Disclaimer: The blue links below take you to pre-recorded webinars and training modules. Although some of these modules are designed for licensed healthcare professionals, the information provided will prepare you to educate members of the community about covid-19 vaccine, testing and accessing these services. We do not provide medical advice when speaking to community members or youth, we do prepare them to talk to their own healthcare provider.
Training Certificate: For record-keeping purposes, we have created a training certificate. Download and fill out the training certificate after each training. This certificate will need to be turned in to your supervisor and uploaded to your training record
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"CDC is offering a series of weekly one-hour web-on-demand videos that will provide an overview of vaccination principles, general best practices, immunization strategies, and specific information about vaccine-preventable diseases and the vaccines that prevent them. Each video will include updated information from recent Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meetings and votes."
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What Healthcare Providers Need to Know about COVID-19 Vaccines and Becoming a Vaccination Provider
This module discusses how to become a COVID-19 vaccination provider and how to comply with COVID-19 vaccination program requirements. Learning about how COVID-19 vaccines work allows healthcare workers to better educate their patients during the vaccination appointment.
Purpose: To discuss essential information about COVID-19 vaccines and what is necessary to become a COVID-19 vaccinator.
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Ensuring Vaccine Safety in the United States: A Primer for Healthcare Workers
This module reviews multiple aspects of vaccine safety so that healthcare professionals can educate their patients and answer questions. Vaccine life cycle and safety monitoring is described throughout as well as how adverse events are monitored and reported. Finally, the roles of federal agencies in monitoring vaccine safety is also discussed.
Purpose: To understand the systems that are in place to ensure vaccine safety.
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Hosting Off-Site Vaccination Clinics: A Primer for Healthcare Workers
This module describes how healthcare professionals can effectively use off-site clinics as part of their vaccination strategy. Four phases of planning and hosting an off-site vaccination clinic are discussed. Recommended practices for planning and executing off-site vaccination clinics are included for each phase.
Purpose: To learn recommendations for planning and hosting effective off-site vaccinations clinics.
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Hosting Off-Site COVID-19 Vaccination Clinics: A Primer for Healthcare Workers
This module discusses how healthcare professionals can successfully host an off-site COVID-19 vaccination clinic. Considerations address preventing exposure to SARS-CoV2, optimizing limited vaccine supply, and maximizing the number of patients going through the clinic.
Purpose: To apply considerations for hosting off-site COVID-19 vaccination clinics so that these vaccination clinics are as effective as possible.
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COVID-19 Vaccine Training: General Overview of Immunization Best Practices for Healthcare Providers (Updated October 27. 2021) Training Certificate
Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine (Johnson & Johnson): What Healthcare Professionals Need to Know (Updated March 8. 2022) Training Certificate
Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine: What Healthcare Professionals Need to Know (Updated March 7. 2022) Training Certificate
Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine: What Healthcare Professionals Need to Know (Updated March 7. 2022) Training Certificate
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The Community Engagement Playbook (“the Playbook”) was created to guide you, public health professionals and state, territorial, local, and tribal (STLT) partners through the phases and activities of community engagement. The Playbook describes four phases of community engagement (CE):
These phases roll out over the course of site-based environmental public health work. We also describe nine key community engagement activities that may be used to bring the community’s knowledge, needs, and preferences into the process, and that build community capacity by facilitating environmental health learning and community connections with other organizations positioned to support community goals.
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https://harmreduction.org/our-work/training-capacity-building/online-training-institute/