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Annotation: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a second pandemic of stress, anxiety and fear. As public health workers, your work has a unique level of stress during this time. We are best able to maintain our mental health through these difficult times if we stay aware of the effects of stress, take steps to stay mentally healthy, and maintain connections with others. This webinar offers information on awareness, self-care and connection with others so public health workers can develop a plan for maintaining their mental health. Presenters discuss common issues such as coping with fear, anxiety and loss; changing work demands; navigating family relationships; and coping with an uncertain future as the pandemic continues. The course contains two modules: a content module and a resources and evaluation module. After accessing both modules, learners will earn a certificate of completion. When the certificate is available, learners will see a Certificate button on their dashboard.

Learning Objectives: • Explain the impact of stress and anxiety during traumatic events. • Discuss the importance of staying socially connected during social distancing. • Identify two coping mechanisms for navigating an uncertain future during a pandemic.

Annotation: This webinar describes how youth councils can help promote a national diverse youth voice and improve and educate the mental health community and beyond; describes successes and challenges of facilitating a national youth council to infuse meaningful youth input into service delivery and development; and identifies concrete tools for authentically infusing national youth voices in diverse organizations. A video and slides are available.

Annotation: This webinar provides an overview of meaningful youth involvement in mental health service systems through the mechanisms of treatment planning/decision making, peer worker roles, participatory research and evaluation, and systems and service change, and discusses effective approaches for engaging young adults. A video and slides are available.

Annotation: This webinar provides an overview of steps necessary to create a successful coalition; shares best practices for working collectively; and provide three community examples that have incorporated best practices and met with successful results. Speakers are from Plan4Health Vista, Boise, ID; Boston Alliance for Community Health; and Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln.

Annotation: Local health officials and their staff are exploring innovative partnerships with other agencies in health care and beyond and identifying new ways of operating within and influencing the economic and social conditions of our health system. Such work demands a new kind of leadership – a transition from our typical spheres of influence and authority to mobilizing people to tackle tough challenges and thrive. Adaptive Leadership is a practical framework for leading consequential change in the midst of significant market and sociopolitical transformation.

Annotation: Efforts to "enforce laws, develop policies, and mobilize community partnerships" are essential public health services and thus require practitioners to hone their dispute resolution skills. In this one hour webinar, which is part of the Hot Topics series, Jim Reid, MPA, presents a framework for collaborative negotiations and discusses how to reduce conflict and create agreements that meet the mutual needs of all parties. He also offers case examples where these techniques have been used successfully. One section of the presentation discusses frequently found fatal flaws of meetings.

Learning Objectives: • Identify five key principles of dispute resolution • Recognize the importance and advantages of using an "interest-based" approach to resolving conflict over other approaches, such as "positional bargaining" • Identify and use practical tools, tactics, and techniques to create a successful negotiations process and to be a more effective mediator or negotiator

Annotation: This course emphasizes community partnership as a major educational approach to addressing health problems. It focuses on elements of community partnering and other challenges, and identifies the necessary responsibilities public health practitioners have in stakeholder recruitment and agenda setting. Components of successful leadership in collaborations and the role of creating shared community visions are also discussed. The presentation concludes by explaining the action planning process, including needs assessment strategies.

Learning Objectives: • Explain how to create a work environment that reflects sensitivity to the ongoing issues of cultural diversity and power imbalances. • Identify the special challenges inherent to collaborative endeavors. • Name the changes necessary for successful leadership in collaborations. • Develop a framework for stakeholder identification and recruitment for a community intervention. • Outline the process for creating a shared community vision among stakeholders. • Explain the action planning process including assets and needs assessment strategies; strategies for translating data to usable information; and community health issue prioritization.

Special Instructions: Registration is required.

Continuing Education: 6.00 Participation/CE. Tulane Professional and Continuing Education (PaCE) awards 6.00 hour(s) of credit for completing Community Partnerships and Perspectives - Intermediate Level

Annotation: This module introduces and provides an introduction to the “Community Partnerships and Perspectives” series, focusing on concepts and skills necessary for working with communities to improve public health. Participants learn about the differing perspectives of the definition of “community,” and methods available to analyze community dynamics. Course exercises and a workbook are available.

Learning Objectives: • Discuss current factors and trends influencing health and public health practice. • Define community from the perspective of insiders and outsiders. • Understand ways of analyzing community dynamics. • Discuss innovating means of approaching public health practitioners.

Special Instructions: Registration is required.

Continuing Education: 1.00 Participation/CE. Tulane Professional and Continuing Education (PaCE) awards 1.00 hour(s) of credit for completing Community Partnerships and Perspectives - Basic Level