Community Trainings
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The DIMENSIONS: Tobacco Free Program is an evidence-based tobacco cessation program designed to teach providers and peers the necessary information and skills to promote successful tobacco cessation within their organizations. Trainees learn motivational engagement strategies, community referrals, educational activities, individual and group treatments, and policy change strategies. The program teaches trainees the skills and resources to promote positive behavior change in individuals interested in living tobacco-free.
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Mental Health First Aid Colorado is a statewide, public education program committed to empowering individuals to identify, understand and respond to those in mental health and substance abuse crises.
Through this certification course, you'll become a certified Mental Health First Aider. You will learn how to respond to someone with a mental health challenge. You'll learn the signs, evidence-based actions and how to connect those in crisis to support systems that can help them recover.
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The Center for Health, Work & Environment, at the Colorado School of Public Health, and the Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention offer an online course that educates healthcare professionals in Colorado about the latest opioid prescription guidelines and best practices for treating patients in pain. Originally developed in 2012, the updated course, “The Guidelines and Tools for Improving Pain Management: Opioid Stewardship,” has been redesigned to reflect current federal, state, and professional association guidelines, incorporate new research, and provide guidance about how to treat specific populations including workers and pregnant patients.
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The Center for Public Health Practice creates and fosters practitioner
excellence to improve public health practice at the systems, community,
and organizational levels. The Center carries out this mission through
workforce training and development and through consultation to develop
and support innovative public health programs throughout Colorado and
the Rocky Mountain Region.
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May is Mental Health Month! This toolkit from Mental Health America has everything you need to help your organization participate: media and social media materials, fact sheets, and worksheets.
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This four-part webinar series investigates the health impact of
climate change and its relationship to key areas of our health. The
series sessions are: allergies and asthma, health risks in children,
mental health, and transportation and healthy community design as a
mitigation approach.