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Community Food Sovereignty Assessments

Vicky Karhu introduces how to conduct a Community Food Sovereignty Assessment as a way to realize and document the food and diet-related health story of a community through a community-driven and participatory process of information gathering. The assessment is a conversation-starter, a program planning tool, a fundraising tool, and a way to bring attention to the inter-relationships between a community's food, public health, and future food security. The information can reveal disparities and public concerns, community assets, and economic and health profiles. The results will provide direction for community health and wellness program planning with a focus on the food sources, habits,and needs of community members who will be served by future programs.

Learning Objectives:

This presentation was created to assist tribes working to strengthen their food sovereignty. After watching the presentation, learners will be able to:

  • Understand the concept of food sovereignty and how it relates to health.
  • Describe the basic seven steps for conducting a Community Food Sovereignty Assessment.
  • Determine ways to use the data from a Community Food Sovereignty assessment to improve and strengthen public health and local food systems.

Target Audience: Community Health Workers, Food System Workers, Policy Advocates and Policy Makers

Duration: 30 minutes

Format: web based/self study

Created/updated: 10/27/2017

Author and Presenter: Vicky Karhu

Communication Skills for Successful Healthcare Team Relationships

This webinar will review communication and group dynamic issues that can impact the working relationship within health care teams. Participants will learn tools and resources to help improve communication and group interactions to help support successful health care teams.

 

Learning Objectives:

  • Recognize and understand the importance of communication and relationship development in the development of, and ongoing work of a health care team.
  • Identify communication strategies for participants to use to foster better communication within their own health care team.
  • Understand the theory of group dynamics and how it applies to health care teams.
  • Recognize the characteristics of an effective and an ineffective team and identify strategies to move a team from ineffective to effective.

 

Target Audience:  Dietitians, Environmental Health Professionals, Nurses, Physicians and Other Clinicians, Social Workers, Public Health.

 

Duration:  ~ 1 hour

 

Continuing Education Information:  1.0 CECH for CHES


CHES Provider number: 99036


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

Format: Web-based Training, Self-Study

 

Created/Updated:  6/22/1017

 

Author(s):  Cathy Frey, (CVHN)

Leadership Training: Communication and Negotiation Strategies

Good negotiation skills are important tools and solutions to “sticky” problems in professional communication.  Negotiation is at the core of conflict resolution and mediation. This training offers tools of how to become skilled in ways of communication and negotiation, with a focus on consultative negotiation.

Learning Objectives:

1.    Discuss the four components of negotiation

2.    Review the stages of negotiation

3.    Explore the assumptions and expectations when negotiating

4.    Examine an application of negotiating

Target Audience: Public health leadership

Duration: 1 hour (self-paced)

Continuing Education Information: N/A

Format: Self-paced

Created: 10/24/17

Partners: Arizona Local Health Officers Association

Author(s): Elizabeth Kent, JD

Presenter(s): Elizabeth Kent, JD


Refugee Nutritional Challenges and Strategies to Overcome Them

This course helps public health workers and/or volunteers to identify common nutritional challenges refugees experience upon resettlement. Strategies to address various challenges including difficulty navigating a new food environment, lack of food safety knowledge, food preparation difficulties, and nutrition knowledge deficit will be addressed.  The importance of conducting a needs assessment and various assessment tools will be discussed.

 

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn common nutritional challenges refugees face upon resettlement.
  • Recognize difficulties refugees encounter upon arrival to a new food environment.
  • Apply strategies to help refugees overcome common nutrition challenges.

 Target Audience:  Allied Health Professionals, Dietitians, Social Workers, General Public Health Staff, Public Health, Healthcare

 

Duration: ~ 20 minutes

 

Continuing Education Information:  N/A

 

Format:  Web-based training, Self-Study

 

Created/Updated:  3/17/2016

 

Authors:  Abigail Manuel, BS, DTR;  Ghaidaa Kobeissi, BS

Helping Hands for the Homeless: Information about Food Assistance Programs Dedicated to the Homeless

Provides an overview of homelessness and food insecurity, discussing the benefits and barriers associated with creating a food program for the homeless.  Various food programs in the United States are highlighted as examples, and resources for starting food programs for the homeless are provided.

Course Objectives:

  • Identify the correct definition of homelessness
  • List some of the most prominent causes of homelessness
  • Describe the link between homelessness and food insecurity
  • Summarize the possible benefits of creating a food program for the homeless
  • Explain the barriers that are associated with creating a food program for the homeless
  • Compare and contrast varying examples of food programs for the homeless that are well established within Southern Arizona as well as on a national level

 

Target Audience:  Dietitians, Social Workers, Case Managers

 

Duration:  ~ 30 min.

 

Continuing Education Information:  0.5 CECH for CHES

 

Format:  Web-based Training, Self-study

 

Created/Updated:  6/22/16

Authors/Presenters:
  • Lauren Kemmer, BS
  • Jennie Altman, BS


Children’s Food Insecurity in the Summer, Role of Clinicians and Health Providers in Connecting Children to the Summer Meals Program

This webinar will highlight how clinicians and other healthcare providers who care for vulnerable children can play a role in addressing hunger in the summer months. Presenters will discuss food insecurity and describe how to connect children to resources such as the USDA’s Summer Meals Program and HRSA’s Community Health Center network. Additionally, participants will learn how a community health center can serve as a place where children access meals during the summer months and also be connected to important health and social services.

Learning Objectives:

  • Explain how food insecurity impacts children and vulnerable families.
  • Describe the purpose of the USDA Summer Meals Program.
  • Identify how children can be connected to sites that serve meals.
  • Describe the role clinicians and healthcare providers play in connecting children to summer meals.
  • Discuss the role community health centers can play in providing summer meals to children in need.

 

Target Audience:  Dietitians, Physicians and Other Clinicians, Social Workers, Public Health, Healthcare

 

Duration:  1 hr. 20 min

 

Continuing Education Information:  1.5 CECH for CHES


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

Format:  Web-based training, Self-Study

 

Created/Updated:  June 15, 2016

 

Presenters:

  • Nidhi Jain, MD, MPH
  • Hilary Seligman, MD, MAS
  • Suzie Ahn

Leadership Training: Public Health Law

This training will provide the learner with an introduction to the Network for Public Health Law and how to define public health law as well as understanding and accessing it. The training will also review tools to navigate and implement public health law, describe the the source and scope of powers and the application of public health law. 

Learning Objectives:

  1. Identify different forms of law
  2. Describe tools of public health law
  3. Examine an application of public health 

Target Audience: Public health staff

Duration: 1 hour (self-paced)

Continuing Education Information: N/A

Format: Self-paced

Created: 10/2/17

Author(s): Leila Barraza, JD, MPH

Presenter(s): Leila Barraza, JD, MPH

Serving Immigrant Victims of Sexual and Domestic Violence Blended Learning Series

Learners will develop an awareness of the dynamics of domestic violence and sexual violence specific to immigrant populations to be able to implement appropriate interventions for victims of domestic and sexual violence.

 

Section 1: Module 1 and 2-Understanding the Unique Contexts for Immigrant Victims of Sexual and Domestic Violence

  • Essential Information
  • The Power and Control Wheel
  • Recommendations and Resources

Section 2: Module 3- Legal Remedies for Immigrant Victims under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)

  • Essential Information
  • VAWA Self-Petitions
  • U Visas
  • Legal Advice vs. Legal Information

Section 3: Module 4-Two Women’s Stories

  • Video-Documentary of two women’s personal stories and their journey through the process of seeking help as a result of violence and abuse
  • Case Simulation-Culminating activity that takes the learners through the assistance process applying the course principles and objectives.

 

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand how the “Power and Control Wheel” defines and outlines intimidation characteristics used by abusers to control their victims.
  • Guide immigrant victims of sexual and domestic violence to agencies and resources that support this population.
  • Describe to clients the process of applying for residency in the US through VAWA self-petitions and U Visas.
  • Understand the difference between Legal Advice and Legal Information.
  • Practice counseling and guiding clients in understanding the self-petition process outlined in the trainings.

 

Target Audience:  Educators/ Trainers, General Public Health Staff, Case Manager, Human Services

 

Duration: 1 hour

 

Continuing Education Information: 1.0 CECH for CHES 

 

Format: Web-based Training, Self- Study

 

Created/ Updated: 1/30/2017

 

Authors: Pima County Immigrant Victims of Violence Task Force

Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution to Prevent Fatal Opioid Overdoses

This training consists of a presentation given by Karla D. Wagner, Ph.D, assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Community Health Sciences. After the presentation you will be asked to complete a role play exercise where you provide information based on the material covered in the presentation.

 

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe basic trends in opioid overdose death rates at the national and local level.
  • Identify factors that elevate patients'/clients' risk for opioid overdose.
  • Understand how overdose education/naloxone distribution programs impact health outcomes.
  • Develop a preliminary plan for integrating overdose education into existing services.

 

Target Audience:  Substance Abuse Professionals, Public Health

 

Tier(s) and Competency Domain(s): Tier I- Policy Development/ Program Planning Skills; Tier II- Policy Development/ Program Planning Skills

 

Duration: 1 hour

 

Continuing Education Information: N/A

 

Format: Web-based Training, Self- Study

 

Created/ Updated: 8/13/2017

 

Presenters: Karla D. Wagner, Ph. D

Eating Disorders: Identification and Management

Eating disorders are serious and often fatal illnesses characterized by persistent disturbance in eating behaviors and associated distressing thoughts and emotions. Katie Stout, MBA, Executive Director of the Center for Hope of the Sierras in Reno, NV, reviews types of eating disorders, signs and symptoms, and treatment methods in this presentation. At the end, you will be asked to complete a role play exercise where you provide information based on the material covered in the presentation.

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and diabulimia
  • Identify etiology, epidemiology, and signs/symptoms of eating disorders
  • Explore treatment methods and challenges related to eating disorders

Target Audience:  Substance Abuse Professionals, Public Health

Tier(s) and Competency Domain(s): Tier I- Policy Development/ Program Planning Skills, Tier II- Policy Development/ Program Planning Skills

Duration:  ~1 hour

Continuing Education Information:  None available

Format:  Web-based Training, Self Study

Created/ Updated:  3/9/2017

Presenters:  Katie Stout, MBA

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