Topic: Drug overdose (including prescriptions)

You’ve Got a Friend in Media: How Public Health Partnerships with Media Professionals Can Transform Coverage of IVP and Trauma

Overview:

Unintentional injuries and violence are often highly newsworthy, and media coverage has a profound effect on how communities understand and address these issues. Media professionals have demonstrated strength in humanizing story subjects, elevating overlooked public health problems, and pushing elected officials to take action on headlining issues. However, the pressure of deadlines and limited access to/awareness of public health data or effective interventions can result in stories that leave people feeling hopeless, helpless or unaffected. Public health can assist the media in contextualizing injuries and violence and provide evidence-based prevention strategies. Compelling solutions-oriented stories can galvanize community- and systems-level change to address shared risk and protective factors for injury and violence.

 

The Louisiana Core State Violence and Injury Prevention Program (Core SVIPP) and Tulane University’s Violence Prevention Institute hosted a workshop for media professionals on reporting sensitive, complex topics related to violence and trauma. The workshop taught media professionals how to reframe their reporting to illuminate the driving forces behind injury and violence, highlight prevention strategies, and encourage productive public discourse. Preliminary evaluation results showed that the workshop was well-received, and revealed additional opportunities to build effective relationships between public health and media professionals.

 

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this webinar, participants will understand:

1. Explain how media coverage of injuries, violence and trauma can help or hurt public health efforts around these issues.


2. Understand how partnerships with media professionals can fit into a shared risk and protective factor approach to preventing and reducing injuries and violence.

 

3. Assess their agency’s capacity to plan and host a workshop for news media professionals in their community, region or state based on available resources, budget, and time.

 

Presenters:

  • Chloe Lake, Health Education & Communications Coordinator, Louisiana Department of Health
  • Kristen Sanderson, Prevention Initiatives Coordinator, Louisiana Department of Health

 

Continuing Education:

This self-study training is designated for: (1) Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1.0 total Category I continuing education contact hour, and (2) for professionals with a Certificate of Public Health (CPH) to receive 1.0 CPH Recertification Credit.

Continuing education credits are offered for this training for Safe States members. These include credits for individuals who are Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and Certified in Public Health (CPH). 

 

Training Instructions

To complete this training, you will need to:

  1. Participate in the training by accessing the Recorded Webinar
  2. View Powerpoint slides: You’ve Got a Friend in Media – SafeStates 2019
  3. Create your Certificate of Completion.

 

If you encounter any technical difficulties related to this training, please contact the Safe States Alliance at info@safestates.org or (770) 690-9000.

Applying a Shared Risk & Protective Factor Approach to Injury and Violence Prevention — Evaluating Shared Risk and Protective Factors to Address ACEs, Suicide, and Opioid Misuse – Examples from States

Overview

This is Webinar #2 in a two-part series showcasing examples from states on leveraging and evaluating shared risk and protective factors to address ACEs, suicide, and opioid misue. This interactive webinar features representatives from two states and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) who share stories and lessons they have learned in their approach to connect work across three priority areas: ACEs, Suicide Prevention, and Opioid Misuse. This webinar provides an introduction to evaluation principles for shared risk and protective factors utilized by states and the CDC.

 

Learning Objectives

As a result of participating in this self-study training, participants will:  

  • Participants will learn about how different communities approached evaluation to Shared Risk and Protective Factors.
  • Participants will better understand what challenges communities experienced when embarking on evaluation efforts with Shared Risk and Protective Factors and what they have learned in this process.

 

Presenters

 

  • Natalie Wilkens, CDC
  • Ali Maffey, Colorado
  • Deanna Ferrell, Utah
  • Allison Whitworth, Utah
  • Jennifer Woody Collins, Moderator

 

Continuing Education

 

Continuing education credits are offered for this training for Safe States members. These include credits for individuals who are Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and Certified in Public Health (CPH). This self-study training is designated for: (1) Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1.5 total Category I continuing education contact hour, and (2) for professionals with a Certificate of Public Health (CPH) to receive 1.5 CPH Recertification Credit. 


Training Instructions
 

To complete this training, you will need to:  

 

  1. Participate in the training by accessing the recorded webinar and additional resources:
    Recorded Webinar #2
    Webinar #2 Slides 
  2. Complete the online evaluation which includes questions for you to report CPH or CHES continuing education credits for this training. Please note, you must complete this online evaluation and its CPH and/or CHES questions in order for Safe States to submit your CPH and/or CHES credits to the respective CEU providers. 
  3. Create your certificate of completion.          

 

If you encounter any technical difficulties related to this training, please contact the Safe States Alliance at info@safestates.org or (770) 690-9000.

Applying a Shared Risk & Protective Factor Public Health Approach to Injury and Violence Prevention — Leveraging Injury Prevention Efforts to Address ACEs, Suicide, and Opioid Misuse – Examples from States

Overview

This is Webinar #1 in a two-part series showcasing examples from states on leveraging and evaluating shared risk and protective factors to address ACEs, suicide, and opioid misue. This interactive webinar features representatives from states and the CDC sharing stories and lessons they have learned in the in their approach to connect work across three priority areas: ACEs, Suicide Prevention, and Opioid Misuse. With a particular emphasis on efforts to address shared risk and protective factors, this webinar provides specific examples of how connections can be used to support work across multiple funding sources in the areas of programming, policy, data, surveillance, and partnerships.

 

Learning Objectives

As a result of participating in this self-study training, participants will:  

  • Participants will learn about Shared Risk & Protective Factors and how different communities applied and supported work in addressing them.
  • Participants will better understand what elements are needed to make working on Shared Risk & Protective Factors successful.

 

Presenters

 

  • Natalie Wilkens, CDC
  • Travis Vendetti, Rhode Island
  • Sarah Dinklage, Rhode Island
  • Michael Bauer, New York
  • Glynnis Hunt, New York
  • Ingrid Bou-Saada, North Carolina
  • Jane Herwehe, Louisiana
  • Mariana Garretson, Moderator

 

 

Continuing Education

 

Continuing education credits are offered for this training for Safe States members. These include credits for individuals who are Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and Certified in Public Health (CPH). This self-study training is designated for: (1) Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1.5 total Category I continuing education contact hour, and (2) for professionals with a Certificate of Public Health (CPH) to receive 1.5 CPH Recertification Credit. 


Training Instructions
 

To complete this training, you will need to:  

 

  1. Participate in the training by accessing the recorded webinar and additional resources:
    Recorded Webinar #1
    Webinar #1 Slides 
  2. Complete the online evaluation, which includes questions for you to report CPH or CHES continuing education credits for this training. Please note, you must complete this online evaluation and its CPH and/or CHES questions in order for Safe States to submit your CPH and/or CHES credits to the respective CEU providers. 
  3. Create your certificate of completion.          

 

If you encounter any technical difficulties related to this training, please contact the Safe States Alliance at info@safestates.org or (770) 690-9000.

Injury Policy Opportunities Project (IPOP) Part 2: Solutions & Strategies for Preventing/Reducing Opioid Overdose

Injury Policy Opportunities Project (IPOP) Part 2: Solutions and Strategies for Preventing and Reducing Opioid Overdose is based on portions of the 2016-2017 Injury Policy Opportunities Project (IPOP) Training Academy, which focused on opioid overdose. Offered by the Injury Prevention Research Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the IPOP is an opportunity for injury and violence prevention practitioners and their partners to learn information and skills for strategically influencing policies, environments, and systems to prevent and reduce injury and violence. This 1.5 hour self-study is Part 2 and focuses on solutions and strategies for preventing and reducing opioid overdose.

 

The self-study training is an initiative of the Safe States Alliance, the Southwestern and Southeastern Regional Network Coordinating Organization, and the IPRC at UNC. To learn more about IPOP, please click here: http://unc.live/2dzEEpN

 

Learning Objectives

As a result of participating in this self-study training, participants will:

— Understand effective policy strategies for preventing and reducing opioid overdoses

— Understand effective opioid overdose prevention program strategies

 

Presenters

— J Corey Davis, senior attorney, National Health Law Program, and Deputy Director, Network for Public Health Law

 

— Cameron McNamee, Director of Policy and Communications, State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy

 

— Dana Quesinberry, Program Manager, Kentucky Drug Overdose Program

 

Continuing education credits are offered for this training for Safe States members. These include credits for individuals who are Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and Certified in Public Health (CPH). 

Injury Policy Opportunities Project (IPOP) Part I: The Basics of Opioid Overdose

“Injury Policy Opportunities Project (IPOP) Part I: The Basics of Opioid Overdose” is an online self-study based on portions of the 2016-2017 Injury Policy Opportunities Project (IPOP) Training Academy, which focused on opioid overdose. Offered by the Injury Prevention Research Center (IPRC) at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, the IPOP is an opportunity for injury and violence prevention practitioners and their partners to learn information and skills for strategically influencing policies, environments, and systems to prevent and reduce injury and violence. This 1.0 hour self-study is Part 1 and focuses on the basics of the opioid overdose epidemic.
The self-study training is an initiative of the Safe States Alliance, the Southwestern and Southeastern Regional Network Coordinating Organization, and the IPRC at UNC. To learn more about IPOP, please click here: http://unc.live/2dzEEpN

 

Learning Objectives

As a result of participating in this self-study training, participants will:    

— Understand the changing landscape of opioid overdose

— Understand the rise and current burden of this public health epidemic

— Be able to describe different governmental, nonprofit, and advocacy groups involved in this complex issue


Presenter

— Joann Yoon Kang, Lead for Policy and Partnerships, Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control

 

Continuing education credits are offered for this training for Safe States members. These include credits for individuals who are Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and Certified in Public Health (CPH).