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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.

Hawai‘i’s Prevention Response to the Dangerous Mix of Alcohol and COVID-19

This training will explore how the Pandemic has impacted alcohol consumption nationally and locally, and how the alcohol landscape has changed in ways that increase the potential for alcohol-related consequences in our community.  The training will explore how alcohol has become more readily available during COVID-19, and ways local prevention programs and community coalitions are adapting their strategies to prevent alcohol use and its associated harms during the Pandemic.  Participants will also learn new ways they can get involved in their local communities to support prevention efforts. 

Continuing Education:  1.5 CECH for CHES

Moving from cultural competency to cultural humility: A practical overview

By the end of this training, participants should be able to:

  • Describe problems with cultural competency trainings

  • Describe the cultural humility constructs

  • Explain differences between cultural competency and cultural humility approaches

  • Examine tools to help build a cultural humility practice

The trainer for this webinar is David Stupplebeen, PhD, MPH, Research Scientist III, California Department of Public Health, California Tobacco Control Program, Evaluation & Surveillance Section, Evaluation Unit. 

Continuing Education: 1.5 CECH for CHES

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

Format:  Recorded Webinar, recorded March 19, 2021

Electronic Cigarettes and their Impact on Public Health

Electronic (e-) cigarettes are evolving rapidly, providing consumers with various products to choose from: e-cig-a-likes, mini-cartridge devices, and tank systems filled with liquid nicotine. These devices are legally available to adults (21 years and older) and have grown in popularity among youth (14-19 years old). E-cigarette use poses a significant and avoidable health risk to young people in the United States. There is much unknown about these products and their adverse effects on public health. In this short training, we will define and classify the types of e-cigarette. We will then compare the impact of e-cigarettes on health to combustible cigarettes, followed by health consequences.

The Western Region Public Health Training Center (WRPHTC) developed a series of courses (six) in collaboration with the Arizona Center for Tobacco Cessation (ACTC) to provide public health professionals with an understanding of tobacco dependency and evidence-based treatment that supports quitting. 

Note: For these modules, the term tobacco will refer specifically to commercial tobacco, a legal and regulated substance, and does not refer to the traditional tobacco grown and harvested by American Indians and Alaska Natives used for ceremonial or medicinal purposes.

Learning Objectives: 

By the end of this training, you will be able to:
  1. Generalize the prevalence of electronic cigarette (e-cigarettes) use among adults and youth
  2. Classify the types of e-cigarettes
  3. Describe the impact of the e-cigarette on health
  4. Distinguish the impact of e-cigarettes on health to combustibles cigarettes

Target Audience: Health and human service providers, medical and allied health professionals and students, community health influencers, administrators, policymakers, and those in specialty areas of health and human service professions: Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Physicians, Pharmacists, Health Educators, Wellness Coaches, Dental Hygienists, Addiction Counselors, Respiratory Therapists, etc.

Duration:  35 minutes

Continuing Education Information: 0.5 CECH for CHES

Format:  Web-based Training, Self-Study

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

Created/Updated: January 2021

Authors: 

Mark Boldt, Director, Tobacco Cessation Training Institute.
Jazmin C. Villavicencio, Tobacco Treatment Training Specialist
Krista Walker, Tobacco Cessation Training Specialist

Arranged by:

Dipanwita Das, Senior Instructional Designer


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