

Arranged by: Dipanwita Das, Allison Root, DrPH, RDN, MCHES

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

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