Trainings and Webinars: Obesity and Physical Activity

A Systems Approach to Understanding Childhood Obesity

Learning objectives:

• Describe public health as part of a larger inter-related system of organizations that influence the health of populations at local, national, and global levels.
• Describe different stakeholders with the power to address childhood obesity.
• Explain how local health departments (LHDs) can use systems thinking approaches while planning intersectoral initiatives to reduce inequities in childhood obesity.

Format: Online module

Source: Region 2 Public Health Training Center

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Best Practices in Program Planning for Local Obesity Prevention

Learning objectives:

• Employ appropriate methods to engage your priority users in program planning for obesity prevention.
• Prepare to create or revise a program logic model that is informed by root-cause analysis and evidence-based theory.
• Appraise your obesity-prevention program's current stage of development as it relates to best-practice planning.

Format: Online module

Source: Region 9 Public Health Training Center

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Childhood Obesity Programs: Comparative Effectiveness of Interventions

Learning objectives:

• Summarize the rising prevalence of childhood obesity, particularly among at-risk populations, such as ethnic and minority groups.
• Identify the various factors that result in childhood obesity, with an emphasis on environmental factors.
• Describe why from a public health standpoint the major goal is prevention as opposed to treatment of childhood obesity.
• Examine which settings are most effective for childhood obesity prevention programs, and apply this knowledge critically to your specific target population given their needs and resources.
• Discuss why a settings-based approach which uses multiple settings is more effective than a single settings approach.
• Explain the benefits of using evidence-based approaches to obesity prevention in children.

Format: Archived webinar

Source: Region 9 Public Health Training Center

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Childhood Obesity: Simulating the Impacts of Policy Interventions

Learning objectives:

• Explain how systems modeling can be useful when considering investing in public health strategies and policies.
• Describe the Georgia childhood obesity model.
• Compare simulations in a childhood obesity model to understand the long-term impact of policies on obesity prevalence and costs.

Format: Archived webinar

Source: Region 4 Public Health Training Center

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Improving Community Food Security Through Community & School Gardens

Learning objectives:

• To identify the benefits of local food systems, including community and school gardens specifically, to public health, the environment, and the economy.
• To identify key indicators for data collection to evaluate the impact of community and school gardens.
• To explain the process for gaining School Garden Certification
• To explain the role of comprehensive plans & zoning regulations in establishing community and school gardens.

Format: Archived webinar

Source: Region 9 Public Health Training Center

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Life Course Nutrition: Maternal and Child Health Strategies in Public Health

Learning objectives:

• Describe the role of maternal and child health (MCH) nutrition in the lifelong health of the population.
• Access resources for assessment, assurance, and policy development for MCH nutrition.
• Identify ways to integrate MCH nutrition within state and local public health agencies.
• Apply the principles of the life course framework for population-based public health actions and initiatives.

Format: Online module

Source: Region 9 Public Health Training Center

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Local Health Jurisdiction Role in Eliminating Food Insecurity

Learning objectives:

• Be able to identify three strategies they use to reduce food insecurity for their local health jurisdiction.
• Be able to identify three potential road blocks and solutions in addressing food insecurity for their local health jurisdiction
• Be able to find web resources that will help them address food insecurity within their local health jurisdiction.

Format: Archived webinar

Source: Family Health Outcomes Project, UCSF

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Promoting Healthy Food Choices and Physical Activity in a Rural American Indian Community

Learning objectives:

• Explain why approaches to individual health behavior change are misaligned with AIAN values
• Identify 2-3 examples of strategies designed to change food behaviors in families and communities.
• Explain how using cultural assets can contribute to the relevance and sustainability of nutrition interventions.

Format: Archived webinar

Source: Region 9 Public Health Training Center

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Public Health Evidence into Action Session 1 of 3: How to Find Health Initiatives that Work

Learning objectives:

• Define evidence-based public health practice
• Discuss benefits and challenges of using evidence
• Find evidence-based resources on strategies or approaches, programs and policies

Format: Archived webinar

Source: Region 4 Public Health Training Center

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Public Health Evidence into Action Session 2 of 3: Balancing the Evidence with Your Community Needs

Learning objectives:

• Assess the fit between potential evidence-based approaches and the community organization and population
• Describe steps in the adaptation process
• Define fit, core elements, adaptation and fidelity
• Discuss what can probably be changed and what cannot be changed to maintain EBA fidelity

Format: Archived webinar

Source: Region 4 Public Health Training Center

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Strategies to Advance Health Equity: Understanding and Influencing Corporate Practices of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Food and Beverage Industries to Promote Health

Learning objectives:

• Explain the rationale for expanding public health practice to promote health and equity by changing corporate practices;
• Describe at least four ways that practices of the food, alcohol and tobacco industries contribute to prevalence and inequitable distribution of chronic diseases in the US and globally;
• Identify some of the conceptual and organizational obstacles that state and local health departments face in taking on food, alcohol and tobacco industry’s influence on health;
• Explain how to apply “upstream” strategies to define and achieve feasible goals in their own practice.

Format: Archived webinar

Source: Region 2 Public Health Training Center

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Strengthening Native Food Sovereignty to Preserve Native American Culture and Improve Community Health

Learning objectives:

• Identify contributing factors to the high prevalence of diet-related diseases in Native Americans.
• Introduce how to use a Food Sovereignty Assessment to identify a community’s food system assets.
• Identify funding sources for projects aimed at strengthening Native food sovereignty.
• Understand how tribal food policies can be used to strengthen Native health.
• Provide examples of how knowledge of Native foods can be used to improve food sovereignty.

Format: Online module

Source: Region 9 Public Health Training Center

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What’s working? Population-based Strategies for Obesity Prevention through Improving Healthy Eating and Active Living Opportunities for Georgians

Learning objectives:

• Select sources of public health data and information
• Use a variety of approaches to disseminate public health information
• Apply knowledge towards the program planning process
• Identify methods to ensure that public health initiatives/programs continue to achieve stated goals

Format: Archived webinar

Source: Region 4 Public Health Training Center

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