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Mental Health Mini-Talks: Hispanic/Latinx Mental Health

In Arizona, almost one third of the population is Latinx or Hispanic. Mental health and mental illness are often stigmatized topics for the Latinx/Hispanic communities, compounding the existing institutional and systemic barriers that already impede access to mental health services. This iteration of our Mental Health Mini-Talks will help identify factors that impact Latinx mental health and will address ways health professionals can support this population. This session will feature Denise Rodriguez, PhD, DBSM; Karina Duenas, MSW; Anna Carolina Ortiz, MPH; Francisco Moreno, MD.

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

Recorded Date: November 17, 2022 at 12PM (MST)

Duration: ~ 1 hour and 45 minutes

Continuing Education Information: 1.75 CECH for CHES

Speakers:

Denise Rodriguez, PhD, DBSM

Karina Duenas, MSW

Anna Carolina Ortiz, MPH

Francisco Moreno, MD

Trauma-Informed Care for Undocumented Immigrants

It is estimated that over 11 million undocumented immigrants live in the United States; over 2.5 million of those immigrants live in California, Arizona, or Nevada. Because many are involved in essential work but do not qualify for most state or federal relief, undocumented immigrants have largely been left to fend for themselves while facing increased economic and health risks.

This course will describe the health status of the undocumented population in the United States and discuss the need for Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) when planning and providing services. It will outline the Trauma-Informed Care model as a way to approach undocumented clients that are facing trauma.

Learning Objectives:

  • Define undocumented immigrants and families as a vulnerable population needing specific strategies for care and support.
  • Discuss the model of Trauma-Informed Care as it applies to care of immigrants.
  • Identify specific interventions to improve the health of undocumented immigrants and their families.
  • Create a community model of care for undocumented immigrants that connects the immigrants population to resources on a local and state level that promote their health and wellness.

Target Audience:  Allied Health Professionals, Mental Health Professionals, Nurses, Public Health Professionals, Registered Dietitians
 

Duration:  ~ 1.25 hours

Continuing Education Information:  1.25 Category 1 CHES credits, 1.25 Continuing Competency Credits

CHES Provider number:  99036

Format:  Web-based Training, Self-Study

Created/Updated:  October 2022

Authors: Patrick Goodman, MC, Priscila Ruedas, BS, Dulce Rodriguez, BS

Subject Matter Expert: Patrick Goodman, MC

Narration by: Dulce Rodriguez, BS

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

Bridging the Gap: How to Build and Sustain Effective Multidisciplinary Collaboration

When professionals, teams and communities collaborate well, they effectively bridge what we call the “justice gap” for victims of interpersonal violence and abuse. Bridging the justice gap through coordinated community responses, or CCRs, results in better outcomes for victims and survivors, more efficient use of limited resources, and healthier communities with less violence. This multidisciplinary approach is shaped by many unique factors such as population, locality, culture, resources, and level of cooperation and commitment of individuals, offices, and systems. In Part 1 of this two-part training, we will address assessing the needs in your community and identify concrete, foundational supports necessary for effective multidisciplinary and cross-organization/system work. In Part 2, we will share information and evidence-based practices and skills that promote clear and effective communication, diffuse and de-escalate tension, build trust among individuals and disciplines, and result in better outcomes for survivors and communities. We will also learn the three pillars of system change and how teams can use protocol, training, and audits to successfully change the system.

Target Audience: Health educators, social workers, dietitians, nurses, and legal professionals.

Duration:  ~4 hours

Continuing Education Information: 4 credits for CHES

CHES Provider number:  99036; CPEU Provider number: 21216
 

Format:  Recorded webinar

Presented live on May 6 and May 13, 2022 

Presenters: Julie Germann, JD and Erica Olson, MSS, MLSP

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

Public Health Ethics

Ethical dilemmas are persistent in public health. Decision making-processes can be very complex, often with conflicts and competing interests. In this training, examine public health ethics and ethical based approaches to decision making. Learn to use ethical frameworks to make decisions confidently and justify decisions with transparency. Practice addressing ethical challenges respectfully in a way that builds trust with communities and stakeholders through simulated case scenarios. Practice identifying ethical dilemmas and the exploration of solutions.

Learning Objectives:

  • Review foundations and theories of moral philosophy and applied ethics.
  • Define public health ethics.
  • Identify key ethical issues in public health.
  • Compare ethics in public health vs health care.
  • Examine what is meant by professional ethics (and personal values) for public health professionals.        
  • Discuss guiding principles of good ethical decision making, including ways to integrate ethical considerations into public health decision making.

Target Audience: Public health professionals

Duration:  ~ 1.5 hours

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: 9/2022

Arranged by: Allison Root, DrPH, MCHES, RDN

Subject Matter Expert:  Linda Axtell-Thompson, DBE, MBA

Narration by: Allison Root, DrPH, MCHES, RDN

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

Treating Opioid Use Disorder in the Emergency Department

Uncertainty about laws and supported treatment strategies often leave patients experiencing Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) mistreated and under-treated. This course aims to clarify supported treatment methods used in Emergency Departments to support better health outcomes.

Learning Objectives: 

  • Understand the regulation around MAT in the ED and hospital
  • Learn an algorithm for starting MAT & understand its supporting research
  • Discuss operational solutions to challenges around continuity of care
  • Gain the tools to implement harm reduction strategies such as Naloxone distribution

Target Audience: Emergency Room Physicians 

Duration: 45 minutes

Continuing Education Information:  1.0 CME/CEU through the American Academy of Family Physicians through November 17, 2023

Format: Recorded Webinar

Created/Updated: Recorded November 2021; Updated August 2022

Author(s): Melody Glenn, MD

Arranged by:  University of Arizona Health Sciences Comprehensive Pain & Addiction Center

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


Advancing Food Safety for Public Health

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 48 million people get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die from foodborne diseases each year in the US. US consumers report that they consider health professionals as the most trustworthy sources of food safety information, especially for the elderly (older than 65) who are vulnerable to foodborne illnesses.

This self-paced course prepares public health professionals to utilize health risk information related to food safety issues by increasing their general knowledge of the legal basis for food safety regulation. Learners will explore regulatory agencies and food safety laws that ensure the safety of our food and contemporary issues that shape food safety and quality control.

Learning Objectives:

  • Examine food safety hazards to identify prevention, control, and mitigation measures available to state and local public health agencies.
  • Differentiate key food safety regulatory bodies in the US and their unique legislative authorities, missions, and jurisdictions.
  • Identify public health approaches to food safety.

Target Audience: Public health professionals

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: 8/31/2022

Author: Allison Root, DrPH, MCHES, RDN

Subject Matter Expert: Yevheniia Varyvoda, PhD 

Narration by: Allison Root, DrPH, MCHES, RDN

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

Food Systems Initiatives to Advance Health Equity

This self-paced course prepares public health professionals to identify interventions for advancing health equity through food system transformation. Learners will explore a variety of initiatives leading to food access and nutrition, stable employment, income supports, and community health. This overview of the drivers of inequalities within the food system helps to focus public health efforts where they are most needed. 

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe drivers of inequalities in the food system that weaken healthy food environments.
  • Identify critical domains that must be addressed for food system transformation to improve diets, nutrition, and health in an equitable manner within planetary boundaries. 
  • Explain initiatives to increase access to healthy affordable food and reduce food system inequalities at the community level.

Target Audience: Public health workforce

Duration:  60 minutes

Continuing Education Information: 1.25 Category 1 CHES Credits, 1.25 Continuing Competency Credits

CHES Provider number:  99036
 

Format:  Web-based Training, Self-Study

Created/Updated: 8/2022

Author: Allison Root, DrPH, RDN, MCHES 

Subject Matter Expert: Yevheniia Varyvoda, PhD

Narration by: Allison Root, DrPH, RDN, MCHES

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

Reducing Ambivalence to Quit Smoking with Motivational Interviewing

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a brief psychotherapeutic intervention to increase the likelihood of a patient considering, initiating, and maintaining specific change strategies to reduce harmful behavior. This course will help tobacco cessation coaches and specialists, nurses, medical, and behavioral health practitioners gain profound knowledge of patient consultation. The content of the course applies to e-cigarettes or vapes as well as conventional tobacco products. 

Learning Objectives: 

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

  • Review the history of Motivational Interviewing.
  • Describe how Motivational Interviewing is an evidence-based cessation practice. 
  • Identify when to use Motivational Interviewing with clients.
  • Utilize Motivational Interviewing skills to assist individuals ambivalent about quitting smoking. 

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

Duration: approximately 60 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: August 2022

Author(s): Mark Boldt, Director, Tobacco Cessation Training Institute; Mary Giles, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, The University of Arizona Department of Psychology; 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 

Kyah’s EPICourse for Food Service

Course Description:
The Kyah Rayne Foundation (KRF) was launched in August 2019 by Lisa Cohen in honor of her daughter, Kyah Rayne, who died of anaphylactic shock at the age of 21 after mistakenly ingesting a peanut. KRF is dedicated to advancing food allergy awareness and education. We believe that by increasing the availability of epinephrine auto-injectors and educating more people on how to use them, we can save more lives of those with food allergies.

This course is brought to you by the KRF, in collaboration with the University of Arizona College of Public Health and the Western Region Public Health Training Center (WRPHTC). While allergy research includes a broad range of allergens, such as animal and environmental allergens, this interactive online training program will focus primarily on food allergies.


Learning Objectives: 

  • Define keywords, identify common trigger foods, and recognize symptoms of severe allergic reactions and anaphylaxis.
  • List steps in administering an epinephrine auto-injector (EAI) in an emergency.
  • Identify ways to create safe and clean kitchen environments.
  • Explore common examples of cross-contact in food service establishments.
  • Recognize cross-role responsibilities in food service establishments. 
  • Explain the significance of these statements: 
Epi FIRST, Epi FAST
ReACT
Step In, Step Up, Save a Life

Target Audience: Food service establishment personnel

Duration:  10-15 minutes

Format:  Web-based Training, Self-Study

Created/Updated: August 10, 2022

Author(s): Kyah Rayne Foundation

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

Construyendo líderes comunitarios: una guía de abogacía

"Construyendo líderes comunitarios" está diseñado para que las personas se sientan cómodas abogando por el cambio en varios entornos y para empoderar a los miembros de la comunidad para que realicen cambios saludables en sus comunidades. Esta capacitación es una versión en línea de la Capacitación de líderes comunitarios de Maricopa County Department of Public Health, adaptado por el Western Region Public Health Training Center. 

Objetivos de aprendizaje: 

  • Describir la salud pública y la salud comunitaria. 
  • Definir abogacía. 
  • Enumerar los pasos para abogar por un problema. 
  • Utilizar un análisis FODA para identificar las fortalezas y debilidades dentro de una comunidad. 
  • Practicar en cómo comunicarse de manera efectiva en diferentes situaciones (juntas, comunicarse con las personas adecuadas, tiempo limitado).
  • Identificar los beneficios de narración al abogar un problema.

Audiencia objetiva: Profesionales de la salud pública que trabajan con grupos comunitarios, grupos escolares y otras personas interesadas en la abogacía

Duración: 60 minutos

Información de educación continua: 1.0 Créditos de competencia continua para CHES, 1.0 CPEU para dietistas registrados

Número de proveedor de CHES: 99036; Número de proveedor de CPEU: 21216

Formato: Formación basada en web, Autoaprendizaje

Creado: 9/2022

Autor(es): Maricopa County Department of Public Health y el Western Region Public Health Training Center

Organizado por: Allison Root, DrPH, MS, RDN

Traducido por: Dulce Rodríguez, BS, Western Region Public Health Training Center

Divulgaciones: Los planificadores, revisores y autores no tienen conflictos de intereses declarados

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