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Addressing Bias with Inclusive Communication

Using inclusive language is one way to address bias in order to create a safe, positive environment for employees and clientele. A positive environment will engage both staff and the public, increasing productivity and satisfaction. Public health and health professionals will be challenged to improve their understanding of implicit bias and inclusive language to implement a more equitable workplace in this course.

Learning Objectives: 

  • Define, recognize, and review examples of implicit bias;
  • Identify microaggressions and microaffirmations and examine microaggressions in the workplace;
  • Discuss people-first language and inclusive language and practice inclusive language for public health professionals.

Target Audience: Public health workforce, health department staff, clinicians

Duration: 30 minutes

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

CHES Provider number:  99036

Format:  Web-based Training, Self-Study 

Created/Updated: July 2022

Author: Toncé Jackson, EdD, RDN

Arranged by:  Caitlin Meyer Krause, MPH

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

Advancing Racial Equity in the Substance Use Field

This two-part pre-recorded racial equity training series focused on the substance use field includes:

  • The Opioid Response Network: Developing a Shared Language For Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (66 minutes)
  • Systemic Racism and Substance Use Disorder: Anti-Racist Strategies (72 minutes)

Health Equity

Disparities in health are prevalent and persistent across the United States. Poverty, discrimination, access to jobs and other resources present obstacles to health and wellbeing for many people. This training is the first module in a series that introduces the concept of health equity and how to apply it in examining and addressing public health issues.

Learning Objectives: 
  • Define health equity 
  • Explore life expectancy and public health
  • Identify ways to use a health equity lens in public health and clinical work
  • Discuss frameworks for improving health equity

Target Audience: Public health workforce, health department staff, clinicians

Duration:  30 minutes

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

CHES Provider number:  99036
 

Format:  Web-based Training, Self-Study

Created/Updated: April 2022

Author(s): Toncé Jackson, EdD, RDN

Arranged by: Caitlin Meyer Krause, MPH

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

Building Trust in Public Health: Marketing, Media, and Community-Based Strategies

Trust is critical in accomplishing public health goals. You may have heard people say, “If public health does its job right, no one ever really hears about us.” This training reframes that statement to:"if public health does its job right, the community has trust in decisions made to improve or protect the health of the community." As public health professionals, we need to consider how we can establish, build, or maintain trust. Through this training learn ways to promote trust in public health with branding strategies, strategic communication with the media, and through community engagement. 

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this training, learners will be able to:

  • Describe ways a branding strategy is linked to developing public trust.
  • Summarize tips to prepare for a media interview.
  • Recommend approaches for building community engagement.

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/Updated:  4/2022; updated 3/2024; 9/2025

Author(s): Muriel DeLa Vergne-Brown, RN, BSc, MPH and Allison Root, DrPH, MS, RDN

Arranged by: Allison Root, DrPH, MS, RDN

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

Using Social Media for Health Communication

Social media is an ever-growing outlet that allows people to share whatever they would like with others around the world. Organizations are easily able to spread information about any topic to a very wide audience using social media. This can make sharing health resources and information with your community much more simple, reaching more people, and ideally making a greater impact. This training will teach you 6 rules of social media for creating effective posts. You will have the opportunity to practice identifying components of well-executed posts, learn positive ways to interact with your virtual community, and optionally create and share your own social media post.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Explain the benefits of using social media to promote initiatives within your organization.
  • List the 6 rules of posting on social media.
  • Determine the appropriate action(s) to take when interacting with your virtual community.
  • Identify components of social media posts that are more likely to be effective for encouraging people to act.
  • Construct your own social media post.  

Duration:  ~2 hours

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

CHES Provider number:  99036
 

Format:  Web-based Training, Self-Study

Created/Updated: 5/2022

Author(s): Silvia Valenzuela and Sabrina Stinnett University of Arizona Dietetic Interns, and Allison Root, DrPH, RDN, Instructional Specialist WRPHTC

Narration by: Silvia Valenzuela

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

Supporting Youth Mental Health

Nationally, the alarm has been raised about increases in mental health issues among youth and there is a growing awareness of youth needs and vulnerability. In this session, the presenters will give you an overview of the state of youth mental health in Hawai`i, share possible solutions and available resources available both locally and nationally. 

Learning Objectives: 

  • Participants will be able to identify some of the impacts COVID-19 has had on youth’s mental health
  • Participants will learn risk factors and protect factors related to mental health
  • Participants will learn strategies that are useful for supporting youth’s mental health
  • Participants will be able to identify resources (crisis and non-crisis) that are available for youth

Target Audience: Public health professionals working with youth

Duration:  1.5 hours

Continuing Education Information: 1.5 Category 1 Credits for CHES

CHES Provider number:  99036
 

Format:  Recorded webinar

Recorded: 5/13/2022

Presenter: Amanda Martinez, MPH

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

A Practice in Coping Skills: Addressing Stress and Anxiety

This webinar reviews the importance of self-care and coping skills to manage anxiety. It discusses three distinct ranges of anxiety and skills to use in addressing anxiety at each level. Coping skills for self, others, and keiki will be reviewed. Online community resources will be briefly discussed.

Learning Objectives: 

  • Participants will be able to understand the importance of self-care
  • Participants will learn skills that are helpful in managing anxiety at the 0-40, 40-60, and 60-100 ranges
  • Participants will be able to identify skills for self, others, and keiki
  • Participants will be able to identify crisis resources that are available

Target Audience: Public health professionals

Duration:  1.5 hours

Continuing Education Information: 1.5 Category 1 credits for CHES

CHES Provider number:  99036
 

Format:  Recorded webinar

Recorded: 3/18/2022

Presenter: Amanda Martinez, MPH

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

Live Your Life Well Digitally

This training provides an opportunity to reflect and focus on our self-care routines. It utilizes 10 proven tools to help better cope with stress, improve one's outlook on life, and have healthy relationships.

Learning Objectives: 

  • Participants will learn the physiological symptoms of stress
  • Participants will learn helpful tools to address stress
  • Participants will be able to identify digital tools to use when experiencing stress/anxiety
  • Participants will be able to identify resources to support mental wellness

Target Audience: Public health professionals

Duration:  1.5 hours

Continuing Education Information: 1.5 Category I Credits for CHES

CHES Provider number:  99036
 

Format:  Recorded webinar

Recorded: Feb. 2022

Presenter:  Amanda Martinez, MPH

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

Trauma-Informed Public Health Practice

The final session of our mental health mini-talks will focus on trauma-informed practice for public health professionals. With the stress of the last two years of the pandemic, understanding a trauma-informed approach is an increasingly critical skill for those that provide services to communities. This session will feature Patrick Goodman, MC, and Laura Turner, MSN, MHS, RN, PHN.

Target Audience: Allied Health Professionals, General Public Health Professionals, Mental Health Professionals, Nurses, Public Health Nutritionists, Others

Live Webinar Date: February 24, 2022 at 5pm (MST)

Duration: ~ 1 hour

Continuing Education Information: 1.0 CECH for CHES

Speakers: Patrick Goodman, MC, completed his undergraduate degree in Education at Arizona State University in 1992 and continued his education at ASU to obtain his Masters of Counseling in 1998. Currently, he is a Mental Health Therapist assigned to the Trauma Team at Phoenix Children’s Hospital. In that role he provides ongoing individual and family therapy for children on an inpatient and outpatient basis. He also provides assessment, treatment planning, individual and family counseling services to youth and adolescents referred through outpatient services. In the inpatient setting, he provides clinical consultation services as a member of the Consult Liaison Team working with youth and families who have experienced trauma to meet their counseling and therapeutic supportive needs. In addition to being a licensed professional counselor, in the past he has worked as a certified Infant/Toddler Mental health Specialist, a Registered Play Therapist, and a Certified Crisis Worker.

Laura Turner, MSN, MHS, RN, PHN worked in public health research before becoming a nurse in 2013. As a nurse, she has worked at the bedside, in corrections, and most recently in public health nursing. She is now the supervisor for the Sonoma County TIA PHN/Field Nursing Team, where they are implementing a new model titled a Trauma Informed Approach in Public Health Nursing. This model focuses on implementing a Trauma Informed Approach both within the Field Nursing Team, as well as with families served by the program.

Organizational Wellness for Public Health Departments

The second session of this year's mental health mini-talks will focus on strategies that can improve wellness when implemented at an organizational level, examining both environmental, design, and policy level considerations for employers. This session's featured speakers are Altaf Engineer, PhD, and Rebecca Wolf, PhD candidate.

Target Audience: Allied Health Professionals, General Public Health Professionals, Mental Health Professionals, Nurses, Public Health Nutritionists, Others

Live Webinar Date: February 17, 2022 at 5pm (MST)

Duration: ~ 1 hour

Continuing Education Information: 1.0 CECH for CHES

Speakers: Altaf Engineer, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture and University of Arizona Institute on Place, Wellbeing & Performance, an interdisciplinary institute at the University of Arizona that links expertise of the UA College of Medicine - Tucson, the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine and the UA College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture. He is Faculty Advisor of the Master of Science in Architecture Health and Built Environment concentration. Altaf’s scholarship, teaching and practice are informed by his interest in health and wellbeing in the built environment with a special focus on daylighting, social and behavioral issues in design, indoor air quality, healthy aging, and post-Covid-19 design strategies. He has a number of peer-reviewed publications in these fields. Altaf is a cofounder of Architects for Society, a nonprofit design practice with a mission to serve disadvantaged communities through innovative architecture and design.

Rebecca Wolf is a professor of occupational therapy at A.T. Still University and is a PhD student in Health Behavior Health Promotion at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. She studies breastfeeding, bedsharing, and sleep in working mothers of infants. Rebecca teaches courses on health promotion, health policy, and public health law and ethics.

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