About this Webinar

Traditionally, public health and the medical society relied on abdicating the responsibility to the patient and expecting the patient to improve their health. For example, a pre-diabetic patient is given health and nutrition education and is expected to adjust their diet and exercise to improve their health, leaving the responsibility to the patient. In this webinar, the speaker will discuss the importance of building public health solidarity between the provider, public health professional, government agencies, and the community to respond effectively to various health conditions and future pandemics. This session will discuss the collective experience of COVID-19, rebuilding trust and expertise, and understanding risk mitigation. The speaker will present a COVID-19 case study and engage attendees in group discussions.

What you'll learn

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

• Discuss the collective experience of COVID-19.
• Explain how to rebuild trust and expertise post-COVID.
• Identify, prioritize, and evaluate risks.

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Subject Matter Expert

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  Mojgan (Mo) Sami, PhD, MA
  Assistant Professor of Health Equity CSUF Dept. of Public Health MPH Internship Coordinator Co-Director, Health Equity for All Lab (HEAL) Faculty Advisor, SWANA
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Mojgan Sami, PhD, MA, holds a doctorate in Urban Planning from the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine, with an emphasis on Public Health. She also holds a Master’s degree in International Law and Economics from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She teaches undergraduate courses in health equity and global health. Dr. Sami’s research interests include infrastructure and ecological impacts on health equity and wellbeing. Dr. Sami is the Co-Director of the Health Equity for All (HEAL) Lab at CSUF and sits on the Planetary Health Work Group of the International Union of Health Promotion & Education (IUHPE). She also served as an advisor for the World Health Organization TDR program.

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Today’s challenges, like climate change and COVID-19, are complex and require public health professionals to lead large-scale changes that no one person or organization can solve alone. The Public Health Learning Network has developed the Learning Agenda Toolkit to help workforce specialists and other leaders develop a coordinated system of effective, efficient, and quality learning to address these challenges.
This webinar reviews the origins of the toolkit and explores its key elements, including a conceptual learning framework, rapid assessment tool, discussion guide, and learning approach planning tool, to help build a robust learning agenda and implement systems changes that improve health.

What you'll learn

At the end of the recording, participants will be able to:

• Review key elements of the Learning Agenda Toolkit.
• Consider how different learning approaches, implemented over time, can be used to build collective competency to address community challenges.
• Learn how to be involved in future pilot testing efforts for the toolkit.

Subject Matter Expert

This webinar recording will be co-presented by Christina Welter, DrPH, MPH and Karla Todd Barrett, MBA, MSM.

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  Christina R. Welter, DrPH, MPH

  Director, DrPH in Leadership

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Dr. Welter is a policy practitioner, visionary leader, and practice-based researcher committed to helping organizations and their partners co-create equity-focused systems change. Among many roles, she is the Director of the DrPH in Leadership at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health. Dr. Welter specializes in engaged and applied mixed method research approaches that promote collaborative learning to develop, implement, and/or evaluate multi-level policy and systems initiatives that address the structural determinants of health.
A few of Dr. Welter’s current projects include serving as a Principal Investigator of the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health funded Center for Healthy Work where she conducts an action research project to increase policy and systems strategies that addresses precarious work. She also serves as the Associate Director and Translation Investigator of the Centers for Disease Control-funded Policy, Practice and Prevention Research Center where she studies governmental public health agency readiness for strategic transformation. Dr. Welter is also currently leading the evaluation for the Cook County Department of Public Health’s Contract Tracing initiative, focused on a racial justice, community mobilization and worker-centered approach to Covid-19. Dr. Welter proudly served as one of the Deputy Incident Commanders for the Illinois Department of Public Health’s Covid-19 response Spring, 2020, helping the state to expand its strategic management and policy responses to the virus.

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  Karla Todd Barrett, MBA, MSM

  Senior Program Manager, Training Specialist

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Ms. Todd Barrett is the Senior Program Manager and Training Specialist at the Boston University School of Public Health. She manages overall operations and partnerships for the New England Public Health Training Center (NEPHTC), including training delivery and development, data analysis, and governance. Ms. Todd has co-authored posters and presentations on NEPHTC training innovations and activity for NACCHO, APHA, NNPHI, SOPHE and NACCHO Emergency Preparedness.

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Reliable data is necessary for public health, in every aspect of practice. In this session, the presenters will talk about the variety of ways data are critical to public health and discuss some of the common data used in public health. The presenters will provide examples of resources available for public health professionals in NH.

What you'll learn

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

• Locate common public health data
• Explain how to use data when making decisions

Subject Matter Experts

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  Amy Costello

  MPH, Director, Center for Health Analytics, Institute for Health Policy and Practice, UNH
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Amy Costello is the Director of Health Analytics and Informatics at the Institute for Health Policy and Practice. With the Center Health Analytics, Amy works closely with the IHPP analytic team to develop information and data system solutions for clients like the NH Department of Health and Human Services, NH Purchasers Group, Accountable Care Learning Network, and Maine Quality Counts. Amy is also actively engaged with the APCD Council, a federation of organizations and state agencies that are interested in the development, standardization and utility of all-payer healthcare claims databases. Amy brings years of experience with health data standards initiatives, and works closely with states, payers, and Data Standards Maintenance Organizations to design solutions for reporting to federal and state data agencies.

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  Josephine Porter

  MPH, Director,
  Institute for Health
  Policy and Practice,
  UNH
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Josephine Porter, MPH, serves as the Director for the Institute for Health Policy and Practice. Jo joined the Institute in December 2007, as a project director. She served as the Deputy Director for several years, before becoming the Director in 2015. Jo oversees operational functions across IHPP. She also co-chairs the All-Payer Claims Database Council (APCD Council) and serves on the Governor’s Commission for Medicaid Care Management. Jo is part of Academy Health’s State-University Partnership Learning Network and is a steering committee member for that group. She also serves on the UNH Analytics Steering Committee. Jo brings many years of health care-related project management and program development experience to IHPP. She has private sector experience, including program management with Health Dialog, Inc., a care management firm. She also previously served as the Associate Director of the New Hampshire Health Information Center at UNH and was the NH BRFSS state coordinator for the NH Department of Health and Human Services. Her research interests are in health data collection and dissemination and using data to effectively improve health care quality.

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  William Moir

  MPH, Chief Health Statistics and Data Management, NH Division of Public Health Services
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William Moir

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  Al Lemay (CAS’99, SPH’01)
  
  Business Systems
  Analyst,
  NH Division
  of Public Health Services

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Al Lemay

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  Lynne Clement
  
  NH Radon Program Manager and Communications Specialist

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Lynne Clement

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About this Webinar

What can you do as a non-profit or public health official?  What are the legal sources of lobbying restrictions?  What is the difference between advocacy, direct lobbying, and grassroots lobbying?

What you'll learn

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Identify the legal sources of lobbying restrictions.
• Define and describe advocacy, direct lobbying, and grassroots lobbying and the difference between these terms.
• Describe federal lobbying restrictions and the impact these restrictions have on public health officials and advocates in non-profits.
• Describe New Hampshire laws relative to lobbying and advocacy.

Subject Matter Experts

• Kerri McGowan Lowrey, JD, MPH
  Deputy Director
• James (Jim) Monahan
  Vice President
  The Dupont Group

Registration and Contact Hours

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About this Webinar

The fast pace and pressures experienced in public health often demand short term and immediate actions without thoughtful consideration of the long-term effects. When people are able to look at situations from a bigger picture, systems view, it allows them to make higher quality decisions and minimizes unintended consequences. One of the most significant contributions to building this capacity is Systems Thinking.

Systems Thinking is a practical, results-oriented approach for better understanding the underlying causes of complex issues. This webinar will introduce systems thinking tools and present two recent examples of public health teams who have engaged with systems thinking tools and received coaching, with very positive results!

• Example 1: one of of three teams coached from the Vermont Department of Health that focused on reducing the case processing backlog in their Cancer Registry Department
• Example 2: one of five teams coached from NNPHI's Strategic Scholars Program that focused on the challenges local health departments have in prioritizing and integrating  behavioral health services

What you'll learn

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Define systems thinking
• Explain the Iceberg Model and Ladder of Inference
• Give an example of an improvement by a public health team using systems thinking coaching

Subject Matter Expert

• 
  Julia Ross, Systems Thinking Consultant
  Ross & Company, Inc.

About this Webinar

One thing for certain, change is inevitable. Reorganization, funding loss or gain, leadership, emerging community issues, policy changes – the list is endless. Like it or not, change happens. Learn to anticipate and embrace change, thrive in an ever changing environment, and bring others on the journey with you.

What you'll learn

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Describe strategies to overcome the fear of change in yourself and others.
• Identify ways to anticipate and prepare for change.
• Define strategies to support team members in a changing environment.

Subject Matter Expert

• 
  Laurie Call
  

Registration and Contact Hours

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About this Webinar

This webinar will provide an overview of the role of the role of Neurologic Music Therapy and interdisciplinary partnerships for successful client impact in RI. The early intervention model will be used to discuss replicable options for programming as well as roles and responsibilities for each organization/provider.

Music is innate and preferred by the majority of the population.  Evidence based music therapy interventions engage multiple regions of the brain to elicit positive health and behavioral health change.  Hands in Harmony strives to increase impact through the formation of social groups to increase education and awareness and target the community at large. 

What you'll learn

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Describe role of music therapy in an interdisciplinary program model
• Discuss opportunities that might exist in your current position for interdisciplinary opportunities
• Discuss opportunities for sustainability for arts-based programs in healthcare
• Discuss roles and responsibilities of each organization (facility, state, arts-based organization) in a successful interdisciplinary collaboration

Subject Matter Expert

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  Nicole O’Malley MA, MT-BC, LPMT, NMT/F

  Executive Director/President
  Neurologic Music Therapist
  Hands in Harmony
  Music Therapy Faculty-University of Rhode Island

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Nicole O'Malley, Executive Director and Licensed Neurologic Music Therapist founded Hands in Harmony in 2003 after receiving her BM in Music Therapy from Anna Maria College. She completed training in Neurologic Music Therapy in 2007 and her Fellowship in Neurologic Music Therapy in 2016. Nicole received her MA in music therapy through Berklee college of music focusing on researching the neurobiology of the role of music in the stress and relaxation response.  Nicole received level 1 NICU training in 2017.  She serves as the chair of the Government Relations Committee for the New England Region American Music Therapy Association and chair of the music therapy task force of Rhode Island throughout the passing of the music therapy licensure in RI.  She is music therapy faculty at URI and is passionate about interdisciplinary opportunities, increasing impact through population health, and data collection. 


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About this Webinar

This webinar will examine the various aspects of resource management in health care, health organizations and nonprofits. Resource management is the evidence-based process by which health care organizations effectively distribute human, capital, supply and data resources in a manner that assures operational and financial stability for the organization and quality care for individuals. 

Traditionally in health and social service organizations, resource management and fiscal and budgeting responsibilities have been the purview of the chief financial officer, accountants, and budget analysts. However, today, front-line managers are being called upon to integrate fiscal planning and resource management into their clinical and operational responsibilities. 

This program is intended for public health leaders who have limited knowledge, skills and experience with resource and financial management and or those wish to review and/or refresh their knowledge of fiscal principles.

What you'll learn

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

• Describe the major resources in health care requiring a management approach
• Identify strategies and tools to monitor resource utilization
• Explain possible performance deviations through a variance analysis process
• Identify strategies for performance improvement in the resource management process
  

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Subject Matter Expert

• 
  Rebecca Arsenault, DHA, RN, FACHE
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Rebecca serves as adjunct faculty and an adjunct academic partner in Southern New Hampshire University’s graduate healthcare administration program and adjunct faculty in University of New England’s graduate public health program. Dr. Arsenault has over thirty-five years of healthcare administrative experience in hospital chief executive officer, chief operating officer, and chief nursing officer roles.

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About this Webinar 

Nobody knows the lived reality of a community better than the residents themselves. The Stanford Our Voice Initiative offers community groups tools and resources to help harness and activate this wisdom, and create healthier communities for all. During this session we will walk through the Our Voice approach, and highlight the inspiring work of a Denver grandma turned “streetfighter,” who has used data and built collaborations to generate changes that support healthy living in the Montbello neighborhood of Denver, Colorado.

Like many underresourced communities, Denver’s Montbello neighborhood has lower socioeconomic status and poorer health outcomes than wealthier areas of the city. In 2016, a Park-n-Ride was moved from Montbello to a light-rail hub 2 miles away. While the new location provides easy car access and ample parking for drivers, Montbello’s pedestrians gained a dangerous commute down a 4-lane thoroughfare, decreasing community access to jobs, health care, schools, events, and city amenities. Forty-five year Montbello resident Pam Jiner was alarmed. As leader of a local GirlTrek group, she was already focused on getting African American women walking as a form of self-care and community engagement. When GirlTrek partnered with the evidence-based Stanford Our Voice Initiative to offer advocacy training, Pam stepped up. Using the Our Voice Discovery Tool app, she and her group became "citizen scientists," documenting environmental features that affected walkability between Montbello and the transportation hub. The data they gathered – geotagged photos, narratives, ratings, and walking maps – told a collective story that the group analyzed, prioritized, and used to generate recommendations for change. Pam also invited a wide range of local stakeholders and decision-makers to walk with her and experience the barriers first-hand. Four years later, Pam shares her story as a self-proclaimed “Street Fighter,” the built environment changes that she worked with others to make, and the ripple effects at the individual, social, and policy levels.

What you'll learn

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• List 4 specific strategies for community members to create change in local environments “from the bottom-up”
• Describe the importance of data, including the systematic capture of local perspectives and insights, in advocating for community-level change
• Assess the applicability of the Our Voice citizen science approach to a range of community-based efforts to address social determinants of health and improve health equity

Subject Matter Expert

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  Pam Jiner

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Pam Jiner is a community organizer and proud 45-year resident of Denver’s Montbello neighborhood. A leader in the GirlTrek health movement for black women and girls, she also founded Montbello Walks in 2018; leads the Senior Steppers walking group; and started a Mobile Food Pantry that delivered 875,000 pounds of food during the 2020 pandemic. Pam is a tireless advocate for safe and equitable city streets, sidewalks, schools and parks in the community she loves.

About this Webinar

This session is designed to take public health professionals through an interactive and participatory group discussion on leading change in the public health and healthcare settings. In this session, the speaker will provide an overview of change management theories, change management applications, how to create a sense of urgency as a pre-condition for change, how public health professionals should think about when leading change, and the current level of fatigue observed in the healthcare system within the context of change management in the current environment.

What you'll learn

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

• Explain change management theories and their applications
• Identify ways to create a sense of urgency when leading change
• Apply change in public health and healthcare settings

Subject Matter Expert

• 
  Louise Keogh Weed
  Program Director,  Leadership Strategies for Evolving Health Care Executives Program,  Practice Transformation Specialist, Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care
  
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Louise Keogh Weed has her Masters in Public Health in Health Policy and Management from Harvard School of Public Health. Since then, Louise has worked in quality improvement and patient safety in the Boston hospital system. Most recently, she served as the Director of Medical Management and Improvement at Codman Square Health Center, a unique health center in Dorchester known for its leadership in innovation. In this role, Louise oversaw all Primary Care innovation work, created the infrastructure for organizational innovation, and worked with Medical leadership on management of the Provider practice. Louise is an instructor at HSPH, teaching in the department of Health Management and is the Co-Director of Leadership Strategies for Evolving Healthcare Executives. Louise is especially interested in non-profit strategy and leadership. Louise has a BA in Women’s Studies from Tufts University and is committed to equity, including racial and social justice, as part of all of her work. In 2018, Louise and her husband adopted an amazing dog named Mugsy.

Registration

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About this Webinar

The Maine KIDS COUNT Data Book is produced by the Maine Children's Alliance every other year - the comprehensive report of the physical, social, economic, and educational well-being of children in Maine. The Data Book as well as the interactive KIDS COUNT Data Center can serve as useful resources to advocates and decision-makers, to ensure policies and programs are centered in supporting and strengthening families. Find out about key takeaways and opportunities to address inequities apparent in the latest data on how children and families are faring in our state.

What you'll learn

At the end of the recording, participants will be able to:

• Describe the Maine KIDS COUNT Data Book
• Identify where to view the interactive Maine KIDS COUNT data dashboard Data Center
• Identify data-informed strategies that support Maine children and families more

Subject Matter Expert

• 
  

  Helen Hemminger
  

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Helen Hemminger is the Research and KIDS COUNT Associate at Maine Children’s Alliance.

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"Call-outs happen when people publicly shame each other online, at the office, in classrooms or anywhere humans have a beef with one another. But I believe there are better ways of doing social justice work." _ Loretta Ross, The New York Times, August 17, 2019

What you'll learn

At the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:

• Define Calling Out culture and explain its toxic impact
• Identifying situations in which Calling Out occurs
• List three techniques for Calling In for your public health practice

Subject Matter Expert

• 
  Loretta Ross
  

  Associate Professor at Smith College

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Loretta Ross is a Visiting Associate Professor at Smith College in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender for the 2019-2021 academic years.
She started her career in activism and social change in the 1970s, working at the National Football League Players’ Association, the D.C. Rape Crisis Center, the National Organization for Women (NOW), the National Black Women’s Health Project, the Center for Democratic Renewal (National Anti-Klan Network), the National Center for Human Rights Education, and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, until retiring as an organizer in 2012 to teach about activism. Her passion transforms anger into social justice to change the world.
Her most recent books are Reproductive Justice: An Introduction co-written with Rickie Solinger, and Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundations, Theory, Practice, Critique, both published in 2017. Her forthcoming book is Calling In the Calling Out Culture: Detoxing Our Movement due out in 2020.
She has appeared on CNN, BET, "Lead Story," "Good Morning America," "The Donahue Show," the National Geographic Channel, and "The Charlie Rose Show.” She has been quoted in the New York Times, Time Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post, among others.
Her activism began as a rape and incest survivor as a teen mother. She graduated college at age 55. She is from San Antonio, TX and lives in Atlanta, GA. She is a mother and grandmother, and an avid pinochle player. Her dream is to see Venus and Serena Williams play tennis in person.


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About this Webinar

What trends are happening in the external environment that are affecting the public health organization and how can you manage them? How can contemporary theories of management and motivation inform your work? Learn about the skills needed for managers to thrive in today’s new normal.

What you'll learn

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Classify trends affecting public health organizations today into one of five types
  
• Give two examples of consequences of the trends on public health organizations
• Name two contemporary theories of management and two parts to employee engagement
• Identify four effects of contemporary theories of management and motivation on organizations today
• Describe three skills needed to thrive in the “new normal”

Subject Matter Expert

• 
  Brenda Wagenknecht-Ivey, Ph.D. 
  CEO
  Praxis Consulting, Inc.

Registration and Contact Hours

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About this Webinar

What are the principles of evaluation and how can your agency use data for effective evaluation? Evaluation is one of the most important skills that public health practitioners can use to meet the needs of the population they serve, to understand what is needed in their particular population, and to demonstrate the effectiveness of programs and services. Governmental and private funders providing resources for public health services are really interested in knowing that programs make a difference and that money is being spent well. Databases of evidence based programs and services, and requirements to use the programs and services, are ways to share ideas, and to show how some programs work better for some populations than others. Learn about this important part of the public health skill set in this webinar.

What you'll learn

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Summarize four basic principles of evaluation
  
• Describe three types of evaluation:  formative, process, and outcome
• List five sources of quantitative data and five methods to collect qualitative data
• Learn about developing an evaluation plan for a public health program

Subject Matter Expert

• 
  Justeen Hyde, PhD
  Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Implementation Research (CHOIR)
  Bedford Veteran’s Administration

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What is quality improvement and why is it important in public health? How can you see your current project in public health, and the health inequalities you want to solve, in the context of quality improvement? How does the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle work in Quality Improvement? How do Quality Improvement activities help accreditation and how can the failure to develop skills in quality improvement hinder accreditation? Learn about these topics and more in this webinar.

What you'll learn

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Contrast quality improvement, quality assurance, and evaluation
  
• Explain why quality improvement activities are necessary in today’s public health environment
• Describe the four phases of the PDSA quality improvement model
• Discuss two existing standards-based programs that support quality improvement
• List five benefits and three barriers to public health agency accreditation

Subject Matter Expert

• 
  Osagie Ebekozien MBBS, MPH, CPHQ, CPHRM
  Director,
  Office of Accreditation and Quality Improvement
  Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC)

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Project Teams can be powerful forces in public health programs and departments, and they are complex to manage effectively. There are many tools available to help you manage projects. Beyond tools, what are the factors that drive project success and help you lead engaged project teams? Learn about these topics and more in this webinar.

What you'll learn

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Describe the five phases of project management
  
• Give examples of three project management tools
• Summarize the four factors that lead to project success
• List five essential components of high performance teams
• Explain three engagement drivers for maximum job satisfaction and five for maximum job contribution

Subject Matter Expert

• 
  Brenda Wagenknecht-Ivey, Ph.D. 
  CEO
  Praxis Consulting, Inc.

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About this Webinar

This webinar continues the discussion on budget assessment and budget monitoring. It moves beyond the budget cycle, and provides tips for a simple persuasive budget narrative to focus on how you might think about specific budget line items. How does a top-down budget approach work within your environment? How do monthly budget reconciliations work? How do you read budgets and understanding variance reports? Though the concepts are the same, the vocabulary can vary in different organizations, and participants share variations. Learn more about managing budgets in this webinar.

What you'll learn

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Classify budget line items into the correct type of budget: operational or capital
  
• List two pros and two cons of a top-down budget approach
• Describe the five steps in a monthly budget reconciliation process
• Confidently read budgets and variance reports

Subject Matter Expert

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  David A. Lagasse, MA, MHSA
  Chief Financial Officer;
  Senior Vice President of Fiscal Affairs, McLean Hospital

Registration and Contact Hours

Select the Enroll button below to register for this webinar. If you have any trouble accessing the webinar, contact trainingmanager@nephtc.org.

The Certificate of Completion will include the length of the webinar. Generally 50 – 60 minutes is equivalent to 1 contact hour. Contact hours may be applicable towards continuing education requirements for certain credentials. Check with your credentialing body to verify if the topic meets its continuing education requirements.