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Pediatric and Adolescent Vaccine Update 2022: A Focus on Improving Rates
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What are some ways we can increase vaccination rates amongst young children and adolescents?
Audience: Public health workforce
Format: Webinar
Date/Time: Friday, October 21, 2022 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET
Credential(s) eligible for contact hours:If you complete the post-test and evaluation, you will receive a Certificate of Completion. The Certificate will include the length of the course.
Competencies: Public Health Sciences Skills
Learning Level: Awareness,
Companion Trainings: None
Supplemental materials:None
Pre-requisites: None
About this Webinar
This session is designed to take public health professionals through an interactive and participatory group discussion on leading change in the public health and healthcare settings. In this session, the speaker will provide an overview of change management theories, change management applications, how to create a sense of urgency as a pre-condition for change, how public health professionals should think about when leading change, and the current level of fatigue observed in the healthcare system within the context of change management in the current environment.
After completing this course, participants will be able to:
Identify 2022 recommended vaccinations and schedule for pediatric and adolescent patients.
Discuss the benefits and side effects of the various vaccines for pediatric and adolescent patients.
​Discuss strategies to improve vaccination rates in pediatric and adolescent patients, including addressing vaccine hesitancy.​
Wendy L. Wright
DNP, ANP-BC, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, FNAP, Adult/Family Nurse Practitioner, Owner and Family Nurse Practitioner, Wright & Associates Family Healthcare
Louise Keogh Weed has her Masters in Public Health in Health Policy and Management from Harvard School of Public Health. Since then, Louise has worked in quality improvement and patient safety in the Boston hospital system. Most recently, she served as the Director of Medical Management and Improvement at Codman Square Health Center, a unique health center in Dorchester known for its leadership in innovation. In this role, Louise oversaw all Primary Care innovation work, created the infrastructure for organizational innovation, and worked with Medical leadership on management of the Provider practice. Louise is an instructor at HSPH, teaching in the department of Health Management and is the Co-Director of Leadership Strategies for Evolving Healthcare Executives. Louise is especially interested in non-profit strategy and leadership. Louise has a BA in Women's Studies from Tufts University and is committed to equity, including racial and social justice, as part of all of her work. In 2018, Louise and her husband adopted an amazing dog named Mugsy.
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Acknowledgement: This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of award 2 UB6HP31685‐05‐00 "Public Health Training Centers." The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.
Category: Webinars
Data for Decision-Making: The Cornerstone of Public Health Practice
Why are reliable data so important and what public health data is available in New Hampshire
Date/Time: Tuesday, June 21st, 2022 11:00 am - 12:30 pm ET
Credential(s) eligible for contact hours: Sponsored by New England Public Health Training Center (NEPHTC), a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1 total Category I continuing education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours are 0. Provider ID: 1131137 Event ID: PM1131137_06212022.
If you are not seeking a CHES/MCHES contact hours, if you complete the evaluation, you will receive a Certificate of Completion. The Certificate will include the length of the course.
Competencies: Data Analytics and Assessment Skills
Learning Level: Awareness and Performance
Reliable data is necessary for public health, in every aspect of practice. In this session, the presenters will talk about the variety of ways data are critical to public health and discuss some of the common data used in public health. The presenters will provide examples of resources available for public health professionals in NH.
Locate common public health data
Explain how to use data when making decisions
Amy Costello
MPH, Director, Center for Health Analytics, Institute for Health Policy and Practice, UNH
Amy Costello is the Director of Health Analytics and Informatics at the Institute for Health Policy and Practice. With the Center Health Analytics, Amy works closely with the IHPP analytic team to develop information and data system solutions for clients like the NH Department of Health and Human Services, NH Purchasers Group, Accountable Care Learning Network, and Maine Quality Counts. Amy is also actively engaged with the APCD Council, a federation of organizations and state agencies that are interested in the development, standardization and utility of all-payer healthcare claims databases. Amy brings years of experience with health data standards initiatives, and works closely with states, payers, and Data Standards Maintenance Organizations to design solutions for reporting to federal and state data agencies.
Josephine Porter
MPH, Director,
Institute for Health
Policy and Practice,
UNH
Josephine Porter, MPH, serves as the Director for the Institute for Health Policy and Practice. Jo joined the Institute in December 2007, as a project director. She served as the Deputy Director for several years, before becoming the Director in 2015. Jo oversees operational functions across IHPP. She also co-chairs the All-Payer Claims Database Council (APCD Council) and serves on the Governor's Commission for Medicaid Care Management. Jo is part of Academy Health's State-University Partnership Learning Network and is a steering committee member for that group. She also serves on the UNH Analytics Steering Committee. Jo brings many years of health care-related project management and program development experience to IHPP. She has private sector experience, including program management with Health Dialog, Inc., a care management firm. She also previously served as the Associate Director of the New Hampshire Health Information Center at UNH and was the NH BRFSS state coordinator for the NH Department of Health and Human Services. Her research interests are in health data collection and dissemination and using data to effectively improve health care quality.
William Moir
MPH, Chief Health Statistics and Data Management, NH Division of Public Health Services
Al Lemay (CAS'99, SPH'01)
NH Division
of Public Health Services
Al Lemay
Lynne Clement
NH Radon Program Manager and Communications Specialist
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Acknowledgement: This project is/was supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number UB6HP31685 "Regional Public Health Training Center Program." This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.
Change Management in a Challenging Healthcare Environment: Delivering with Maximum Impact
What can we learn from change management theory and each other to inform our change leadership in the current fatigued environment?
Date/Time: Thursday, July 21, 2022 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm ET
Credential(s) eligible for contact hours: Sponsored by New England Public Health Training Center (NEPHTC), a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1.5 total Category I continuing education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours are 1.5. Provider ID: 1131137 Event ID: PM1131137_05262022.
Competencies: Management and Finance Skills
Learning Level: Awareness, Performance
Explain change management theories and their applications
Identify ways to create a sense of urgency when leading change
Apply change in public health and healthcare settings
Louise Keogh Weed
Program Director, Leadership Strategies for Evolving Health Care Executives Program, Practice Transformation Specialist, Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care
Introduction to Resource Management in Health Organizations and Nonprofits
As a public health leader, are you adept in resource management and fiscal principles, concepts and tools or are you looking to further your knowledge and skills in this area?
Date/Time: Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm ET
Learning Level: Awareness
This webinar will examine the various aspects of resource management in health care, health organizations and nonprofits. Resource management is the evidence-based process by which health care organizations effectively distribute human, capital, supply and data resources in a manner that assures operational and financial stability for the organization and quality care for individuals.
Traditionally in health and social service organizations, resource management and fiscal and budgeting responsibilities have been the purview of the chief financial officer, accountants, and budget analysts. However, today, front-line managers are being called upon to integrate fiscal planning and resource management into their clinical and operational responsibilities.
This program is intended for public health leaders who have limited knowledge, skills and experience with resource and financial management and or those wish to review and/or refresh their knowledge of fiscal principles.
Describe the major resources in health care requiring a management approach
Identify strategies and tools to monitor resource utilization
Explain possible performance deviations through a variance analysis process
Identify strategies for performance improvement in the resource management process
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Rebecca Arsenault, DHA, RN, FACHE
Rebecca serves as adjunct faculty and an adjunct academic partner in Southern New Hampshire University's graduate healthcare administration program and adjunct faculty in University of New England's graduate public health program. Dr. Arsenault has over thirty-five years of healthcare administrative experience in hospital chief executive officer, chief operating officer, and chief nursing officer roles.
Food and Housing Insecurity in the Wake of COVID-19: Old Problems, New Opportunities?
How has COVID-19 made it impossible to continue to sweep well-known issues such as food and housing insecurity under the rug, and how can public health use?
Date/Time: 19th November 2020, 9:00 am-10:30 am ET
Credential(s) eligible for contact hours: Sponsored by New England Public Health Training Center (NEPHTC), a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1 total Category I continuing education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours are 1. Provider ID: 1131137 Event ID: SS1131137_FHIWC19.
Competencies: Policy Development and Program Planning Skills
Companion Trainings: Health Haves, Health Nots in a Time of COVID-19
The Link between Health, Wealth, and Equity: The Economic Impacts of COVID-19 on the People of NH and VT
About this Recording
Kerri Lowery, esteemed public health lawyer, uses storytelling, data, and policy initiatives to outline the state of housing and food insecurity in the United States. As COVID-19 has illuminated these issues, Lowery discusses the opportunities and partnerships that can be made for the future.
Kerri Lowery provides insight into the lives of those in the United States who are food and housing insecure, discusses the adverse health impacts of food and housing insecurity, and highlights the policy initiatives and partnerships that can be used to address these issues going forward.
At the end of the recording, participants will be able to:
Recall the adverse health impacts of food and housing insecurity in the United States
Identify policy and partnership programs that can be utilized to address food and housing insecurity
Assess how aforementioned components have contributed to consequences in health, food and housing insecurity, and equitable divides in the COVID-19 pandemic
Kerri McGowan Lowrey, J.D., M.P.H
Kerri McGowan Lowrey, J.D., M.P.H., is Deputy Director and Director for Grants & Research for the Network for Public Health Law, Eastern Region, based at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. Kerri has more than 20 years of experience as a public health lawyer. Her areas of focus have included injury prevention law, particularly sports and recreational injury prevention in children and adolescents; laws affecting return to school after traumatic brain injury; health data privacy and sharing in the school setting; education as a social determinant of health; and housing instability. Most recently, Kerri has spearheaded the development of an interprofessional eviction prevention project with the University of Maryland School of Social Work, which seeks to provide legal triage and access to community support services for families facing housing instability due to the pandemic. She currently serves as co-chair of the Children's Safety Now Alliance Steering Committee, an alliance of more than 35 organizations seeking to elevate child safety as a national priority and address the related needs of state and local health departments. Kerri's specialized training includes a four-year term as a Cancer Prevention Fellow at the National Cancer Institute, where she assisted in developing the Cancer Prevention Fellowship Ethics Track. Prior to joining the Network for Public Health Law, Kerri served as Technical Vice President at the MayaTech Corporation in Silver Spring, MD, and Manager of its Center for Health Policy and Legislative Analysis. Kerri received her J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law, an M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, and A.B. in public policy and American institutions from Brown University.
When we think about individual economic shortcomings in the United States, there can be a tendency to create a narrative focused on an individual issue. What structural and community type concepts can be applied to economic inequality?
Credential(s) eligible for contact hours: Sponsored by New England Public Health Training Center (NEPHTC), a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1 total Category I continuing education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours are 1. Provider ID: 1131137 Event ID: SS1131137_LBHWE.
Companion Trainings: Food and Housing Insecurity in the Wake of COVID-19: Old Problems, New Opportunities?
Health Haves, Health Nots in a Time of COVID-19
Jessica Santos, Ph.D, esteemed lecturer at Heller School for Social Policy & Management at Brandeis University, analyzes the role of policy in how our economy structures health, wealth, jobs, and equity. Santos suggests a need for significant intervention, structuring equity into the future.
Jessica Santos walks the listener through the state of wealth and equity in the United States, while acknowledging the realities of racial and economic divides and urging the listener to consider how to structure equity into the future of economic policy.
Recognize the exponential economic impacts of COVID-19 on New Hampshire, Vermont, and the United States
Make connections between underlying social, racial, and economic divides; and recognize the consequences of these divides
Conclude that significant intervention is needed in economic patterns to structure exponential equity
Consider how to craft economic policy in Vermont and New Hampshire while prioritizing racial equity
Jessica Santos, Ph.D
Lecturer at Heller School for Social Policy & Management, Brandeis University. Principal Investigator on multiple federally and privately funded mixed methods studies focused on examining pathways for economic stability, upward mobility, and equity through social policy.
How can data integration platforms and strategies be designed to do no harm?
Credential(s) eligible for contact hours: Sponsored by New England Public Health Training Center (NEPHTC), a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1 total Category I continuing education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours are 1. Provider ID: 1131137 Event ID: SS1131137_HHHN.
Competencies: Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills
Sandro Galea, renowned physician, epidemiologist, and author, uses national and local data to explain the how the consequences of health spending, social, racial, and economic divides, and lack of investment in social determinants of health have been exposed by COVID-19
We may have an understanding of how social determinants of health affect health outcomes, but listen as renowned physician, epidemiologist, and author Sandro Galea uses national data and storytelling to show the consequential outcomes of social determinants of health, health spending, and racial and economic divides in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Recognize and discuss social determinants of health, health spending, and health outcomes in the United States
Be able to identify and classify underlying social, racial, and economic divides; and recognize the consequences of these divides
Assess how aforementioned components have contributed to consequences in health, economy, and divides in the COVID-19 pandemic
Sandro Galea
Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at Boston University School of Public Health
Sandro Galea, a physician, epidemiologist, and author, is dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at Boston University School of Public Health. He previously held academic and leadership positions at Columbia University, the University of Michigan, and the New York Academy of Medicine. He has published extensively in the peer-reviewed literature, and is a regular contributor to a range of public media, about the social causes of health, mental health, and the consequences of trauma. He has been listed as one of the most widely cited scholars in the social sciences. He is chair of the board of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health and past president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research and of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. Galea has received several lifetime achievement awards. Galea holds a medical degree from the University of Toronto, graduate degrees from Harvard University and Columbia University, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow.
Aligning Intergenerational Expectations: Creating Joy and Productivity in the Workplace
How can intergenerational communication in a workplace be aligned to create a positive environment for individuals, teams, and communities served?
Audience: Program managers and trainers, community health workers, public health professionals
Date/Time: Thursday, June 25, 2020 12:00 - 1:00 PM EST
Credential(s) eligible for contact hours: Sponsored by New England Public Health Training Center (NEPHTC), a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1 total Category I continuing education contact hour. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hour is 1. Provider ID: 1131137 Event ID: PM1131137_06252020.
If you are not seeking CHES/MCHES contact hours, if you complete the evaluation, you will receive a Certificate of Completion. The Certificate will include the length of the course.
Supplemental materials: PowerPoint
This is a demanding moment for our workforce and all of us world-wide which is requiring us to think about new ways of delivering programs and new ways of communicating with our colleagues. Within this context, participants will examine the nature of intergenerational communication in the workplace and consider their 'leadership presence' to bring out the best in everyone. The webinar will address such questions as: what kind of environment do we need to create to promote dialog? What skills do we need to do to be effective as employees and managers and why? What strategies can we put into place to align workplace expectations and further strengthen intergenerational communication in our workplace?
We know you are committed to having a vibrant public health system that provides quality health care to our communities. Come to this webinar to explore how intentionality and attentive intergenerational communication can result in a productive work environment, positive outcomes for you and your colleagues, and the communities you serve.
At the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:
Identify characteristics of different generations in the workforce and reflect on how our perceptions and beliefs affect our attitudes and behaviors
Construct your vision of a 'leadership presence' that creates a positive work environment in an intergenerational workplace
Outline strategies for fostering a productive workplace
List action steps for creating a work culture in which multiple generations can thrive in diverse work environments
Sadhana Warty Hall
Deputy Director of the Rockefeller Center
Sadhana Warty Hall is the Deputy Director of the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College. She has designed management and leadership programs that prepare Dartmouth undergraduates for entry into the workforce. Her current workplace encompasses staff from different generations. In 2015, Ms. Hall was the recipient of the Sheila Culbert Distinguished Employee Service Award given by Dartmouth College in recognition of a decade of work during which she built, broadened, and brought academic rigor to experiential learning programs that deepen students' knowledge and understanding of public policy and strengthen their leadership skills. In 2019, Ms. Hall was one out of 45 individuals worldwide to receive the Endeavour Executive Leadership Award, presented by the Australian government to leading professionals to undertake research and professional development in Australian institutions. Hall has worked for more than 20 years with communities in Asia, Pacific, and the Former Soviet Union to implement programs in health, education, agriculture, and economic development. In the US, Ms. Hall's experience includes working for the NH Department of Health and Human Services. She also served as the director of international relations with the Global Health Council, where she also directed three annual global health conferences with 1,500 participants representing 80 countries. All these experiences have sparked her interest in how we can foster vibrant intergenerational communication in the workplace. Hall holds a B.S. from the University of Delhi, India, a M.A. from the University of Rajasthan, India, and a M.P.H. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Gilling's School of Public Health.
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* Yale School of Public Health, Office of Public Health Practice, a New England Public Health Training Center partner, is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. All CHES credit inquiries are managed by YSPH
Working with the Firearms Community to Prevent Suicide
Hear how you can engage the firearm community as part of the solution to suicide prevention efforts.
Audience: Public health professionals, behavioral health, community organizations
Format: Online Webinar
Date/Time: December 11, 2019
12:00 - 1:00 PM EST
Credential(s) eligible for contact hours: Sponsored by New England Public Health Training Center (NEPHTC), a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1 total Category I continuing education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours are 1. Provider ID: 1131137 Event ID: SS1131137_WFCPS.
Competencies: Community Partnership Skills
Supplemental materials:Session PowerPoint
Pre-requisites:None
This webinar will describe the intersection of firearm safety and suicide prevention and how public health and firearm advocates have worked together on this issue. We will focus on experiences in New Hampshire where the Gun Shop Project was originally developed and how it has been implemented in a growing number of places around the county.
At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
Describe the principal commonality between the public health and firearm communities
Identify several issues in your community that may benefit from a collaborative approach
Access a variety of materials that you can utilize in your own efforts
Elaine Frank, MHS
NH Firearm Safety Coalition
Elaine Frank is an Injury Prevention and Public Health professional who has focused her work for the past ten years at the intersection of Firearm Safety and Suicide Prevention. She is the co-developer of CALM – Counseling on Access to Lethal Means – and the Co-chair of the NH Firearm Safety Coalition that created the Gun Shop Project and other efforts to engage the firearm community in preventing suicide.
Ms. Frank earned a Master of Health Sciences at Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health where she learned how and why to collaborate in order to address complex issues.
Registration and Contact Hours
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Exploring Social Determinants of Health: from Data to Action to Advance Equity (New Hampshire and National Approaches)
How can you use social determinants to strengthen community efforts to improve health outcomes in your community or organization?
Audience: Community health centers, community health workers, school staff, public health, non-profit organizations, county health departments
Length: 1 Webinar Session, 2 hour
Credential(s) eligible for contact hours: Sponsored by New England Public Health Training Center (NEPHTC), a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 2 total Category I continuing education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours are 0. Provider ID: 1131137 Event ID: SS1131137_ESDHDAA.
We know good health goes beyond medical care and is influenced by economic opportunity, affordable housing, and quality education - all factors that communities can transform. These "social determinants of health" are the focus of this talk, using data and evidence from the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps to learn how to strengthen community efforts to improve health outcomes.
In addition, learn how Carroll County Coalition for Public Health's health partners are mobilizing community-wide approaches to address housing and transportation challenges in order to affect the conditions in which all people can be healthy.
Also hear about Cheshire Medical Center's Prescribe for Health Program that uses provider referrals to Population Health Workers to more effectively connect patients to the community-based supports that will make healthier choices the easier choices, especially for those with chronic disease who are also socio-economically disadvantaged. Hear how the Monadnock Living Wage Work Group is working with area businesses to pledge to pay an entry wage equivalent of $15 by 2020.
Explore the data provided by the Rankings to understand how it affects your community
Describe the connection of social determinants to the health outcomes
Explore evidence-based resources to prepare to take action
Discuss how Carroll County Coalition for Public Health mobilized community-wide approaches to address housing and transportation challenges
Discuss how Cheshire Medical Center's Prescribe for Health Program uses provider referrals to connect patients to community-based supports.
Explore how the Monadnock Living Wage Work Group is working with area businesses to pledge to pay an entry wage equivalent of $15 by 2020.
Kitty Jerome, MA
Action Center Team Director, Coaching and Outreach
Emily Benson
Public Health Advisory Council Coordinator
Carroll County Coalition for Public Health
Ossipee, NH
Rudy Fedrizzi, MD,
Director of Clinical Integration
Center for Population Health at Cheshire Medical Center
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The Certificate of Completion will include the length of the webinar. Generally 50 – 60 minutes is equivalent to 1 contact hour. Contact hours may be applicable towards continuing education requirements for certain credentials. Check with your credentialing body to verify if the topic meets its continuing education requirements.
Lobbying and Advocacy: A Primer for New Hampshire Non-Profit Advocates
What is the difference between advocacy, direct lobbying, and grassroots lobbying?
Audience: Community health centers, community health workers, school staff, public health, non-profit organizations, legislative employees
Length: 2 hours
Credential(s) eligible for contact hours: Certificate of completion only
Competencies: Communication Skills
Companion trainings: Persuasive Communications 1, 2, 3
Supplemental materials: PowerPoint slides
What can you do as a non-profit or public health official? What are the legal sources of lobbying restrictions? What is the difference between advocacy, direct lobbying, and grassroots lobbying?
Identify the legal sources of lobbying restrictions.
Define and describe advocacy, direct lobbying, and grassroots lobbying and the difference between these terms.
Describe federal lobbying restrictions and the impact these restrictions have on public health officials and advocates in non-profits.
Describe New Hampshire laws relative to lobbying and advocacy.
Kerri McGowan Lowrey, JD, MPH
James (Jim) Monahan
The Dupont Group
COVID-19 Peer Learning and Support for Community Health Workers
Learn more about this workshop series!
How can Community Health Workers learn from and support each other to improve resilience, address burnout, and build ways to better support CHWs and their communities in the future?
*This course is available only to Community Health Workers from Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Enrollment Limit 45
Audience: This course is available to Community Health Workers from Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont
Format: Four online peer learning series workshops
Date/Time: Part 1: Monday April 27, 12pm-1:30pm ET
Part 2: Thursday May 14, 12pm-1.30pm ET
Part 3: Tuesday May 26, 12pm-1:30pm ET
Part 4: Tuesday June 16, 12pm-1.30 pm ET
Length: 4 part series, Each of the 4 workshops will last from 12:00pm-1:30pm ET
Credential(s) eligible for contact hours: If you complete the evaluation, you will receive a Certificate of Completion for each workshop. The Certificate will include the length of the course. Generally 50 – 60 minutes is equivalent to 1 contact hour and the contact hour(s) for this course may be applicable towards continuing education requirements for certain credentials. You may want to check with your credentialing body if you're unsure if this course meets its continuing education requirements.
Competencies: Workshop 1 and 2: Public Health Sciences Skills
Workshop 3: Leadership and Systems Thinking Skills
Workshop 4: Community Partnership Skills
Learning Level: Performance
Supplemental materials: Presentation materials will be available after each session. Thematic analysis of three sessions will be provided to participants.
Pre-requisites: Current position as CHW, or if furloughed from CHW work, recently furloughed
About this online peer learning series
Community Health Workers are a group of professionals who, under normal times, are generally overstretched and working with challenging populations. As the US confronts the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, these individuals deserve extra support of all kinds: emotional, informational and structural. We can learn from Community Health Worker (our peers') insights during this time. This learning experience is intended to be a conversation. The HRSA-funded New England Public Health Training Center, with its network of almost 9000 public health professionals, is working with partners from Southern New Hampshire AHEC, Mane Mobile Health and the National Association of Community Health Workers to facilitate supportive conversations and learning among Community Health Workers on the frontlines of COVID-19.
Part 1: Resiliency and Thriving in the age of COVID19 – Peer Learning and Support
How do we uncover the secret power of stress and the key to grow from resilience to thriving for ourselves and the communities we serve?
About part 1 of the series: The Resiliency to Thrive Peer Learning session can help define how each participant perceives life challenges and examine how the power of perception can enhance your resiliency factor or erode it. Resiliency can grow when one is in tune with mind and body. Raising body consciousness is a KEY for sustainable wellbeing. Now more than ever self-care has been defined as critical to our mental and physical health under the new "normal" of COVID19.
Through the peer learning process, our guided interaction and listening will allow you to:
Apply the tools of Resilience and Thriving through self-examination of events in personal and professional lives.
Evaluate the broader aspects of stress and how they can reframe stressors to strengthen their ability to flourish under challenging circumstances.
Integrate the role of stress and thriving across the National Wellness Institute's six dimensions of Wellness.
Recognize early warning signs and utilizing the core tools of the positive stress cycle
Part 2: Addressing Burnout: Peer Learning & Support for CHWs
Have you found yourself exhausted, frustrated, or discouraged by your job as a community health worker? This could be the right session for you.
About part 2 of the series: Today, burnout is an all too common experience among health care professionals, and Community Health Workers are no exception. On the front lines of providing critical services to vulnerable communities in the era of coronavirus, while often dealing with the same insecurities that their patients experience, CHWs are particularly vulnerable to stress and burnout. This session will be an opportunity to learn from other CHWs and a mental health professional on how burnout impacts our day to day work and to identify concrete strategies for self-care and peer support.
Assess yourself for the three main components of burnout
Choose one new strategy for self-care that you plan to apply to your daily routine
Examine the potential for burnout in your work environment using 6 key-factors
Investigate one new opportunity for peer support in your work environment
Part 3: Community Health Workers: Insights on Building a Movement for Health Equity and Social Justice during COVID-19
Will COVID provide the moment of equitable transformation in our systems? Will CHW drive the change?
About part 3 of the series: CHWs have many titles and roles. What is happening with CHWs in other parts of the country during COVID? Are emergency response structures changing because of new challenges and opportunities during the pandemic? This workshop will explore CHW experiences in Northern New England and some national data. The group will discuss systems changes involving CHWs needed to improve health.
Examine themes from a national survey on CHWs and their information, resource and self-care needs in the early weeks of COVID-19
Explore strategies used with public and private institutions to advocate for the role of CHWs in emergency response efforts
Discuss how to advance an equity and social justice agenda among state and national emergency response initiatives
Part 4: Using the Research Lens: Thematic Analysis of the CHW Peer Learning Sessions
What have Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont Community Health Workers expressed about resiliency for themselves and their communities, preventing burnout, and needed change over the three workshops?
About part 4 of the series: Part 4 of the series will describe the research process used to identify key themes about resiliency, burnout, and CHW needs discussed in the previous three sessions. The evaluator will share the identified themes with participants and engage the CHWs in a discussion to validate and refine the themes.
Describe the research methods used to collect and analyze data and validate findings from the three session
Describe strategies that CHWs identified to build resiliency among their clients, as well as to build resiliency and prevent burnout within the CHW workforce and needed change
Paula Smith, Co Host
Southern New Hampshire Health Education Center
Maria Reyes, SME
Seacoast Public Health Network
Ben Hummel, Co Host
Maine Mobile Health Program
Laura Valencia, SME
Denise Octavia Smith
National Association of CHW
Hope Worden Kenefick, MSW, PhD
Consultant and Evaluator
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Community Health Assessment: Using Health Models to Explore the Determinants of Health
What are the frameworks used to define the health of a population?
Format: Self-paced
Credential(s) eligible for contact hours: Sponsored by New England Public Health Training Center (NEPHTC), a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1 total Category I continuing education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours are 1. Provider ID: 1131137 Event ID: SS1131137_CHAUHME.
Supplemental materials: None
In this module you will learn that improving the health of populations is complex work and demands that we define health broadly, that we measure all aspects of health – thinking about cause and effect – and that we recognize the fact that the health system is only one part of the solution for improving health.
After completing the training, you will be able to...
Identify 5 factors that may impact the health of a community
Explain the limitations of Medical Model and Lalonde model of health.
Describe the importance of social determinants of health for a community.
Apply Evans/Stoddart model to examine the social determinants of health within a specific community.
Dorothy Bazos, PhD
Community & Family Medicine,
The Dartmouth Institute
Director, Dartmouth Population
Health Research Center
Jonathan Stewart, MA, MHA
U.S. Health Services,
Enrollment and Contact Hours
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The Certificate of Completion will include the length of the module. Generally 50 – 60 minutes is equivalent to 1 contact hour. Contact hours may be applicable towards continuing education requirements for certain credentials. Check with your credentialing body to verify if the topic meets its continuing education requirements.
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Category: Self-Paced
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