Announcements
On the Calendar
Looking for upcoming trainings? In addition to our large collection of on-demand webinars and self-paced courses, please join us for these synchronous learning opportunities:
Region IV PHTC Awarded Funding to Continue Building the Capacity of the Public Health Workforce in the Southeastern U.S.
The Region IV Public Health Training Center (PHTC) has received a $4.4 million award from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agency. These funds will be used over the next four years to improve the ability of the public health workforce to meet national, state, and local needs under the direction of Principal Investigator Melissa (Moose) Alperin, EdD, MPH, MCHES.
New Podcast: Adaptive Leadership for Public Health
The Region IV Public Health Training Center has launched a podcast series! Adaptive Leadership for Public Health is a six-part series created to help tier 3 (senior management/executive level) public health professionals address complex challenges by growing and thriving as adaptive leaders. We know your time is limited, so these short episodes are designed for you to listen on your commute, over a lunch break, or while taking a walk.
R-IV PHTC Trainings Earn Quality Seal
Six self-paced learning modules produced by the Region IV Public Health Training Center have been accepted as part of the Public Health Learning Navigator. These courses were nominated for inclusion and then assessed by a panel of three peer reviewers using the National Network of Public Health Institutes’ Quality Standards for Training Design and Delivery.
Featured Trainings
The Region IV PHTC offers free competency-based trainings for public health professionals throughout the region and nation.
Empowered Leadership Series: Unified Teams – Strengthening Relationships for Workplace Success
This is the fourth session in a 4-part webinar series that is designed to empower leaders in creating thriving workplaces. From prioritizing mental health and fostering trust to supporting employee growth and strengthening team dynamics, each session offers actionable strategies to enhance your effectiveness as a supervisor.
Strong team dynamics are key to collaboration, innovation, and morale. This session equips supervisors with strategies to foster connection and resolve conflict within their teams. From facilitating inclusive team meetings to addressing misunderstandings and strengthening group cohesion, you’ll learn how to balance individual needs with collective goals. Discover tools and practices to build a team culture rooted in trust, respect, and belonging.
Empowered Leadership Series: Trust at the Core – Building Strong Supervisor-Staff Relationships
This is the third session in a 4-part webinar series that is designed to empower leaders in creating thriving workplaces. From prioritizing mental health and fostering trust to supporting employee growth and strengthening team dynamics, each session offers actionable strategies to enhance your effectiveness as a supervisor.
Trust is the foundation of any successful supervisory relationship. In this session, we’ll dive into how to establish, maintain, and repair trust to foster open communication and psychological safety. Gain actionable tools for transparent conversations, strategies for addressing mistakes constructively, and tips for giving feedback that strengthens relationships. Build the trust necessary for meaningful connection and long-term team success.
Empowered Leadership Series: Growth in Action – Empowering Employee Potential
This is the second session in a 4-part webinar series that is designed to empower leaders in creating thriving workplaces. From prioritizing mental health and fostering trust to supporting employee growth and strengthening team dynamics, each session offers actionable strategies to enhance your effectiveness as a supervisor.
This webinar focuses on recognizing individual strengths and aspirations, offering tools for career mapping, skill-building, and meaningful stretch assignments. Learn creative ways to invest in your team’s development—even with limited resources—while aligning growth opportunities with organizational goals. Help your employees thrive and contribute to your team’s overall success.
Empowered Leadership Series: Cultivating Well-Being – Mental Health Strategies for Supervisors
This is the first session in a 4-part webinar series that is designed to empower leaders in creating thriving workplaces. From prioritizing mental health and fostering trust to supporting employee growth and strengthening team dynamics, each session offers actionable strategies to enhance your effectiveness as a supervisor.
In this session, discover the critical role supervisors play in fostering a workplace that prioritizes mental health. This webinar explores the impact of stress and burnout on staff and supervisors alike, offering practical strategies to promote well-being, normalize conversations about mental health, and create a supportive environment. Learn how modeling self-care and healthy boundaries can positively influence your team while enhancing retention and morale.
From Vision to Action: Creating Strength-Based Goals to Enhance Personal and Professional Growth
This webinar will help participants develop meaningful and achievable personal and professional goals through leveraging their unique strengths and abilities. Participants will explore practical strategies such as identifying personal competencies, understanding goal characteristics (approach vs. avoidance, performance vs. mastery), as well as using action planning techniques through interactive learning. By the end of the session, participants will be equipped to apply these actionable tools and strategies to create sustainable goals that inspire growth and align with their values.
A Practical Approach to Building Neurodivergent-Inclusive Workplaces
This workshop provides essential knowledge and practical strategies to foster neurodivergent-affirming practices within organizations. Attendees will gain actionable insights to better support neurodivergent colleagues, employees, and clients. Through interactive learning and tools, participants will deepen their understanding of what it means to create a truly affirming workplace, develop inclusive practices for supporting different neurotypes, and build effective communication across neurodiverse teams.
Foundations of Community Engagement and Outreach for Improving Health Outcomes Series
Foundations of Community Engagement and Outreach for Improving Health Outcomes is a 3-part webinar series designed to build capacity in effective community engagement and outreach, focusing on overcoming barriers, fostering trust, and developing sustainable practices to improve health outcomes. Each session addresses key challenges and solutions to equip health departments with knowledge, skills, and resources to improve their community outreach efforts. Learners may choose to register for all webinars in the series or for individual sessions.
Navigating the Public Health Data Landscape with Data Governance, Literacy, and Equity
In today’s rapidly evolving public health environment, building a strong foundation in data governance, literacy, and equity is essential for creating a data-driven and equitable public health system. This webinar explores how these foundational components can empower public health organizations to better serve communities and address health disparities. These efforts are essential for ensuring that public health workers are well-equipped to collect, manage, and utilize data responsibly and effectively. By fostering internal understanding and collaboration, public health organizations can lay the groundwork for supporting communities with the data-driven insights needed to improve health outcomes.
Future-Proof Public Health: Learning Agility for Leaders in a Changing World
In today’s unpredictable public health environment, agility is a critical trait for leaders to thrive. Learning agility means adapting swiftly in ambiguous situations, applying past lessons to new challenges, and embracing curiosity. Agile leaders don’t rely on conventional solutions but continuously seek improvement and innovation. While agility is partly an inherent trait, it can be developed over time. Though more difficult to cultivate than skills like communication, leaders can enhance their agility through continuous learning and open-mindedness. In this rapidly changing landscape, learning agility is the cornerstone of future-proof leadership in public health.
Civic Health, Voting, and Public Health: What’s at Stake in 2024
Explore the critical connections between civic engagement, voting, and public health in this interactive webinar. We will dive into how civic health shapes policy outcomes, the role of voting in advancing health equity, and the implications of the 2024 election on public health initiatives. Participants will gain practical tools and strategies to strengthen civic engagement and promote equitable health outcomes in their communities or organizations.
Leadership Journey Podcast Series
In the Leadership Journey Series, we focus on the journey of leadership and how to recognize your strengths to better understand your purpose as a leader.
Leveraging Motivational Interviewing to Foster Positive Behavioral Change in Injury Prevention with Teens
Motivational interviewing (MI) is a collaborative communication technique that aims to strengthen a person’s commitment and motivation to change. This webinar will review the basic concepts and skills needed to promote behavior change, especially when there is limited time with individuals. In this webinar, MI skills will be demonstrated through case scenarios related to injury prevention topics relevant to teens such as helmet use and teen driving behaviors. You will see these MI strategies applied to real life scenarios with engagement opportunities to practice applying these skills.
