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COVID-19 Response Corps: Training

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In order to support the COVID-19 response and recovery, UW PHI COVID-19 Response Corps hosts virtual training sessions. These virtual trainings, known as Immersions, are a deeper dive into relevant topics for the public health workforce. Immersions cover a variety of topics, all with a connection to COVID-19, and feature speakers from a national, state, or community level doing important work.

If you have ideas for training that would be helpful for the public health workforce pertaining to COVID-19 response, please let us know.

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Events & Trainings

2022 COVID-19 Response Corps
Training Immersions

March 2022: Developing strategies and tools
for effective communication in the times of COVID-19

In this immersion, participants discussed communicating the nuances of science, common communication challenges, and learned how to develop public health and equity messages with transformative narratives.

Speakers:

  • Dr. Malia Jones, Dr. Amanda Simanek, and Dr. Jen Dowd, Dear Pandemic
  •  Jessi Corcoran, Human Impact Partners

June 2022: Authentic community engagement
and COVID-19

In this immersion, participants built skills to authentically engage communities and learned about the role of Community Health Workers (CHWs) as part of the public health workforce and COVID-19 response.

Speakers:

  • Lesley Wolf and McKenzie Liegel, UW PHI, MATCH
  • Lena Walker, Community Health Worker (CHW), Ho-Chunk Nation Community Health
  • Marisela Olivas and CherPao Vang, CHWs, Sheboygan County Health and Human Services
  •  Jessica Kimber, DPH, Chronic Disease Prevention Program
  •  Tony Gonzales, CHW, H2N

September 2022: Unpacking resilience:
The public health workforce and the impacts of COVID-19

In this immersion, participants learned how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the mental health of the public health workforce, understood how the work of statewide organizations is building capacity for future public health resilience, and developed mindfulness skills.

Speakers:

  • Shelly Shaw, Office of Community Health, Dept of Family Medicine and Community Health
  • Seidale Shipman, National Council for Mental Wellbeing
  •  Selena Freimark, UW Extension Division of Wellbeing

November 2022: Unpacking resilience: Exploring community resilience and the impacts of COVID-19

In this immersion, participants learned about ReThink Health’s model of community stewardship for thriving together and gained an understanding of how local Wisconsin communities had to create resiliency during and in recovery of the pandemic.

Speakers:

  • Dr. Bobby Milstein and Ms. Brooke Muya, ReThink Health
  • Jason Larsen, Nelly Veliz, and Lindsey Purl, St. Clare Health Mission
  • Hmongshee Khang, Olga Meza, and Dr. Corina Norrbom, H2N
  • Tia Murray, Harambe Village Doulas