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Trauma-Informed Public Health Practice

The final session of our mental health mini-talks will focus on trauma-informed practice for public health professionals. With the stress of the last two years of the pandemic, understanding a trauma-informed approach is an increasingly critical skill for those that provide services to communities. This session will feature Patrick Goodman, MC, and Laura Turner, MSN, MHS, RN, PHN.

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

Live Webinar Date: February 24, 2022 at 5pm (MST)

Duration: ~ 1 hour

Continuing Education Information: 1.0 CECH for CHES

Speakers: Patrick Goodman, MC, completed his undergraduate degree in Education at Arizona State University in 1992 and continued his education at ASU to obtain his Masters of Counseling in 1998. Currently, he is a Mental Health Therapist assigned to the Trauma Team at Phoenix Children’s Hospital. In that role he provides ongoing individual and family therapy for children on an inpatient and outpatient basis. He also provides assessment, treatment planning, individual and family counseling services to youth and adolescents referred through outpatient services. In the inpatient setting, he provides clinical consultation services as a member of the Consult Liaison Team working with youth and families who have experienced trauma to meet their counseling and therapeutic supportive needs. In addition to being a licensed professional counselor, in the past he has worked as a certified Infant/Toddler Mental health Specialist, a Registered Play Therapist, and a Certified Crisis Worker.

Laura Turner, MSN, MHS, RN, PHN worked in public health research before becoming a nurse in 2013. As a nurse, she has worked at the bedside, in corrections, and most recently in public health nursing. She is now the supervisor for the Sonoma County TIA PHN/Field Nursing Team, where they are implementing a new model titled a Trauma Informed Approach in Public Health Nursing. This model focuses on implementing a Trauma Informed Approach both within the Field Nursing Team, as well as with families served by the program.

Organizational Wellness for Public Health Departments

The second session of this year's mental health mini-talks will focus on strategies that can improve wellness when implemented at an organizational level, examining both environmental, design, and policy level considerations for employers. This session's featured speakers are Altaf Engineer, PhD, and Rebecca Wolf, PhD candidate.

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

Live Webinar Date: February 17, 2022 at 5pm (MST)

Duration: ~ 1 hour

Continuing Education Information: 1.0 CECH for CHES

Speakers: Altaf Engineer, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture and University of Arizona Institute on Place, Wellbeing & Performance, an interdisciplinary institute at the University of Arizona that links expertise of the UA College of Medicine - Tucson, the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine and the UA College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture. He is Faculty Advisor of the Master of Science in Architecture Health and Built Environment concentration. Altaf’s scholarship, teaching and practice are informed by his interest in health and wellbeing in the built environment with a special focus on daylighting, social and behavioral issues in design, indoor air quality, healthy aging, and post-Covid-19 design strategies. He has a number of peer-reviewed publications in these fields. Altaf is a cofounder of Architects for Society, a nonprofit design practice with a mission to serve disadvantaged communities through innovative architecture and design.

Rebecca Wolf is a professor of occupational therapy at A.T. Still University and is a PhD student in Health Behavior Health Promotion at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. She studies breastfeeding, bedsharing, and sleep in working mothers of infants. Rebecca teaches courses on health promotion, health policy, and public health law and ethics.

Entrevista Motivacional

La entrevista motivacional es una técnica de comunicación que ayuda a empoderar a los pacientes para que realicen los cambios de comportamiento deseados para mejorar su salud. Los profesionales lo han utilizado de manera efectiva para guiar los cambios en muchos contextos diferentes, incluido el abandono del hábito de fumar y la pérdida de peso. La literatura disponible demuestra que el uso de entrevistas motivacionales en pacientes con diabetes mejora significativamente la adherencia a las recomendaciones de tratamiento y los esfuerzos para perder peso. Este curso lo familiarizará con el concepto de entrevista motivacional en el contexto del control de peso.

Objetivos de aprendizaje: 

  • Describir los conceptos y pasos clave en la entrevista motivacional. 
  • Demostrar formas de guiar a un cliente a través de los pasos de la entrevista motivacional.
  • Describir cómo el uso de entrevistas motivacionales puede producir mejores resultados con los pacientes que otros métodos de instrucción o entrevista.

Audiencia objetiva: Profesionales aliados de la salud, dietistas, médicos y otros médicos, trabajadores sociales, personal de la salud pública en general

Duración: 30 minutos

Información de educación continua: 0.5 CECH for CHES; 0.5 CPEU para dietistas

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

Formato: Capacitación basada en la web, autoaprendizaje

Creado/Actualizado: agosto 2021

Autoras:  Randa Kutob, MD, MPH; Allison Root, DrPH, RDN

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


Coping Strategies for Public Health Professionals

The first session of our mental health mini-talks will focus on self-care and coping strategies, particularly for public health and healthcare professionals dealing with burnout and fatigue while addressing the pandemic. We'll hear from two experts, Patricia Haynes, PhD, and Thaddeus Pace, PhD, about frameworks and strategies you can apply to improve your mental health.

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

Duration: ~ 1 hour

Format: recorded webinar, February 10, 2022

Continuing Education Information: 1.0 CECH for CHES

Speakers: Dr. Patricia Haynes is an associate professor in the Department of Health Promotion Sciences at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health University of Arizona. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and behavioral sleep medicine specialist with an expertise in cognitive behavioral therapies for PTSD, depression, and insomnia. Her research examines sleep, mental health, and lifestyle behaviors in various occupations and groups exposed to stress, including first responders, veterans, and people who have experienced involuntarily job loss. She has authored multiple publications and therapy manuals for veterans with PTSD and insomnia, and her work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, and the American Sleep Medicine Foundation. Dr. Haynes has a well-established partnership with the Tucson Fire Department, where she provides services to fire service members and assists in the administration of behavioral health programs to foster resiliency.

Thaddeus Pace, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Colleges of Nursing (Division of Biobehavioral Health Science), Medicine (Department of Psychiatry), and Science (Department of Psychology) at the University of Arizona. His research at UArizona explores stress biology in populations who are likely to experience distress, fatigue and depression (e.g., cancer survivors, firefighters). Informed by this work, Dr. Pace also investigates the effectiveness of novel interventions designed to optimize psychological, inflammatory, and endocrine functioning. These include a kindness and compassion meditation program called CBCT, and other contemplative interventions including those delivered by smartphone app. Dr. Pace's research is supported by grants from the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health of the United States. He is a PopTech Science Fellow and was named one of Tucson's 40 Under 40 by the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

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

Infectious Agents Exposure Reduction Training for First Responders

Learn best protocols to avoid infection, particularly in the context of pathogen exposure prevention for firefighters and EMS responders. Created in collaboration with Dr. Kelly Reynolds, Professor and Chair in the Department of Community, Environment, and Policy, and Director at the Environment, Exposure Science, and Risk Assessment Center (ESRAC), the Tucson Fire Department (TFD), and the Western Regional Public Health Training Center (WRPHTC) at MEZCOPH.

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify highly infectious pathogen-specific hazards
  • Understand common exposure pathways for first responders
  • Compare strategies for reducing exposure potentials
  • Distinguish effective infection control protocols
Duration: 10 min.

Continuing Education Information: n/a

Created/Updated: 3/2020

Waiting for Change: A Direct Service Provider’s Guide to Self-Care and Grief Literacy

The past year has been filled with challenges and opportunities for growth. While we continue to move forward as a community, there are unique needs for those providing direct service care. How do we help others heal while we are also experiencing the same stressors? This presentation will review the impact of COVID-19 on mental health, address the unique challenges of providing direct service care, discuss self-care for self and others, and review grief related coping skills and education.

Learning Objectives: 

  1. Describe the negative impact of COVID-19 on mental health.
  2. Discuss protective factors and risk factors for anxiety and grief.
  3. Identify self-care and coping skills to address anxiety and grief.
  4. Review crisis resources available to the community.

Target Audience: Direct service providers including nurses, social workers, dietitians, and other public health professionals.

Duration:  1.5 hours

Continuing Education Information: 1.5 Credits for CHES

CHES Provider number:  99036
 

Format:  Recorded Webinar

Recorded: 9/2021 

Author(s): Mestisa Gass, PsyD., Program Director at Mental Health America of Hawai'i

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

Making the Most of Mentoring

You are about to begin a training in which you become the mentee and the course becomes the mentor. Sound strange? Well, look at it this way, ‘why did you choose this course?' Are you trying to make a decision crucial to your own professional growth but caught not knowing what is the right decision for you at this point in your life? Or, are you seeking a continuing education session which surprisingly may give you new ways to improve your own mentoring skills? This training discusses the benefits of mentoring and presents motivational interviewing as an approach for mentors to guide mentees in clarifying their goals and values and for enhanced communication. We also present considerations for ethical practices in mentoring relationships, choosing a mentor, and how to evaluate progress during a mentoring relationship. Many scenario examples are presented throughout the training for perspective and context.

Learning Objectives:

  • Define mentoring and its benefits
  • List and demonstrate motivational interviewing techniques to enhance communication
  • Differentiate mentee and mentor roles and goals as well as the mentoring versus coaching approach
  • Evaluate techniques for choosing a mentor and the format: face-to-face or virtual
  • Describe ways to evaluate mentoring using a tracking form

Target Audience: public health workforce

Duration:  60 minutes

Continuing Education Information: 1.0 Continuing Competency Credits for CHES, 1.0 CPEUs for Registered Dietitians (meets Ethics requirement)

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (Academy) and Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) are not responsible for the provider’s interpretation of the Academy/CDR Code of Ethics for the Nutrition and Dietetics Profession or its enforcement as it relates to the scenarios and content presented in this activity.

CHES Provider number:  99036; CPEU Provider number: 21216
 

Format:  Web-based Training, Self-Study

Created/Updated: 1/2022

Author: Gail Frank, DrPH, CHES, RDN

Arranged by: Allison Root, DrPH, MS, RDN

Audio by: Gail Frank, DrPH, CHES, RDN

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

Building Community Leaders: An Advocacy Guide

"Building Community Leaders" is designed to get people comfortable advocating for change in various settings and to empower community members to make healthy changes in their communities. This training was adapted from the Maricopa County Department of Public Health Community Leaders Training for this online format by the Western Region Public Health Training Center.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe public health and community health. 
  • Define advocacy.
  • List the steps to advocate for an issue.
  • Utilize a SWOT analysis to identify strengths and weaknesses within a community. 
  • Practice communicating effectively in various settings (meetings, communicating with the right people, limited time).
  • Identify the benefits of storytelling when advocating for an issue.

Target Audience: Public health professionals working with community-groups, school-groups, and others interested in advocacy.

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: 2/2022

Author(s): Maricopa County Department of Public Health and the Western Region Public Health Training Center

Arranged by:  Allison Root, DrPH, MS, RDN

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

Nutrition Assessment Methods

Nutrition assessment is a useful and important tool to assess a person's food intake or to reveal patterns in food intake for a group or population. This training will review various nutrition assessment methods and present benefits and limitations for their use in different settings. This training will also present ways of using nutrition assessment in local programs.

Learning Objectives:

  • Define and identify differences in various nutrition assessment methods
  • Recognize potential measurement issues in nutrition assessment
  • Apply the most appropriate nutrition assessment method given a particular situation
  • Discover new approaches and technological advances in nutrition assessment methods
  • Identify ways nutrition assessment can be used to improve local programs

Target Audience:  Public Health Professionals

Duration:  45 minutes

Continuing Education Information: 0.75 Category 1 CHES Credits, 0.75 Continuing Competency Credits 

CHES Provider number:  99036
 

Format:  Web-based Training, Self-Study

Created: 1/2022

Author(s): Brandy Todorovich, BS; Allison Root, DrPH, MS, RDN

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

Sexual Violence Training for Community Health Workers/Promotoras

This course introduces basic knowledge and skills useful in assisting and responding to victims of sexual violence.  The course consists of six self-paced modules, which include reflection activities, videos, self-check questions, and a role-play scenario. A collection of comprehensive resources for further use are included.

Learning Objectives: 

  • Identify sexual violence and define types of sexual violence.
  • Respond appropriately to victims of sexual violence.
  • Relate your role to the role of other community partners in responding to and supporting victims of sexual violence.
  • Recognize signs of burnout and vicarious trauma and ways to cope.

Target Audience: Community Health Workers, Registered Nurses, Registered Dietitians, and other public health professionals

Duration: approximately 2 hours

Continuing Education Information:  2.0 Category 1 CHES Credits, 2.0 Continuing Competency Credits

CHES Provider number:  99036

Format:  Self-paced online training

Created/Updated: Nov. 2021

Authors: Arizona Rural Women's Health Network, Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence, Western Region Public Health Training Center

Arranged by:  Allison Root, DrPH, MS, RDN, Western Region Public Health Training Center

Narration by: Allison Root, DrPH, MS, RDN and Lorraine Ramirez, MPH

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

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