Annual Oregon Public Health Workforce Development Conference 2010

This conference provides short-term, intensive educational opportunities for health professionals with expert faculty from the University of Washington School of Public Health, Northwest Center for Public Health Practice (NWCPHP); and from the Training and Education staff of the Oregon Division of Public Health.

Courses Include:

• Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (CERC), Candy Cates
  This session will focus on how to work effectively with the media, the crisis communication lifecycle, the difference between normal communications and crisis and emergency risk communication and the nine steps of crisis response.
• Gadgets & Gizmos for Public Health, Tara Melinkovich and Missie Thurston
  With the advent of new technologies, you need to know when and how to use them.  This session will provide guidelines for effective uses for tweeting, Facebook, YouTube, blogs, texting and web conferencing. After completing this course participants will have a better understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of these tools.
• Preparing for Local Health Department Accreditation, Bud Nicola
  This session will provide an overview of the proposed new voluntary accreditation system for local and state health departments established by the public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB). Participants will review proposed standards, the assessment process, and evaluation issues for the new accreditation system and will develop a plan to prepare the organization for the accreditation process.
• Approaching Quality Improvement in Public Health, Bud Nicola and Lynda Muriera
  Elected officials and the public are looking for accountability in governmental organizations. Quality improvement processes give information about governmental public health organizations that will not only satisfy accountability demands, but also improve the effectiveness and efficiency of public health workers and agencies. Participants will review many existing quality improvement and tools including: PDCA: Performance Management Self-Assessment too; many individual QI tools, and Public Health Ready.