Retired Courses

Course registration for these classes is under construction. Anyone interested in the content of these courses can contact Anne Hill at abhill@email.arizona.edu for a CD of the classes.

Program Planning and Evaluation for MCH Professionals

This course was produced to provide an overview of the steps in effective program planning, implementation, and evaluation. Course topics include:

needs assessment
problem diagnosis
developing problem statements
development of goals and objectives
selections of program strategies
assessment of agency and community capacity
methods of program evaluation

Participants will have the opportunity to apply course material to the maternal and child health problems that they are dealing with in their agencies and communities.

Cultural Factors in Maternal and Child Health

Culture is a learned and acquired set of behavior, belief and practices that impact how we behave in numerous ways that can affect our health. Issues such as access to health care and even what it means to be healthy vary by culture, may even vary enormously within cultures, depending upon factors both within, and from outside the particular group.

This course will introduce the subject of cultural and social determinants of maternal and child health in the present society, including worldviews on health perspectives (wellness versus illness), and address the impact of emerging demographic changes on systems of care. Participatory exercises will assist in understanding one's own ethnic identity to better understand others, assessing regional and national demographic changes and their implications for practice, and cultural competence skill building.

Cultural competency is not a destination but a lifelong journey. The course looks at cultural competency as having the evolving knowledge and skills used for maintaining a process to increase one's respect, understanding and knowledge of the similarities and differences between oneself and others, in order to create and enhance welcoming health care communities. We invite you on this journey.

This course can be taken in modules, with continuing education credit from 2.5 contact hours to the full 12 contact hours.

Building a System of Care for Children with Special Health Care Needs

Participants will be introduced to a national agenda for developing a system of care at the national, state, and community levels. Participants will learn about current and best practices that assist families in finding, using, and paying for the services and supports they need to improve their children's health care and improve the whole family's quality of life. The course will be focusing on how a well-organized system of care can help to support families and providers to achieve the outcomes they desire. The stories of a number of families whose children vary in the range of services they require are presented to demonstrate how the parts of a system need to work together to meet the family's and the child's needs.

This course can be taken in modules, with continuing education credit from 5 contact hours to the full 15 contact hours.

Adolescent Health: A Community Perspective

This course provides a broad overview of adolescent health and draws upon the work of numerous organizations. Many resources have been used, especially, those prepared by the National Adolescent Health Information Center, the Konopka Institute for Best Practices in Adolescent Health, and the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs.
There are five chapters in this module. Each chapter is designed to stand-alone as it addresses a discrete subject related to adolescent health. However, it is suggested that you progress through the chapters sequentially, as each chapter builds upon the previous one.
Each chapter has between one and four sections. Typically the time to complete the reading and activities in each section is equivalent to one hour of continuing education.
Quizzes and evaluations are associated with each chapter. A final evaluation is available at the end of every module.
Participants must pass module quizzes with a 70% or better grade in order to print the module completion confirmation and mail it in to receive CEU's.
The "teen tips" are advice received from the Youth Partnership for Health, a diverse group of Colorado teens. We asked them what would they like public health professionals to know about youth, and the tips are their answers.

This course can be taken in modules, with continuing education credit from 1 contact hour to the full 12 contact hours.

Fundamentals of Public Health for MCH Professionals

This course was produced to provide an overview of public health, its core functions and essential services, for maternal and child health workforce, new agency personnel, and interested others.

Course topics include:

Have basic knowledge of the history, mission services, and core functions of public health, and the historical trends and foundations of Maternal Child Health (MCH).
Understand the role of advocacy and social justice in Maternal Child Health Practice.
Understand models of disease through knowledge of the determinants of health, including social and cultural determinants and the interaction of multi-factorial determinants leading to ill health.
Understand "population" as a unit of analysis:using MCH populations as examples.
Understand basic public health and MCH epidemiology and how it relates to program planning.
Be able to describe the organization and funding of MCH services in the U.S., and to recognize strengths, weakness, and gaps in existing services.
Have knowledge of basic public health program planning and evaluation for MCH populations, and how these relate to community involvement, policy development and advocacy.
Be able to identify community, regional, state and national resources related to MCH populations.

This course can be taken in modules, with continuing education credit from 3 contact hours to the full 12 contact hours.