Training catalog

Making Contact: A Training for COVID-19 Contact Tracers: The Basics of Contact Tracing – Lesson 2

Topic areas: Relevant terminology, define contact tracing, investigation and elicitation, trace, quarantine or isolate

• Register: https://www.train.org/main/course/1091302/compilationexternal icon
• Target audience: Contact tracers
• Description: The goal of lesson 2 (The Basics of Contact Tracing) is to provide an overview of the principles that will guide your work as a contact tracer. You will have the opportunity to learn basic definitions of contact tracing, gain an understanding of the steps involved, and become aware of the importance of confidentiality. Please note, lessons must be completed in order from one to four.

Learning objectives:

1. Define person under investigation (PUI), contact, and contact tracing
2. Describe the objectives of contact tracing
3. List four fundamentals of contact tracing
4. Describe the importance of privacy protections
5. Identify the four main steps involved in the contact tracing process

Course: Making Contact: A Training for COVID-19 Contact Tracers: Effective Communication and Interviews – Lesson 3

Topic areas: Motivational interviewing skills, risk communication skills, cultural sensitivity, adaptations for contacts with communication impairments

• Register: https://www.train.org/main/course/1091302/compilationexternal icon
• Target audience: Contact tracers and case investigators
• Description: As a contact tracer, you will conduct interviews with people who may have been exposed to COVID-19. Depending on how your team is organized, you may also conduct interviews with persons under investigation (PUIs). Lesson 3 (Effective Communication and Interviews) will provide information on how to use effective communication techniques, prepare for and conduct an interview, and approach your interactions with cultural humility. Some of these terms may be new to you, and we’ll cover them as we move through the lesson. Please note, lessons must be completed in order from one to four.

Learning objectives:

1. Name at least three communication techniques for effective interviewing
2. Explain the importance of showing cultural humility during case interviews
3. Describe how to prepare for an interview
4. Explain the four parts of an interview

Course: Making Contact: A Training for COVID-19 Contact Tracers: Case Monitoring and Resources – Lesson 4

Topic areas: Relevant terminology, follow-up

• Register: https://www.train.org/main/course/1091302/compilationexternal icon
• Target audience: Contact tracers and case investigators
• Description: Case investigators and contact tracers will follow-up and monitor cases (PUIs or their contacts) to ensure they are following appropriate isolation or quarantine instructions and to track the development of any potential COVID-19 symptoms. Lesson 4 (Case Monitoring and Resources) will provide information on the different types of case monitoring and the activities you might be involved in. Please note, lessons must be completed in order from one to four.

Learning objectives:

1. Explain the difference between the two types of case monitoring
2. Describe potential follow-up activities that may be required during monitoring
3. Identify the types of resources and services that may be provided during the monitoring period.
4. Explain what it means to escalate or “refer up” a case that needs more help than you’re able to provide

Public Health 101 Series – Introduction to Public Health

Topic area: Introduction to U.S. public health

• Register: https://www.train.org/main/course/1059661/external icon
• Target audience: Public health professionals and others without formal training in public health
• Description: This course introduces learners to the mission of public health and key terms in the field. The course covers historical developments in public health, the roles of different stakeholders, public health’s core functions and essential services, determinants of health, and the Health Impact Pyramid.

Learning objectives:

1. Describe the purpose of public health
2. Define key terms used in public health
3. Identify prominent events in the history of public health
4. Recognize the core public health functions and essential services
5. Describe the role of different stakeholders in the field of public health
6. List determinants of health
7. Recognize how individual determinants of health affect population health

Every Contact Counts: Contact Tracing for Public Health Professionals

Topic area: Introduction to U.S. public health system, define contact tracing, investigation and elicitation, trace, quarantine or isolation, follow-up, motivational interviewing skills, cultural sensitivity

• Register: https://www.train.org/main/course/1091492/external icon
• Target audience: Public health professionals who are new to contact tracing; Volunteers with a basic understanding of public health
• Description: Contact tracing is an evidence-based way to slow the spread of infectious disease. It is the process of interviewing individuals who have been infected with a disease, identifying close contacts that they may have unknowingly exposed, and providing those contacts with the information needed to monitor their own health and prevent the continued spread of the illness. Learning effective contact tracing practices can help prevent further spread of COVID-19. This 90-minute online course developed by the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice in partnership with the Kansas Health Foundation will rapidly train public health workers in the subject of contact tracing. Within this module, you will learn more about what contact tracing is, why it is an effective tool to slow the spread of COVID-19, and how to practice contact tracing successfully

Learning Objectives:

1. Define contact tracing.
2. Describe the important role contact tracers have in protecting the public
3. Identify criteria that determine whether someone is a potential contact
4. Identify the key components of a successful contact tracing interview
5. Apply principles of successful contact tracing interviews to a mock interview scenario
6. Conduct contact tracing interviews with professionalism and sensitivity

Emerging respiratory viruses, including COVID-19: methods for detection, prevention, response and control

Topic area: Introduction to contact tracing

Learning objectives:

1. Describe the nature of emerging respiratory viruses, how to detect and assess an outbreak, strategies for preventing and controlling outbreaks due to novel respiratory viruses
2. Describe strategies that should be used to communicate risk and engage communities to detect, prevent and respond to the emergence of a novel respiratory virus

Covid-19 Epidemiology Grand Rounds

Topic area: Introduction to contact tracing

Learning objectives:

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An Introduction to Follow-up for Positive COVID-19 Cases and their close Contacts

Topic area: Introduction to contact tracing

Learning objectives:

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COVID-19 Contact Tracing

Topic area: Define contact tracing, quarantine, investigation and elicitation, trace, quarantine and isolate, follow-up, motivational interviewing skills, risk communication skills, cultural sensitivity,

• Register: https://www.train.org/main/course/1091439/external icon
• Target audience: General public
• Description: The COVID-19 crisis has created an unprecedented need for contact tracing across the country, requiring thousands of people to learn key skills quickly. The job qualifications for contact tracing positions differ throughout the country and the world, with some new positions open to individuals with a high school diploma or equivalent. In this introductory course, students will learn about the science of SARS-CoV-2 , including the infectious period, the clinical presentation of COVID-19, and the evidence for how SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted from person-to-person and why contact tracing can be such an effective public health intervention. Students will learn about how contact tracing is done, including how to build rapport with cases, identify their contacts, and support both cases and their contacts to stop transmission in their communities. The course will also cover several important ethical considerations around contact tracing, isolation, and quarantine. Finally, the course will identify some of the most common barriers to contact tracing efforts — along with strategies to overcome them.

Learning objectives:

1. Describe the natural history of SARS-CoV-2 , including the infectious period, the presentation of COVID-19, and evidence for how it is transmitted
2. Define an infectious contact and timeline for public health intervention through contact tracing
3. Demonstrate the utility of case investigation and contact tracing, identify common barriers, and possible strategies to overcome them
4. Present some ethical considerations around contact tracing, isolation and quarantine

General Contact Tracing Phone Calls

Topic area: Define contact tracing

• Register: https://www.train.org/main/course/1091008/external icon
• Target audience: Volunteer callers for Michigan
• Description: This training is a generalized contact tracing training to prepare volunteers for assisting and completing contact calls for persons who have been exposed to COVID19. The training briefly describes why contact training is important and what the process of contact training calls entails.

Learning objectives:

1.  Discuss what is contact tracing and why it is important
2. Discuss how to de-escalate difficult conversations
3. Discuss the script when calling someone exposed
4. Describe resources available to you to answer questions
5. Review how you will be receiving contacts, how you should be documenting and sharing the information you have gathered, to whom you should be reporting, and how often

Interviewing Unit 5: Cluster Interviews and Re-Interviews

Topic area: Motivational interviewing skills

• Register: https://www.train.org/main/course/1089364/external icon
• Target audience: STD partner services providers
• Description: Provides elements of cluster interviews for STD partner services providers. Includes the format of the interview and tips for providing risk reduction messages.

Learning objectives:

1.  Identify the reasons and conditions for conducting a Cluster Interview, including planning
2. Identify the elements of the Cluster Interview format and the difference in formats between a Cluster Interview and an Original Interview
3. Explain the process for choosing a Cluster candidate

COVID-19 Contact Investigation Training

Topic area: Motivational interviewing skills

Learning objectives:

1. Discuss COVID-19 background
2. Discuss case investigation tools
3. Identify investigation interview techniques
4. Discuss types of contact follow-up
5. Identify COVID case and contact investigation resources

Effective Interviewing for Contact Investigation: Self-Study Modules

Topic area: Motivational interviewing skills

Learning objectives:

1. Define a TB interview
2. Formulate a TB interview strategy
3. Identify who requires a TB interview and for what reasons
4. Prioritize TB interviews based on various factors
5. Determine an infectious period for contact identification
6. Conduct a TB interview in a logical and productive manner
7. Conduct a re-interview asking the appropriate follow-up questions
8. Explain why patient education is important in the TB interview process
9. Define communication
10. Identify verbal and nonverbal patient cues and their meanings
11. Use closed, open-ended, and focused questions to gather descriptive, yet targeted information
12. Utilize the techniques of reflection, paraphrasing, and summarizing to affect the course of the interview
13.  Address and overcome communication barriers
14.  Select, and communicate through, an appropriate interpreter
15. Apply effective communication concepts to patient education
16. Describe the concepts of culture and cultural competency
17. Identify various factors that contribute to an individual’s culture
18. Understand why cultural competency is essential in TB interviewing
19. Assess the communication process based on a patient’s verbal and nonverbal cues
20. Limit the barriers of language, dialect, lifestyle, and belief differences during an interview
21. Describe how TB interviews may vary depending on the patient’s life circumstances
22. Decide when to use, how to choose, and how to interview a proxy
23. Conduct a source case interview by selecting an appropriate interviewee and eliciting appropriate contact and exposure setting information
24. Conduct interviews in outbreak circumstances
25. Understand social network analysis and the role the interviewer plays

Introduction to Telephone Interviewing for DIS

Topic area: Motivational interviewing skills

• Watch: https://www.train.org/main/course/1090632external icon
• Target audience: STD partner services providers
• Description: This module will introduce partner services providers (i.e., DIS) to the basic principles and best practices for conducting telephone interviews. It covers professionalism, confidentiality and cultural competency. Learners also learn how to prepare for and conduct a telephone interview.

Learning objectives:

1. Demonstrate confidence when planning and conducting telephone interviews
2. Understand principles and best practices for conducting telephone interviews
3. Improve communication skills and maximize interviewing effectiveness

COVID-19 Public Health Strategy Basic Concepts – NDPHTN

Topic area: Risk communication skills

• Register: https://www.train.org/main/course/1090675/external iconexternal icon
• Target audience: Public health professionals
• Description: Provide a basic background to the COVID-19 pandemic and describe the important steps to flatten the curve of COVID-19. Also provides an overview of crisis communication strategies and coordinating crisis response.

Learning objectives:

1. Review coronavirus history
2. Review COVID-19 characteristics
3. Discuss 6 concepts to flatten the curve
4. Review the 10 social distancing recommendations
5. Review COVID-19 testing concepts
6. Discuss how cocooning protects high risk individuals
7. Discuss key concepts of crisis communications in pandemics

CERC Overview for COVID-19

Topic area: Risk communication skills

Learning objectives:

1.  Define the six crisis and emergency risk communication (CERC) principles
2. Describe the lifecycle of CERC and how communication works at each phase of a crisis
3. Describe how emergency risk communication is different from regular communication
4. Describe the psychology of a crisis
5. Describe the process for gathering audience feedback
6. Describe how to tailor messages to target audiences
7. Develop a crisis communication plan
8. List best practices of a spokesperson
9. Explain best practices for engaging stakeholders through communication during an emergency

Communication Skills

Topic area: Risk communication skills

• Register: https://www.train.org/main/course/1089357/external icon
• Target audience: STD partner services providers
• Description: Provides learners with an understanding of the basic communication skills necessary for partner services providers, and to give them opportunities to practice those communication skills. This module also focuses on various problem solving techniques, and the importance of maintaining an assertive stance.

Learning objectives:

1. Describe factors associated with good communication
2. Identify barriers to communication
3. Define assertive, non-assertive, and aggressive communication and explain the distinctions between them

Disaster Health Core Curriculum: Competency 4: Communication

Topic area: Risk communication skills

Learning objectives:

1. Explain the operational relevance of the following concepts in the context of public health crisis risk communication: risk perception, mental noise, trust determination, and negative dominance
2. Explain the relevance of cultural competency in the context of public health emergency risk communication
3. Identify strategies to communicate in a culturally competent fashion in public health emergencies and disaster events
4. Identify authoritative sources for information gathering in a public health crisis and disasters that can inform effective emergency risk communication during and after these events
5. Demonstrate the features and utility of a message map as a tool for public health emergency risk communication

Health Literacy for Public Health Professionals

Topic area: Cultural sensitivity

• Register: https://www.train.org/main/course/1078759/external icon
• Target audience: Public health professionals
• Description: The purpose of this web-based training program is to educate health professionals about public health literacy and their role in providing health information and services and promoting public health literacy. The course uses a 508-compliant template, knowledge checks, scenario-based interactions, video clips, and a post-test to engage learners. The course includes an evaluation, glossary, and resource list.

Learning objectives:

1. Define public health literacy
2. List factors that influence public health literacy
3. Identify who is affected by public health literacy
4. Identify consequences of limited public health literacy
5. Determine who the stakeholders in public health literacy are
6. Recognize the role of public health literacy in meeting core public health services
7. Apply lessons learned to improve public health literacy

COVID-19 Case and Contact Investigations Training for Tribes

Topic area: Cultural sensitivity

Learning objectives:

1. Describe why case and contact investigation is important for Tribes
2. Discuss COVID-19 background
3. Identify investigation interview techniques
4. Discuss case investigation tools
5. Discuss public health recommendations for contacts
6. Discuss types of contact follow-up
7. Identify COVID case and contact investigation resources

The Guide to Providing Effective Communication and Language Assistance Services

Topic area: Cultural sensitivity, adaptations for contacts with hearing impairments

Learning objectives:

1. Cross-cultural communication skills
2. Verbal communication strategies
3. Written communication strategies
4. Notice of communication and language assistance services

Cultural Competency Program for Disaster Preparedness and Crisis Response

Topic area: Cultural sensitivity

• Register: https://thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov/education/disaster-personnelexternal icon
• Target audience: Any disaster or emergency response personnel interested in learning more about culturally and linguistically appropriate services
• Description: Research shows that cultural minority groups suffer disproportionately during every phase of a disaster. This e-learning program will equip you with the knowledge, skills, and awareness to best serve all individuals, regardless of cultural or linguistic background.

Learning objectives:

1. Course 1 provides an introduction to CLAS and its relevance to disaster preparedness and crisis response
2. Course 2 covers how to provide CLAS during the preparation phase of a disaster, including conducting a community needs assessment
3. Course 3 covers how to provide CLAS during the response phase of a disaster, including meeting physical and mental health needs
4. Course 4 covers how to provide CLAS during the recovery phase of a disaster, including rebuilding neighborhoods

Implicit Bias in Public Health Practice

Topic area: Cultural sensitivity

• Register: https://www.mitrainingcenter.org/courses/ibpha1219external icon
• Target audience: Public health professionals
• Description: The field of public health increasingly focuses on health equity and population health outcomes. While systemic factors are major drivers of inequities, what is the role of the individual? This recorded webinar will introduce the idea of implicit bias and how it is relevant to all public health professionals, regardless of discipline or role in an agency. Participants will learn key definitions, examine data showing the implications of implicit bias in public health, and discuss some strategies to prevent it. Ultimately, no matter how well-intended, we all have some biases we can address to improve our positive impact on population health and on each other.

Learning objectives:

1. Define implicit bias and its relation to public health practice
2. Reflect on personal and professional biases
3. Introduce bias busting techniques

Cross-Cultural Communications Cognition and Linguistics-NDPHTN

Topic area: Cultural sensitivity

• Register: https://www.train.org/main/course/1087168/external icon
• Target audience: Public health professionals
• Description: This training is facilitated through the North Dakota Public Health Training network to explain cross-cultural communications, cognition and linguistics

Learning objectives:

1. Describe the process of developing meaning in message respondents
2. Explain how meaning transfer relates to the communications model
3. Recognize the importance of the seven dimensions of cultural distance in cross-cultural communications
4. Describe the tri-systemic model of cognition and how that model applies to public health communications
5. Demonstrate the importance of stories for transmitting meaning in relationship cultures
6. Describe the breadth of worldwide languages and dialects
7. Describe the role of languages
8. Describe three basic steps to overcome language barriers
9. Explain the importance of horizontal communicators in effective community messaging
10. Briefly explain the importance of the semantic differential and language impact on culture

Cultural Humility: People, Principles, and Practice

Topic area: Cultural sensitivity

• Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaSHLbS1V4w
• Target audience: Public health professionals
• Description: : “Cultural Humility: People, Principles and Practices,” is a 30-minute documentary by San Francisco State professor Vivian Chávez, that mixes poetry with music, interviews, archival footage, and images of community, nature and dance to explain what Cultural Humility is and why we need it. The film describes a set of principles that guide the thinking, behavior and actions of individuals and institutions to positively affect interpersonal relationships as well as systems change.

Learning objectives:

1. Lifelong learning and critical self-reflection
2. Recognizing and changing power imbalances
3. Developing institutional accountability

Culturally Competent Public Health Practice for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Populations

Topic area: Adaptations for contacts with hearing impairments

• Register: https://www.train.org/cdctrain/main/1087468/external icon
• Target audience: Public health and healthcare professionals
• Description: This training will present tools and knowledge for working with the deaf and hard of hearing community, as well as common misconceptions about deaf culture and sub-cultures within the community.

Learning objectives:

1. Create awareness of deaf culture and sub-cultures within the deaf community
2. Discuss the benefits and importance of working with a sign interpreter
3. Identify gaps in health literacy among the deaf community
4. Formulate best methods for working with deaf and hard-of-hearing community

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