258305 SOPHE Competency-based Technical Assistance Curriculum: Organizational Development to Address Health Disparities for Policy Change

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Nicolette Warren, MS, MCHES , Director of Health Equity, Society for Public Health Education, Washington, DC
This session will discuss the SOPHE Competency-based Technical Assistance Curriculum (CTAC) Toolkit. The SOPHE CTAC for Organizational Development to Address Health Disparities Toolkit supports a national framework to eliminate health disparities and promote health equity through capacity building. This session help participants address health disparities based on health education competencies for conducting assessments, planning, implementing and evaluating programs, developing training and establishing partnerships. Participants will gain solid content knowledge for selecting the appropriate steps and material to conduct the expected work. Participants will learn specific techniques to utilizing the curriculum toolkit for collaborative community-based interventions, strategies and approaches. During this interactive session, participants will be challenged to explore the conceptual framework to aid organizations and community leaders in assuring that the community interventions are evidence-based strategies and approaches for successful collaborations. This is a “must have” session for organizational leaders and health educators. Interactive group exercises during the session will concentrate on how to use the curriculum toolkit. This session elaborates the essential components of process and outcome evaluation that focus on the development and implementation of appropriate technical assistance training and capacity building activities to meet the learning objectives and assess the effectiveness. By the end of the session, participants will have the right “tool” for carrying out health education competencies activities to address health disparities.

Learning Areas:
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
1) Define the essential roles of SOPHE Chapters to facilitate collaborations in communities by enhanced policy, systems, and environmental change strategies 2) Identify evidence-based diabetes prevention and management tools, strategies and approaches to improve the social conditions of health inequalities 3) Apply the key strategies to facilitate and coordinate a competency-based technical assistance curriculum toolkit for organizational change.

Keywords: Competency, Community-Based Health Promotion

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Nicolette Warren, MS, MCHES is the Director of Health Equity at SOPHE, where her main duties are to address racial and ethnic community-based policy, systems, and environmental changes to reduce the risk factors associated with chronic diseases and lead SOPHE's additional efforts on health equity. Ms. Warren earned a Master of Science degree in Health Promotion/Human Sciences from North Carolina Central University. She holds the Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES) credential.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.