Training

This course is an introduction to designing effective public health policies utilizing evidence-based strategies from various sources including contextual information and best practices from the field. The process for gathering public health data from various sources and its usefulness in policy will be discussed. The various components that support and sustain long-term health policies to ensure equitable outcomes for all.

Unaddressed unconscious bias can lead us to engage in micro-aggressive behaviors. Once we identify our unconscious biases, we can begin addressing them and not act on those biases. Microaggressions can seem irrelevant to the person who says them but can really harm the person receiving the comment. Join us to learn how you can build and foster safer environments and mitigation strategies to improve our interactions with those we work with and the communities we serve.

Health literacy is an essential skill that allows our clients to not only understand but also be an active participant in their health care plan. This training provides insight on how public health professionals can advance health equity and increase health outcomes by empowering our clients through our delivery of health information. A bonus health literacy game is available to use as an active example of how health literacy affects our understanding of messages that are being relayed from a medical perspective.

This training provides the participant with insight of various recommendations provided by the CDC surrounding the development of inclusive communication. Communication is not simply speaking to someone or presenting them with written information; it is also conveying a message. The images we use, the words we say or write and the approach we take in the delivery are also part of the communication process. Join us to learn how you can use a health equity lens when you develop or use various methods of communication.

A data portal developed by the Oklahoma State Department of Health Office of Minority Health and Health Equity for addressing health disparities within communities across the United States through evidence-based data and research. 

The goal of this training is to define and outline concepts around health equity and its role within health programs. You will be introduced to the 10 essential public health services and their role in designing equitable health services across communities. These services will ensure that all populations have equitable resources within their communities.

We all have biases, whether we realize it or not. However, it is up to us to decide how we act on those biases and how we address them. Unconscious bias in health care disproportionately affects communities who experience marginalization. The loss of trust within the communities we serve can also be an outcome due to our biases affecting our decision making based on what we may believe is true before getting to know someone. Join us to learn how we can identify and address our implicit biases to provide the best level of care to the communities we serve.

The course aims to introduce SMART-IE objectives and their application in designing measurable goals and activities towards achieving sustainable health outcomes for all populations. The aim is to design and incorporate SMART-IE objectives to measure goals and objectives in public health programs. Including SMARTIE goals from the beginning of planning can also demonstrate how your program is using burden data to help high-need populations in your region and strengthen collaborative efforts across the program with partners from under-resourced communities.

The course will aim to familiarize the learners with the social drivers of health and their relationship in promoting health equity and designing effective public health programs. The course will highlight the five main domains as well as the national framework behind the social drivers of health. The framework serves as a planning tool for communities that would like to incorporate SDoH in their health programs.

Stress is inevitable both in the workplace and in our community. Various factors can affect the stress in our environment -- like violence, economic issues or family turmoil. Although stress, in moderation, is healthy for our bodies, an increase in constant stress can affect our work performance, our health outcomes and overall quality of life. Join us to learn how we can understand stress, how it affects our communities, our bodies and outcomes, as well as mitigation strategies that can lower our stress levels.

Communities can tell you quite a bit if you walk or drive through them. When we assess the communities through windshield and walking surveys, we may find out they have other needs that we may not have previously seen or physical limitations to community projects. This training focuses on informing staff what information and data can be collected by using windshield and walking surveys, which survey is best in different situations, as well as how to report the findings and use the data collected.