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Certified Community Health Worker Training
Resource
Become a Certified
Community Health
Worker Today!
For assistance registering for any of
the courses in this manual, register
at https://fl.train.org or contact
La Tonya Thomas,
Florida Department of Health in
Volusia County
About Community Health Workers
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In the United States, community health workers (CHWs) help us meet our national Healthy People 2020 goals by conducting community-level activities and interventions that promote health and prevent diseases and disability.
CHWs are known by various names including community health worker, community health advisor, outreach worker, community health representative (CHR), health promoter/promoters (promotora/promotore de salud), patient navigator (navegadores para pacientes), peer counselor, lay health advisor, peer health advisor, peer leader, and peer coach.
The American Public Health Association in the Community Health Workers Section is defined as:
“CHWs are frontline public health workers who are trusted members of and/or have an unusually
close understanding of the community served. This trusting relationship enables CHWs to serve as a liaison, link, or intermediary between health/social services and the community to facilitate access to services and improve the quality and cultural competence of service delivery. CHWs also build individual and community capacity by increasing health knowledge and self-sufficiency through a range of activities such as outreach, community education, informal counseling, social support, and advocacy.”
Certified Community Health Worker (CCHW) Certification in Florida The Florida Certification Board is offering the Certified Community Health Worker designation for all eligible applicants through the grandfathering period which ends June 30, 2016. A CCHW is an entry-level credential for frontline health workers who are trusted in their communities and serve as a liaisons or intermediaries between health services and other providers to improve the quality and cultural relevance of services delivered. The purpose of the grandfathering period is to provide current practitioners the opportunity to get certified without having to take additional exams.
In order to qualify for the certification, applicants must have proof of a combination of specified work and/or volunteer experience, content specific training, and letters of recommendation. Applicants must provide formal, verifiable documentation to support each requirement. For other requirements, please visit http://flcertificationboard.org/certifications/certified-community-health-worker-cchw/.
Content Specific Training Requirement Certified Community Health Workers must complete and document a minimum of 30 clock hours of training with a number of training clock hours in each performance domain as follows:
Communication & Education: 4 Clock Hours
Resources: 4 Clock Hours
Advocacy: 4 Clock Hours
Foundations of Health: 4 Clock Hours
Professional Responsibility: 4 Clock Hours Electives (may relate to any of the performance domains): 10 Clock Hours
Based on the training requirements above, we have identified courses (available in TRAIN Florida) that would help those interested in becoming a certified community health worker meet the training portion of the application. Most of the classes are available online. The Department of Health in Volusia in collaboration with other community partners will also host a one-day training session to help potential community health workers understand health outcomes, disparities and resources available in Volusia County.
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Communication & Education 4 Clock Hours Course ID: 1055547 Contact hours (2) Health Communication This course covers general steps to planning a health communication intervention, as well as how to apply health communication theory when promoting behavior change. Social marketing principles are introduced, in addition to steps to reduce the literacy burden that often restricts health communication. This course includes four tutorials titled: An Introduction to Health Communication; Health Communication and Theory; Health Literacy; and A Brief Intro to Social Marketing.
Course ID: 1022647 Contact Hours (1) The Messenger Chronicles: Effective Communication Strategies for Difficult Conversations -- Be Prepared! The “Messenger Chronicles: Effective communication strategies for difficult conversations” presents a new framework for communication in difficult situations. This framework shifts focus away from managing “difficult” people towards an understanding of the process of difficult conversations and accepting responsibility for one’s own performance.
Given realistic situations and real-world conversations, learners will experience communication strategies and practical techniques in context. The “Messenger Chronicles” is organized into a number of modules that simulate realistic conversations. Many of the conversations are split into three sections: Read, Think and Analyze. Learners will read a conversation and then will be asked to think about certain aspects of the conversation by answering questions or engaging in activities.
“Be Prepared!” presents a difficult conversation between an employee and his boss regarding a new project, which he feels was assigned to him unfairly. Throughout the conversation, the participant is prompted to analyze the approach of both the employee and his supervisor. The conversation thus provides concrete examples of good communication techniques leading to successful outcomes for both participants.
Course ID: 1050110 Contact Hours (1) Making Patient Education Communicatively Accessible SCA is designed to help people who "know more than they can say" express their opinions and feelings in a way that makes them feel valued and heard. Through the program's techniques, conversation partners such as family members, doctors, nurses, or friends, can help break down the communication barrier and help people with aphasia (and other related communication disorders) re-join life's conversations.
This webinar will introduce you to Supported Conversation for Adults with Aphasia (SCA), a program that uses a set of techniques to encourage conversation when working with someone with aphasia through: spoken and written keywords, body language and gestures, hand drawings, and detailed pictographs. Following this webinar, check out www.aphasia.ca/cop to view a self-directed learning module which will include more information on SCA, as well video clips that will demonstrate specific communication techniques.
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Course ID: 1014435 Contact Hours (.5) Culture & Health Literacy: Beyond Access This online training discusses how inequalities in health information contribute to unequal treatment and health outcomes for some populations (health disparities) and what communities can do to close the gap and improve health literacy.
Beyond Access: Inequalities in the generation, manipulation, and distribution of health information and the capacity to act on health information among social and cultural groups in the United States is discussed in an audio presentation by Dr. Kasiomayajula Viswanath. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. His research focuses on how inequalities in communication are associated with health disparities.
Course ID: 1047339 Contact Hours (3.5) Social Media in Public Health This online self-study course introduces public health professionals to digital citizenship including: Social networking, social media, digital literacy and their potential applications in public health. The course consists of seven modules:
1. Digital Citizenship: An introduction to digital citizenship 2. Social Media Basics: A brief overview of social media 3. Using Twitter: An overview of the social networking service and micro-blogging tool 4. Using Facebook: An overview of the social networking service 5. Using LinkedIn: An overview of the social networking site for business professionals 6. Using YouTube: An overview of the online video-sharing site 7. Social Media and Public Health Communication: A look at social media as a
communication tool for public health professionals
Resources 4 Clock Hours Course ID: 1060249 Contact Hours (.5) Sharing Information and Resources with Your Community Using Social Media This video is a recording of Jon Ford speaking at the St. Luke’s Health Initiatives on September 25th, 2015. Mr. Ford discusses effective ways to share information and resources with your community through social media. He presents several important rules to follow when using social media and relates them to the example of encouraging uninsured Arizonians to sign up for health insurance. At the end of this video, viewers will have a better understanding of effective ways to communicate information and resources with their community through social media use.
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Course ID: 1032605 Contact Hours (3 -4.5) Mobilizing Community Assets The overwhelming response to Building Communities from the Inside Out, authored by Jody Kretzmann and John McKnight, created a demand for additional training in the ideas, tools and methods it describes. This video training program introduces the concept of "asset-based community development" as a new and more effective method of community building. The program consists of six separate modules, each lasting 30 to 45 minutes. John McKnight and John Kretzmann present clear, practical ways to mobilize the capacities of local residents, the power of citizens' associations, and the resources of local institutions to build stronger and more vibrant communities. Course ID: 1053279 Contact Hours (1) Not Just Small Adults: Health Resources on Children in Disasters and Emergencies Archived Recording of Webinar: Needs of children in disasters and emergencies are different than adults; health officials, responders, and providers face unique challenges when planning for and providing care to children. Multiple U.S. Department of Health and Human Services agencies and funded organizations collaborated to develop a comprehensive online guide that will serve as a central source for pediatric-related disaster and emergency health information. This new resource (http://disasterinfo.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/children.html) brings into one place professional-level materials, documents, Web sites, and articles distinctly about children from authoritative sources, including government, private, non-profit and international organizations and agencies.
Learn about this robust new resource, the collaboration behind it, and how it can make your information searching more efficient.
Advocacy 4 Clock Hours Course ID: 1027678 Contact hours (2) Leadership & Advocacy – Trends and Challenges in Maternal and Child Health In 1935, Title V of the Social Security Act established a federal-state partnership to address the needs of the maternal and child health population. Over the years, though changes have occurred, Title V remains the oldest federal program dedicated to the health of all mothers and children. Strong leadership and advocacy skills are critical to the program’s success. Program faculty discussed national trends in maternal and child health, national leadership for MCH, current challenges and opportunities, and future directions. Course ID: 1032695 Contact hours (2) Family Advocacy and Involvement in Title V Programs 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. Faculty will also include a discussion of the skills and training family advocates need to be successful as well as examples of successful models for partnership between family advocates and Title V Maternal and Child Health Programs.
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Course ID: 1062340 Contact hours (.5) FDOH Introduction to Population Health This training provides a brief introduction to the concept of population health. Completion of this training will serve to meet one of the 2015-2016 performance expectations for DOH Orange staff. The training was developed by the Office of Performance and Quality Improvement. Course Objectives: At the completion of this course, the learner will be able to:
1. Describe the concept of population health. 2. Name at least 2 major social determinants of health 3. Describe how income level affects health status
Foundations of Health: 4 Clock Hours Course ID: 1022642 Contact hours (2) Understanding Preconception Health: A Course for Community Health Workers Preconception Health Cafe is a web-based course that provides an overview of the importance of preconception health. Specifically it focuses on the first six of ten "Recommendations to Improve Preconception Health and Healthcare" from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
This course has six lessons with updated health information for each CDC recommendation. Each lesson provides interactive tools and/or strategies for skills development to strengthen outreach and improve preconception health within the community. This course also includes sections on Men's Health and cultural perspectives as well as resource directories (i.e. Links Espresso and Sugar & Cream).
Course ID: 1048804 Contact hours (1) Motivational Interviewing: Supporting Patients in Health Behavior Change Course Description
This course is designed to equip healthcare providers and ancillary staff with the knowledge
and tools to optimize patient behavior change to ultimately improve health outcomes. The
following are the topics that will be covered in this course:
Components of Motivational Interviewing (MI)
Benefits of Using Motivational Interviewing
Traditional Expert-Centered Model vs. MI Patient-Centered Model
Principles of MI
Readiness to Elicit Change Talk
Course Objectives
Implement effective patient communication strategies based on individualized readiness
to make a behavior change
Increase healthcare providers’ knowledge on the importance and utilization of the
patient-centered model of behavior change
Implement motivational interviewing techniques during patient visits for improved health
outcomes
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Course ID: 1061047 Contact hours (.5) From Concepts to Practice: Health Equity, Health Inequities, Health Disparities, Social Determinants of Health By the end of this module you will be able to:
1. Define key concepts, including health equity, health inequities, health disparities, and social determinants of health.
2. Explain the relationship between health equity, health inequities, health disparities, and social determinants of health.
3. Compare and contrast the concepts of health equity, health inequities, health disparities, and social determinants of health.
4. List appropriate strategies that public health professionals can use to address health disparities and social determinants of health in order to achieve health equity.
5. Appreciate the importance of using strategies to advance health equity.
Course ID: 1058316 Contact Hours (2.5) FDOH Domestic Violence, Substance Abuse, Mental Health Disorders and Child Abuse Often the occurrences of domestic violence, substance abuse, and/or mental health disorders
are intertwined with occurrences of child abuse. This three-part course provides overviews of
substance use, domestic violence, and mental health disorders; and defines how these
conditions can heighten the risk of child abuse. The course presentations are by the Alcohol &
Drug Abuse Association, the Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and the Florida
Council for Community Mental Health.
Note: Florida State Statute, 383.402, mandates that the Florida Child Abuse review committees on the “impact of domestic violence, substance abuse, or mental health disorders when there is a co-occurrence of child abuse.” Course ID: 1051194 Contact Hours (1) FDOH Social Determinants of Health Featuring instruction by Dr. Amy Burdette, MPH FSU faculty who specializes in Social
Determinants of Health Status, will provide this in-kind training on our campus. The format will
be a 40-minute session, along with time for Q&A following the session.
Training Goal: The purpose of this presentation is to understand how and why social
statuses and social conditions shape health patterns and mortality risk. The presentation will
have broad applicability across programs areas such as health promotion, chronic disease,
social epidemiology, strategic planning, and minority health.
This presentation will help learners understand how and why social statuses and social
conditions shape health patterns and mortality risk.
Overview of areas to be included in presentation:
It is now widely accepted that chronic conditions like heart disease and cancer have
multiple causes, and not all of them are biological in origin.
Today, health professionals and health scholars recognize that social and psychological
and biological and behavioral factors influence whether a person becomes sick as well as
the form, duration, and intensity of symptoms.
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Social epidemiology is the branch of epidemiology that studies the social distribution of
health, morbidity, and mortality risk.
The social distribution is defined by social status and social conditions. Social status
indicates social position: gender, race, ethnicity, education, income, religion. Social
conditions refer to socially patterned contexts, circumstances, and environments.
Social conditions influence health by placing populations at “risk of risks,” increasing
vulnerability or susceptibility to poor health, morbidity, and mortality. Social conditions
regulate health-relevant behaviors and access to health-relevant institutions and
services.
The misery, demoralization, or distress a person feels is not the problem. It is a
consequence of the problem–social stratification and social inequality. The inequality of
misery is produced by unequal resources, opportunities, limitations, and demands.
The remainder of the talk will draw on fundamental social cause’s theory to highlight social variations (i.e., differences by race/ethnicity, gender and social class) in health across the life course
Course ID: 1044561 Contact Hours (1.5) Basic Mental Health Awareness for Educators This module is designed as an overview of the most common mental health issues facing students and appropriate classroom strategies.
After completing this module, you will be familiar with: Six common groups of disorders that may affect children and youth Signs and symptoms students may exhibit Behaviors educators may see in the classroom Some strategies to assist educators working with these students When and to whom you should report your concerns in your district Available resources
Professional Responsibility 4 Clock Hours Course ID: 1032951 Contact Hours (2) Tobacco Dependence: Foundations For a Public Health Workforce This course examines evidence about tobacco use and tobacco dependence. Examining research can help public health professionals create programs and activities that produce specific, measurable outcomes. Course ID: 1032948 Contact Hours (1.5) Tobacco Dependence: Foundations For a Public Health Workforce Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of death and disease in the United States. Each year, approximately 443,000 Americans die from tobacco-related illnesses. For every person who dies from tobacco use, 20 more people suffer with at least 1 serious tobacco-related illness. In addition, tobacco use costs the U.S. $193 billion annually in direct medical expenses and lost productivity. This course provides a foundation for understanding the public health effects and impact of tobacco use and reasons for integrating tobacco use intervention into public health programs.
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Course Objectives: Describe the human cost of tobacco use Identify at least five reasons for integrating tobacco use interventions into public health
programs and services Indicate what is reality versus myth regarding tobacco use Illustrate how the importance of counter marketing health campaigns related to tobacco
use can enhance school and community based efforts
Course ID: 1059823 Contact Hours (1) Health Literacy: What is it? Why does it matter to health disparities? What can you do about it to advance health equity? After viewing this webinar, participants should be able to:
1. Define health literacy 2. Characterize the health outcomes associated with low health literacy 3. Identify strategies to communicate with low-health-literacy audiences
Course ID: 1056515 Contact Hours (2) Recognizing the Frontline: Community Health Workers These keynote presentations originated from the Sixth Annual Community Health Worker Conference held by Spectrum Health Healthier Communities in Grand Rapids, MI on August 21, 2013. Now presented as two archived videos:
1. The Essential Role of CHWs in an Era of State and National Health Reform - The focus of this session is the essential role CHWs play in transforming health and healthcare delivery systems in the US. We discuss how CHWs are integrated into health reform locally and nationally. We explore opportunities for CHW integration into patient centered medical homes and other prevention and wellness initiatives.
2. CHWs: Champions in Achieving Health Equity and Eliminating Health Disparities - During this session we examine the critical role CHWs play in increasing access to care, providing culturally competent care and services as leaders in achieving health equity. We will discuss several models that demonstrate the effectiveness of CHWs as healthcare and public health systems navigators. CHWs are a key component of the public health and healthcare workforces as we progress the National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities.
Course ID: 1057675 Contact Hours (1) Health Literacy for Public Health Professionals The purpose of this public health literacy web-based training program is to educate public health professionals about public health literacy and their role in providing health information and services and promoting public health literacy. This web-based course uses a 508-compliant template, knowledge checks, evaluation, CE and other credits, include glossary and resources tabs, scenario-based interactions and video clips.
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Course ID: 1052084 Contact Hours (4.5) Promoting Policy and Systems Change to Expand Employment of Community Health Workers (CHWs) This course is designed to provide state programs and other stakeholders with basic knowledge about Community Health Workers (CHWs), such as official definitions of CHWs, workforce development, and other topic areas. In addition, the course covers how states can become engaged in policy and systems change efforts to establish sustainability for the work of CHWs, including examples of states that have proven success in this arena.
Course ID: 1059120 Contact Hours (4) Promoting Healthy Choices and Community Changes: An E-learning Program for Promotores De Salud Launched in June 2015, Promoting Healthy Choices and Community Changes: An E-learning Program for Promotores De Salud is designed for any promotor de salud (community health worker), regardless of years of experience or the type of outreach in which they are engaged (e.g., nutrition, cancer or diabetes) and employs case studies, pre- and post-tests, self-assessment exercises, and more. Learners will receive a Certificate of Completion upon completing each unit. Offered in English and Spanish.
ELECTIVES 10 CLOCK HOURS Unnatural Causes: The following four-hour series crisscrosses the nation uncovering startling new findings that suggest there is much more to our health than bad habits, health care, or unlucky genes. The social circumstances in which we are born, live, and work can actually get under our skin and disrupt our physiology as much as germs and viruses. These courses are available in English and Spanish with subtitles. Course ID: 1015764 Contact hours (1.2) Home Visitation Safety Online Module The module is an efficient tool to train home visitors on steps they can take to help ensure safety. Through this on-line training, participants will learn tips and strategies to help reduce and avoid threatening situations. Course ID: 1059902 Contact Hours (1) FDOH Unnatural Causes1…is inequality making us sick? Episode 1 asks, what connections exist between healthy bodies, healthy bank accounts and skin color? Follow four individuals from different walks of life to see how their position in society - shaped by social policies and public priorities - affects their health. Course ID: 1059911 Contact Hours (.5) FDOH Unnatural Causes 2: When the Bough Breaks African American infant mortality rates remain twice as high as for white Americans. Black mothers with graduate degrees face the same risk of having low birth-weight babies as white women who haven't finished high school. How might the chronic stress of racism over the life course become embedded in our bodies and increase risks?
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Course ID: 1059912 Contact Hours (.5) FDOH Unnatural Causes 3: Becoming an American Recent Mexican immigrants tend to be healthier than the average American. But the longer they're here, the worse their relative health becomes. What causes immigrants to lose their health advantage? What can we all learn about improved wellbeing from new immigrant communities? Course ID: 1059914 Contact Hours (.5) FDOH Unnatural Causes 4: Bad Sugar The O'odham Indians, living on reservations in southern Arizona, have perhaps the highest rate of Type 2 diabetes in the world. Some researchers see this as a bodily response to decades of poverty, oppression and loss. A new approach shows how self-determination and collective hope for the future is fundamental to regaining health. Course ID: 1059916 Contact Hours (.5) FDOH Unnatural Causes 5: Place Matters Increasingly, recent Southeast Asian immigrants, along with Latinos, are moving into neglected urban neighborhoods, and their health is being eroded as a result. What policies and investment decisions create living environments that harm-or enhance-the health of residents? What actions can make a difference?
Course ID: 1059918 Contact Hours (.5) FDOH Unnatural Causes 6: Collateral Damage In the Marshall Islands, local populations have been displaced from a traditional way of life by globalization and the American military presence. Now they must contend with the worst of the "developing" and industrialized worlds: infectious diseases such as tuberculosis due to crowded living conditions and extreme poverty and chronic disease stemming from the stress of dislocation and loss. Course ID: 1059920 Contact Hours (.5) FDOH Unnatural Causes 7: Not Just a Paycheck Residents of western Michigan struggle against depression, domestic violence and higher rates of heart disease and diabetes after the largest refrigerator factory in the country shuts down. Ironically, the plant is owned by a company in Sweden, where mass layoffs - far from devastating lives - are relatively benign, because of government policies that protect workers and their communities.
Course ID: 1059884 Contact Hours (1) FDOH HIV/AIDS 101 In the News This 45 minute basic HIV 101 training is for new HIV Department of Health employees. It explores the basics of the virus that causes HIV infection and AIDS. Some topics include: how the virus is transmitted, definition and stages of the disease, community based organizations, HIV communications and transmission prevention techniques and legal issues surrounding patient care and information.)
Course ID: 1014452 Contact Hours (.5) Unhealthy Coping Behaviors in Youth. Often at a very young age youth are confronted with difficult life situations and stressors. All too often youth might not have had the structure or the time to learn good coping skills to
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deal with these difficulties. Trying to ‘make it’ often leads youth to adopt unhealthy coping behaviors. Discussed in this course of four behaviors that those that work with youth need to know about and be able to recognize signs of depression, substance and alcohol abuse, physical self-injury/self-harm, suicide tendencies, and signs of eating disorders
Course ID: 1030493 Contact hours (2) Health Care Reform: An Overview of the New Legislation The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act became law in March 2010 but how many people really know how their health care coverage will be affected, and as a health care provider can you provide answers to questions patients might have? Did you know the plan will greatly expand Medicaid, while cutting from the Medicare program? The law also requires all Americans and legal citizens to have health insurance and will penalize those who are not covered. Program faculty took an in-depth look at the $870 billion dollar plan and discussed the changes it will have on health care coverage.
Course ID: 1031697 Contact Hours (1) TB 101 for Health Care Workers TB 101 for Health Care Workers is a Web-based course designed to educate health care workers about basic concepts related to TB prevention and control in the United States. The target audience for the course includes newly hired TB program staff and health care workers in areas related to TB (such as individuals who work in correctional facilities or HIV/AIDS clinics).
Course ID: 1012712 Contact Hours (3) How to Manage Conflict so it Doesn’t Manage You This course describes essential strategies to improve effectiveness when dealing with all types of interpersonal and group conflicts that may be experienced with co-workers, bosses, and employees in the workplace. With the right strategies, even conflict-avoiders and in-your-face confrontational types will learn ways to increase their chances of achieving win-win outcomes, while improving interpersonal communication in the process.
Course ID: 1045849 Contact Hours (1) The Weight of the Nation Part 1: Consequences The first film in 'The Weight of the Nation' series examines the scope of the obesity epidemic and explores the serious health consequences of being overweight or obese. Obesity is not only one of the top public health issues facing our country; it's also a threat to our nation's bottom line. Rising obesity rates threaten to drag our economy down through higher health care costs and lower productivity. Currently, 69% of American adults are overweight or obese.
Course ID: 1045857 Contact Hours (1) The Weight of the Nation Part 2: Choices The second film in the series poses a question that almost anyone who’s struggled with excess weight has asked, if only in jest: For all the remarkable high-tech tools available to medicine, for all the billions of dollars in drug research, there’s still no highly effective medication to prevent or reverse obesity – why?
The all effort to maintain a healthy weight does pay off. The Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), a large, multi-site, NIH-funded study, has shown that high-risk participants (people
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with “pre-diabetes”) who lost a modest amount of weight through changes in diet and activity levels greatly reduced their chances of developing type 2 diabetes. Course ID: 1045858 Contact Hours (1) The Weight of the Nation Part 3: Children in Crisis Childhood obesity is much more than a cosmetic concern. The health consequences of childhood obesity include greater risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma and other serious illnesses. The combination of these health effects and the dramatic increase in childhood obesity rates over the past three decades causes some experts to fear this may be the first generation of American children who will have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.
The good news is that there are resources available for concerned parents who want to help their kids. With hard work, we can improve the health of our children. The bad news is that there are many barriers to achieving these goals and, unfortunately, a lot of parents don’t yet recognize the seriousness of obesity-related health issues and the help their children need to overcome the obstacles in their environment.
Course ID: 1045859 Contact Hours (1) The Weight of the Nation Part 4: Challenges Obesity is a very serious medical condition, no longer viewed as strictly an issue of cosmetics. It’s a contributing factor in the death and disability of too many of our neighbors, friends and family members, and its societal costs are astronomical. Although overall obesity prevalence rates appear to be leveling off, there are still far too many Americans who are overweight or obese - approximately one-third of adults are obese and another third are overweight.
The battle against obesity will eventually be won - not by a “silver bullet” government program, pill or fad diet - but by the combined and diverse efforts of individuals, organizations, businesses and governments. We must attack the problem from all directions and with all the tools at our disposal, from building new parks to operating healthy food trucks, opening new grocery stores and other healthy food outlets to planting community gardens and everything in between.
Course ID: 1022214 Contact hours (6) Psychological First Aid (PFA) Online PFA online is now available on the NCTSN Learning Center! PFA online includes a 6-hour interactive course that puts the participant in the role of a provider in a post-disaster scene. This professionally-narrated course is for individuals new to disaster response who want to learn the core goals of Psychological First Aid, as well as for seasoned practitioners who want a review. It features innovative activities, video demonstrations, and mentor tips from the nation’s trauma experts and survivors. PFA online also offers a Learning Community where participants can share experiences using PFA in the field, receive guidance during times of disaster, and obtain additional resources and training. This project was funded by SAMHSA, NCPTSD, NACCHO, and OSG/OCVMRC. Free CE credits are available.
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Course ID: 1056340 Contact Hours (1) Mass Incarceration and its Effects on Population Health and Health Disparities. This webcast features the two opening addresses of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars Symposium.
1. “Mass incarceration from a criminal justice perspective,” features Marc Mauer, MSW, Executive Director of The Sentencing Project. Mr. Mauer examines the implications of mass incarceration on the social opportunities of minority populations and how it affects minority communities beyond the individuals who are incarcerated.
2. “Mass incarceration within an epidemiology framework,” features Ernest Drucker, PhD, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Family and Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Drucker describes the epidemiology of mass incarceration with an illuminating comparison to the similarities of previous disease epidemics such as cholera.
An impressive body of research has documented the connection between skyrocketing rates of incarceration and the concurrent growth of social inequality in the US. New research at the intersection of mass incarceration and population health suggests that incarceration affects the health, not only of ex-prisoners, but of their families and broader communities. Yet these findings rarely enter the population health and health disparities discourse.