DHPE HAS CLOSED OPERATIONSDear DHPE Members, Partners and Supporters,
It is will great sadness to announce that the Directors of Health Promotion and Education (DHPE) have finally closed our doors after being in operation for 72 years. The Association of State and Territorial Directors of Health Promotion and Public Health Education (ASTDHPPHE) dba the Directors of Health Promotion and Education (DHPE) is dissolving. As with many non-profits in recent years, DHPE has been challenged to do more with less. On behalf of the Board of Directors of DHPE, I want to thank all of you who have contributed to the success of DHPE over its 72-year history. We have accomplished so much toward our shared mission of strengthening public health capacity in policy and in systems change to improve the health of all and achieve health equity. Although DHPE is dissolving, the programs that we collectively have worked hard to establish and maintain will be continuing under new leadership. The assets of these programs have been given to the excellent caretakers, which are highlighted below. Again, thank you for all your hard work and support of all our programs, and we hope you will utilize some of these resources as your agency pursues future policy, systems and environmental change approaches to improve the health of our communities and the Nation! The Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE), a nonprofit organization with our shared goals and vision, will maintain the balance of DHPE programs, that are NOT designated below, on their website. We want all of our former members and partners to reach out to SOPHE as an organizational home and/or resource for future professional development. They will be offering special membership pricing for former members of DHPE. SOPHE can be reached at: https://www.sophe.org/ Should you have a need to contact DHPE, we will have email access for a few more months at: info@dhpe.org or dsammons-hackett@dhpe.org
DHPE Programs and New Homes: Systems Change for Health Starting January 1, 2018, Carolyn Crump, PhD and James Emery, MPH - the curriculum developers for Systems Change for Health (SCH) - will be administrating and operating the program. You may view the courses at the new website: http://SystemsChangeForHealth.web.unc.edu Minority Internship and Fellowship Program The Association of State Public Health Nutritionists (ASPHN) is operating the Health Equity Internship Program starting in January 2017. Please send your emails and inquiries to ASPHN Executive Director Karen Probert at internship@asphn.org. Thank you for your interest in the Health Equity Internship Program! Lupus Health Education Program The purpose of the DHPE Lupus Health Education Program entitled LEAP is to reduce lupus related health disparities among racial and ethnic minority populations disproportionately affected by this disease by conducting a national lupus education initiative. The caretaker agreement is still under development. National Implementation and Dissemination for Chronic Disease Prevention Initiative The CDC-funded National Implementation and Dissemination for Chronic Disease Prevention Initiative, also referred to as Partnering4Health has come to an end. DHPE would like to thank each of you for your participation and support of the project over the past three years. Several resources have been created as a part of Partnering4Health and these resources are available to you and your affiliates to be utilized in the future. Learn more below:
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Systems Change for Health Assessing and Framing the Problem |
Assessing and Framing the Problem Timeframe: Two-Days (see sample agenda below) Learning Objectives: By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
Background Public health professionals are increasingly working on systems and environmental solutions to health problems. For example, local or state organizations may plan to reduce childhood obesity by changing school district policies related to physical activity and nutrition. To effectively work on policy change, however, these professionals need to articulate the problem with a concise, relevant and compelling definition. Whoever develops the most effective definition will generally be able to influence the solution. During this 2-day, interactive workshop, participants begin developing skills for defining a health problem. The workshop guides participants in considering how problems are socially constructed in order to gain policy attention. They learn how health disparities and social determinants of health are investigated to reveal root causes of problems that can produce health inequities. Participants are introduced to systems thinking to clarify the scope of a problem, and to point toward the type of solution to pursue. The workshop introduces participants to skills for framing messages, and provides a 3-part structure for defining a problem for different target audiences.
Public health professionals from state and local agencies, including: division managers; health promotion, health education and environmental health staff; clinical staff managing non-clinical programs; and key partners collaborating on policy, environmental, or systems change initiatives. Relevance and Usefulness Participants will gain a better understanding of how political discourse considers public health problems. After learning new concepts and practicing techniques, participants will have increased their skill in defining health problems – a first step in the public health Essential Service of developing health-supportive policy. The workshop introduces learners to two of the 21 specialized competencies promoted by the Directors of Health Promotion and Education (www.dhpe.org), and provides information relevant to the CHES competency on advocacy. DHPE is approved as a provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH), Category I in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. (NCHEC). This course is approved for 11.5 CECH (11 of 11.5 are advanced-level MCHES). Session Agenda
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