Topic: Partnerships

National Nature Assessment Webinar – Understanding the Role of Nature in our Work & Lives

Overview:

On Earth Day 2022, President Biden made nature-based solutions a national priority. In an Executive Order, he made a broad call for action to create nature-based solutions to tackle climate change. A new study, called the National Nature Assessment, was created. Its scope is to assess the status, observed trends, and future projections of America’s lands, waters, wildlife, biodiversity, and ecosystems and their benefits, including connections to the economy, public health, equity, climate mitigation and adaptation, and national security.

 

In this webinar, Dr. Phillip Levin, Ph.D., a Professor of Practice at the University of Washington in the School of Environment and on loan to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as the Director of the first-ever National Nature Assessment will share more about the National Nature Assessments’ recently released prospectus. This document was created from conversations with representatives from over 133 organizations and 40 states in the US. It evaluates how changes in nature impact safety, security, human health and equity.

 

Learn more and share how nature and climate change is impacting health and well-being in your communities. Find ways that this assessment can be useful in your IVP work.

 

View the recording HERE

 

If you encounter any technical difficulties related to this training, email Safe States at info@safestates.org.

The Essential Skills for Partnership Series

Overview

Cross-sector partnerships are essential in addressing and improving the vital conditions of a community. Navigating these partnerships requires a specific set of skills not often taught in traditional public health settings.

 

Building on a series of previous efforts to support IVP practitioners in strengthening partnerships to advance community injury and violence prevention efforts, Safe States identified a set of “essential skills” necessary for establishing and sustaining these partnerships.

 

This three-part self-paced training series covers the skills needed to be intentional in your preparation to partner, build and maintain trust with partners, and manage tension and conflict. While each module can be taken independently, the lessons in the series are intended to build on one another. Throughout each lesson, there are skill-building exercises included to help you apply what was covered in the session.

 

Training Modules

MODULE 1: INTENTIONAL PREPARATION FOR PARTNERSHIPS

Module one of the Essential Skills for Partnership series begins with intentional preparation for successfully establishing partnerships critical for public health efforts. This module will help you think through how you can be intentional in your efforts, providing resources and self-paced exercises for skill building.


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Module One Activities
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Module 1. Activity 1: Strategic Planning for Partnerships
Module 1. Activity 2: Values Clarification
Module 1. Activity 3: Moral Foundations Theory
Module 1. Activity 4: Reducing Jargon
Module 1. Activity 5: Working your Network Module One Slides

MODULE 2: HOW TO BUILD TRUST

Module two of the Essential Skills for Partnership series discusses the importance of and necessary skills for building trust with partners. This module will help you develop strategies for building and maintaining trust among partners, providing resources and self-paced exercises for skill building.

 

 

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Module Two Activities
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Module 2. Activity 1: Reflection on Building Trust
Module 2. Activity 2: Transparency about Organizational Culture
Module 2. Activity 3: Red Yellow Green Flags in Partnerships
Module 2. Activity 4: Power Analysis in Partnership
   Module Two Slides

MODULE 3: MANAGING TENSION AND CONFLICT

Module Three of the Essential Skills for Partnership series helps you learn to proactively prepare for tension or conflict with partnerships. This module will provide tools and build skills for managing tension and conflict in ways that minimize harm and create opportunities for improved relationships and progress toward outcomes.

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Module Three Activities
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Module 3. Activity 1: Approaches to Tension and Conflict
Module 3. Activity 2: Addressing Historical Harm   Module Three Slides

 

Talk to the Trainer?

Virtual Roundtable Sessions
August 25th
September 22nd

 

Trainer, Deena Fulton, of the Essential Skills for Partnerships training series and IVP professionals debrief on experiences and training. Participants are encouraged to complete at least one of the three modules and corresponding activities before the roundtable. 

Additional Resources

Each training module includes a number of resources to support applying the lessons and further learning. Below you can download the full list of resources referenced across all three modules, as well as other key Safe States resources.

 

Background

Despite strong interest in fostering meaningful collaborations to advance IVP efforts and address systemic issues at the local, state, and national levels, resources to support this work continue to be scarce. In response to this, Safe States Alliance has developed a number of resources on applying SRPF approaches and strengthening cross-sector partnerships. In November 2020, Safe States released “Strengthening Partnerships Between Business and Public Health: A Roadmap to Advancing Community Injury and Violence Prevention” (Roadmap) to provide concrete guidance and tools to support public-private partnerships. The Roadmap is a culmination of work that began in 2017 with the National Safety Council and extended through an expert convening supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and, in partnership with, the United States Surgeon General in August of 2020.

 

As the literature calling for business and public health partnerships grew, the question of how sectors start building relationships to determine if a partnership is feasible arose. To begin to answer this question and build upon the guidance of the Roadmap, Safe States developed “Preparing to Partner – A Prequel to Strengthening Partnerships between Business and Public Health: A Roadmap to Advancing Injury and Violence Prevention” in October 2022.

 

The Roadmap compendium builds on previous and ongoing work to support public health leaders with engaging non-traditional partners to address shared risk and protective factors (SRPF). Through a series of assessments, environmental scans, literature reviews, and key informant interviews across projects, Safe States discovered a need for expanding “soft” or “essential” skills, such as message framing and language, relationship development, conflict resolution, shared agenda development, etc., not often taught in traditional public health curriculum.

 

With financial support through Cooperative Agreement #5 NU17CE924917-05 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Safe States built on earlier activities designed to create meaningful collaboration between public-private partnerships by conducting training activities to equip public health practitioners with the necessary or “essential” skills to engage with non-traditional partners to improve community health.

Uniting Research & Practice: Opportunities to Engage with Safe States and SAVIR

Overview:

Like peanut butter and jelly, IVP research and practice go together nicely. We have asked Injury and Violence Professionals – both practitioners and researchers to share their work and experience along with highlighting how their work can (or has) bridged the gap between research and practice.

Our goal in this webinar is to demonstrate how to foster and sustain research-practice partnerships over time and help establish collaborations between Safe States and SAVIR members.

 

Presenters:

Peg Ogea-Ginsburg – Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services

Bernadette Hohl, PhD, MPH  – Penn Injury Science Center at the University of Pennsylvania 

Kevin Rix – Penn Injury Science Center at the University of Pennsylvania 

Ashley Lamar – JPS Health Network

 

Moderator:

Dr. Gary A. Smith – The Ohio State University

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Learn more about these organizations, their members and the IVP work being done in practice and research:

Webinar

Powerpoint slides

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

Changing Broken Systems – Reimagining the Enforcement of Traffic Safety

Overview:

For decades, injury prevention professionals have categorized prevention strategies into what has often been called the “E’s of Prevention,” with “enforcement” being a key component of those strategies. However, heightened news coverage of high-profile deaths of Black people from excessive use of police force have highlighted disparate policing and traffic stops as a public health issue. As a result, many cities are re-imagining the role of law enforcement, what behaviors should merit a traffic stop, and investing in more upstream equitable infrastructure to create safer and more just systems. Change is hard and often met with resistance. Join us on March 3 for a discussion on how to actively engage with law enforcement to collaborate on transformative change.

Presenters:

Join us for a panel discussion featuring presenters from the Safe States Annual Conference 2021 session where it began.

 

Chief Harold Medlock, Jr.
Retired Chief of Police
Fayetteville, NC Police Department

 

Ken Barone
Associate Director
Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy
University of Connecticut Department of Public Safety

 

Leah Shahum
Founder and Director
Vision Zero Network

 

Facilitator:
Ashley Lamar
Trauma Injury Prevention Specialist
JPS Health Network

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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 1.5 Category I continuing education contact hour, and (2) for professionals with a Certificate in 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 Specialists (CHES) and Certified in Public Health (CPH).

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Training Instructions:

To complete this training, you will need to:

​1. Participate in the training by accessing the Recorded Webinar

2. Complete the Evaluation

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

Connections Lab Webinar

Overview:

Shared risk and protective factors (SRPFs) – conditions and characteristics that have been linked to multiple health and quality-of-life outcomes – have long been explored by public health professionals. However, efforts to translate this collective knowledge into practical and upstream interventions or “SRPF approaches” have proven complex and challenging for public health practitioners and their many multi-sector partners.

 

In response, Safe States – in partnership with our members and collaborators – has worked over the last two years to develop the Connections Lab, a new suite of resources that includes:

 

-The first formal definition of a “SRPF approach.”

-A conceptual model that visualizes how and where SRPF approaches operate.

-Strategies for how to evaluate and engage partners in SRPF approaches.

-Examples of SRPF approaches being implemented in several states.

-Tools & resources for advancing your SRPF efforts and a glossary of related terms.

 

Presenters:

  • Jamila Porter, Safe States Alliance
  • Mariana Garretson, Consultant
  • Eva Bland, Safe States Alliance
  • Julie Alonso, Safe States Alliance

      

    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 1.5 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: Connecetion Lab Webinar
    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.

    New Recommendations: Strategies to Address Shared Risk and Protective Factors for Driver Safety

    OVERVIEW

    Given the scarcity of resources and competing issues in the public health injury prevention and traffic safety communities, practitioners can have the biggest impact by collaboratively applying evidence-based strategies to traffic safety challenges that also address shared risk or protective factors. Safe States convened a Behavioral Health Workgroup comprised of key subject matter experts from federal, state, and local agencies, national organizations, and the research community. The Workgroup contributed to the development of recommendations for applying a shared risk and protective factors approach to reduce risky driving behavior, identifying interventions that can address risk and protective factors to prevent motor vehicle-related injuries and fatalities, and utilizing data resources to measure the impact of strategies.

     

    LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

    By the end of his webinar, participants will be able to:

    1-Understand the process involved in collaborating across public health, traffic safety, and research communities

    2-Identify key recommendations for: applying the shared risk and protective factors approach to reduce risky driving behavior, identifying interventions that can address these risk and protective factors to prevent motor vehicle-related injuries and fatalities, and utilizing data resources to measure the impact of these strategies

    3-Apply public health concepts to traffic safety initiatives to reduce motor vehicle-related injuries and fatalities,

    4 -Use the new recommendations to apply a shared risk and protective factors approach to driver safety initiatives, with an emphasis on implementing behavior change interventions or strategies in local communities

     

    Presenter:

    Ina I. Robinson, Safe States Alliance

     

    Participate in the training by accessing the recorded webinar:
    http://media.safestates.org/Strategies_to_Address_SRPF_for_Driver_Safety.mp4

     

    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 1.0 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. 

     

    *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. 

     

    *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.

    Walking the Line Between Public Health Messages and Lived Experience: Constructive Conversations and Unlikely Alliances

    This is Webinar #3 in a three-part series on safe infant sleep entitled “Systems for Safe Sleep: Purposefully Building Programs for Effective Public Health Partnerships.”

     

    This series explores the topic through the lens of the Multi-Sectoral Influences Matrix (M-SIM), a tool that helps broadly scope programs and meaningfully engage the full spectrum of partners and perspectives that are affected by an intervention. The series is presented by the Southeastern and Southwestern Injury Prevention Network and the Safe States Alliance.

     

    In Webinar #3, “Walking the Line Between Public Health Messages and Lived Experience: Constructive Conversations and Unlikely Alliances”, presenters address how safe sleep communication campaigns can cause conflict between public health and other professionals involved in infant and family health (i.e. breastfeeding advocates). Terri Miller from the Georgia Department of Health shares her story about the positive working relationship that developed between public health and maternal and child health in relation to Georgia’s Safe to Sleep Campaign. Linda Smith, co-author of Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family, shares her perspectives on the balance between women and baby’s need for sleep, nourishment, safety, and closeness. Jane Herwehe of the Louisiana Department of Health provides final commentary on the webinar series, connecting each presentation back to the M-SIM.

     

     

    Learning Objectives

    After participating in this webinar, participants will:

    – Understand how safe sleep communications campaigns can cause conflict between public health and other professionals involved in infant and family health (i.e. breastfeeding advocates)

    – Learn how positive working relationships around safe sleep can be developed between public health and maternal and child health programs

    – Understand how components of safe sleep campaigns connect to the M-SIM

     

    Presenters

    Terri Miller, Georgia Department of Health, Injury Prevention Program

    Linda Smith, author, Wright State University, Boonshoft School of Medicine (Dayton, OH)

    Jane Herwehe, Louisiana Office of Public Health, Bureau of Family Health

     

    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). 

    Safety Takes Synergy: Lessons & Successes from the Pedestrian Injury Prevention Action Team Program

    Overview

    Decreasing pedestrian injuries and fatalities requires strong partnerships between a variety of state and local agencies. Developed by the Safe States Alliance and funded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the Pedestrian Injury Prevention Action Team Program was designed to enhance statewide pedestrian safety efforts by helping practitioners strengthen partnerships and align efforts between those working in a variety of fields, including public health, transportation, planning, education, law enforcement, and advocacy. This self-study will present lessons and successes from the program and give examples from two states.

     

    Learning Objectives

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

    — Learn about lessons and successes from the program (documented in an impact evaluation report from the Safe States Alliance)

     

    — Understand how Action Team members from two states have used multidisciplinary collaborations they’ve created through the program to successfully advance pedestrian safety initiatives across their respective states

     

    — Learn how to engage partners across a variety of disciplines to achieve shared goals and ensure that pedestrian safety efforts are meaningful and impactful.

     

    Presenters

    • Jamila Porter, Safe States Alliance
    • Officer Robert McCool, Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center
    • Lloyd Jordison, Madison County Health Department (KY)
    • Mia Patriarca, Rhode Island Department of Health
    • Bari Freeman, Bike Newport

     

    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).