Category: Problem Solving

Strategic Skill Area

Community Engagement: The People’s Approach to Improving Health and Social Outcomes

Course Objective

Define community engagement
Discuss why community engagement is critical in advancing health and social equity
Describe the role of local health departments (LHDs) in engaging local communities and their leaders in the design, implementation, and evaluation of health interventions and policies
List best practices, strategies, and participatory processes for community dialogue and engagement
Discuss ways to integrate community engagement in public health practice

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Date: June 30th 2021

Subject Matter Expert:
Renata Schiavo, PhD, MA, CCL
Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University; Founder and Board President, Health Equity Initiative; Principal, Strategies for Equity and Communication Impact (SECI)

This course developed by the Region 2 Public Health Training Center (PHTC) focuses on community engagement, and the role of local health departments in engaging local communities. It focuses on strategies for “true” community engagement, which is about collaborating with and empowering local communities, and recognizing the expert in every community member and every leader representing the community. It also provides an overview of case studies, best practices and strategies for community dialogue and engagement and/or integrating community engagement in public health practice.

Participants will be able to:

Define community engagement
Discuss why community engagement is critical in advancing health and social equity
Describe the role of local health departments (LHDs) in engaging local communities and their leaders in the design, implementation, and evaluation of health interventions and policies
List best practices, strategies, and participatory processes for community dialogue and engagement
Discuss ways to integrate community engagement in public health practice

Succession Planning and Workforce Development for Public Health Agencies

Course Objective

Define “succession planning” for public health agencies
Present the reasons for a succession planning process in public health agencies, even during challenging times
Explain the key elements of the succession planning process
Link the elements of change management to organizational succession planning
Clarify the critical success factors for succession planning in public health

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Date: June 30th 2021

Subject Matter Expert:
Emil J. Sadloch
President, Sadloch Development Associates & Instructor for Rutgers University’s Executive and Professional Education, School of Public Health, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences

The Strategic Skills Training Series developed by the Region 2 PHTC aims to help prepare public health leaders and the public health workforce to develop the practices and competencies associated with being a Chief Health Strategist.

This course describes how health departments can undertake succession planning and workforce development efforts, even during ‘VUCA’ (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) times, using a case study approach set in the fictitious Tycho County.

Recommended Pre-Requisites:

Participants will be able to:

Define “succession planning” for public health agencies
Present the reasons for a succession planning process in public health agencies, even during challenging times
Explain the key elements of the succession planning process
Link the elements of change management to organizational succession planning
Clarify the critical success factors for succession planning in public health

Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Course Objective

Explain regulatory updates regarding buprenorphine treatment during a public health emergency
Describe practice-level changes in buprenorphine treatment throughout COVID-19
Discuss common issues affecting patients in buprenorphine treatment during COVID-19

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Date: July 7th, 2020

Presenter:
Tiffany Lu, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Montefiore Medical Center / Albert Einstein School of Medicine

In this month’s Log-in2Learn Dr. Tiffany Lu provides an overview of buprenorphine treatment prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges associated with treatment for opioid use disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Lu describes the communities hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and how the pandemic paved the way for regulation updates regarding buprenorphine treatment such as reduced restrictions and an increased use of telemedicine to treat opioid use disorders. The webinar also addresses some other measures put in place with buprenorphine treatment due to the public health emergency, including: longer prescriptions, halted urine drug testing (self reports), access to naloxone and harm reduction supplies. The presenter also shares available resources to support clinical providers as they face the challenges associated with buprenorphine treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Participants will be able to:

Explain regulatory updates regarding buprenorphine treatment during a public health emergency
Describe practice-level changes in buprenorphine treatment throughout COVID-19
Discuss common issues affecting patients in buprenorphine treatment during COVID-19

Shifting the Narrative: Trauma Informed Care to Systems Change

Course Objective

Develop a shared understanding of the importance of viewing trauma on a systems level
Identify how to utilize trauma informed principles in organizational policy and program development
Explain the stages of trauma informed organizational change development and implementation

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Date: March 3rd, 2020

Presenter:
Ali Mateo Belen, MSW
Trainer and Principle Consultant
A Mateo Consulting

This month’s Log-in2Learn Webinar takes a look at trauma-informed principles and procedures, encouraging organizations and systems to acknowledge and recognize the trauma that individuals experience. Participants will learn how understanding individual trauma/manifestations of trauma, reflect in the way systems are able to give care to clients and workers within the organization. Participants will also be able to differentiate between policies and practice and learn ways to implement practices that not only benefit clients, but also benefit employees.

Participants will learn how to:

Develop a shared understanding of the importance of viewing trauma on a systems level
Identify how to utilize trauma informed principles in organizational policy and program development
Explain the stages of trauma informed organizational change development and implementation

Building Logic Models

Course Objective

Construct a public health program logic model based on given program information

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Date: December 14, 2018

Presenter:
New York City-Long Island-Lower Tri-County Public Health Training Center with revisions made by the Region 2 Public Health Training Center

In this training program, participants will build a logic model based on a scenarios related to improving access to healthy food in underserved neighborhoods. Participants will be asked to create a logic model based on components in the scenario and will be able to compare their logic model to an expert logic model.

Advanced Program Evaluation

Course Objective

Appreciate that a comprehensive evaluation plan addresses a program logic, stakeholders, evaluation questions and evaluation design.
Assess advantages and limitations of evaluation designs, including randomized, quasi-experimental and pre-post designs.
Appraise and compare options for data collection methods, measures and sampling strategies.
Identify and address associated threats to validity.
Identify strategies for addressing budget, time, data and political constraints in evaluation practice.

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Date: December 14, 2018

Presenter:
New York City-Long Island-Lower Tri-County Public Health Training Center with revisions made by the Region 2 Public Health Training Center

*This course is Certified Quality through the Public Health Learning Navigator, an initiative of the Public Health Learning Network (PHLN) and National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI).

Learners will take on the role of a staff member at the Middleton County Health Department who is tasked with helping to develop an evaluation plan for an obesity-prevention program recently launched in Middleton County. Using the CDC Program Evaluation Framework, learners will connect each step of the framework with a section of the evaluation plan, going into detailed discussion about: incorporating stakeholders, logic models and evaluation questions in the process; characteristics of different research designs for evaluation and considerations for choosing an appropriate design; options for data collection methods and sampling; and thinking through threats to validity. Additionally, the learner will review strategies for conducting rigorous evaluations within constraints of budget, time, and resources.

Data-Based Decision-Making Using Data to Intervene for Maternal and Child Health – Part Two in a Series

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Course Objective

Identify sources of evidence-based interventions/promising practices.
Define and develop SMART objectives, for outcome evaluation.
Use progress and outcome measures in program monitoring and evaluation.

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Date: April 10, 2018

Presenter:
Michael Medvesky
Director
Public Health Information Group, New York State Department of Health

The purpose of this training is to inform public health professionals how to use data to shape needs assessments, develop public health programs, and provide a framework for program evaluation. In Part Two of this series, learners will take advantage of readily available data sources to explore interventions and programs to address public health issues in maternal and child health using Columbia County, NY as a case study.

Data-Based Decision-Making Using Data to Intervene for Maternal and Child Health – Part One in a Series

Course Objective

Identify and locate sources of Maternal and Child Health data in New York State, at state, county, and sub-county levels.
Use descriptive epidemiology (person, place, and time) in needs assessment and program targeting.
Use data to identify high-risk populations in population for program targeting

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Date: April 10, 2018

Presenter:
Michael Medvesky
Director
Public Health Information Group, New York State Department of Health

The purpose of this training is to inform public health professionals how to use data to shape needs assessments, develop public health programs, and provide a framework for program evaluation. In Part One of this series, learners will take advantage of readily available data sources to begin planning and implementing a successful health program related to issues in maternal and child health using Columbia County, NY as a case study.

Lead in Drinking Water: Preventing Exposure to Children in the Post-Flint Era

Course Objective

Recognize past crises where lead has impacted the safety of drinking water in the United States
Identify exposure-prevention measures that can be applied in institutions such as schools, childcare centers and summer camps

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Date: November 2, 2017

Presenter:
Howard N. Apsan, Ph.D.
University Director
Environmental, Health, Safety, and Risk Management, City University of New York

This webinar will provide background on the Flint, Michigan water crisis and other cases of impacted drinking water. It will also review the preventive efforts in place in New York and explore the initiatives being implemented to ensure that preschool and K-12 students are protected. Finally, it will provide guidance on how institutions serving children—public schools, child care centers, camps, after school programs and others—can prevent exposure of these vulnerable populations to elevated lead levels.

Communicable Disease: Public Health Response and Investigation

Course Objective

Provide a description of public health principles and the structure of public health at the federal, state and local level.
Explain how local and state public health partners and New Jersey state laws and regulations guide communicable disease response and investigation.
Apply applicable public health and epidemiology principles to a case study.

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Date: November 22, 2016

Presenter:
Sonya E. Frontin
Epidemiologist
Regoinal Epidemiology Program, EEOH/Communicable Disease Service
New Jersey Department of Health

This presentation will begin with a review of Public Health and its structure at the federal; state and local level. The New Jersey Department of Health Communicable Disease Service works closely with local county and municipal health departments and how that is done will be explained. There will be a review of the roles and responsibilities that guide reporting and investigation of communicable diseases throughout the state of New Jersey. The presentation will close with a review of a case study of a Campylobacteriosis outbreak investigation at a residential school in New Jersey- reviewing the guidelines used in communicable disease investigation.