Extreme Temperature Response and Resilience: A Guidebook for Maine
Communities
What would you do tomorrow if extreme heat or
cold hit your community? Would you have the tools and information necessary to keep
your most vulnerable residents safe?
Course Information
- Audience:
Public health professionals, Community health workers, Municipal and Community Leaders.
- Format: Webinar
- Date/Time: August 6th, 2026 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM ET.
- Price: Free
- Length: 1 hour
- Credential(s) eligible for contact
If you are not seeking a CHES/MCHES contact hours, if you complete the post-test and evaluation, you will receive a Certificate of Completion. The Certificate will include the length of the course. NEPHTC is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1 total Category I continuing education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours are 1.
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Competencies: Policy development and program planning skills
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Learning Level: Awareness
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Supplemental materials: None
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Pre-requisites: None
About this Webinar
Join us for an overview of Extreme Temperature Response and Resilience: A Guidebook for Maine Communities, a practical resource designed to help municipal and community leaders prepare for, respond to, and recover from extreme heat and cold. In this webinar, we’ll walk through key tools and strategies from the Guidebook, including how to strengthen preparedness, implement scalable response actions during temperature events, and build long-term resilience through policy and infrastructure improvements. We’ll also highlight ready-to-use resources such as temperature-based action tables and guidance for operating cooling and warming centers. Whether you’re updating an existing response plan or starting from scratch, this session will help you identify actionable steps to protect community health – especially for populations most at risk.
Learning Objectives
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Describe the health risks of extreme heat and cold for Maine communities and priority populations.
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Identify at least three preparedness actions and three in-event response strategies from the Guidebook that can be implemented at the local level.
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Discuss long-term resilience approaches, including indoor and outdoor infrastructure strategies that reduce health impacts from extreme temperatures.
Use the Guidebook’s tools (temperature-based action table, shelter checklist, and communication resources) to support planning and decision-making for extreme temperature events.
Subject Matter Expert(s)
CJ Miles, Project Coordinator
CJ Miles received her master’s degree in public health from Yale School of Public Health in Environmental Health, with a concentration in climate change and health. She has been a member of the Maine CDC’s Climate and Health team since 2024 and serves as Project Coordinator of the Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (BRACE) and Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) cooperative agreements. Ms. Miles coordinates, oversees, and collaborates on environmental health-related activities associated with these two US CDC-funded environmental health grants and supports the management of a third grant. She also convenes and supports a variety of other partner groups, facilitates meetings, and gathers and summarizes partner feedback.
Erin Arneson, Health Communication Specialist
Erin Arneson received her master’s degree in public health from the University of Iowa in Health Communications. She has been a member of Maine CDC’s Environmental Health Program (EHP) since 2018 and serves as the health communication specialist for EHP which is comprised Environmental Epidemiology Unit (which includes BRACE, EPHT, and an environmental health capacity grant), the Environmental Toxicology Unit, and the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program. As Health Communication Specialist, Ms. Arneson plans, implements, and evaluates statewide and targeted communication efforts for a variety of topics and audiences, using social marketing or other health communication frameworks and best practices as well as a variety of channels, including mass media, web- based, social media, interpersonal, and community channels.
Enrollment and Contact Hours
Select the Enroll button below to register for the course. If you have any trouble accessing the course, contact support@nephtc.org.
Acknowledgement: This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of award 2 UB6HP31685‐05‐00 “Public Health Training Centers.” The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.This training was supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling $400,000 with 100% funded by HRSA/HHS and 0% funded by nongovernment source(s). The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA/HHS, or the U.S. Government.
* Yale School of Public Health, Office of Public Health Practice, a New England Public Health Training Center partner, is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. All CHES credit inquiries are managed by YSPH
Registration
Select the Enroll Me button below to register for this recording. If you have any trouble accessing the recording, contact support@nephtc.org.
Acknowledgement: This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of award 2 UB6HP31685‐05‐00 “Public Health Training Centers.” The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.