This training is designed for public health professionals interested in understanding the shale oil development process, and its impact on public health. Developed through a collaboration between the Rocky Mountain Public Health Training Center and Resolve, a national nonprofit working to build strong, enduring solutions to environmental, social, and health challenges, the toolkit serves as an online training companion to the Community Health and Shale Development Guidebook.

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This online tool walks you through 8 topics of public health processes with a focus on health equity. Each topic includes questions that motivate you to enhance collaboration and consider how to improve health equity and reduce health disparities in your community program, project, or policy. Enjoy the tool’s flexibility, which encourages you to find the information you need now and to return over time as you make decisions for your organization or program. This online tool will enable you to: Analyze internal and external agency practices to identify ways in which you support or hinder the achievement of health equity. Identify practices that you and your agency/program can undertake to advance health equity. Describe how taking a strengths-based and community-inclusive approach to your work can help to advance health equity.

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This training provides an introduction to psychological resilience in the public health workforce before, during, and after an emergency event. This training will go over identification of common causes of stress reactions, how to provide basic psychological support services, and how to identify individuals at higher risk for stress reactions.

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Communicating information about public health needs and the evidence-based interventions to meet those challenges to a broad audience is a necessary skill for public health professionals. Do you have these skills? In this online module, participants will explore effective strategies for communicating evidence to decision-makers and acquire tools and resources to create and disseminate messages about evidence-based solutions on different platforms for diverse audiences. Also, included is guidance for writing and disseminating policy briefs.

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We will be discussing Coronavirus from a global infectious disease perspective for public health practitioners; Emergency public health principles and practices for infectious disease emergencies, including preparation, mitigation, and response efforts; and the actions that Utah’s Department of Health and local health departments have taken over the last 15 years that laid the groundwork for the response to COVID-19.

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This is the second in a series of webinars from Public Health experts at the University of Utah Division of Public Health. This event will discuss principles of risk communication and the potential mental health implications of communication strategies.

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Overview: As our understanding of health equity becomes more comprehensive and data are more accessible, our datasets grow and utilizing GIS tools becomes critical to understanding and communicating these issues. The need for multiple datasets from a variety of topic areas (including census, natural and built environment, cultural, and health outcomes) at neighborhood level scale are often required to gain answers. By compiling them within a GIS, we can begin to create analyses that can be used to better understand their communities. Presenter: Adam Anderson is the Health Data and GIS Supervisor at Tri-County Health Department. He specializes in the understanding and collection of health, demographic, and community data - bringing them together in a way that recognizes the complexity in the distribution and explanation of health outcomes. This involves analyzing those relationships through GIS, statistical modeling, community engagement, and by creating useful data dissemination products through thoughtful graphic design and presentation.

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Creating Effective Health Communications: Message Mapping

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The goal of this presentation is to help learners understand the basic principles of epidemiology as they pertain to disasters and incidents of bioterrorism. This training provides a review of the fundamentals of epidemiology and field investigations, the application of epidemiologic concepts, and surveillance in the event of a public health emergency. It provides information on the basics of epidemiologic case investigation; epidemiologic considerations for infectious disease emergencies; the principles and methods of epidemiologic investigation; and the steps involved in outbreak investigation.

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Is it worth it? Is this program or intervention a good use of resources? Are we having an impact? Maybe you're asking yourself these questions - or maybe funders or decision-makers are asking you. This training will focus on types of economic evaluations and how they can inform decision-making regarding public health interventions. Participants will become familiar with common economic evaluation terms and the steps involved in conducting an economic evaluation.

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The goal of this presentation is to provide public health staff with an introductory level understanding of disasters, their impact on populations, and the role that public health plays when they occur. This training provides an introduction to hazards, disasters, and risk, the relationship of general public health functions to public health roles during disasters, and the public health agency’s role in the overall emergency management response.

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In this training, we discuss ethics for public health practitioners by defining the dimensions of public health ethics, focus on Applied Public Health Ethics, and explore frameworks for public health ethics that can help public health professionals make difficult decisions in their work. This training also examines the difference between research and public health practice. This training is based on the Associated Schools of Public Health's Introduction to Ethics Modules, as well as several foundational articles from the discipline of public health ethics that are referenced within the training.

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The Rocky Mountain Public Health Training Center is offering an opportunity for public health professionals from around the country to participate in a unique, online training series, which covers core concepts like: defining public health issues, conducting community assessments, prioritizing options, and evaluating program and policy impacts.

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“Health equity” is an increasingly popular topic in public health conferences, events, and publications. This course is based on a guidebook developed by the Metro Denver Partnership for Health. The guidebook and this course are intended as tools for public health practitioners who are serious about walking their health equity talk but aren’t quite sure how to get started. It aims to prepare its users to close gaps in health status that result from systemic, avoidable, and unjust policies and practices that create barriers to opportunity for certain people.

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Eliminating health disparities and improving health among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) individuals is imperative to achieving health equity. This introductory online course is about understanding the issues - we will examine ourselves and work to better understand the experience of those in the LGBTQ community. This six-week online learning experience approaches the issue of LGBTQ health from multiple perspectives. It will provide information and an opportunity for personal reflection, and ends with an introduction to action steps public health and health care can take to improve health outcomes for LGBTQ individuals. In this course, participants will: Examine individual biases about LGBTQ communities Develop a dictionary of terms related to sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression Summarize the health disparities experienced by LGBTQ individuals Describe the unique needs of this population Describe consequences of bias and discrimination Analyze workplace and community practices that promote or prevent bias and discrimination

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This online module will lead participants through the process used in systematic reviews and identifies key practice-relevant resources that summarize the literature on effective public health interventions. Learners will explore different sources of evidence, focusing on systematic reviews as a tool to efficiently identify public health interventions that are proven to be effective. Also included is guidance for finding and reviewing other sources of evidence when systematic reviews are outdated, or are not available for a particular topic area or population. This module provides an in-depth introduction to key online resources to guide the selection of evidence-based interventions including The Community Guide, PH Partners, What Works for Health, and others.

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The goal of this presentation is to familiarize staff with intermediate Incident Command System (ICS) concepts and other skills for personnel who are likely to assume a supervisory position and will have responsibility for managing the public health response in the event of a disaster. This training discusses the major components of the ICS, the integration of public health into emergency response, leadership in incident management, the legal responsibility of the health department and public health functions in ICS.

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The goal of this presentation is to provide public health department staff an introduction and an overview of effective risk communication strategies, including involving the public as a partner and methods to work with the media. This training provides public health department staff with an overview of risk communication. This training discusses basic risk communication theories, risk communication before, during, and after a disaster, the importance of involving the public as a partner, and introduces methods to work with the media to disseminate messages.

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This course introduces the Incident Command System (ICS) and provides the foundation for higher level ICS training. This course describes the history, features and principles, and organizational structure of the Incident Command System. It also explains the relationship between ICS and the National Incident Management System (NIMS).

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This course is designed to enable personnel to operate efficiently during an incident or event within the Incident Command System (ICS). ICS-200 provides training on and resources for personnel who are likely to assume a supervisory position within the ICS. The Emergency Management Institute developed ICS its ICS courses collaboratively with

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This course introduces and overviews the National Incident Management System (NIMS). NIMS provides a consistent nationwide template to enable all government, private-sector, and nongovernmental organizations to work together during domestic incidents.

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This course introduces participants to the concepts and principles of the National Response Framework.

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The goal of this presentation is to help learners understand the legal, practical, and ethical issues that pertain to quarantine for the control of infectious diseases. This training reviews the routes of infection and which routes are significant for isolation and quarantine, the definition of isolation and quarantine, the ramifications/consequences of doing isolation and quarantine, an overview of public health law, ethical considerations, and operations of isolation and quarantine.

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Come chat once a month with colleagues who are working to engage youth in their community. We will explore social justice driven approaches to youth engagement that can create and sustain lasting change. A Community of Practice is a group of professionals who come together to discuss a topic or issue they all have in common. By joining this Community of Practice, you are saying you have something to share from your own work in youth engagement - and that you have things that you want to learn, to advance your practice in this area. This is a peer-to-peer learning opportunity that offers an opportunity to ask questions, share successes, and strategize about challenges with colleagues. There will be a virtual meeting on the second Monday of every other month from 2 - 3 pm MT. You will receive the link to join these meetings after you register. March 9th May 11th July 13th September 14th November 9th

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In this online training, we’ll review from start to finish what to expect over the course of a quality improvement (QI) project. This training was developed for people that will be helping to facilitate QI projects within their agency and are looking for helpful tools, templates and experience. Registering for this training gives you access to an online micro-course, which includes the online modules + Live Learning Sessions with a subject-matter expert. The micro-course was developed in partnership with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s Office of Partnership, Planning and Improvement and the Colorado Association for Local Public Health Officials (CALPHO) for public health agencies in Colorado; however, those working in other states and in other settings may find it useful as well.

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Come chat once a month with colleagues who are managing, leading, or supporting coalitions in their community. We will explore successes, challenges, ideas, and solutions for building effective coalitions that create and sustain lasting change. A Community of Practice is a group of professionals who come together to discuss a topic or issue they all have in common. By joining this Community of Practice, you are saying you have something to share from your own work with coalitions - and that you have things that you want to learn, to advance your practice in this area. The Managing Effective Coalitions Community of Practice will be facilitated and the topic areas listed below will serve as jumping-off points for the conversation each month. There will not be any formal presentation, though, and the conversation will be driven by the participants. Anyone working with a coalition tackling issues related to public health, behavioral health, or environmental health located in the states of CO, MT, ND, SD, UT, or WY is invited to participate. You do not need to attend every month.

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Public health is using policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change as a critical tool to improve equity and health outcomes. PSE changes focus on root causes and seek to create sustainable change by taking a population or systems-wide approach, rather than focusing solely on the individual. Successfully creating change through systems and environmental strategies has many components including collecting data, researching the issue and analyzing potential solutions; engaging partners and stakeholders and building support within the community; identifying who has the power to make the change you’re seeking and then educating and persuading them to act. To learn more about these pieces of the PSE process, the Rocky Mountain Public Health Training Center has compiled this Suite of trainings. Find the ones that best meet your needs. The majority are offered online – some through interactive live learning events using bidirectional video; others are self-paced and available on-demand. The majority of the trainings within this Suite help professionals build their skills in the following cross-cutting strategic areas: Systems Thinking Change Management Persuasive Communication Policy Engagement

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Many of us are working to create communities where everyone has an opportunity to be healthy. Public health is using policy, systems, and environmental change as a critical tool to improve equity and health outcomes. In this training course we will give you an overview of policy, systems and environmental change strategies, why they are important and how to get started.

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Psychological First Aid (PFA): Applying a Brief Intervention for Those Impacted by COVID-19

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This training defines the infection control role that public health plays in shelter management to reduce the risk of transmitting communicable diseases in mass shelter situations. The module explains the various triage and surveillance procedures and specific infection prevention strategies that public health must implement to maintain the physical and mental health of evacuees in a shelter.

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This training provides an introduction to public health law and the legal issues authorities confront as a direct result of public health emergency. It examines the sources of public health law, and the structure and functions of the public health system. Real world examples of principles of public health law and ethics are reviewed. These examples help learners develop understanding of how public health law actually functions in practice.

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First in a series. Topics covered include: Definition of Public Health, History and Achievements of Public Health, How Public Health Works, Healthy People 2010 and Health Indicators, Public Health Structure, Community Assessment

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Second in a series. Topics covered include: 3 Core Functions of Public Health, 10 Essential Services of Public Health, Public Health Nursing Definition and History, 8 Principles of Public Health Nursing, Public Health Nursing Practice Model, A Word on Ethics

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Third in a series. Topics covered include: 4 Spheres of Public Health Nursing Practice, Principles of Population-Based Practice, Minnesota Intervention Wheel

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Fourth in a series. Topics covered include: Bringing Public Health Nursing Into Your Work, Bringing Public Health Nursing Into Your Community

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This training orients public health department professionals on risk communication, focusing on working with the media in crisis situations. It provides essential knowledge and tools needed to effectively communicate and interface with the public, media, and community partners during a public health emergency.

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The University of Utah Division of Public Health is a partner in the Rocky Mountain Public Health Training Center. Funded by HRSA the Center is tasked with facilitating public health workforce development within HHS Region VIII. A number of training activities are available on the Center website.

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Are you ready to be challenged to move your youth engagement work forward? Are you looking for actionable ways to advance equity in your community? Social justice youth development combines intentional anti-oppressive practice with and for young people, with knowledge and skill building from youth development to support youth as they negotiate and disrupt the misuses of power in their lives. During this seven-week course, participants will be expected to critically analyze how power, privilege, and oppression operate in their own lives and participate in conversations regarding how they can disrupt systems of power that oppress young people. This course will offer a mix of critical reflection, skill-building, applied practice, and tools and resources that will enable participants to be an advocate for and with youth.

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The goal of this training is to provide public health professionals with an overview of the Joint Information Center (JIC) and its purpose during a disaster. It reviews advanced risk communication and the definition of a JIC. The training discusses elements of JIC planning, functions, the knowledge and skills needed to function within a JIC, and fundamentals of writing and delivering a press release.

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The goal of this training is to provide local public health department staff with the skills to create an Incident Action Plan (IAP) for disaster response. It introduces the steps involved in the planning process, elements of an IAP, and reviews the use of operational periods, the function of the planning worksheets (ICS forms), and implementation and evaluation of the IAP.

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