Introduction to public health for workforces new to the field. Includes common terminology, popular theories, and real-world examples of public health campaigns.

Review of the five pillars of social determinants of health (economic, medical, education, built environment, social and community context), equity vs. equality, implicit and explicit bias, and real-world strategies to address SDoH in public health.

Ensuring remote and in-person teams that handle protected health information (PII) and/or personally identifiable information (PHI) are in compliance with the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

Effective strategies and best practices for focus groups, key informant interviews, structured group interviews, and other forms of qualitative data collection (in-person, audio recordings, transcriptions, telephone interviews, electronic surveys).

Effective strategies in interviewing older adults, including environmental and organizational strategies, communication best practices, implicit bias, and right-branching sentence structures.

Effective strategies for handling email, including communication and writing strategies to encourage email responsiveness, managing email inboxes and to-do lists, Eisenhower matrices, and archiving and storage. Includes realistic strategies that are ready to be implemented immediately upon completion of the training.

Understanding personal organizational styles and project coordination style; overview of effective strategies for project management and task management for nonprofit employees.

Office politics will never go away! This session covers effective communication strategies (written, verbal, virtual, and in-person) and strategies to address diverse, multi-generational office environments to ensure workforces are set up for collaboration and success.

Overview of conducting focus groups and surveys while fostering safe, productive environments. Potential areas of focus include the use of effective probing techniques, handling distractions and nonsensical contributions during focus group discussions, making meaning of qualitative data in multiple languages, subsidence, communication, and neutral attitudes towards drug use and citizenship status. Instrument design, the role of the facilitator, notetaker, and logistics manager, and effective recruitment strategies are covered.

Overview of analyzing qualitative data utilizing Dedoose or QDA Data Miner software. Includes overview of software, pros and cons of qualitative data analysis software packages, and effective database management strategies.

We offer a variety of cultural awareness trainings with our partner organizations and consultants. Please contact us directly to inquire about specific communities and/or populations that your workforce is interested in building respectful, bi-directional collaboration and outreach strategies.

Tales from the field of public health! Learn about ACTUAL collaborations, evaluation, and community based participatory research projects – the good, the bad, and the ugly! Highlighting real-world public health projects and hearing directly from program managers, epidemiologists, and community health outreach workers to ensure your program is prepared to address your public health efforts. Storytelling at it’s finest! :)

Strategic thinking concepts, barriers, and facilitators, as well as strategic planning best practices such as logic models, SWOT analyses, gradients of agreement, Eisenhower Matrices, and best practices in project coordination and project management.

Best practices leading fully remote or hybrid remote teams. Includes overview of barriers and facilitators to effective remote work, employee engagement, team building, effective virtual communication, and transitioning to or from fully remote or hybrid remote workplaces.

Learn best practices and avoid comment pitfalls when transitioning from an associate or colleague to a leader, supervisor, or manager.

Basics of formative, process, outcome, and impact evaluations for programs and projects, including writing strong objective, logic models, and utilizing SWOT analyses.

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