TRAININGS/CERTIFICATIONS

 

Region 6 Public Health Leadership Institute for Emerging Leaders 2023 Alumni.  The purpose of R6-PHLI is to develop the next generation of leaders in public health by providing an opportunity for strategic professional growth for those interested in refining their leadership skills and advancing their career to the next level. The R6-PHLI focuses on mid-management emerging leaders and is not intended for senior executives. R6-PHLI is designed to create a learning community that explores timely leadership topics and builds core skills. The sessions use interactive discussions with leaders in the field and are reinforced through practice activities. The curriculum was developed using focus groups and key informant interviews with professionals across the five states of Region 6 to identify current issues and the leadership skills needed in practice today.

 

Mental Health First Aid-Adult Certification. Mental Health First Aid for Adults teaches people how to recognize signs of mental health or substance use challenges in adults ages 18 and older, how to offer and provide initial help, and how to guide a person toward appropriate care if necessary.

 

Coming Together for Racial Understanding. Coming Together for Racial Understanding is a dialogue-to-change process for communities seeking new pathways for working together across racial/ethnic lines that seek to foster understanding and build trust to make informed collective action for meaningful change, unlike required Diversity Equity and Inclusion  training alone which seldom seeks to develop trusting relationships among participants.

 

Leadership Development Certification. The Leadership Development certificate with South Central Public Health Leadership Institute. This training enhances and develops leadership skills through education and individual change and growth while stressing the application of core functions to public health issues, and translation of leadership skills into tools for community empowerment. Training focused on affecting individual growth and change; developing leadership skills; application of leadership skills and techniques in public health practice; techniques to Improve organizational effectiveness, efficiency, and equity; building collaborative partnerships to generate healthy communities; development of the skills to create online learning environments conducive to program outcomes.

 

Advanced Management Training Certification. Training to deepen leadership and management abilities, increase personal achievement, and make a positive and lasting impact on people. Understand how to transform leadership style for the current business climate; discover powerful solutions for common management challenges; communicate and persuade effectively in the age of digital; create a win-win negotiation that promotes a long-term relationship; maximize productivity and handle time constraints; understand management issues from a macroeconomic perspective.

 

ServSafe Certification. Training to assist with understanding food safety in particular with food preparation activities as part of supervision of nutrition education paraprofessionals providing food focused educational opportunities across the state.

 

SPAN-Et Training. School Physical Activity and Nutrition Environment (SPAN-Et) provides an opportunity to access and highlight strengths in schools and provides recommendations on additional means of improving the School Physical Activity and Nutrition Environment.

 

Windshield Audit training. Windshield Audit provides a follow-up assessment to HEAL MAPP training. Through driving around a community and reassessing the food resources, the windshield audit builds on HEAL MAPP training focusing on where we live as a large impact on our ability to provide children access to healthy foods and opportunities to be active. Environmental features, such as community design, can support or hinder our ability to provide healthful foods and physical activity opportunities that impact children’s health.

 

Making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice Course. Completion of learning modules was completed and certification in this training was earned. This online certificate course by Cornell University provides course modules, resources and tools on how to collaborate within communities to focus on implementing policy, system and environmental changes to improve obesity and nutrition health efforts. 

 

Faithful Families: Eating Smart, Moving More, Trainer. Faith-based partnerships for implementation and sustain community-level changes providing long-term impact. Faithful Families Eating Smart and Moving More is a practice-tested health promotion intervention that promotes healthy eating and physical activity in communities of faith. Faithful Families facilitators work with each faith community to help them adopt environmental support for healthy eating and physical activity. Training is provided to Lay leaders from the faith community to bring spiritual elements, through discussion questions and activity prompts, while Extension leaders provide nutrition and physical activity education components.

 

Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy Training. Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy is a comprehensive, community-based program that allows communities to improve access to healthy, affordable foods by working with a small food retailer. Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy will guide any community through a unique approach to increasing access to healthy foods that involves engaging small food retailers and community members and thus addressing supply and demand at the same time.

Traditional Native American Games Instructor Training, Level I Certification. Provided in partnership with the International Traditional Games Society and SDSU Extension Service. Certification for teaching traditional Native games include: The recommended procedures for recovering and restoring traditional games, including learning about each game's cultural significance and making the handcrafted game pieces to each game. Connections with advisors, teachers, and coaches who use the games as tools to educate modern youth and adults. Certification and permission to teach the many tribal games that have come into the traditional games' blanket with permission for all people to play. Knowledge that will enhance goals for: healthy lifestyles, family fun and humor, increased connections with values of the past, developing social skills, and building spiritual connections

 

Difference is Dialogue Program provided by the South Dakota State University Office of Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Access. The Difference is Dialogue consists of face-to-face meetings of people from different social identity groups that have a history of conflict or potential conflict. Designed to offer an open and inclusive space where participants   can honestly confront and discuss issues to foster a deeper understanding of diversity and social justice.

Intergroup dialogue provides a safe space for individuals to discuss difficult, controversial, and even taboo topics that many people think about daily but do not have a structure from which to discuss these issues in depth. Participants reflect on relevant issues, work with differences and conflicts, and identify socially just actions they can take individually and in alliance with others.

 

Smarter Lunchrooms training. The Smarter Lunchrooms Movement provides schools with the knowledge, motivation, and resources needed to build a lunchroom environment that makes healthy food choices the easy choice. The Movement brings evidence from the fields of economics, marketing, and psychology into the school cafeteria. Smarter Lunchrooms strategies are free or low-cost solutions that nudge students to voluntarily select the healthiest food in the lunchroom. Smarter Lunchrooms can see less waste, higher participation, more satisfied students, and increased consumption of important nutrient-rich foods.

 

Fuel Up to Play 60 Program Advisor Certification to implement the nation’s largest in-school health and wellness program, created by the National Dairy Council and National Football League in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This free program offers funding opportunities for schools and an online Playbook full of school-tested action strategies to improve healthy eating and physical activity at schools and beyond.

 

Fuel Up to Play 60 Coach Certification to assist in the coordination of implementers of the nation’s largest in-school health and wellness program, created by the National Dairy Council and National Football League in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This free program offers funding opportunities for schools and an online Playbook full of school-tested action strategies to improve healthy eating and physical activity at schools and beyond.

 

HEAL MAPP training focuses on where we live as a large impact on our ability to provide children with access to healthy foods and opportunities to be active. Environmental features, such as community design, can support or hinder our ability to provide healthful foods and physical activity opportunities that impact children’s health.