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Disaster Behavioral Health First Aid Specialist Training For Responders, Center For Leadership In Public Health Practice Jan 2016

Disaster Behavioral Health First Aid Specialist Training For Responders, Center For Leadership In Public Health Practice

Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Center

Essential awareness, knowledge, and skills to promote behavioral health and wellness through individual and team approaches for preventing, mitigating, and managing disaster worker stress and for developing disaster stress resistance and resilience to the negative effects of critical incident stress exposure.


Tuberculosis First (Field Investigator Response And Surveillance Training), Center For Leadership In Public Health Practice Jan 2016

Tuberculosis First (Field Investigator Response And Surveillance Training), Center For Leadership In Public Health Practice

Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Center

  • Develop interviewing and communication skills needed to assist in eliciting health information to assist in a tuberculosis disease outbreak investigation.
    • Course skills are adaptable to other health settings.
  • Review fundamentals of nonverbal and verbal communication.
  • Understand fundamentals of Interviewing Techniques:
    • Concepts of Bias.
    • Importance of Identifying Unusual Occurrences.
    • Importance of Maintaining Cultural Sensitivity, Confidentiality and Ethics during interviewing.


Psychological First Aid For Veteran Disaster Survivors And Their Families, Center For Leadership In Public Health Practice Jan 2016

Psychological First Aid For Veteran Disaster Survivors And Their Families, Center For Leadership In Public Health Practice

Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Center

  • Fundamentals of Psychological FirstAid
  • Practical model for administering psychological first aid Veteran disaster survivors and their families
  • Psychological First Aid: Field Operations Guide (2nd Edition)


Basic Epidemiology, Center For Leadership In Public Health Practice Jan 2015

Basic Epidemiology, Center For Leadership In Public Health Practice

Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Center

Basic Epidemiology, a training course from the USF Center for Leadership in Public Health Practice, develops the awareness and knowledge of public health workers who may be deployed on Field Epidemiology strike teams. It is designed to help them assist local, regional, state, and national epidemiology staff in disease investigations during surge capacity. Basic Epidemiology is a required prerequisite for the IFIRST and IFIRST-2 programs.