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Rocky Mountain Public Health Training Center: Facilitation Foundations

Limited Scholarships Available

The Rocky Mountain Public Health Training Center is pleased to share that we are offering a limited number of scholarships (2 total) to those working in our region (CO, MT, ND, SD, UT, and WY) who are interested in participating in this Facilitation Foundations course. Scholarship recipients will be asked to pay $35, after receiving a $350 scholarship, to enroll in the course and fully participate in the live sessions, discussion boards, and evaluation at the end of course.

The scholarship application form will close approximately four weeks before the first live session for course run.Applicants will be notified three weeks before the first live session if they have been selected to receive a scholarship.

Click here to apply for a course scholarship. If you have any questions about this process, please reach out to Cassidy Ray (Senior Project Coordinator) at cassidy.ray@cuanschutz.edu.

Ideal For: Introductory Level

This 10-week course uses highly interactive activities to build your capacity to facilitate meetings and coalitions that are efficient, effective, and lead to results.

To be a more effective and efficient facilitator, we’ll help you first understand your own facilitation style. You will learn how to anticipate, prevent and intervene in difficult situations to keep the group from derailing and halting progress. Additionally, we will explore structured strategies you can use to generate ideas, evaluate and select ideas, and make a group decision. You’ll learn to help a group meet its goals and take ownership of the process.

Applying for Grants to Support Rural Health Projects

Developed by RHIhub, this guide can serve as a starting point for those who need assistance to begin the grant writing process. It will cover tips on searching for rural-specific funding, grant proposal preparation, building successful funding relationships, and planning for program sustainability.

Guide topics include:

Just Launched: Free Training from the Public Health Communications Collaboration

The Public Health Communications Collaborative (PHCC) Academy is a new training hub to support public health communicators around the country. Join us for The PHCC Academy’s first course, Strengthening Public Health Communications through Community Engagement. This is a two hour self-paced course which covers applying principles of community engagement to public health communications work. Register here.

Rocky Mountain Public Health Training Center Student Leader Scholarships

During the 2024-2025 academic year, the Rocky Mountain Public Health Training Center (RM-PHTC) will award 27 students in higher education $3,500 in financial support to assist with public health focused field placements and faculty-student collaborative projects.

The goal of this program is to increase the supply and diversity of the public health workforce in the Rocky Mountain Region, specifically in underserved communities and populations by supporting students conducting applied public health projects and providing opportunities for mentoring and professional development. This program is funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).

RM-PHTC encourages applications from

Students from groups that have been historically marginalized and/or underrepresented in public health
Students proposing field placements working with medically underserved/rural/tribal areas or populations

Click here for more information.

Communications Tool: Plain Language for Public Health

The Public Health Communications Collaborative has created a new Plain Language for Public Health guide to support public health communicators in creating messaging to advance health literacy, build trust in your organization as a source of information, and promote overall community health. In this guide, you’ll find plain language principles, simple techniques that can make your communications more accessible, and resources to learn more about plain language to help build your communications skills.

Communications Tool: Strategies for Developing Culturally Driven Public Health Communications

Recognizing and incorporating the diversity of people’s cultures, values, and beliefs is essential to effectively communicating with multicultural audiences. Through culturally driven communications, public health professionals can prioritize the preferences and perspectives of target audiences and ensure each priority population feels represented within messaging, visuals, and outreach.

The Public Health Communications Collaborative and HCN co-created “Strategies for Developing Culturally Driven Public Health Communications” to support public health communicators in effectively communicating with multicultural audiences. This guide is divided into three sections – messaging, visuals, and outreach – to support the development of your public health communications. Each section offers strategies and tools to help you create materials that build stronger relationships, increase credibility, and improve health outcomes.

Roots of Health Inequity Online Course

The Roots of Health Inequity Online Course Series, offered by NACCHO, is a free online resource designed to equip public health professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to address the root causes of health inequities in their community. Revamped for 2024, the course explores topics such as the historical influences of public health, root causes in race, gender, and class struggles, and building power to advance equity in public health practice. The all-new platform will allow users to tailor their learning experience, view stories from the field, and facilitate group conversations about the content, online, and in-person. The new Roots of Health Inequity will launch at NACCHO360 in July. Learn more: NACCHO to Launch Revamped Roots of Health Inequity Online Course - NACCHO.

Health in All Policies Evaluation Tool

State and local health departments are investing in Health in All Policies (HiAP) as a strategy to incorporate health equity into local decision-making processes. HiAP encourages engaging partners from diverse backgrounds—such as transportation, housing, education, and environment, and other sectors—to address the root causes of health disparities that are deeply intertwined with social, economic, and environmental factors.

Many health departments are seeking to evaluate the benefits of investing in integrating HiAP into their public health practice. To support the development of robust evaluations, ASTHO—in partnership with the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) and with funding provided by CDC's National Center for Environmental Health—developed this HiAP Evaluation Tool for local and state health department to provide structure and guidance for evaluating HiAP initiatives.

WPHA Memorial Student Scholarship Fund

The WPHA Memorial Student Scholarship for Outstanding Student in Public Health was established by WPHA in 2005 to honor those individuals who are pursuing higher education and who have distinguished themselves through their leadership, commitment, and contributions to the field of public health.