Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNAs) have the potential to be powerful drivers to enhance the health of communities. Please join us for a webinar and collaborative discussion featuring Maria Tull, Manager and Parker Marsh, Sr. Director for Adept Health that will focus on an overview of the Community Health Needs Assessment process and implementation planning. There will also be time allotted for a interactive Q&A session following the presentation.
Event Categories: Training
How to Create Distinctive and Meaningful Brand Messages
We are exposed to thousands of marketing messages every day—in print, online, just about everywhere. How can your organization stand out and get the attention you need? How can your messages motivate donors and other key stakeholders? By the end of the workshop, you will better understand how to develop compelling messages, identify your target audiences, and create a brand that stands out.
This workshop covers:
– Positioning strategy and branding
– Defining and understanding your intended audience or target market
– Developing clear and consistent messaging that sets you apart from similar organizations
Budgeting Basics for Program Staff
Nonprofit organizations should have a budget plan in place for their programs and activities. Learn what non-accountants need to know from Stephanie O’Leary, BizOps Chief Financial Officer, CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, including:
- Basics of budgeting
- How to create a budget – we will be creating a budget from scratch
- Best practices related to budgeting
Meaningful Outcome Measurement: How to Create a Dynamic Program Evaluation System
Does measuring outcomes feel overwhelming and a necessary evil? All too often evaluations are static exercises that are completed for grant proposals and funder reports. In actuality, program evaluation can provide an exciting way to help your organization become more responsive to your constituents’ needs and help you improve your programs! This highly interactive, practical workshop will help you design an evaluation system that helps you identify and measure meaningful program outcomes, helping you to better meet your mission.
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PowerPoint Training Class
Being able to make an effective presentation is critical in today’s world. An effective PowerPoint can be the difference in how your audience leaves your presentation. Everyone talks when they leave a presentation and contracts are won and lost based on how your presentation is received. A strong PowerPoint skill set helps employer productivity while ensuring that employees maximize their career goals.
Another Way to Look at the Opioid Epidemic: a Journey of Self-Discovery
The current opioid epidemic in the United States is not only a threat to the lives and the health of opioid misusers, but is an enormous challenge for those responding to the epidemic. We seek to provide a deeper understanding of the origins of substance misuse, how it has been and might be interrupted and prevented and how to support your own needs in working with opioid users.
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Coalition Building: Back to Basics
This training is presented by the Community Health Training Institute. There will be a morning and afternoon session. Participants are encouraged to attend both the morning and afternoon sessions and there will be a networking brown bag lunch from 12 PM to 1 PM in which attendees from both sessions are welcome to participate in.
Attendance for both sessions is not required.
The morning session’s topics include coalition purpose, vision, shared goals, and language. The afternoon session will cover defined structure, governance, and leadership, roles of coalition members.
Power and Privilege in Health Equality – Community Health Training Institute
Power and Privilege in Health Equity
Thurs. March 15, 2018
Time: 9:00am – 12:00pm
Contact: traininginstitute@hria.org
Presented by the Community Health Training Institute
Note: This training will also be offered Saturday, April 28 in Boston, MA. Register for that training here
Topics: Defining privilege; identifying power influences; leveraging power positively in community work
Description: This training will provide participants with an opportunity to examine critical questions about their personal relationship with power and privilege. What is privilege? How does it manifest in relational and professional dynamics? How do we leverage power, knowingly or unknowingly, to influence conflict or negotiate situations? This training will help facilitate an exploration of self-identity and how to build on that self-awareness to help set the tone for positive professional relationships and work in the broader community. This training will also discuss how to recognize the privilege that some of us hold and use that understanding to empower others and make connections across difference.
Audience: Individuals or teams working towards community health who may be new to discussing power and cultural dynamics in the context of their community work, or those seeking a refresher.
Learning Objectives: Participants completing this training will be able to:
- Define power and privilege and how they play a role in their everyday experiences and interactions.
- Identify ways in which power influences their relationships and experiences within the community.
- Identify at least two strategies for leveraging their power positively in their community work.
Trainer: Mo Barbosa (HRiA) and Lori Lobenstine (ds4si)
This training addresses the following MA DPH Coalition Criteria:
- Consistency with MA DPH’s goals and priorities
- Participation from key stakeholders (individuals and organizations that have a vested stake or interest in a program or policy initiative, e.g. it will impact them directly)
- Membership that is reflective of the community
- Shared vision including a focus on reducing health disparities and promoting health equity
We hope you’ll join us for a networking brown bag lunch from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm before the afternoon session, Racial Equity, begins.
Location TBD, Worcester, MA
Description: Defining power and privilege, identifying power influences; leveraging power positively in community work
Racial Equity – Community Health Training Institute
Racial Equity
Thursday, March 15, 2018, 01:00pm – 04:00pm
Contact traininginstitute@hria.org
Presented by the Community Health Training Institute
Note: This training will be offered again on Saturday, April 28 in Boston, MA. Register for that training here
Description: Achieving racial equity requires society’s systems and markets to perform equally well for different racial and ethnic groups. Unfortunately, the data for most of our systems and markets do not currently show equity or parity for our most disenfranchised racial and ethnic groups. This training will explore how institutional or customary practices, whether intentional or unintentional, are set up to further perpetuate racial health inequities. Participants will get a chance to explore how this manifests in the community context and ways in which they can work actively against perpetuating these inequitable systems.
Audience: Individuals or teams working towards community health who may be new to discussing power and racial dynamics in the context of their community work.
Trainer: Mo Barbosa (HRiA) Lori Lobenstine (ds4si)
Learning Objectives: Participants completing this training will be able to:
- Define racial equity and how it plays out the community context.
- Identify ways in which daily and societal practices influence racial equity dynamics in community work.
- Identify at least two strategies for leveraging their power positively in their community work.
This training addresses the following MA DPH Coalition Criteria:
- Shared vision including a focus on reducing health disparities and promoting health equity
- Consistency with MA DPH’s goals and priorities
- Participation from key stakeholders (individuals and organizations that have a vested stake or interest in a program or policy initiative, e.g. it will impact them directly)
- Membership that is reflective of the community
We hope you will join us for a brown bag networking lunch from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm after the morning session, Power and Privilege in Health Equity, concludes.
Location TBD, Worcester, MA
Digital Safety & Kids: What’s New, What’s Now, What’s Next
