This NJ SOPHE course offers a step-by-step account of how to be involved in the legislative process. In easy to comprehend language one learns about advocating for public health policy via the following strategies: testifying, letter writing, calling, developing grassroots support, and using media. A concise synopsis of how a bill becomes a law is also provided.
After reading the case study, Move It users should be able to:1) Demonstrate increased awareness of the Built Environment's influence on physical fitness, rates of exercise and chronic disease morbidity and mortality; 2) Identify barriers to physical activity and activity solutions in the Built Environment to improve fitness for children, adolescents, adults, and older adults; 3) Demonstrate increased interest and knowledge in mediating sedentary behavior amongst young, middle-aged, and elder populations by identifying opportunities and increasing availability for physical activity through the Built Environment; 4) Identify local, state, federal, and private funding resources for Built Environment intervention; 5) List two of the top four leading causes of morbidity and mortality in New Jersey and be cognizant of the impact that physical activity has in ameliorating chronic disease; and 6) Identify one intervention component from the case study that would work in jurisdiction or community of residence. Developed by Alix Garzero, MPH, The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-School of Public Health.
With the passage of the 2004 Childhood Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act, school districts across the United States have been focused on developing and approving Local Wellness Policies for each local education agency (LEA.) Both the New York State Education Department and the Department of Health have resources aimed at assisting schools in both the development and implementation of local wellness policies. The aim is to create healthy school environments and increase the availability of healthy choices while combating obesity. Amy Koren-Roth and Sandy Sheedy will discuss the federal requirements and what approach NY recommends to schools. Survey results from schools that have worked with New York State’s Action for Healthy Kids’ SPIN (Schools and Professionals in Nutrition) program will be highlighted.
This archived webcast features a panel discussion regarding food safety. Featured presenters, Craig Hedberg, Jeffrey Kahn, Katherine J. Swanson, and Caroline Smith DeWaal, present perspectives on the issues. Topics include: general food safety introduction, common good, industry’s role, and consumer voice.
The goal of this online training is to provide participants with the knowledge and skills to help them use a systematic approach for developing and using workplans as a management tool for ensuring program success.
This presentation is part of the New York/New Jersey Education and Research Center 28th Annual Scientific Meeting on occupational health disparities and occupational health issues in the changing workforce. In this presentation, the speaker discusses work-related fatalities and OSHA's mission and strategic outlook plan. Other topics include: enforcement; cooperative programs; and outreach programs.
Public health professionals are increasingly expected to be ready to respond to specific emergencies, as well as be able to adapt to surges in need to the services they provide. This presentation will discuss the evolution of the role of Public Health professionals in emergencies, and provide direction on how to prepare for emergencies by thinking differently about one’s day-to-day work of developing regulations and policy planning. The seminar will present concepts of how participants can improve the quality and efficiency of their day-to-day workflow of decision making and resource allocation as preparation for improved management of emergencies and surges.
After viewing this presentation, you should:
(1) Understand the need to be prepared to manage large-scale emergencies
(2) Better understand the need to increase public health preparedness activities and simulations
(3) Understand the role of leadership during distinct stages of a crisis
(4) Be able to articulate the need for more preparedness advocacy
A seminar that will focus on decision making in times of crisis. Ideally, in times of crisis, each individual participating in the operation reports to only one supervisor. This presentation will address situations where the participants don't have good leadership and are receive conflicting orders from a variety of supervisors. Participants will learn that in the absence of models like ICS, this scenario creates poor accountability, allows for freelancing, stops the flow of information, lacks coordination of operational efforts, creates poor operational safety, and doesn't move the community experiencing the emergency to a more normal state of being. Finally, this seminar will help to create procedures to reduce the impact of a crisis, focus on developing partnerships, while maintaining multiple allegiances.
Speakers:
Karen Schimke - President and CEO
Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy
Peggy Sheehan RN BSN IBCLC
Program Manager
Schenectady County Public Health Services
This program will provide insight into the different models of home visiting, and highlight Schenectady County’s home visiting programs. Peggy Sheehan will share key lessons learned in Schenectady, and provide practical advice for enhancing program success. Karen Schimke will provide an overview of the research on home visiting, models of home visiting in New York State, and their relative strengths.
Speakers:
Lisa A. Ferretti, LMSW
Director of Operations
Center for Excellence in Aging Services
University at Albany
School of Social Welfare
Melanie Shefchik, MA, CHES
Public Health Educator
Rockland County Department of Health
This presentation will provide an overview of the Stanford University Chronic Disease Self Management Program, the evidence-base that supports its positive health outcomes, populations that have benefitted, program requirements and implementation strategies. We will hear from one county health department that has committed to providing the program to its constituents as well as a Stanford-certified program trainer.
This joint presentation by Dr.s Susan Sherman, PhD, MPH and Danielle German, PhD, MPH describes the economic motivation behind HIV/STI risk among sex workers, and it outlines two programs that were effective at “cutting the risk at its source” by providing sex workers with alternate sources of income. At the end of this session, the learner will be able to:
Provide a description of the societal structures that impact prevalence of HIV and interventions to address those structures;
Describe how the Jewel Project in Baltimore impacted sex workers’ risk behaviors by training them to make and market beaded jewelry;
Identify some of the lessons learned about why this program was effective; and
Discuss the effects of training sex workers to sew and to produce sellable products on their sexual risk behaviors and economic well being.
In this presentation, Daniel Webster, ScD, MPH, along with staff of the Safe Streets program in Baltimore City, discuss this unique approach to reducing gun violence and it's impact, based on their research. At the end of this session, the learner will be able to:
Identify a variety of public health strategies to reducing gun violence;
Describe how Ceasefire/ Safe Streets addresses gun violence with a multi-faceted intervention to prevent shootings; and
Discuss evaluation findings of the impact of Ceasefire/Safe Streets.
In this presentation, Douglas Evans, PhD, MA, Director of Public Health Communication & Marketing at the George Washington University, and Terry Long, Former Communications Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute discuss social marketing theories and strategies, and evidence of effectiveness. Specific examples of effective campaigns are discussed in detail, including the Truth campaign, VERB, mHealth, text4baby, and the Red Dress campaign. At the end of this session, the learner will be able to:
Define social marketing;
Discuss evidence of social marketing's effectiveness;
Describe how the Heart Truth campaign was successful in achieving its goals; and
Identify several successful social marketing campaigns and how they succeeded.
