Alliance Classroom-based Training
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The Writing Process: A Fresh View
Research findings and Legislative hearings: Mixing oil and water
Communicating your ideas: Designing and Delivering technology-enhanced presentations
Networking: Skills and Perspectives for Success
Maine Elders and Emergencies: Working for the Future
Improving the Public's Health: Environmental Justice & Community Partnership Considerations for Public Health Nurses
Hepatitis in Sparta: A multimedia teaching model
Introduction to Using MAVEN
Program Evaluation in a Nutshell
Orientation to Public Health and the Vermont Department of Public Health
Safe & Healthy: How Public Health Protects Us
International Field Research
Conducting Basic Housing Inspection
Doing it Right: Swimming Pool and Bathing Beach Testing
Using Excel for Public Health
Available on CD/DVD:
contact Alveta Haynes
Basic Epidemiology and Biostatistics for the Practitioner (CD)
Caring for the Public Health in Rhode Island (CD)
Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (CD)
Local Public Health Practice: Prevent, Promote, Protect (CD)
Public Health Interventions: Applications for Public Health Nursing Practice (CD or DVD)
Tools for Effective Local Health Administration (CD)
Basic Epidemiology and Biostatistics for the practitioner (CD)
Course Descriptions
The Writing Process: A Fresh View (Website)
The workshop addresses important professional writing skills including, recognizing common pitfalls in the typical writing process, critiquing early drafts, understanding the philosophy behind "free writing," and knowing when to seek help from a tutor.
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Research findings and Legislative hearings: Mixing oil and water (Website)
This seminar is designed to help public health professionals, identify the purposes for presenting research findings to legislative committees, analyze the environment in which legislative testimony will be heard, craft effective legislative testimony to meet the legislative environment and distinguish between federal and state legislative hearings.
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Communicating your ideas: Designing & Delivering technology-enhanced
presentations (Website)
Public speaking can make anyone nervous, but when it is combined with PowerPoint, video displays and other digital media it can inspire butterflies in even the most accomplished public health professionals. This workshop seeks to answer the questions: How can you use PowerPoint to its best advantage? And what are the verbal and non-verbal behaviors that impact the delivery of your message?
Networking: Skills and Perspectives for Success (Website)
Creating and maintaining professional networks has always been important for public health professionals, but in the current economic environment it is essential. This workshop will focus on; what networking is and where to do it; how to organize contacts, make in-person and email introductions, ask for referrals and leave telephone messages; how to identify personal attitudes and beliefs that can impede effective networking and how the ethical use of influence can lead to opportunities and mutual benefit.
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Maine Elders and Emergencies: Working for the Future (Website)
This course provides useful information for those seeking to assist the elderly and their caregivers to adequately prepare for a range of emergencies, from common natural disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes and ice storms to less common human - caused emergencies.
Username = Elder (case sensitive) Password = Elder (case sensitive)
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Improving the Public's Health: Environmental Justice & Community Partnership Considerations for Public Health Nurses (Website)
This audio-visual course frames the issue of Public Health and Public Health Nursing Practice in the context of Environmental Justice. By the end of this course, you will have a basic foundation to examine the influence of race, class, and poverty on many of the environmental issues that face our communities today. We hope that you will find the course engaging, and enriching to your practice. Please feel free to contact the instructors with feedback.
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Hepatitis in Sparta: A multimedia teaching model (Website)
Interactive, problem-based teaching module based on a fictional outbreak of Hepatitis A.
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Introduction to Using MAVEN (Website)
These are short narrated video modules provide a step-by-step introduction to the use of the online MAVEN system for reporting and tracking infectious disease in Massachusetts.
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Program Evaluation in a Nutshell (RealPlayer)
This workshop addresses key aspects of program evaluation including distinguishing between various levels of program evaluation, understanding the difference between internal and external validity, identifying common threats to validity and comprehending the interplay between formative, process, and outcome evaluation.
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Orientation to Public Health and the Vermont Department of Public Health (PDF)
An overview of public health, the programs in the Vermont Dept. of Health, and the role that public health plays in Vermont.
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Safe & Healthy: How Public Health Protects Us (Website)
Informational introduction on how public health plays a role in the community and home in Massachusetts.
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International Field Research (Website)
Practicing public health across borders and cultures can be daunting, but it’s an essential element in promoting health in our global community. This workshop focuses on implementing strategies for developing international health projects, identifying mentors, funding travel expenses and preparing for work abroad.
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Conducting Basic Housing Inspection (Website)
This module is a basic introduction to housing code inspections in Massachusetts that identifies the key elements of a complaint-based investigation and inspection.
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Doing it Right: Swimming Pool and Bathing Beach Testing (Website)
Multi-media module that demonstrates the proper collection of samples for bathing beaches and swimming pools and the proper method for conducting swimming pool chemistry tests.
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Using Excel for Public Health (Website)
These are short narrated video modules that demonstrate how to use Excel for a variety of tasks. The examples were obtained from a variety of practitioners in local health departments in Massachusetts . Each module helps you develop specific skills that are listed beneath the module title. The “Start Time” indicates in minutes and seconds, exactly where in the module a specific skill is demonstrated. The Flash videos all have a slide bar that allows you to rapidly move forward and backward throughout the video.
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Basic Epidemiology and Biostatistics for the Practitioner (CD)
A CD with lecture slides, handouts and resources on subject matter that includes: the history and overview of epidemiology; surveillance and investigation principles; data collection and analysis;
the pitfalls of epidemiology; and cancer clusters.
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Caring for the Public Health in Rhode Island (CD)
A course focusing on the Public Health Role of Community Centers (CHC) in Rhode Island and targeted to all those participating as CHC board members. A person completing this course will be able to:
1) Describe and explain the factors influencing access to quality health care quality;
2) State the history and perspective of community health centers;
3) List and describe the responsibilities of community health centers and its members.
Completion time: 90 minutes.
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Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (CD)
A CD with lecture slides, a facilitator's manual and pre/post tests for a tabletop exercise on communication during a bioterrorist attack on food.
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Local Public Health Practice: Prevent, Promote, Protect (CD)
A three part introduction to public health practice in Manchester, NH including Foundations of Public Health Practice, Assessing, Enforcing and Assuring the Health of the Public, and Improving Access to Care.
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Public Health Interventions: Applications for Public Health Nursing Practice (CD or DVD)
A roundtable discussion with the Massachusetts Association of Public Health Nurses and Linda Keller Olson, MS, RN, CS, a Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow and Consultant for the Minnesota Department of Health. Both CD and DVD versions are available.
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Tools for Effective Local Health Administration (CD)
A CD with lecture slides, handouts and resources on subject matter that includes developing effective responses and managing a health department.
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Basic Epidemiology and Biostatistics for the practitioner (CD)
A CD with lecture slides, handouts and resources on subject matter that includes: the history and overview of Epidemiology; surveillance and investigation principles; data collection and analysis; the pitfalls of epidemiology; and cancer clusters.
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