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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

Prioritization and Time Management

Prioritization and time management are critical skills for success.  Managing your time means that you spend time on your priorities, and that you do not waste time on non-priorities.  This training presents time management and prioritization techniques to improve the work activities of local health departments.

 

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify the main components of effective time management
  • Understand the role of time management and prioritization in local health department activities
  • Describe the Eisenhower prioritization technique
  • Utilize a prioritization matrix

Target Audience: Allied Health Professionals, Dietitians, Nurses

 

Duration: 30 min

 

Continuing Education Information: 0.5 CECH for CHES

 

Format: Web-based Training, Self-study

 

Created/Uploaded: February 28, 2017

 

Authors: Kelly Heslin, MPH

Skateboard Parks 101

This course provides an understanding the culture of skateboarding and the policies centered around skateboard parks.  Information about different aspects of skateboarding, park design, and statistics are provided.

Learning Objective: Learners will gain insight into the skateboarding culture that includes understanding the popularity of skateboarding, as well as the policies that govern the maintenance and oversight of skateboard parks.

Target Audience: Health Department Administrators

Duration: approx 20 min.

Format: Web based/self study

Created: 10/2017

Author: Ray Andrade, EdD

Presenter: Natalie Krishna Das

The Role of Health Apps in Dietetics Practice

This training discusses the use of Mobile Health Apps to enhance nutrition intervention.  Learn best practices to use when introducing health apps to clients, discuss a screening tool that can be used to gauge the usefulness of various Health Apps for your clients, and participate in a simulated role play experience introducing a Health App to your client.


Learning Objectives:

  • Assess the usefulness of different types of health, wellness, and physical activity applications
  • Select appropriate and evidence-based applications to recommend to clients
  • Determine whether the use of nutrition and physical activity applications can enhance nutrition intervention based on each individual client.

Target Audience: Dietitians, Public Health, Students

Duration:  Approx. 1 hr.


Continuing Education Information: 1.0 CECH for CHES


Format: Web-based Training, Self-study

 

Created/ Updated:  March, 2017

 

Authors: Alexandra Samarron, Kendal Shanks, Jessica Zepeda



Preventing Legionnaires’ Disease (PreventLD Training)

Preventing Legionnaires’ Disease: A Training on Legionella Water Management Programs (PreventLD Training)

What Are the Benefits of This Training?

The training

  • Outlines how to reduce risk for Legionella in facilities through water management programs.
  • Helps water management programs align with ASHRAE 188 on reducing risk for Legionella in building water systems (e.g., potable water, cooling towers, hot tubs, decorative water features).
  • Is free and available online, and continuing education units are available from the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA). 
  • Helps build common language across the range of professionals involved in water management programs.
  • Includes case studies, templates, and other practical resources to reduce the risk for Legionella and protect those at increased risk of Legionnaires’ disease: adults aged 50 years or older, current or former smokers, and those with a weakened immune system or chronic disease.


Who Is This Training For?

CDC and partners designed this training for the range of professionals involved in water management programs. This typically includes 

  • Public health professionals, including infection preventionists.
  • Building managers, maintenance/engineering staff, and safety officers.
  • Equipment and water treatment suppliers as well as consultants.


This training addresses how to manage 

  • Building water systems in hospitals, retirement homes and long-term care facilities, hotels, high-rise apartment complexes, and other buildings.
  • Other devices that may need a water management program even if the building does not, such as cooling towers, decorative fountains and water features, hot tubs, and misters.


How Long Does It Take?

Pilot testers took an average of a half hour to complete each module and an average of 3 hours to complete the training as a whole. 

Users do not have to complete the training all at once. They can save their progress and come back later to complete a module.


Individuals completing courses within the curriculum are eligible to receive continuing education units (CEUs) through the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA). For questions regarding NEHA continuing education, please visit NEHA’s CE information page or contact credentialing@neha.org.

 



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