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Annotation: This module gives health department leaders, governance, Accreditation Coordinators, and accreditation teams a beginning base of knowledge about how the Standards and Measures are structured and an idea about the documentation required to meet the standards and measures. As health departments prepare to apply for PHAB accreditation, the standards and measures are the framework for evaluating the health department’s processes, services, and outcomes, and their progress toward goals and objectives.

Learning Objectives: • Describe the purpose, content and structure of the PHAB standards and measures. • List the PHAB domains. • Use the PHAB Guide to Standards and Measures.

Continuing Education: 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s), 0.75 ANCC contact hours, 0.75 hours of participation, 1.00 hour of Public Health Continuing Education (CPHCE) credit

Annotation: Do you know how the law contributed to motor vehicle safety, vaccination, or safer workplaces? Law reform or litigation has played a part in most of the greatest public health achievements in the 20th century. As public health professionals and leaders, understanding public health law and how to use it is essential to protecting the public’s health. In this module, you will learn how to assess when to involve legal counsel, how to get effective legal advice, and what laws will affect your decision-making ability when facing public health threats. By the end, you will be able to use core concepts of public health law to more effectively protect the public’s health while avoiding legal trouble.

Learning Objectives: • Recognize legal issues. • Formulate legal questions. • Implement effective strategies for working with legal counsel. • Describe key principles of public health law. • Identify key public health laws that govern leadership’s responsibilities, authority, and limitations.

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Continuing Education: 1.5 CNE Contact Hours

Annotation: This webcast reviews the role of family advocates in collaborating with Title V program staff. The presenter describes the benefits of partnering with family advocates — such as providing different perspectives — and the support advocates can bring to maternal and child health policy and programs. The appropriate roles for family advocates are presented, such as leading advocacy groups, acting as grant reviewers, becoming members of Boards of Trustees, and acting as group facilitators, among other roles. In addition, the skills and training advocates need to successfully collaborate with Title V programs are also discussed. Lastly, the presenter leads a discussion of examples of successful models of partnership such as collaborations within the Alabama Health Department.

Learning Objectives: • Describe the benefits of partnering with families, including advocacy for Title V programs, and supporting maternal and child health policy. • Discuss appropriate roles for family advocates and how Title V programs can operationalize their involvement. • Discuss what skills and training family advocates need to be successful in partnership with Title V programs. • Provide examples of successful models for partnership between family advocates and Title V Maternal and Child Health Programs.

Continuing Education: 2.00 Participation/CE. Tulane Professional and Continuing Education (PaCE) awards 2.00 hour(s) of credit for completing Family Advocacy and Involvement in Title V Programs

Annotation: This interactive course introduces the field of epidemiology and its practice in the field of public health. The first section presents definitions of important terms, including determinants, transmission, case, communicability, prevalence, and incidence. Next, the section describes two models of the infectious disease process: (1) chain of infections and (2) the Epi Triangle (agent, host and environment). The third section describes the practice of epidemiology, with particular focus on outbreak investigation. Finally, the course concludes with an overview of surveillance, defining different types and components of successful systems. Examples, short quizzes and a post-test are used to reinforce learning.

Learning Objectives: • Discuss important terms and concepts for basic epidemiology practice. • Describe the inter-related aspects of the infectious disease process and methods of breaking this "chain" of infection. • Understand basic epidemiology in practice, using a case study of a food-borne outbreak as an example. • Perform basic surveillance tasks in an appropriate and timely manner. • Utilize your regional epidemiologist as a resource for outbreak investigations.

Special Instructions: Registration to the Upper Midwest Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Center is required. Use the "Register for this Training" link at the bottom of the page.

Annotation: This document is a crosswalk of the Title V National Performance Measures (NPMs) and related provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). ​​The transformation of the Title V Block Grant is happening in an era of health reform. This document looks at the 15 Title V National Performance Measures (NPMs), national performance priority areas, MCH population domains and crosswalks them with applicable provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Annotation: This module provides a brief overview of outbreak investigation. After defining common terms, the module walks through common steps in outbreak investigations: verify accuracy of disease reports, determine existence of outbreak, establish a case definition, identify additional cases, conduct descriptive epidemiology, generate/test hypotheses, monitor the course of the outbreak, conduct environmental and lab investigation, implement disease control measures, and communicate findings. For each step, the course describes relevant methods and considerations. The module concluded with information about types of outbreak investigators, methods of detecting outbreaks, and provides tips for running a successful outbreak investigation. Examples, sort exercises, and a final assessment are used to reinforce learning.

Learning Objectives: • Recognize indicators of a potential disease outbreak. • Describe the steps in conducting an outbreak investigation. • Identify key communication considerations during outbreak investigations. • Understand public health actions that may result from outbreak investigations.

Special Instructions: Registration is required. Look to the right of the screen and click on "Register in PHLearnLink".

Continuing Education: Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) credits are available. Participants who successfully complete the course are eligible to receive a certificate for 1.0 contact hours for a processing fee of $35.

Annotation: This presentation includes an overview of the Bright Spots: Exemplary Child Health Practice Adaptation and Innovation Program. Kay Johnson shares a report on various listening sessions and interviews conducted in the field and Charles Bruner leads a discussion around how to use Covid-19 experiences to transform child health.

Learning Objectives: • Understand the guidance on well-child visits during Covid-19. • Learn about structural changes in medical care as a result of Covid-19. • Discuss life after the pandemic including the reconstructing and transformation of child health care.

Annotation: This report, developed by The Catalyst Center at the Boston University School of Public Health, offers a brief description of selected provisions in the ACA that have implications for CYSHCN with ASD/DD.