Event Categories: Training

Topics: Community asset meeting, engaging hard to reach community members, and campaign strategies.

Description: What is community organizing, and how does it differ from advocacy and other strategies for social change? This training will equip participants with an organizing framework and basic tools needed to mobilize their community. Participants will get an opportunity to practice community power mapping in order to engage stakeholders and hard to reach residents. Participants will walk away with a framework to organize community-driven, goal-oriented campaigns by utilizing clear strategies and tactics shared in this training.

Audience: Coalition leaders and partners, individuals working towards community health and health equity.

Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to:

1. Describe organizing theories, principles and best practices for community organizing.
2. Explore foundation level organizing skills and tools that reach all levels of community.
3. Articulate clear goals and strategies for local organizing campaigns.

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Description: Public health and community health workers cannot address the social determinants of health alone. Factors like housing, education, employment, access to nutritious food, and more can only be improved through collaboration with partners of the local, state, and federal level along with private sector partnerships. What does it look like when the interests of diverse stakeholders and communities are aligned for the promotion of health equity? In this training, we will go over examples of what these partnerships can look like and how health equity work is strengthened when we work together. Participants will walk away with strategies for addressing health equity with a common language framework and engaging health equity champions to address our communities’ most pressing issue.

Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to…

• Define what a cross sector partnership looks like for their work.
• Explain the value of developing partnerships and cross-sector relationships to promote health equity.
• Examine the role of public health in activating cross sector partnerships.

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In this session, you will learn to:

• Manage personal reactions to suicidal clients.
• Recognize suicide warning signs and risk and protective factors.
• Demonstrate techniques to elicit suicidal ideation and history of behaviors.
• Identify strategies and tools to assess risk.
• Describe how a client’s ambivalence about suicide is an opportunity to intervene and how the client may view suicide as a coping strategy.
• Explain the value of appropriate postvention and grief support services for individuals and communities affected by suicide.

Time: 9:00AM-4:30PM (registration from 8:30AM-9:00AM)
Location: Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Alumni Hall, 130 Essex Street, South Hamilton, MA.