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Annotation: This training brief focuses on those skills needed in communities as identified by CityMatCH's Strategic Work Plan. It covers collaboration and partnerships; evaluation; health equity and social justice for improved family and community health; use of data strategically for the transformation of family and community health; engaging and strengthening MCH leaders; and community health centers.

Annotation: This 4-part webinar series brings together national experts and local health departments to discuss their work to advance health equity. Each webinar focuses on a set of strategic practices that health departments can take to pursue a wall-to-wall transformation of how they work internally, with communities, and alongside other government agencies.

Annotation: Trauma-informed workplaces create conditions for the workplace to thrive. Presenters in this webinar discuss the importance of trauma-informed workplaces in public health; how the advancement of health equity and trauma-informed systems are inextricably linked; and share how the 2022 strategic planning process illuminated the need for AMCHP to adopt a trauma-informed framework. xxx

Learning Objectives: • Learn about the existence of different trauma-informed workplace frameworks, approaches and strategies • Engage in discussion about practical considerations and steps needed to initiate the adoption of trauma-informed workplace frameworks.

Annotation: Sections 1 & 2: Do you want to join or become more involved in a committee or council, but are not sure where to begin or which group would be a good fit for you? Do you wonder what the different functions are of decision-making groups and what the members' roles are within these groups? Serving on Groups is a nationally recognized leadership tool that empowers parents to actively and fully participate in decision-making groups. Section 3: The most effective groups use processes to guide their work, and a clear process sets the direction toward the group's goals. So many times, we are on committees or in meetings but don't know what is supposed to happen or how to fully participate. Sections 4 & 5: Are you a member of a committee or council that needs to be more efficient? What makes a committee or council effective? How can group dynamics improve? Section 6: So many times, we are on committees or in meetings but don't know what the process is or how to fully participate, especially when it comes to data. This introductory webinar on data is based on the Serving on Groups that Make Decisions Guidebook resource. The highlight of the revised Guidebook is a section entitled Understanding Data as Information. We live in a world with more available data than ever before. In education, using data is a powerful tool to determine if schools’ efforts are working and if students are meeting their goals. This section provides eight steps to assist you and other group members in making well-informed data-based decisions to improve the experiences of children. It also contains numerous resources for you to access and explore relevant data for your family and community. Sections 7 & 8: Do you want to be more involved in a decision-making group but are not sure where to begin? Are you tired of feeling like the token representative instead of an active member of a decision-making group?

Annotation: This session at NASTAD's 2023 Annual Meeting is titled, "Leading with Lived Experience: Informing Health Department Viral Hepatitis Elimination Programs." During this session, panelists described how leading with lived hepatitis and substance use experience is central to advancing hepatitis elimination as they explored considerations for enhancing relationships between state health departments, CBOs, and people who use drugs. Attendees were invited to engage in discussion with peer jurisdictions, strategy leaders, and people with lived expertise about opportunities and tangible strategies for how to equitably invest in leaders with lived expertise as an essential factor to eliminate viral hepatitis.

Learning Objectives: • Establish how to create a network of partnerships that include people with lived experience. • Describe how to create the support structure to have people with lived experience lead the work.

Annotation: This course provides a holistic approach to planning and evaluating education and outreach programs. It helps program practitioners use and apply logic models – a framework and way of thinking to help us improve our work and be accountable for results. You will learn what a logic model is and how to use one for planning, implementation, evaluation or communicating about your program. This course has 7 sections. It starts with a basic, simple concept and adds to it over the various sections to provide a thorough foundation in the use of logic models. Each section contains resources and activities.

Learning Objectives: • Describe how a logic model can be used for program planning, implementation and evaluation. • Illustrate the relationship between logic model components: Inputs, Activities, Outputs, Outcomes, and Impact or Goal. • Construct a logic model given program information.

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Continuing Education: 1 hour

Annotation: Denise Hoffman (Principal Researcher, Mathematica) and Laura Erickson (Social Science Analyst, HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation) present on Improving Accessibility to Health Care with Equitable Communication. Dr. Kentrell Liddell (Founder and Board President, Test-Taking Solution Foundation) presents on Lived Experiences & Front-Line Findings: A Jackson, Mississippi Community Perspective of Health Equity. Lindsey Galli (Vice President of Programs, PFCCpartners) and Naomi Williams (Patient Family Engagement Specialist, PFCCpartners) present on Unlocking Diversity in Patient Family Engagement for Equity: An Inclusive Environment for All. Dr. Hoangmai H. Pham (President and CEO, Institute for Exceptional Care) and Dr. Teal Benevides (Associate Professor, Augusta University) present on Standardization Does Not Equal Equity: Supporting Health Outcomes That Matter Most to People with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities. Moderator: Mackenzie Marshall (Senior Federal Relations Associate, Families USA)

Learning Objectives: • Review accessibility and language access. • Identify tips on engaging diverse groups of external partners. • Apply the findings from a project in Jackson, Mississippi that addresses community perspective of health equity. • Construct an approach to address literacy. • Discover the Funfetti approach to partnership. • Characterize implications for policy and practice.

Annotation: This video series was created to help those new or unfamiliar with the EMSC space learn more about the program and how to get involved. This series will dive into the history of the EMSC program, describe the various investments of the EMSC family of programs, provide a background to both prehospital and hospital care systems, and help both grantees and members of the public understand the importance of EMSC work. Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) works to reduce child and youth mortality and morbidity resulting from severe illness or trauma. EMSC is the only federal funded program that focuses specifically on improving the quality of emergency care for children in the prehospitial and hospital-based settings.

Learning Objectives: •Explore an introduction to Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC). • Discuss the many moving parts of the EMSC.

Annotation: This interactive learning tool includes a introductory video from the WDC to learn about the four implementation stages and different types of evidence that form the backbone of making equity-informed choices at each stage. Presenters also discuss a new tool that highlights six considerations for centering people with lived experience when making evidence-based decisions.

Learning Objectives: • Understand the implementation stages. • Define different kinds of evidence. • Explore the role of evidence in the context of the active implementation stages. • Understand how to apply the Six Considerations Planning Tool. • Explore ways to ensure that people with lived experience are centered during the evidence-based decision-making process.

Annotation: In the times we live in, we are constantly facing all sorts of emergencies and preparedness is essential to keep families safe and promote health and wellbeing in challenging situations. In this episode, presenters explore how Tennessee has intentionally centered communities of color in response efforts and learn about Puerto Rico’s experience facing emergencies like Zika, Hurricane Maria, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Learning Objectives: This webinar series aims to: • Inspire and guide actions that will improve the systems that impact maternal and child health populations. • Lift up stories and people from the MCH field by centering the voices of the public health workforce, people and communities most impacted by inequities, and individuals and families with lived experiences.