Trainings and Webinars: Mental and Behavioral Health | SHARE-NW

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Selected Trainings and Webinars

A Community Initiative to Fight the Heroin and Opiate Epidemic

Format: Archived webinar

Source: Region 4 Public Health Training Center

Behavioral Health 101: What do we need to do together as public and behavioral health professionals?

Learning objectives:

Explain key behavioral health (mental health and addictions) terminology and framing.
Discuss the history of addiction and the basic brain science.
Describe the linkage between behavioral health and public health.

Format: Archived webinar

Source: Region 5 Public Health Training Center

Cross-sector Collaboration to Address the Prescription Drug Misuse Crisis

Learning objectives:

Describe multiple evidence-based approaches for the prevention and treatment of opioid use disorder.
Describe techniques for engagement in community and cross-sector collaboration to address the opioid use disorder crisis.

Format: Archived webinar

Source: Region 4 Public Health Training Center

Engagement, Education, Resources, and Empowerment: The Essential Role of Community Health Workers in Addressing the Opioid Epidemic: Webinar 1

Learning objectives:

Explain the prevalence of opioid use disorder and opioid overdose and its impact on our region.
Understand how opioid use disorder impacts the health of a community.
Describe 3 ways that community health workers can improve care or support recovery for persons with opioid use disorder.

Format: Archived webinar

Source: Region 1 Public Health Training Center

Engagement, Education, Resources, and Empowerment: The Essential Role of Community Health Workers in Addressing the Opioid Epidemic: Webinar 2

Learning objectives:

Explain the prevalence of opioid use disorder and opioid overdose and its impact on our region.
Understand how opioid use disorder impacts the health of a community.
Describe 3 ways that community health workers can improve care or support recovery for persons with opioid use disorder.

Format: Archived webinar

Source: Region 1 Public Health Training Center

Hot Topics: A Public Health Approach to the Opioid Crisis

Learning objectives:

Explore how to apply systems thinking methods to analyze the opioid crisis.
Describe public health’s role in addressing substance misuse and addiction at the community versus the client or clinical level.
Review how to apply a comprehensive, cross-sector approach to the opioid crisis at the local and state levels.

Format: Archived webinar

Source: Region 10 Public Health Training Center

Hot Topics: Mental Health and Suicide Prevention in Rural America

Learning objectives:

Understand the importance of community health assessments and improvement plans in bringing awareness to suicide as a local problem.
Identify three stressors in rural communities that contribute to their increased suicide rates.
Identify three community interventions that focus on reducing the suicide rate at the local level.
Consider the successful elements needed for building a local suicide prevention coalition.

Format: Archived webinar

Source: Region 10 Public Health Training Center

Hot Topics: Supporting Emotional Wellness in Frontier Areas

Learning objectives:

Understand the importance of a community-based approach to improving emotional wellness and addressing mental health in areas with limited resources.
Understand the process and tools used to create a community-driven plan to improve emotional wellness.
Identify solutions being implemented to improve emotional wellness and community resiliency.

Format: Archived webinar

Source: Region 10 Public Health Training Center

Integrating Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Science to Address Substance Use Disorder

Learning objectives:

Explain what are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Describe the connection between substance use disorders and ACEs
Describe how ACEs science can be integrated with substance use disorder prevention and harm reduction approaches

Format: Archived webinar

Source: Region 2 Public Health Training Center

Overview of Opioid Misuse, Associated Harms, and Public Health Responses in the US

Learning objectives:

Describe current trends in opioid misuse and factors related to changes in use
Summarize harms associated with opioid misuse
Describe public health responses to address opioid misuse

Format: Archived webinar

Source: Region 4 Public Health Training Center

Public Media Data for Public Health

Learning objectives:

Describe public media data available for disease surveillance
Describe public media data available for audience segmentation
Describe public media data available for message design and tailoring

Format: Archived webinar

Source: Region 2 Public Health Training Center

Structural Factors and Sexual Orientation Health Disparities in Adolescent Substance Use: A Multi-level Analysis

Learning objectives:

Explain why it is important to understand structural causes of health disparities among sexual minority youth
Describe why substance use disparities might be a large and persistent cause of disparate morbidity among sexual minority youth
List potential outcomes to expect for sexual orientation substance use disparities among youth given the changing political landscape

Format: Archived webinar

Source: Region 2 Public Health Training Center

Suicide: A Preventable Public Health Priority

Learning objectives:

Recognize the role of various professions in suicide prevention
Identify accessible resources and strategies for suicide prevention
Describe opportunities for systems change to support suicide prevention

Format: Archived webinar

Source: Region 5 Public Health Training Center

The Opioid Crisis: Innovative Health Communication Strategies

Learning objectives:

Learn how to focus your message and include a call to action
Use standardized tools and visual cues to increase the understanding of your message
Test for understanding with your audience using online surveys and interviews
Understand the definition of entertainment education
Recognize how entertainment affects viewers’ knowledge, attitudes and behavior around health issues
Identify opioids/substance abuse storylines on television and the impact they have on the viewing audience

Format: Archived webinar

Source: Region 4 Public Health Training Center

Tribal Behavioral Health 101: Overview of American Indian/Alaska Native Behavioral Health

Learning objectives:

Present an overview of behavioral health in the AI/AN population, including historical background and specific issues
Describe existent different programs and organizations that seek to address or improve behavioral health and related challenges within the AI/AN population
Identify behavioral risk factors
Discuss data challenges related to behavioral health in the AI/AN population and in AI/AN communities

Format: Online module

Source: Region 6 Public Health Training Center

Tribal Behavioral Health 102: Health Issues for American Indian/Alaska Native Men

Learning objectives:

Recognize who is defined as AI/AN
Describe the health status for AI/AN men, including as compared to other races and women
Identify behavioral risk factors
Explain death rates
Describe social determinants of health
Recognize historical trauma
Discuss help and support

Format: Online module

Source: Region 6 Public Health Training Center

Tribal Behavioral Health 103: The Opioid Epidemic and American Indian/Alaska Native Communities

Learning objectives:

Interpret the recent public health data on opioid use rates for American Indian/Alaska Natives (AI/ANs)
Identify the impact of the opioid crisis in relation to AI/ANs
Recognize the types of treatment for opioid misuse

Format: Online module

Source: Region 6 Public Health Training Center

Tribal Behavioral Health 104: Culture is Prevention

Learning objectives:

Define culturally appropriate programs and practices (Tribal Best Practices)
Explain why lack of reliable data for AI/AN is a major barrier to public health interventions
Recognize the importance of high quality data to identify AI/AN health and behavioral health disparities
Describe the positive response AI/AN have to culturally appropriate messages
Identify the real-world strategies, programs and practices that have proven successful in a traditional American Indian Tribe in Central Oklahoma
Recognize the need smaller tribes have for epidemiological expertise to help obtain funding and implement relevant programs
Identify the existing capacity that exists in all Native Tribes for using Culture as Prevention

Format: Online module

Source: Region 6 Public Health Training Center

Related Trainings and Webinars

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

Learning objectives:

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.

Format: Archived webinar

Source: Safe States Alliance

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

Learning objectives:

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.

Format: Archived webinar

Source: Safe States Alliance

Building Health Communities: The Role of Behavioral Health in Advancing Health Equity and Optimal Health for All

Learning objectives:

Describe the world view that has led to policies in the United States that have contributed to poor health outcomes.
Provide an alternative narrative to the dominant narrative about creates health.
Outline the components of the Triple Aim of Health Equity.
Demonstrate how the Triple Aim of Health Equity can help frame effective approaches to addressing tobacco use and behavioral health issues.
Offer a series of questions that could stimulate movement toward advancing health equity.

Format: Archived webinar

Source: Region 5 Public Health Training Center