Online Courses

• Assuring Cultural Competence in Disaster Response

  

  1.5 hour online course designed to prepare public health professionals for their functional roles in disaster response by offering culturally competent disaster interventions to survivors, witnesses, and responders of bioterrorism and other major public health threats and community disasters.

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• Understanding Compassion Fatigue

  

  1 hour online course designed to help public health workers, and other professionals on the front lines of bioterrorism defense, combat the potential adverse psychological effects of performing their functional roles and professional responsibilities in bioterrorism preparedness, response and recovery.

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• FAST Foundations

  

  4 hour online course developed to provide training in the foundational knowledge necessary to effectively deliver Psychological First Aid (PFA) to children, adolescents, adults, and families in the immediate aftermath of disaster.

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• Basic Epidemiology

  

  4 hour online course developed to increase the awareness and knowledge of public health workers who may be deployed on Field Epidemiology strike teams in order to assist local, regional, state, and national epidemiology staff in disaster investigations during surge capacity.

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• Healthy Water

  

  Designed to help environmental health professionals and their community partners in healthcare and education understand the risks of waterborne diseases and disease transmission related to public swimming pools, spas and water parks.

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• SMART: Stress Management and Resilience Training

  

  2 hour online program that aims to develop an awareness of stress and stressors associated with response workers, as well as promote strategies to help response workers manage stress and practice self-care to maximize their stress resistance and resilience.

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• Public Health Systems, Services, and Practice: Infrastructure and Functions

  

  1 hour online course developed to address the role of the public health system within the local, state, and national infrastructure and the social, political, and economic factors that impact an organization’s functions.

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• Public Health Performance Improvement: Programs and Processes

  

  1 hour online course developed to address the performance improvement, quality improvement, and performance standards of the public health system and public health agencies. Designed to help participants identify and describe national, state, and local processes in order to effectively measure, report, and improve public health organizational performance.

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• The Art and Science of Ethical and Effective Public Health Leadership

  

  1 hour online course developed to review the leader’s role in creating and maintaining a shared public health vision to guide practice and community action and describes the leader’s role in creating an organizational culture that incorporates ethical standards of public health practice.

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Onsite Courses

Disaster Behavioral Health Courses

• CFAST: FAST with Children

  

  4 hour onsite program that provides public health workers and other professionals the knowledge and skill to effectively deliver initial behavioral health assistance to children and adolescent survivors of disasters.

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• RFAST: FAST for Responders

  

  4 hour onsite program that provides public health workers and other professionals with the necessary awareness, knowledge, and skills to promote behavioral health and wellness through individual and team approaches for preventing, mitigating, and managing disaster worker stress and for developing disaster stress resistance and resilience to the negative effects of critical incident stress exposure.

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• BFASTplusSN: FAST with Special Needs Populations

  

  4 hour onsite program that provides public health workers and other professionals with the opportunity to develop essential behaviors and skills to effectively deliver Psychological First Aid to disaster survivors who have special needs.

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Field Epidemiology Courses

• FIRST: Field Investigator Response and Surveillance Training

  

  8 hour onsite program developed to help public health staff who may be called upon to assist epidemiology staff during a surge capacity event. It is designed to help public health workers develop the abilities needed to assist in epidemiology investigations at times when epidemiology staff are overburdened.

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• IFIRST: Intermediate FIRST

  

  16 hour onsite program designed to develop the knowledge, skills, and abilities of public health workers who may be deployed on Field Epidemiology Strike Teams in order to assist local, regional, state, and national epidemiology staff in Gastrointestinal Illness or Avian Influenza disease investigations during surge capacity.

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• IFIRST-2: Intermediate FIRST, Part Two

  

  8 hour onsite program that develops the knowledge, skills, and abilities of public health workers and their community partners who may be deployed on Field Epidemiology Strike Teams in Anthrax or Plague disease investigations.

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