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Welcome to the February 2019 New York State Department of Health’s e-Distance Learning Newsletter.

In this issue, you will find dates & times for upcoming live trainings, webcasts, webinars, on demand webcasts, and on demand webinars, many available on the www.NYLearnsPH.com Learning Management System (LMS). If you have questions or issues accessing the LMS, or if you need assistance enrolling in any of the programs, please contact the NYSDOH Office of Public Health Practice at edlearn@health.ny.gov.

Check back next month. Some Live Webinars will appear as enduring material in the LMS.

February 2019

Calendar List of Live Events Provider Air Date Air Time LMS Course # Page

NEW 2 Part Collective Impact Modules

Region 2 PHTC &

NYSDOH OnDemand - See page 2 2

Strategies To Increase Adult Vaccination Rates NFID 6-Feb 12-1pm NFID-20190206 3

Clinical Update: Cholera Vaccine for Travelers CDC 7-Feb 2-3pm LIVE WEBINAR 3

CDC Public Health Grand Rounds A Renewed Commitment to Prevent Childhood Lead Exposure in the post-Flint Era

CDC 12-Feb 1-2pm CDC-

PHGR201902 4

Multi-sector Alliances in the Post-Affordable Care Act Era: Key Patterns and Trends

SFA 13-Feb 12-1pm SFA-20190213 4

Perspectives on Oropharyngeal Cancer: Scientific Overview, Clinical Expertise, and Personal Experience

CDC 13-Feb 2-3pm CDC-20190213 4

Creating Safer Streets for All America Walks

13-Feb 2-3pm LIVE WEBINAR 5

The Power of Relationship Education for Student Success Dibble

Institute 13-Feb 4-5pm LIVE WEBINAR 5

Guidelines-Based Asthma Care Coverage in Medicaid: New Tools for Stakeholders

American Lung

Association 19-Feb 2-3pm LIVE WEBINAR 5

Public Health Live! New York State's Public Health Approach to Alzheimer's Disease

UAlbany SPH

21-Feb 9-10am UASPH-

PHL20190221 6

See list of OnDemand Trainings on page 2

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ON DEMAND Provider Format LMS Course # Page

OnDemand webinars from January 2019 - OnDemand - See pages 7-8 7-8

Public Health and Climate Change Webinar Series from NYSDOH & Reg2PHTC

Reg2PHTC Online

Courses — See page 9 9

Health Outcomes and Treatment for Childhood Asthma CDC Online Course

— See page 10 10

Measuring Health Disparities Course from Michigan Public Health Training Center

MPHTC Online Course

— MPHTC-Disparities 11

Region2PHTCSeries: Strategies to Advance Health Equity Modules & Mental Emotional Behavioral & PH Webinars

Reg2PHTC Online

Courses — See page 12 12

2018 Versions of Mandated Continuing Education Programs for Public Health Nurse 2 (PHN2) & Supervising Public Health Nurse (SPHN)

NYSDOH OnDemand - - 13

Collective Impact Part I: Common Agenda and Shared Measures

Enroll in the LMS course: Reg2PHTC-CI1

This module is part one of a two-part introductory series to the Collective Impact framework. In this module, participants will gain an understanding of what Collective Impact is and how it can be used to advance public health initiatives. Addi-tionally, participants will be introduced to the first two conditions of the Collective Impact framework--Common Agenda and Shared Measures.

Collective Impact Part 2: Mutually Reinforcing Activities, Continuous Communication, and Backbone Support

Enroll in the LMS course: Reg2PHTC-CI2

In this module, participants build upon the lessons of part one by learning about the last three conditions of the Collective Impact framework--mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication, and backbone support. Participants will explore best practices of each of these conditions in order to advance public health initiatives.

Two NEW Modules from Region 2 Public Health Training Center 1 CHES or CPH credit each

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NFID-20190206

Strategies To Increase Adult Vaccination Rates

Wednesday, February 6, 2019

12-1pm

Provider: National Foundation for Infectious Dis-

eases

To view the live webinar, please register here

To view the webinar recording at a later date, Enroll in the LMS course: NFID-20190206

Join the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) for an update on current US adult vaccination recommendations and strategies for increasing coverage among this population NFID Medical Director William Schaffner, MD will moderate the webinar with a presentation by Robert H. Hopkins, Jr., MD, Chair, National Vaccine Advisory Committee (NVAC); Professor of Inter-nal Medicine and Pediatrics and Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Scienc-es (UAMS) College of Medicine. At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Summarize and describe the rationale for US adult immuniza-

tion recommendations

• Apply strategies for implementation of Advisory Committee on

Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommendations into practice

LIVE WEBINAR

Clinical Update: Cholera Vaccine for Travelers

Thursday, February 7, 2019

2-3pm

Provider: Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

A few minutes before the webinar begins, please

click the link below to join:

https://zoom.us/j/883825945

Cholera is a disease spread by drinking water or eating food con-taminated with toxigenic Vibrio cholerae bacteria. Severe cholera is characterized by large amounts of watery diarrhea, often described as “rice-water stool” because it can have a pale, milky appearance. It can also be accompanied by nausea and vomiting. If untreated, the loss of fluid can be deadly. But simple treatment, including re-placing lost body fluids, can lower mortality to less than 1%. From 2010 through 2014, 91 cases of cholera were confirmed in the Unit-ed States among people who had traveled internationally in the week before illness onset. Of these, 75% were associated with travel to the Caribbean, and 10% were associated with travel to India or Pakistan. Cholera can be prevented by heeding food and water precautions and receiving cholera vaccine before travel.

During this COCA Call, CDC travel medicine subject matter expert and infectious diseases physician Dr. Kristina Angelo and food and water expert Dr. Erin Conners will

• Highlight critical information about cholera biology and preven-

tion;

• Discuss strategies primary care providers and medical subspe-

cialists can use to decrease the likelihood of cholera illness in their patients; and

• Review CDC resources on the epidemiology of cholera vaccine

to use in clinical decision making about offering vaccine to patients.

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CDC-PHGR201902

CDC Public Health Grand Rounds A Renewed Commitment to Prevent Childhood Lead Exposure in the post-Flint Era

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

1-2pm

Provider: Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

To view the live webinar, click here

To view the webinar recording at a later date, Enroll in the LMS course: CDC-PHGR201902

Over the past 40 years, exposure to lead has declined in the U.S. However, millions are still being exposed in their homes and envi-ronment. Lead exposure can seriously harm a child’s health and there is no safe blood lead level in children. Yet more than 500,000 U.S. children have elevated blood lead levels.

SFA-20190213

Multi-sector Alliances in the Post-Affordable Care Act Era: Key Patterns and Trends

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

12-1pm

Provider: Systems for Action

To view the live webinar, please register here

To view the webinar recording at a later date, Enroll in the LMS course: SFA-20190213

In addition to health insurance coverage expansions, the Affordable Care Act and related federal and state reforms have ushered in an era of new resources and incentives for hospitals, insurers and oth-er organizations to engage in community-wide efforts to improve health. These incentives include enhanced hospital community benefit requirements, adjusted medical loss ratio requirements for health insurers, value-based payment models for providers, tax incentives for employers, and direct federal funding through the Prevention and Public Health Fund. Relatively little is known about how healthcare and community organizations have responded to these policy changes and their interaction with coverage expan-sions. This study follows a national cohort of U.S. communities dur-ing 2006-18 to (1) estimate changes in public health spending and multi-sector alliances that support population health activi-ties in the post-ACA era; (2) identify ACA-related policies associat-ed with changes in alliances and spending across states and com-munities; and (3) explore how coverage expansions may interact with other ACA-related policies in shaping multi-sector alliances and contributions to population health activities. This research is supported collaboratively by Altarum’s RWJF-sponsored Research to Advance Health Reform program and the RWJF Systems for Action program.

CDC-20190213

Perspectives on Oropharyngeal Cancer: Scientific Overview, Clinical Expertise, and Personal Experience

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

2-3pm

Provider: Centers for Disease Control and Pre-

vention

To view the live webinar, please register here

To view the webinar recording at a later date, Enroll in the LMS course: CDC-20190213

As a result of this webinar, the participant will be able to:

• Understand the burden and epidemiology of oropharyngeal

cancer as well as the natural history from HPV infection to oro-pharyngeal cancer.

• Understand the difference between oral cancers and oropha-

ryngeal cancers.

• Learn how to address common questions about oropharyngeal

cancer and HPV vaccine.

• Understand the process of diagnosis, treatment, and recovery

from oropharyngeal cancer from a cancer survivor’s perspec-tive.

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LIVE WEBINAR

Creating Safer Streets for All

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

2-3pm

Provider: America Walks

To view the live webinar, please register here

Even one life lost is too many. Pedestrian safety is a critical part of planning for healthy, active, and engaged communities. At America Walks, we believe that a safe systems approach and built environ-ment interventions are important to achieving fewer pedestrian inju-ries and fatalities. Join us to learn about resources and ideas to improve safety with this webinar. This webinar assumes a basic knowledge of issues related to walking and walkable communities.

LIVE WEBINAR

Guidelines-Based Asthma Care Coverage in Medicaid: New Tools for Stakeholders

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

2-3pm

Provider: American Lung Association

To view the live webinar, please register here

Please join the American Lung Association on Tuesday, February 19, 2019 at 1:00 pm CT for a webinar discussing new resources from the Asthma Guidelines-Based Care Coverage Project. These resources are designed to help public health professionals working on asthma collaborate with state Medicaid programs, managed care plans, and other stakeholders to close the gaps between the current guidelines for asthma care and state Medicaid coverage. Topics include:

• Medicaid managed care and its impact on asthma care cover-

age

• The return on investment of guidelines-based asthma care cov-

erage

• How to find publicly available information about coverage of

guidelines-based asthma treatments and services.

• National trends in barriers to asthma care in 2017-2018 and

why these barriers create problems for asthma patients.

LIVE WEBINAR

The Power of Relationship Education for Student Success

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

4-5pm

Provider: The Dibble Institute

To view the live webinar, please register here

Marline Pearson, author of Love Notes and Relationship Smarts PLUS, will make the case why a 4th R is needed for increasing stu-dent success. Learn why relationship education must be a central tool to help young people reach their school, work, and family goals by increasing their agency over their love lives. She will cover re-cent research and share evidence-based solutions to the pressing problems that face today’s youth. Objectives: 1. Identify at least 2 key reasons why relationship education is key to helping students succeed. 2. Describe current trends that could be reversed by teaching relationship education. 3. Identify 2 evidence based strat-egies that could be implemented to help students succeed. Pre-senter: Marline E. Pearson, M.A., Author, Love Notes and Relation-ship Smarts PLUS. Who should attend: Healthy marriage and healthy relationship organization grantees, staff, evaluators, policy makers; teen pregnancy and dating violence prevention practition-ers, Extension professionals, health educators, family stabilization staff, anyone with interest in youth and relationship education.

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UASPH-PHL20190221

Public Health Live! New York State's Public Health Approach to Alzheimer's Disease

Thursday, February 21, 2019

9-10am

Provider: UAlbany School of Public Health

To view the live webinar, please register here

To view the webinar recording at a later date, Enroll in the LMS course: UASPH-PHL20190221

Speakers:

Mary P. Gallant, PhD, MPH

Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Professor of Health Policy, Management and Behavior

University at Albany School of Public Health

Meghan Fadel

Director of Evaluation and Collaborative Projects

Bureau of Community Integration and Alzheimer’s Disease

Division of Long Term Care

New York State Department of Health

The Alzheimer’s Disease Caregiver Support Initiative (ADCSI) is a

5-year grant initiative funded through New York State Department

of Health and designed to support caregivers and people with de-

mentia in the community using evidence-based strategies. The

ADCSI takes a two-pronged, systems approach to the invest-

ment—both focusing on community support while also equipping

the medical system to provide early diagnoses, quality care man-

agement, and linkages to community services.

This webcast will profile the New York State’s Alzheimer’s Disease

Caregiver Support Initiative, including information on how to access

services or refer to service providers in any area of the state. The

speakers will share details on emerging findings from a multi-level

evaluation being carried out by the University at Albany School of

Public Health in collaboration with the New York State Department

of Health. The webcast will include discussion of what the evalua-

tion findings mean for New York State and the future of Alzheimer’s

disease programs and policy.

After viewing the webcast, participants will be able to:

• Describe the NYSDOH Caregiver Support Initiative

• List emerging findings from the evaluation of the NYSDOH

Caregiver Support Initiative

• Discuss policies relevant to Alzheimer’s disease and caregiving

in New York State

Target Audience: Physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, local health department staff, community health work-ers, pharmacists, social workers and others that work with families providing care for people with Alzheimer’s disease.

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New OnDemand Webinars from January 2019

Available on the NYLearnsPH.com LMS

CDC-PHGR20190115

CDC’s Public Health Grand Rounds: Preventing Cervical Cancer in the 21st Century

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Provider: Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention

Enroll in the LMS course: CDC-PHGR20190115

CDC Public Health Grand Rounds is a monthly scientific presenta-tion featuring the important work that CDC is doing in the United States and around the world to protect people and save lives. Ex-perts discuss major public health issues, key challenges, cutting-edge scientific evidence, potential solutions, and recent develop-ments. Each session is the result of a rigorous process which takes months to prepare. This attention to detail ensures that our audi-ences receive up-to-date, scientifically accurate, and usable infor-mation. Grand Rounds welcomes clinicians, researchers, students of public health, medicine and nursing, and the public that we serve to watch the live webcast.

UASPH-PHL20190117

Public Health Live! Pharmacists: Indispensable in Managing Chronic Disease

Thursday, January 17, 2019

Provider: UAlbany School of Public Health

Enroll in the LMS course: UASPH-PHL20190117

Speakers:

Katie Cardone, PharmD, BCACP, FCCP

Co-Director, Pre-Pharmacy Program

Associate Professor

Department of Pharmacy Practice

Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

Krystal Scofield, PharmD, AE-C

Public Health Pharmacist

The Collaboratory @ Albany College of Pharmacy and Health

Sciences

Nearly 40% of New Yorkers live with a chronic disease including

cardiovascular disease and diabetes. To manage these chronic

diseases, adults on average fill about 12 prescriptions annually,

with adults over age 65 filling around 30 prescriptions a year. This

provides opportunities for pharmacists to interact with individuals

regularly, yet pharmacists are often underutilized. Pharmacists can

support people with diabetes and cardiovascular disease, including

hypertension and high cholesterol, by monitoring their medication

use patterns, identifying the social determinants affecting an indi-

vidual’s health (e.g., poverty, education, access to healthy foods,

etc.), supporting home blood pressure monitoring and referring pa-

tients to resources for education and community support. This

webcast will demonstrate how this indispensable role of the phar-

macist rounds out a health care team.

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The Climate and Health Team at the New York State Department of Health has developed two new courses to describe the adverse health effects climate can have on health and to prepare pub-lic health leaders in the field. As climate change becomes more apparent, extreme weather events and natural disasters are expected to increase in size and intensity. It is crucial that public health leaders are prepared for the impacts climate change may have on their programs and the people they serve.

“Heat and Health in New York State” is intended to educate social service providers and commu-nity leaders in preventing heat’s adverse health effects among vulnerable populations. “WIC and Climate Change in New York State” describes the impacts of climate change and what it may mean for WIC programs. Both courses provide evidence of the climate changing, how people may be affected, and resources or mitigation strategies in response to the changing climate.

Visit the course pages to learn more.

Heat and Health in New York State Enroll in LMS: NYSDOH-Climate1

WIC and Climate Change in New York State Enroll in LMS: NYSDOH-Climate2

Prerequisite: Climate Change and Public Health 101 - Northeast Edition

20 minute online course! This course focuses on the public health impacts from climate change that are of most concern to the Northeast and what local health departments can do to mitigate and prevent them.

Enroll in LMS: BRACE-Climate101

Webinar 1 - NYS Department of Health: Climate & Health Profile (Originally Aired March 30, 2016)

Presenter: Asante Shipp Hilts

The webinar will describe the changing NYS climate, climate-related health impacts, vulnerable populations, methods for assessing vulnerability, challenges and opportunities, existing NYS initiatives and collaborations, and implementation of the NYSDOH Climate and Health Strategic Map.

Enroll in LMS: Reg2PHTC-Climate1

Webinar 2 - Climate & Health Research in NYS / Hazard Vulnerability Analysis Process in IL (Originally Aired April 13, 2016)

Presenters: Dr. Shao Lin, University at Albany, School of Public Health; Elena Grossman, University of Illinois at Chicago, BRACE-Illinois Project

Enroll in LMS: Reg2PHTC-Climate2

Webinar 3 - Originally Aired April 19, 2016)

resenter: Dr. Partha Sarthi Ganguly, Indian Institute of Public Health, Gandhinagar, Climate Health Initia-tives

Enroll in LMS: Reg2PHTC-Climate3

NEW CLIMATE AND HEALTH COURSES

PUBLIC HEALTH AND CLIMATE CHANGE WEBINAR SERIES

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Did You Forget Your LMS Password?

Just click to retrieve your username or reset your password.

• Username Retrieval will ask for your last name, your first name, and the email address you used to open your account.

• Password Retrieval will ask for your Username and send you to your 3 secret questions.

If you have any trouble, email edlearn@health.ny.gov

or call Abbey Greenbaum or Tom Reizes at 518-473-4223.

Health Outcomes and Treatment for Childhood Asthma

CDC’s MMWR and Medscape are proud to introduce a new FREE continuing education (CE) activity that describe trends and demographic differences in health outcomes and healthcare use for childhood asthma, based on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analysis of asthma data from the 2001-2016 National Health Interview Survey for children 17 years and younger. This activity is intended for pediatricians, pulmonologists, public health officials, nurses, and other clinicians caring for patients with childhood asthma.

Upon completion of this activity, participants will

1. Distinguish demographic differences in prevalence, health outcomes, and healthcare use for childhood asthma,

based on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analysis of asthma data from the 2001-2016 National Health Interview Survey for children 17 years and younger

2. Describe temporal trends in health outcomes and healthcare use for childhood asthma, based on the CDC analysis

of asthma data

3. Determine the clinical implications of trends and demographic differences in health outcomes and healthcare use for

childhood asthma

To access this FREE MMWR / Medscape CE activity visit https://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/895747. If you are not a registered user on Medscape, you may register for free and get unlimited access to all continuing education activities and other Medscape features.

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MEASURING HEALTH DISPARITIES

This interactive course focuses on some basic issues for public health practice - how to understand, define and measure health disparity. We examine the language of health disparity to come to some common understanding of what that term means, explain key measures of health disparity and show how to calculate them. The course provides a durable tool that is useful to daily activities in the practice of public health. This training was originally released in 2005. Given its success as a foundational resource, updates were made in 2017

for this improved, web-based version.

Audience The course is designed to be accessible to a broad audience of practitioners across all sectors of the public health and related workforce who are concerned about the issue of health disparity. Parts III and IV are more technical; although not required, it is helpful to have a background in statistics, epidemiology, or other related sciences for ease of understand-ing these sections. Learning Objectives By the end of the first content section (which includes Part I What are Health Disparities? and Part II Issues in Measuring Health Disparities), you will be able to:

• Identify the dimensions of health disparity as described in Healthy People 2020

• List three definitions of health disparity

• Interpret health disparity in graphical representations of data

• Explain relative and absolute disparity

• Describe how reference groups can affect disparity measurement

By the end of the second content section (which includes Part III Measures of Health Disparities and Part IV Analytic Steps in Measuring Health Disparity), you will be able to:

• Describe at least three complex measures of health disparities

• List strengths and weaknesses of at least three health disparity measures

• Summarize the analytic steps in measuring health disparity

What this means for you: Anyone can participate in this course at no cost. Continuing education credits are available for $9 and only available to those who have not already completed the original version of the course. 3.0 Nursing Contact Hours 3.0 CHES Category I CECH Certificate of Completion The Michigan Public Health Training Center at the University of Michigan School of Public Health is accredited as a pro-vider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Nursing contact hours expire March 31, 2019.

The Michigan Public Health Training Center is a designated provider (ID# 99038) of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc.

Enroll in the LMS course: MPHTC-Disparities

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Strategies to Advance Health Equity Module Series

Strategies to Advance Health Equity: How Health Departments Can Promote Living Wages

Enroll in LMS course: Reg2PHTC-AdvHealthEq1

Strategies to Advance Health Equity:

Understanding and Influencing Corporate Practices of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Food and Beverage Industries to Promote Health

Enroll in LMS course: Reg2PHTC-AdvHealthEq2

Strategies to Advance Health Equity: How Health Departments Can Protect the Health of Immigrants

Enroll in LMS course: Reg2PHTC-AdvHealthEq3

Strategies to Advance Health Equity: How Health Departments Can Use Countermarketing to Address Tobacco, Alcohol and Unhealthy Food

Enroll in LMS course: Reg2PHTC-AdvHealthEq4

Strategies to Advance Health Equity: How Health Departments Can Grow a Healthy Public Food Sector

Enroll in LMS course: Reg2PHTC-AdvHealthEq5

Strategies to Advance Health Equity: State and Local Health Departments Role in Improving Food Access among Immigrants

Enroll in LMS course: Reg2PHTC-AdvHealthEq6

Mental Emotional Behavioral and Public Health Webinar Series

Public Health Approaches to Mental Health Literacy

Enroll in LMS: Reg2PHTC-MEBH1

Family Engagement Tools to Help Support Individuals with Behavioral Health Needs

Enroll in LMS: Reg2PHTC-MEBH2

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Research & Implications: Interview

Enroll in LMS: Reg2PHTC-MEBH3

Role of Behavioral Health in Medicaid Managed Care

Enroll in LMS: Reg2PHTC-MEBH4

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ATTENTION LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT (LHD) STAFF

2018 Versions of Mandated Continuing Education for Staff in the following titles:

· Public Health Nurse 2 (PHN2)

· Supervising Public Health Nurse (SPHN)

BACKGROUND: The New York State Sanitary Code requires all staff hired, to the above titles, after August 20, 2008 must complete 15 credits of continuing education within the first year of employ-ment. In 2008, Continuing Education (CE) Programs were developed to meet the continuing educa-tion requirement for these three titles, free of charge. The CE Programs for these titles were recently revised to provide updated course content.

These NEW Continuing Education (CE) Programs for 2018 replace all previous versions. If you were hired under one of these titles after August 20, 2008 –AND– have not yet completed the CE Programs for your title, then you will need to enroll in and complete the ALL NEW 2018 version of the programs.

Visit: https://www.nylearnsph.com/Public/Catalog/program.aspx

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQs)

Q: What if I am currently enrolled in Continuing Education (CE) Programs for PHEd, PHN2

and/or SPHN Titles?

A: You can contact LMS Administration at edlearn@health.ny.gov or call 518-473-4223 and speak with Tom Reizes who can review your progress /status in the

program.

Q: Why have a new version of the CE Programs?

A: CE Programs have been updated to include new courses that have been devel-oped to better address the professional competency standards, address outdat-

ed content and meet the needs of staff new to the title in question.

Q: Will there be over-lap in the coursework required by the old and new CE Programs? If

yes, will I receive credit for common courses that I have already completed?

A: Yes, in some cases there will be overlap. For any courses that are common to both the old and newer versions of a CE Program in question your enrollment /completion status will be maintained.

If you have any other questions regarding either of these CE Programs how to complete a program; if you having difficulty enrolling in and/or completing existing programs or any courses included within the programs, please email: edlearn@health.ny.gov or call 518-

473-4223 and speak with Tom Reizes or Abbey Greenbaum.