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Building Trust in Public Health: Marketing, Media, and Community-Based Strategies

Trust is critical in accomplishing public health goals. You may have heard people say, “If public health does its job right, no one ever really hears about us.” This training reframes that statement to:"if public health does its job right, the community has trust in decisions made to improve or protect the health of the community." As public health professionals, we need to consider how we can establish, build, or maintain trust. Through this training learn ways to promote trust in public health with branding strategies, strategic communication with the media, and through community engagement. 

Learning Objectives:

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

  • Describe ways a branding strategy is linked to developing public trust.
  • Summarize tips to prepare for a media interview.
  • Recommend approaches for building community engagement.

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/Updated:  4/2022; updated 3/2024

Author(s): Muriel DeLa Vergne-Brown, RN, BSc, MPH and Allison Root, DrPH, MS, RDN

Arranged by: Allison Root, DrPH, MS, RDN

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

Using Social Media for Health Communication

Social media is an ever-growing outlet that allows people to share whatever they would like with others around the world. Organizations are easily able to spread information about any topic to a very wide audience using social media. This can make sharing health resources and information with your community much more simple, reaching more people, and ideally making a greater impact. This training will teach you 6 rules of social media for creating effective posts. You will have the opportunity to practice identifying components of well-executed posts, learn positive ways to interact with your virtual community, and optionally create and share your own social media post.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Explain the benefits of using social media to promote initiatives within your organization.
  • List the 6 rules of posting on social media.
  • Determine the appropriate action(s) to take when interacting with your virtual community.
  • Identify components of social media posts that are more likely to be effective for encouraging people to act.
  • Construct your own social media post.  

Duration:  ~2 hours

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

CHES Provider number:  99036
 

Format:  Web-based Training, Self-Study

Created/Updated: 5/2022

Author(s): Silvia Valenzuela and Sabrina Stinnett University of Arizona Dietetic Interns, and Allison Root, DrPH, RDN, Instructional Specialist WRPHTC

Narration by: Silvia Valenzuela

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

Supporting Youth Mental Health

Nationally, the alarm has been raised about increases in mental health issues among youth and
there is a growing awareness of youth needs and vulnerability. In this session, the presenters will
give you an overview of the state of youth mental health in Hawai`i, share possible solutions and
available resources available both locally and nationally. Open to all interested in attending

Learning Objectives: 

  • Participants will be able to identify some of the impacts COVID-19 has had on youth’s mental health
  • Participants will learn risk factors and protect factors related to mental health
  • Participants will learn strategies that are useful for supporting youth’s mental health
  • Participants will be able to identify resources (crisis and non-crisis) that are available for youth

Target Audience: Public health professionals working with youth

Duration:  1.5 hours

Continuing Education Information: 1.5 Category 1 Credits for CHES

CHES Provider number:  99036
 

Format:  Recorded webinar

Recorded: 5/13/2022

Presenter: Amanda Martinez, MPH

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

A Practice in Coping Skills: Addressing Stress and Anxiety

This webinar reviews the importance of self-care and coping skills to manage anxiety. It discusses three distinct ranges of anxiety and skills to use in addressing anxiety at each level. Coping skills for self, others, and keiki will be reviewed. Online community resources will be briefly discussed.

Learning Objectives: 

  • Participants will be able to understand the importance of self-care
  • Participants will learn skills that are helpful in managing anxiety at the 0-40, 40-60, and 60-100 ranges
  • Participants will be able to identify skills for self, others, and keiki
  • Participants will be able to identify crisis resources that are available

Target Audience: Public health professionals

Duration:  1.5 hours

Continuing Education Information: 1.5 Category 1 credits for CHES

CHES Provider number:  99036
 

Format:  Recorded webinar

Recorded: 3/18/2022

Presenter: Amanda Martinez, MPH

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

Live Your Life Well Digitally

This training provides an opportunity to reflect and focus on our self-care routines. It utilizes 10 proven tools to help better cope with stress, improve one's outlook on life, and have healthy relationships.

Learning Objectives: 

  • Participants will learn the physiological symptoms of stress
  • Participants will learn helpful tools to address stress
  • Participants will be able to identify digital tools to use when experiencing stress/anxiety
  • Participants will be able to identify resources to support mental wellness

Target Audience: Public health professionals

Duration:  1.5 hours

Continuing Education Information: 1.5 Category I Credits for CHES

CHES Provider number:  99036
 

Format:  Recorded webinar

Recorded: Feb. 2022

Presenter:  Amanda Martinez, MPH

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

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

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