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Explain the Frame Video Series. Year Developed: 2024. Source: Frameworks Institute. Presenter(s): Erin Lowe, Julie Sweetland PhD, . Type: Video Series. Level: Introductory. Length: Self-paced.

Annotation: In this video series from the FrameWorks Institute, presenters explain how specific framing techniques can help you navigate some of the trickiest communication challenges. This series is designed to help communicators navigate some of the toughest framing challenges in today’s complex communications landscape, particularly when discussing health equity in rural areas. The initial episodes focus on communicating about health and health disparities, offering insights into framing with the shared value of dignity, fostering systemic thinking about health, and expanding the understanding of what health truly encompasses. Title V programs implementing the Blueprint for Change may find these insights valuable in advancing your efforts. In each Explain the Frame episode, presenters walk you through a common framing challenge, present a framing technique to help you navigate it, and explain how the framing works in practice. xxx

Learning Objectives: • Learn recommendations on how to communicate about health issues that affect some groups more than others. • Review research on how to paint a fuller, bigger picture of health.

To Trust or Not To Trust: Understanding the Science of Developing and Nurturing Trust in Family Professional Partnerships. Year Developed: 2021. Source: The Center for Appropriate Dispute Resolution in Special Education. Presenter(s): Tracy Gershwin, Ph.D.. BCBA-D. Type: Webinar. Level: Intermediate. Length: 84 minutes.

Annotation: This webinar provides attendees with a roadmap for understanding the science of trust, including strategies that can both develop, nurture, and repair trust between families and professionals. It outlines how researchers have documented new, ongoing, and growing conflict between families of students with disabilities and the professionals who serve them. The presenter explains that the majority of these challenges begin with a lack of trust, that has either never existed in the partnership or deteriorated as a result of a breakdown in communication, incompatible goals, and/or misunderstanding between parties. The webinar reinforces that trust is one of the most commonly mentioned partnership barriers discussed in the literature. Despite this acknowledgment of trust, the science of understanding, developing and nurturing trust is rarely defined, or described in a way that supports conflict prevention or resolution between families and professionals.

Learning Objectives: • Define trust for the family-professional partnership. • Understand the importance of trust. • Identify the barriers to trust. • Describe the relationship between trust and conflict. • Apply strategies used to develop and nurture trust.

Self-advocacy in the Healthcare System. Year Developed: 2021. Source: APFED. Presenter(s): Patti DeMuri. Type: Webinar. Level: Introductory. Length: 48 minutes.

Annotation: Have you ever had trouble communicating with a healthcare provider? In this webinar, Founder of Healing Hugs Haven, Patti DeMuri shared how to set the focus of your appointment on your goals and desired outcomes so that you can better work with your doctor to get the right care for you.

Learning Objectives: • Recognize the challenges and barriers to authentic partnership with providers. • Analyze the role of communication in partnership. • Discover how to determine goals and plan for medical appointments.

Leading Remote Teams in the Time of COVID-19 and Beyond . Year Developed: 2020. Source: University of Maryland School of Social Work Institute for Innovation and Implementation. Presenter(s): Ellen B. Kagen, MSW. Type: Webinar. Level: Intermediate Advanced. Length: 90 minutes.

Annotation: This session is part of a three-webinar series offered by the SOC Leadership Learning Community on unique aspects for leadership in this challenging time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since most leaders are now functioning in virtual environments, the presenter discusses considerations and specific strategies for achieving objectives using remote teams. The topics covered include assuring effective communication, achieving alignment on strategies assuring attention towards focused action maintaining clarity, and giving people hope, among others. Participants leave with information about what leaders should pay attention and what they should do when their teams are not on site and in-person interaction is not possible.

Introduction to Community Needs Assessment: Finding the Data . Year Developed: 2020. Source: Network of the National Library of Medicine [NNLM]. Presenter(s): Robert Martiniano, DrPH, MPA. Type: Video. Level: Introductory. Length: 47 minutes.

Annotation: Community needs assessments are crucial to understanding how to best help a community. This video focuses on the data aspect of community needs assessments. Topics covered include the definition of a community needs assessment, planning for a community needs assessment, how to find and create data, and ways to prioritize and implement findings form a community needs assessment.

Learning Objectives: • Define a community needs assessment • Identify who needs to be involved in a needs assessment • Outline how to find data for a needs assessment • Describe what is means to “prioritize findings” • Explain what to do with the findings from a needs assessment

Increasing Impact by Engaging Your Audience: A Guide to Social Marketing for Systems of Care. Year Developed: 2020. Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Presenter(s): Matthew D. Clay, MS; Michelle Boardman; Anita Bryant. Type: Webinar. Level: Intermediate. Length: 90 minutes.

Annotation: This session of the System of Care (SOC) Leadership Learning Community will focus on how to increase the impact of social marketing in SOCs. Join this multimedia, interactive discussion of social marketing as a valuable tool for advancing SOC goals. The webinar will include a comprehensive definition of social marketing and its potential impact. Learn about recent social marketing campaigns in the U.S. and abroad. Gain knowledge of the steps involved in social marketing: from understanding your audience to evaluating your success. The importance of partnerships and events for social marketing success will also be discussed. An example of work in a SOC will be presented including gathering data on audiences and employing successful communications strategies.

Engaging Young People & Promoting Mental Health Education on Social Media. Year Developed: 2020. Source: The Institute for Innovation & Implementation. Presenter(s): Chantel Garrett; Syrena Clark. Type: Webinar. Level: Introductory. Length: 86 minutes.

Annotation: In this webinar recording, presenters discuss youth-friendly social media platforms as tools to grow awareness about mental health, best practices to engage youth online, how social media platforms can be leveraged to help youth connect with the support that they need, as well as examples from across the country.

Learning Objectives: • Become familiar with youth-friendly social media platforms as tools to grow awareness about mental health, early psychosis and clinical high risk. • Discuss best practices and principles to engage youth online through relevant messaging and social media engagement strategies. • Discuss how social media platforms can be leveraged to help youth connect with the support that they need at all phases of care. • Discuss examples and learnings from across the country.

Operationalizing SOC Communication: Telling Stories That Work. Year Developed: 2019. Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Presenter(s): Jennifer Nichols, PhD. Type: Webinar. Level: Intermediate. Length: 82 minutes.

Annotation: This webinar launches a Four-Part System of Care (SOC) Communication Series, Reframing Child and Adolescent Wellbeing, provided by the FrameWorks Institute on evidence-based communication strategies proven to make messages—about child and adolescent mental and behavioral health, adolescent substance use, juvenile justice, child welfare, and related issues—more effective. This session highlights how social science research can tell us which messaging choices lead to which responses. Participants learn about strategic framing: what it is, how it works, and why it matters; and will gain new tools that can be used right away. This webinar is part of the SOC Expansion Leadership LC.

Messaging and Advocacy for Public Health Professionals. Year Developed: 2018. Source: Michigan Public Health Training Center. Presenter(s): n.a.. Type: Online Course. Level: Intermediate. Length: unstated.

Annotation: Constructing a powerful message is important to convey essential information, especially in the context of environmental health. This session gives public health professionals guidance on how to construct, frame and distribute messages effectively when communicating with decision makers. This session also provides tools to effectively advocate to local, state and federal decision makers for policies and resources that promote and protect environmental and human health.

Learning Objectives: • Construct effective messages designed to incorporate health broadly in all policies (CHES Area of Responsibility 7.1.1). • Identify key audiences for environmental health messaging (7.1.3). • List tools for communicating and advocating to decision makers (7.2.3,7.2.5). • List resources that promote and protect environmental and human health (7.2.3).

Continuing Education: 1.0 Nursing Contact Hours (expires March 31, 2019); 1.0 CHES Category 1 CECH, Certificate of completion; $3 charge for CE credits

MCH Policy and Advocacy: A Focused Look. Year Developed: 2018. Source: University of Illinois at Chicago. Presenter(s): Arden Handler, DrPH. Type: Video. Level: Intermediate. Length: 75 minutes total, broken up into 10 short videos.

Annotation: This learning opportunity was recorded from the 2018 policy and advocacy lecture that Dr. Handler presented to her class at the University of Illinois at Chicago. It is divided in 10 short videos for ease of engagement. In the presentation, she outlines key advocacy components, the difference between case and class advocacy, and a review of policy and advocacy through the history of MCH. She explains current trends and the need for ongoing education and advocacy at national, state, and local levels. It concludes with current advocacy laws and a summary of the topic grounded in the current public health environment.

Learning Objectives: • Understand the strategic differences between advocacy and community organizing/community empowerment strategies. class issues, compromise, internal vs. external agents of change, and the difference between advocacy from the left and from the right. • Be able to to connect women and children's topics when advocating for services and discusses using children as a population group to address broader issues of social justice. • Synthesize the differences of case and class advocacy. • Become familiar with the history of advocacy related to MCH. • Understand how the advocacy process works. • Be able to use strategies in three main categories to advance MCH topic areas. • Be able to develop a plan to follow current lobbying laws appropriately.

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