Webinars by Date, from the Center for Public Health Practice
October 2024
2025-2029 Community Health Board Master Grant Agreement (requires login)
This webinar reviews changes to the Master Grant Agreement and information on the data-sharing agreement. To view this webinar, you must have access to and log into the MDH Grants for Community Health Boards SharePoint site.
June 2024
Refresher on Reporting: CDC Federal Infrastructure Grant
Watch this webinar for a refresher on how to complete the required reports, completed every six months, including the two hiring reports (Job Descriptions and Program Areas).
March 2024
Minnesota Public Health Infrastructure Fund, Round Two (2024-2026)
This is an informational webinar to support community health boards and Tribes with the Minnesota Public Health Infrastructure Fund application for 2024-2026. The webinar recording can be found under the section titled Webinars, office hours, and application support.
February 2024
Local Public Health Act Annual Reporting (YouTube)
This is an informational webinar to support local public health staff and administrators submit Local Public Health Act annual reporting for calendar year 2023.
February 2024
Foundational Public Health Responsibilities Grant Rollout
This webinar kicks off the Foundational Public Health Responsibilities Grant rollout, and covers an overview of the grant, how you'll share your workplan and budget with MDH, invoice information, and time for questions and answers.
January 2024
Foundational Public Health Responsibilities Overview
This informational session can help you understand the framework of foundational public health responsibilities (capabilities and areas) and determine the scope of activities when designing your Foundational Public Health Responsibilities Grant work plan.
June 2023
Reporting for the CDC Federal Infrastructure Grant
Reporting will involve a “hiring report” due June 30 and December 31 each year of the grant (2023-2027) and an Annual Progress Report due December 31 each year of the grant (2023-2027). During the webinar MDH walked through what these reports entail and how to complete them in REDCap.
March and June 2023
Navigating power, parts 1 and 2
Learn how to navigate power in more intentional and equitable ways! During this training attendees learned how to navigate power in relationships, how power dynamics influence communication and conflict, and created understanding about what dynamics exist within a team or community.
March 2023
Informational Webinar: CDC Federal Infrastructure Grant
This webinar provides an overview of the CDC Federal Infrastructure Grant, including information on the funding formula, purpose of grant and allowable activities, REDCap requirements (activities and budget proposal), invoicing, reporting and site visits, and the grant timeline/due dates.
December 2022
Records retention: Updated series
These webinars are part of a series for local public health staff to become familiar with the basics of records management, retention schedules, and proper destruction of records:
1. Records and information management in Minnesota
2. Records retention schedule
3. Preserving and disposing of government records
4. Managing essential records during an emergency
July 2022
Writing meaningful goals and SMART objectives (35:00)
This webinar can help you write goals and objectives for any internal or external plan.
September 2021
Pivoting to the Future: Opportunity, complexity, and working together (2:08:10)
This virtual event took place in lieu of the Community Health Conference. Participants discussed caring for and pacing ourselves during this time of recovery; understanding the importance of shared work; tools for thinking about the future; and how to navigate the changes ahead.
March 2021
Local Public Health Act annual reporting: Finance and staffing (22:03)
In this session, presenters provide an overview of LPH Act annual reporting, discussing changes for the 2020 calendar year. There's also a recorded Q&A session with participants.
November 2020
Public Health Wheel: Intervention update (30:29)
Presenters review new and unchanged content in Public health interventions: Applications for nursing practice, 2nd ed. ("The Wheel Manual"). You also can apply Wheel interventions to considering how PHNs respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
February 2019
Using REDCap to report finance and staffing for the Local Public Health Act (10:59)
This webinar provides community health boards with information about the REDCap reporting system, including how to successfully enter finance, staffing, and Title V MCH Block Grant.
June 2018
Data resources 101
This webinar acquaints local public health with some of the data resources available on the MDH website, and connects local public health with staff at MDH who can provide assistance with data.
September 2017
Approaches to vaccine hesitancy
This webinar describes the nature of vaccine hesitancy, discusses the approaches you can use to address vaccine hesitancy, and reviews reliable resources.
October 2016
Ethics and decision-making in public health
Public health ethics is an evolving practice, and is also contained in the Public Health Accreditation Board standards and measures. This introduction to public health ethics is suitable for an ethics committee or an entire public health department. This webinar covers material from a public health ethics training hosted by Dakota County Public Health and presented by an epidemiologist and public health ethicist.
December 2013
Quality improvement plans: A how-to guide
What is a QI plan? Why is it important? Learn the answer to these questions and more from this presentation.
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