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Caring for Infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome and Mothers with Opioid Use Disorder

This course aims to expand foundational knowledge for using non-pharmacological approaches when caring for infants with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) and working with mothers with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) in hospital settings.

It covers three topics relevant to working with infants with NAS and mothers with OUD. Learners will gain an understanding of 1) NAS and its long-term effects, 2) Trauma-informed approaches to care, and 3) Medication-assisted recovery for mothers with OUD. 

Learning Objectives: 

  1. Communicate the current recommendations for long-term monitoring of infants with NAS.
  2. Describe the prevention interventions that can help mitigate any potential long-term effects of NAS.
  3. Communicate the current science on potential long-term health and educational outcomes for infants with NAS.
  4. Practice using terms and preferred language to help reduce stigma and discrimination around substance use and recovery.
  5. Describe SAMHSA’s three E's of Trauma: Events, Experience, and Effect of trauma.
  6. Explain how health care settings can apply Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) principles.
  7. Discuss common misconceptions about medication-assisted recovery and strategies to address them.
  8. Communicate national guidance for managing pregnant and post-partum women with OUD.

Target Audience: Clinical and non-clinic health care professionals working with infants with NAS and mothers with OUD. 

Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals: Tier 1 – Front Line Staff/Entry Level and Tier 2 – Program Management/Supervisory Level.

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/Updated:  July 2021

Author(s):  Yvonne Bueno, MPH, OTR/L, Mohammed Bader, MD, Lisa Grisham, NNP-BC, Jocelyn Maurer, RNC-NIC

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

Training of Facilitators 101

This Training of Facilitators 101 is designed to provide participants with deeper understanding into facilitating trainings both in-person or virtual. This training will highlight an overview of adult learning styles and link them to various facilitation skills to increase learning. This training will be interactive and fun with opportunities for participants to engage and practice in the very techniques being taught. 

Learning Objectives: 

  • To increase participants capacity to effectively facilitate trainings.
  • To increase participants understanding of adult learning styles.
  • To increase participants to partner facilitation skill and learning style to increase learning.
  • To increase participants capacity to engage the hard-to-reach or difficult participant.
  • To increase participants ability to engage utilizing a virtual platform “Tips and Tricks.”

Target Audience: Public Health Professionals including health educators, registered dietitians, social workers and others.

Duration:  90 minutes

Continuing Education Information: 1.5 CECH for CHES

CHES Provider number:  99036
 

Format:  Recorded Webinar

Created: May 2021

Author(s):   Heather Lusk, LSW Executive Director, Hawai‘i Health & HarmReduction Center, Kunane Dreier LGBTQ Program and Capacity BuildingManager, Hawai‘i Health & HarmReduction Center

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

Breathe & Let Go: Mindful Forgiveness as a Daily Living Skill to Live Life on Purpose

The Mindful Forgiveness workshops is a professional development training designed to teach & promote mindfulness and forgiveness as foundational daily living skills using two research based tools: “Forgive for Good” by Dr. Fred Luskin and “Mindfulness in Daily Living” by Dr. Thao Le. Participants will be introduced to concepts, tools and practices that will allow them to implement a daily mindfulness practice and learn the steps to the Forgive for Good process. Participants will leave with a better understanding of how to let go of unhelpful thinking and be freer to have a more productive relationship with coworkers, family members and clients.

Learning Objectives: 

  • Participants will practice 3 ways to cultivate mindfulness
  • Participants will be able to identify the 7 steps to forgiveness
  • Participants will be able to identify the importance of the embodied practice of these steps

Target Audience: public health professionals including health educators, registered dietitians, social workers and others.

Duration:  90 minutes

Continuing Education Information: 1.5 CECH for CHES

CHES Provider number:  99036
 

Format:  Recorded Webinar

Created/Updated: 7/2021

Author/Presenter:  JoYi Rhyss, Director, Mindful Forgiveness Center and Chief Executive Officer, MoxieFitness, LLC

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

Weight Management During and After Pregnancy

Excess weight gain during pregnancy and excess weight retained after pregnancy can contribute to lifelong development of obesity and increasing cycles of obesity and diabetes in mothers and children.  This training reviews body mass index (BMI), prevalence of obesity in women, health consequences of excess weight in pregnancy, guidelines for weight management during and after pregnancy, and components of effective community-based postpartum weight loss programs. 

Learning Objectives: 

  1. Define overweight and obesity in pregnancy and recommended weight gain guidelines.
  2. Define overweight and obesity in the postpartum period and safe weight loss recommendations.
  3. Identify health risks associated with excess weight gain in pregnancy and retaining weight after pregnancy.  
  4. Evaluate components of effective community-based postpartum weight loss programs.  

Target Audience: public health professionals including health educators, registered dietitians, nurses, and health program planners.

Duration:  60 minutes

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

CHES Provider number:  99036
 

Format:  Web-based Training, Self-Study

Created/Updated: originally created 6/2017; updated 7/2021

Author(s):  Allison Root, DrPH, MS, RDN

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

Tools to Support Clients to Reduce Nicotine Dependency

Understanding the clinical pharmacology of nicotine provides a basis for improved nicotine dependency prevention and treatment. This course will help tobacco cessation coaches and specialists, nurses, medical and behavioral health practitioners gain profound knowledge of the addiction process and tools to support clients to quit smoking. The content of the course is applicable to e-cigarettes or vapes as well as conventional tobacco products. 

Learning Objectives: 

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

  1. Define the process of nicotine dependency
  2. Describe the biological, psychological, and socio-cultural chain of addiction
  3. Identify patients' level of nicotine dependency.
  4. Understand the “Stages of Change” model to assess patients' readiness to reduce tobacco use
  5. Utilize tools to help motivate a patient to reduce nicotine dependency

Target Audience: Tobacco cessation coaches and specialists, nurses, medical and behavioral health practitioners

Duration: 90 minutes

Continuing Education Information: 1.5 Category 1 CHES credits, 1.5 Continuing Competency Credits

CHES Provider number:  99036

Format:  Web-based Training, Self-Study. 

Created/Updated: June 2021

Author(s): 

Mark Boldt, Director, Tobacco Cessation Training Institute.

Judith S Gordon, Ph.D. Associate Dean, Research Member of the Graduate Faculty. Professor, BIO5 Institute. Professor, Family and Community Medicine. Professor, Nursing.

Arranged by: Dipanwita Das, Senior Instructional Designer. 

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

Microaggressions: Transforming the Mindsets of Adults Working with Students

Take a dynamic look at microaggressions from a youth and student perspective and examine how microaggressions affect rapport building with adults. Learners will gain understanding in how youth may respond to microaggressions and action steps to how youth-serving professionals can transform these negative instances into a more affirmational approach. This course will also touch upon strategies to better communicate with youth and students.  

Learning Objectives:

  • Define and describe microaggressions with youth in mind 
  • Reflect on everyday examples of microaggressions
  • Recognize what microaggressions look and sound like 
  • Interrupt microaggressive behavior 
  • Transform microaggressions into a more strengths-based approach
  • Practice microaffirmations in scenario-based learning

Target Audience: Youth-serving professionals (i.e. program planners, program/case managers and policymakers), youth mentors, and educators 

Course Duration: ~45 minutes 

Continuing Education: 0.75 Category 1 CHES Credits, 0.75 continuing competency credits

Author: Robert Clark

Introduction to Data Visualization

Data visualizations make data easier to understand for people like policy makers, journalists, and community members. This training provides an introduction to data visualization, why it is important in public health, and how to identify the proper type of visualization for the data you’re examining through examples and scenario-based exercises.

Learning Objectives: 

  • Define data visualization 
  • Discuss why data visualization is important for public health
  • Identify various settings and styles of data visualizations
  • Identify types of data visualizations and when to use each one

Target Audience: Public health professionals, public health students, health departments

Duration: 1 hour

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

CHES Provider number:  99036

Format:  Web-based Training, Self-Study 

Created/Updated: May 2021

Author(s): Caitlin Meyer Krause, MPH

Arranged by:  Caitlin Meyer Krause, MPH

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

Youth Sports and Public Health

Review the connection between youth sports and public health and ways that local health departments may work with youth sports organizations to improve health. Learn how national public health goals are in line with youth sports participation, ways to consider equitable access to youth sports, and how youth sports organizations can support positive mental and physical health. Develop your skills to strengthen connections between local health departments and sports organizations and support equitable sports participation.  

Learning Objectives:

  1. Describe how youth sports participation aligns with national public health goals.
  2. Explain disparities that exist in youth sports participation nationally.
  3. Propose public health approaches to improve equity in sports participation in your local community.
  4. Implement public health systems to support positive mental and physical health in participating athletes.

Target Audience: Sports Organizations, Health Departments, and other Public Health Professionals

Duration: 45 minutes

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

CHES Provider number:  99036

Format:  Web-based Training/Self-Study 

Created/Updated: 5/2021

Author(s):  Allison Root, DrPH, MS, RDN, Instructional Specialist WRPHTC, with contributions from Nathan Pine, BS Public Health

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


Assessing Fad Diets

About 45 million adults go on diets each year, and fad diets promise rapid weight loss with minimal effort. This updated course will help you navigate fad diets, diets that are supported by evidence-based science, and screening tools to identify the difference. Use scenario-based activities to practice identifying fad diets and responding to those interested in them to prevent future health problems or malnutrition.


Learning Objectives:

  1. Identify key characteristics and hallmarks of a fad diet.

  2. Recognize different varieties or commonalities of fad diets for both well-known and unfamiliar diets.

  3. Identify components of a fad diet that make it less healthy and potentially unsafe. 

  4. Define Evidence Based Practice (EBP).

  5. Apply knowledge of EBP to assess multitudes of fad diets.

  6. Utilize tools to educate clients about the safety of fad diets and to help clients identify ways to improve upon specific fad diet recommendations.   

Target Audience: Allied Health Professionals, Dietitians, Educators/Trainers, Social Workers, Public Health Professionals, Case Managers

Duration: 30 minutes

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

CHES Provider number:  99036

Format:  web-based, self-paced training

Created/Updated: originally created May 2017, updated 5/2021

Author(s): Yosleysy Cuevas, Susana Meléndez, Kaylee Haddad, Almonese Ramirez, Mason Zuniga, University of Arizona ISPP Dietetic Interns; Allison Root, MS, RDN, Instructional Specialist, WRPHTC

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

  

Making Sense of Why Addicted People Use Drugs and Why We Treat Them

Speaker: Jeffrey H. Chester, DO, Physician/Solo Practitioner

The C.H.E.S.T.E.R. Initiative is a free education presentation that covers the current understanding of substance abuse disorder (addiction) as a brain disease that is influenced by both internal and external factors. The emphasis will be on risk facts and primary prevention, brain chemistry stabilization, and examples of chemical intoxication. This training is made possible through a generous grant from Nuestro Futuro Foundation (Wailuku) with fiscal sponsorship through Hawaiʻi Health and Harm Reduction Center (Honolulu).

Learning Objectives: 

  1. Have a clearer understanding why word choices influence addiction treatment. 
  2. Understand that more than one part of the brain is involved with decision-making and behaviors. 
  3. Name common medication treatments for alcohol use disorder and for opioid use disorder. 
  4. Identify addiction risk factors.

Target Audience: Public Health Professionals including doctors, nurses, social workers, addiction counselors, dietitians and health educators.

Duration:  90 minutes

Continuing Education Information: 1.5 Category 1 Credits for CHES (no continuing competency credits); 1.5 CPEUs for Registered Dietitians

CHES Provider number:  99036; CPEU Provider number: 21216
 

Format:  Recorded Webinar (9/22/2023)

Disclosures:  The CHESTER Initiative has received grant funding from Nuestro Futuro Foundation and fiscal sponsorship through Hawaii Health and Harm Reduction Center.

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