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Health and Development: The Absence of Disease is Not Enough . Year Developed: 2021. Source: Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). Presenter(s): n.a.. Type: Webinar. Level: Intermediate. Length: 94 minutes.

Annotation: This webinar is part of a PAHO series that aims to promote the life course approach to health and wellbeing. This video consists of panelist experts discussing methods of supporting health throughout one’s life, not just when disease strikes.

Learning Objectives: • Define The Life Course Approach for Health and Development • Review the best way to design child and adolescent health programs • Define the biopsychosocial model and its significance • Outline the ways to achieve goals of health and well-being

Ensuring Equity in COVID-19 Decision Making: Equity Lens Tool for Health Departments. Year Developed: 2021. Source: Human Impact Partners and Big Cities Health Coalition. Presenter(s): Lili Farhang, Heather Jue Northover, and Gretchen Musicant. Type: Webinar Archive. Level: Intermediate. Length: 60 minutes.

Annotation: Recording of January 11, 2021 webinar where Human Impact Partners and Big Cities Health Coalition discuss their tool to support health departments in addressing equity in COVID-19 response. Featuring Lili Farhang, Co-Director, Human Impact Partners, Heather Jue Northover, Director, Center for Health Equity, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, and Gretchen Musicant, Commissioner, City of Minneapolis Health Department.

Learning Objectives: • Reenergize the practice of applying an equity lens in COVID-19 decision making. • Assess how decisions will be experienced by specific communities and ensure these decisions work for the people most impacted. • Learn an approach for engaging with and remaining accountable to communities historically disenfranchised from decision making.

Equity, Adolescence, and Health Transformation. Year Developed: 2020. Source: InCK Marks. Presenter(s): Kay Johnson, Peggy McManus, Angela Diaz, Renee McConey. Type: Webinar. Level: Intermediate. Length: 56 minutes.

Annotation: This webinar focuses on what MCH professionals can do to achieve equity in healthcare responses to the adolescent population. Presenters share the basics of transformation; exemplary and transformed equity practices in healthcare; and distinctions between young child and adolescent health.

How to Prevent Staff Burnout and Turnover. Year Developed: 2019. Source: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Presenter(s): Puneet Sohota & Cori Matthew. Type: Video. Level: Introductory. Length: 60 minutes.

Annotation: This webinar discusses how to identify risk factors for staff burnout, signs of burnout, and ways to prevent and manage challenges staff can experience when helping others. This webinar is part of the Tribal SOC Learning Community.

Learning Objectives: • Learn the core features of burnout. • Discuss the accompanying factors associated with burnout including: compassion fatigue, secondary trauma stress, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. • Explore challenges encountered by tribal Systems of Care related to burnout and how those challenges are addressed.

Systems Support Maps in Five Minutes. Year Developed: 2018. Source: National MCH Workforce Development Center. Presenter(s): Seri Link, Kristen Hassmiller-Lich. Type: Video. Level: Introductory. Length: 5 minutes.

Annotation: This video describes developing a systems support map by defining one's role, responsibilities, needs, resources, and wishes, and gives an example of a pediatrician's role in treating children with special health care needs.

Health Care Transition & Title V Care Coordination Initiatives. Year Developed: 2018. Source: Got Transition. Presenter(s): n.a.. Type: Webinar. Level: Intermediate. Length: Series; various lengths.

Annotation: This is a five-part Webinar Series featuring examples of best practices among state Title V agencies, tools and resources, and problem-solving strategies. Titles include: (1) Starting A Transition Improvement Process Using the Six Core Elements of Health Care Transition; (2) Transition Preparation; (3) Transfer to Adult Care; (4) Integration into Adult Care; and (5) Youth, Young Adult & Parent Engagement. Handouts are available. https://gottransition.org/resource/gt-webinar-1-starting-hct-process https://gottransition.org/resource/gt-webinar-2-transition-preparation https://gottransition.org/resource/gt-webinar-3-transfer-to-adult-care https://gottransition.org/resource/gt-webinar-4-integration-into-adult-care https://gottransition.org/resource/gt-webinar-5-young-adult-parent-engagement

Learning Objectives: Session 1: • Overview of health care transition baseline results from Title V care coordination (CC) programs. • Forming a HCT quality improvement team with CC team and youth/young adults/parents. • Defining HCT pilot population, timeline, measures of success. • Selecting HCT core elements and delineating roles of CC program and YSHCN providers. Session 2: • Identifying key components of HCT policy for CC programs that families/youth want to know. • Customizing transition readiness assessment (RA) for CC programs • Piloting and disseminating HCT policy and RA. • Incorporating RA skill needs into plan of care and educating youth and families on needed skills. • Preparing medical summary and emergency care plan with youth and families and their providers. Session 3: • Identifying willing adult primary and specialty providers. • Sequencing plans for transferring young adults with multiple providers. • Identifying ways to support adult practices (consultation, care coordination). • Preparing transfer package and communicating with pediatric and adult practices. Session 4: • Ensuring welcome and orientation FAQs from the adult practice to transferring young adults and pediatric practice. • Facilitating initial appointment to adult doctor, including confirmation of receipt of transfer package. • Supporting adult practice with CC assistance from Title V and linking to adult disability resources. Session 5: • Identifying youth/young adults/parents to participate in HCT initiatives in Title V CC programs. • Providing transition education and training and mentoring opportunities. • Eliciting consumer feedback with HCT care coordination process. • Building youth/young adult/parent leadership roles on HCT within state Title V programs.

Emerging Adulthood as a Critical Stage in the Life Course. Year Developed: 2018. Source: UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families & Communities, Maternal and Child Health Life Course Research Network (LCRN). Presenter(s): David Wood, MD, MPH. Type: Webinar. Level: Introductory. Length: 15 minutes.

Annotation: This webinar is based on a chapter from the Handbook of Life Course Health Development.

Where To Find MCH Resources: An Introduction. Year Developed: 2017. Source: National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health. Presenter(s): Keisha Watson and John Richards. Type: Narrated Slide Presentation. Level: Introductory. Length: 18 minutes.

Annotation: This short presentation discusses the information needs of MCH professionals and identifies distinct online resources to address those needs, from pop and professional sources such as Google, PubMed, and Wikipedia to grant-supported resources that address MCHB topical programs and initiatives. Topics include data warehouses, research centers, epidemiology sites, professional and membership organizations

Learning Objectives: • Identify information needs of professionals • Explain the differences between types of online resources • Differentiate between trusted and questionable online resources • Understand where to go to find additional resources

Maternal Health in Crisis: Ensuring Nationwide Access to Maternity Care Providers. Year Developed: 2017. Source: Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs and NIHCM Foundation. Presenter(s): Ashlyn Christianson, Katy Kozhimannil PhD, Mallory Schwarz. Type: Webinar. Level: Intermediate. Length: 90 minutes.

Annotation: Nearly half of all U.S. counties lack a practicing OB-GYN, and the shortage is expected to grow, with projections showing as many as 8,800 fewer OB-GYNs practicing than will be needed in 2020. Maternity workforce shortages and maldistribution are of particular concern for the Medicaid program, which covers about half of all births in the U.S. Meanwhile, American women are dying from pregnancy-related complications at a higher rate than in any other developed country—a problem that’s exacerbated by limited access to providers.

Learning Objectives: • Understand the dynamics behind maternity workforce challenges, particularly in rural and other underserved areas; • Learn an example of a public-private collaboration to connect Medicaid mothers-to-be with prenatal care and resources like transportation to doctor visits; • Describe how financial incentives can be used to encourage medical professionals to specialize in maternal health and to work in underserved areas.

From Data to Desk: Translating Needs Assessments into Targeted Employee Training. Year Developed: 2013. Source: Northwest Center for Public Health Practice. Presenter(s): Luann D’Ambrosio, MEd, Tina Abbott, MSW, Cindy Gleason, BS. Type: Webinar. Level: Intermediate Advanced. Length: 60 minutes.

Annotation: This webinar for local, state, and tribal public health leaders and managers shares tips for assessing staff training needs and implementing training plans.

Learning Objectives: • Describe the benefits of completing a training needs assessment Identify different ways to collect data for use in workforce development • Describe how a targeted training needs assessment can benefit program planning • Recognize the potential for a workforce development plan, beyond meeting accreditation requirements

Special Instructions: NWCPHP trainings are accessed through PH LearnLink. See https://www.nwcphp.org/training/tools-resources/ph-learnlink

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