Title
Category
Credits
Event date
Cost
Family Advocacy and Involvement in Title V Programs
  • General Public Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:Collaboration between Title V Maternal and Child Health Programs and family leaders provides a “win-win” opportunity to leverage programmatic expertise with families as an action arm for advocacy.  Program faculty will discuss appropriate roles for family advocates and describe the nuts and bolts structure and organization for how Title V programs can meaningfully operationalize their involvement.
Introduction to Points of Dispensing (POD)
  • Behavioral Health
  • 5.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course will familiarize POD workers and public health personnel with the basic purpose, constitution and operations of a Point of Dispensing during a disaster. This course will cover topics such as selecting and designing a site, as well as administration and logistics issues such as supplies, staff roles and training, patient flows, operations and security. Risk communication regarding POD operations will also be discussed in this course. Finally, there will be a short discussion on the closing of a POD.
Overview of Community Management of Patients in Disaster
  • General Public Health
  • 1.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:Disaster imposes adverse consequences upon community populations in several different but synergistic ways. The physical infrastructure of the community may be disrupted and it’s capability in providing basic elements of the population at risk’s Hierarchy of Needs may be impaired. Vulnerabilities inherent in the community population may be revealed as compensatory day to day practices for their mitigation are weakened or become impossible.
The Role of Health Literacy in Disaster Preparedness
  • Behavioral Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This course discusses risk communication in emergency preparedness situations such as disasters and crises. It describes how to use communications to offset threats that people experience in these situations. Common patterns such as information processing, values and emotions, as well as systems and environments are discussed. Also discussed are strategies for dealing with the media, constructing a message using the 27/9/3 rule of communication, perceptual congruence, visuals, language, anchors and framing.
Introduction to Program Monitoring and Evaluation in Maternal and Child Health: Session Two - Program Description and Logic Model
  • Maternal and Child Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This session discusses the importance of needs assessments in informing program evaluation and guiding the formulation of realistic evaluation goals and objectives. The session will also introduce the logic model as a way to articulate the components of a MCH program. Students will get to develop a logic model for the Child Wellness Program.Note: This session is part two of a six-course series.
Environmental Strike Teams
  • Behavioral Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:Environmental health practitioners have important roles and must perform a number of critical functions during emergency response such as, conducting shelter assessments, testing drinking water supplies, conducting food safety inspections, and controlling disease-causing vectors. In order to improve response times, efficiency and overall organization, some state, local and federal entities have formed environmental health response teams.
Introduction to Program Monitoring and Evaluation in Maternal and Child Health: Session Three - Process Evaluation
  • Maternal and Child Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This session discusses the importance of process evaluation in understanding the context of program implementation. This session will introduce the Family Nurse Partnership program to illustrate process evaluation findings. Students will get to formulate process evaluation questions and indicators for the Child Wellness Program.Note: This session is part three of a six-course series.
Introduction to Program Monitoring and Evaluation in Maternal and Child Health: Session Four - Outcome Evaluation
  • Maternal and Child Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This session discusses the importance of outcome evaluation in establishing a causal link between an intervention and observed results. The first part of this session will focus on identifying proper outcome measures; the second part will focus on the different types of evaluation designs. Students will get to formulate outcome evaluation questions and identify an evaluation design for the Child Wellness Program.Note: This session is part four of a six-course series.
Introduction to Program Monitoring and Evaluation in Maternal and Child Health: Session Five - Data Collection
  • Maternal and Child Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This session discusses the issues to consider when making decisions about data collection. It will survey the most common data collection methods used in the evaluation of MCH programs. Students will get to outline a data collection plan for the Child Wellness Program.Note: This session is part five of a six-course series.
Introduction to Program Monitoring and Evaluation in Maternal and Child Health: Session Six - Analyze and Disseminate Findings
  • Maternal and Child Health
  • 2.00 Participation/CE
$0.00
Course Description:This session discusses the analysis and use of program evaluation findings. This session provides strategies and steps to analyze quantitative and qualitative data and to disseminate findings. Students will get to develop a dissemination matrix for the Child Wellness Program.  Note: This session is final session of a six-course series.

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