NEW! Business Planning Tools
New! Feasibility Planning Training
Public health agencies are fine-tuning their business skills to
ensure the best possible outcomes with limited revenue. In June, NWCPHP
released an online training called Business Planning for Public Health Programs. This training was the first in a two-part series on public health business plans.
This December, NWCPHP launched the second online training for that series, Feasibility Planning for Public Health Business Plans.
This training will take you through the process of creating a
feasibility plan, a necessary step before writing a full business plan,
to determine whether your idea is worth pursuing.
These online trainings are available to you at no cost. The business
planning trainings will help you know what to consider when writing your
plans and identify which sources will provide pertinent information.
More about the Feasibility Planning online training >>
NEW! Early Life Nutrition & Chronic Disease
New! Life Nutrition Training
There is growing evidence that nutrition and growth in early
life—during pregnancy, infancy and childhood—has an impact on chronic
disease in adulthood, which means that when state and local public
health departments take steps to ensure the nutritional health of
mothers and children, they invest in the future health of the community.
NWCPHP is pleased to release this new online training, Life Course Nutrition: Maternal and Child Health Strategies in Public Health based on this growing body of evidence. This training is available online at no charge.
NWCPHP worked with the University of Washington School of Nursing to
create this training based on a life course framework. It is designed
to help public health leaders describe the role of maternal and child
nutrition in population health and identify actions they can take to
create equitable access to healthy foods and food environments. By the
end of the module you will be able to use the life course framework to
design effective nutrition initiatives to improve population health.
More about the Life Course Nutrition online training >>
How Social Media Can Support the Public's Health
Hurricane Irene in August 2011
When tropical storm Irene hit the small northeastern state of
Vermont, most people didn't know who Sarah Waterman was, but within the
next 48 hours this would change. Waterman, a 27 year-old with a Master
of Public Administration degree, would build tools to help thousands of
Vermonters cope with the statewide disaster. Using Twitter and
WordPress, Waterman and colleagues began informing and connecting
Vermonters.
Vermont needed the tools Waterman and her colleagues constructed, but
beyond the emergency, and the mitigation of death or illness, there are
other long-lasting impacts from the use of these tools for the public
and for public health.
More about an NWCPHP staff member's Irene experience in Vermont >>
NWCPHP Mission
NWCPHP promotes excellence in public health by linking academia and the practice community. As part of the University of Washington School of Public Health, NWCPHP provides training, research, and evaluation for state, local, and tribal public health in six Pacific Northwest states (Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming).
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Hot Topics In Practice
Tuesday, January 10, 12:00–1:00 PM (Pacific)
Joplin Police Chief, Lane Roberts, recounts the events of May 22,
2011. That evening a tornado ripped through Joplin, Missouri, destroying
30 percent of the city in ten minutes.
Roberts will discuss the event, the community, and the details and
decisions that made this a successful coordinated response between state
and local emergency management staff. Learn more >>
We are also pleased to announce that this monthly webinar series has
changed its name from "Hot Topics In Preparedness" to "Hot Topics in
Practice" due to increasingly diverse topics facing public health
professionals.
NWCPHP Spotlight
Latrissa "Trish" Neiworth: A Passion for Learning
As a group of 5th graders at Horizon Elementary School in Hood River,
Oregon begin to struggle in their attempts to solve a story problem,
their substitute teacher decides to take a more novel approach.
“Put away your math books and take out a piece of paper and some
markers,” Latrissa “Trish” Neiworth instructs, and then goes into an
explanation of how to make Venn Diagrams. The students excitedly begin
raising their hands and calling out answers as they break their story
problem down into sets, drawing where the intersections occur.
“I have a passion for helping others learn, whether it’s a group of
school children or a class of adult learners,” said Trish, who uses
her educational background to help out local schools when she can. She
is bringing more than 20 years of professional experience to NWCPHP as
the new curriculum development specialist. She will work to review and
improve the instructional offerings serving public health professionals
in the six-state region.
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