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Early New Resources and Creative Strategies for Recruiting Candidates for Health Departments This training has an emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion in recruitment for health departments. The training covers understanding candidate motivation, developing effective recruitment materials, and how emphasizing the mission-driven work of public health agencies can help attract the best candidates.
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Early Prevention Institute Health Equity and Prevention Toolkit The Health Equity and Prevention Primer (HEPP) leverages expertise from state and LHJ employees and equity leaders to build seven different training modules including Community Factors & How They Influence Health Equity; Enhancing Effective Partnerships for Health Equity; and Measurement and Evaluation for Health Equity. The toolkit focuses on how equity and prevention interventions can be combined to increase the health and safety of the community.
Early Western Region Public Health Training Center - Health Equity Course This training is a short (estimated 30 minutes) introduction on the concept of health equity with powerful resources and learning tools.
Established Race Forward Racial Equity Training Series (Prices Vary) These interactive trainings are focused on advancing racial equity and understanding the roots of structural racism. Organizations should start with the training "Building Racial Equity” then continue learning with additional trainings.
Established Health Equity Consultants This is a list of equity consultants compiled by CDPH representatives, but not endorsed or necessarily recommended by CDPH.
Established Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) Trainings Explore trainings focused on promoting data equity. Topics include collecting, reporting, and analyzing social determinants of health (SDOH) data, decision-making for equitable distribution of health resources, and more. Training links will take you to other websites. Most training requires registration on these sites. All training listed are free.
Strong NACCHO Roots of Health Inequality Training This is a group training with a discussion focused curriculum, where participants learn from and contribute to the training environment. Groups will learn how to start the conversation around health inequities, how values and assumptions shape organizational commitment to equity, public health history, root causes of inequities, and how to use social justice concepts to advance equity. Each module comes with a discussion guide, examples from the field, and presentations.
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Early Essentials of Collaboration This 1-hour interactive course examines how efficient teamwork can result in improved population health. Using a case study to explain essential principles, you will receive guidance on breaking down silos, aligning activities across sectors, and cooperating effectively. The course's definition of a successful collaboration lays the groundwork for teaming up with others to improve your community.
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Early Community Engagement: The People's Approach to Improving Health and Social Outcomes This course focuses on community participation and the active role of local health departments in community engagement methods. It includes a summary of case studies, best practices, and methods for fostering community discourse and participation, as well as for incorporating community involvement into public health practice.
Established Collective Impact Part 1: Common Agenda & Shared Measure This training is part one of a two-part introductory series to the Collective Impact framework. Participants will gain an understanding of what collective impact is and how it can be used to advance public health initiatives.
Established Collective Impact Part 2: Mutually Reinforcing Activities, Continuous Communication, & Backbone Support Part two of a two-part introductory series to the Collective Impact framework, this training builds upon lessons of part one by learning about the last three conditions of the Collective Impact framework and mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication, and backbone support.
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Early Using Message Framing Tools to Build and Suistain Cross-Sector Partnerships This training provides public health professionals with messaging tools for effective communication with other sectors. It describes what framing is and why it is important when communicating to external stakeholders. It takes about 30 minutes to complete and provides participants with a certificate upon completion.
Established An Overview of Public Health Reaching Across Sectors This training course takes about 30 minutes to complete and discusses why communication is essential to sustaining cross-sector partnerships.
Strong Promoting Health Equity by Uniting Sectors Around Shared Data This webinar discusses best practices for sharing data across sectors in order to advance health equity.
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Early Public Health Essentials in Action This training covers the Three Public Health Core Functions and the Ten Essential Public Health Services as a framework for the responsibilities of local public health systems, and how this framework serves to improve health equity.
Early Public Health Ethics In this training, examine public health ethics and ethical based approaches to decision making. Learn to use ethical frameworks to make decisions confidently and justify decisions with transparency. Practice addressing ethical challenges respectfully in a way that builds trust with communities and stakeholders through simulated case scenarios. Practice identifying ethical dilemmas and the exploration of solutions.
Early Introduction to Health Equity and Racial Justice This training is about embedding a racial justice and power-informed equity framework into organizational decision-making and culture.
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Early Promoting Equity in Public Health and the Role of Change Management This training is the fourth module in the Strategic Skills Training Series focused on Change Management for Public Health Professionals developed by Region 2 Public Health Training Center. This learning module will look at health equity from a “change management” perspective.
Established Changing Internal Practices to Advance Health Equity Human Impact Partners (HIP) presents a training for organizations interested in addressing barriers to integrating health equity into their department. The program confirms the role of local health departments in addressing the roots of health inequity, addresses change management and different levels of influence in staff around equity initiatives, and gives examples of how to use internal actions to advance health equity. The reframing tools in this training are also very useful to all organizations in their equity discussions.
Established Serving Diverse Communities: Building Cultural Competence and Humility into the Workplace This training discusses culture, cultural competence, cultural humility, and the differences between them. Three online resources are included in this training to promote cultural competency and humility.
Established Plan to Plan Community Health Improvement Plan Series This free and self-paced training from the Michigan Public Health Training Center in Region V is a three-part series that will introduce the community health improvement plan (CHIP), address how to identify community health priorities, and guide you through writing your CHIP.
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Early Strategies to Advance Health Equity : State and Local Health Departments' Role in Building Pathways to Higher Education In this training, participants learn how education influences health outcomes and provides strategies for LHJs to help students be successful.
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Established Data for Rural Health Equity, Vol. I: Understanding Population Health Concepts The first of a three-part series, this 1.5-hour module reviews how to use data and make a connection between social determinants of health and health disparities in a community. (Rural Resource)
Established Data for Rural Health Equity, Vol. II: Communicating Effectively The second of a three-part series, this 1.5-hour module dives into how to communicate data to your community. (Rural Resource)
Established Data for Rural Health Equity, Volume III: Visualizing Data Stories The last of a three-part series, this 1.5-hour module covers data visualization strategies to help deliver health information to your audience and tell a more captivating story. (Rural Resource)