Region IV Public Health Training Center: A Partner in Workforce Development
Abstract
The Region IV Public Health Training Center (R-IV PHTC) is one of 10 HRSA-funded regional Public Health Training Centers. Together, this consortium is the country’s most comprehensive resource for public health workforce development. In Region IV, the PHTC serves the eight states in the southeast and helps to build and sustain a skilled workforce with free learning tools and support which are designed to meet the unique needs of professionals in state and local public health departments. The R-IV PHTC offers professional development for the workforce, experiential learning for students, and consultation and technical assistance to health departments.
The R-IV PHTC offers a continuum of continuing education training from webinars to cohort-based trainings that help public health professionals build core skills and strategic competencies required to address current and emerging public health challenges. Training priority areas include the nine strategic skills (effective communication; data-based decision making; justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion; resource management; change management; systems and strategic thinking; community engagement; cross-sectoral partnerships; policy engagement), HHS clinical priority areas (mental health, opioid abuse, childhood obesity) and state and regional needs.
This presentation will describe the R-IV PHTC’s assessment of training needs and will explore the role of the R-IV PHTC in meeting current and emerging training needs in Georgia and the southeast. The session will have an interactive component which will allow participants to identify and discuss their own professional training needs.
Keywords
workforce development, training
Region IV Public Health Training Center: A Partner in Workforce Development
The Region IV Public Health Training Center (R-IV PHTC) is one of 10 HRSA-funded regional Public Health Training Centers. Together, this consortium is the country’s most comprehensive resource for public health workforce development. In Region IV, the PHTC serves the eight states in the southeast and helps to build and sustain a skilled workforce with free learning tools and support which are designed to meet the unique needs of professionals in state and local public health departments. The R-IV PHTC offers professional development for the workforce, experiential learning for students, and consultation and technical assistance to health departments.
The R-IV PHTC offers a continuum of continuing education training from webinars to cohort-based trainings that help public health professionals build core skills and strategic competencies required to address current and emerging public health challenges. Training priority areas include the nine strategic skills (effective communication; data-based decision making; justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion; resource management; change management; systems and strategic thinking; community engagement; cross-sectoral partnerships; policy engagement), HHS clinical priority areas (mental health, opioid abuse, childhood obesity) and state and regional needs.
This presentation will describe the R-IV PHTC’s assessment of training needs and will explore the role of the R-IV PHTC in meeting current and emerging training needs in Georgia and the southeast. The session will have an interactive component which will allow participants to identify and discuss their own professional training needs.
