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Learning Opportunities


Webinar:  Building & Measuring Community Power for Health Justice

Join the Praxis Project for this webinar to learn how building community power can serve as a valuable and necessary strategy to improve health justice and racial equity, with both immediate and long-term results. Unfortunately, there is limited research or documentation of authentic discussions on the definitions, nuances, and front-line measurement of building power. In the fall of 2017, The Praxis Project hosted five learning circles with some of the nation’s most impactful grassroots community organizers to engage in deep reflection and discussion about building and measuring power.

When: Thursday, June 25, at 1:45 p.m.
Click here for more information and to register.

Webinar:County Rankings and Roadmaps webinar series on COVID-19 Response and Recovery with COVID-19: Disproportionate Impact on Black Communities also scheduled for Thursday.  All webinars are recorded for you to view at a later time. 

This webinar series highlights the challenges communities are facing as they respond to COVID-19 and its impacts, and serve as an opportunity for community leaders across the nation to learn from lead researchers, policymakers and each other.

The next webinar: COVID-19: Disproportionate Impact on Black Communities
shares historical and systemic causes of the disparities in outcomes in Black communities, as well as strategies both to address outcomes now and in the future by creating sustained systems change.

Featured guests: Cassandra Welchlin, Lead Organizer of the Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable; Delegate Jheanelle Wilkins, the Maryland House of Delegates; and Dr. Camara Jones, Morehouse School of Medicine.

When: Thursday, June 25th, 2:00-3:00
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Technology of Participation (ToP) Facilitation Training
TBD
ToP is an integrated set of facilitation methods and tools that support effective and equitable group discussion, planning, and decision-making. Master three proven facilitation methods that ensure group participation and creativity. Practice using them during “on-your-feet” session. 

Focused Conversation - Move a group from surface thinking to deeper understanding while honoring all perspectivesConsensus Workshop - Gather a wide range of practical & creative ideas to articulate areas of alignmentAction Planning Process - Identify realistic tasks & timelines that project teams own & willingly implement

Click here to download the flyer that provides details on the next local 2-day training. (NOTE...we will update when we have information on when these trainings will resume)

Course Format

• Experience each method as a participant
• Learn how and why each method works
• Get "on-your-feet" practice so you can use the methods immediately

Getting to Results: Identifying and using performance measures for improvement (quarterly)

We will post a registration link and with date and time info when these trainings resume.  

Who should attend?  

• Individuals or organizations that partner with their hospital and/or health department to address community health priorities
• Health department and hospital representatives involved with community health improvement

Participants will:

• Identify 3 types of performance measures
• Practice the 7 steps to identify performance measures and identify performance measures for a real program, initiative, or agency.
• Identify “headline measures” and discuss their value
• Plan how to use performance measures to improve performance
• Communicate how performance measures contribute to population well-being (i.e. how your work contributes to the overall community health improvement work)

This training is free, and lunch will be provided.
  
Note: WNC Healthy Impact hosts this this training quarterly in various locations around the region. Upcoming date is: TBD