Current and past trainings along with web sites listed below are just a few examples that you may use to obtain Contact Hour or CME credits when available. You will need to follow instructions for receiving credits from the Branch or web sites. Make sure you maintain your receipt of credits from each training in a file for documentation purposes. Share this page with all Women’s Health (WH) staff including your enhanced role nurses, clinicians, health educators, nutritionists, social workers, etc. If you locate other web sites that WH staff can use, please email the web address/URL to Mary Rodgers.
Providing Family Planning Services to the Most Vulnerable Populations Webinar – December 14, 2011
The archived recording of the Providing Family Planning Services to the Most Vulnerable Populations Webinar on December 14, 2011, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. can be viewed until May 14, 2012. A continuing nursing education (CNE) or general attendance certificate is available for viewing the archived recording and completing the required paperwork. Direct any content questions to your Women’s Health Regional Nurse Consultant. The Branch reserves the right to remove the recording at any time.
Description: As Family Planning programs reach out to more and more vulnerable populations, the need for good assessment of mental health and psycho-social issues becomes critical. In addition, the skills to work with "stressed" or "agitated" clients is an important skill. The webinar addresses:
common mental health and psycho-social issues within the profile of a woman or man coming to family planning.
how stress, depression, trauma and other mental health issues might have an impact on the patient's overall health and their interactions in the clinic.
skills needed to provide exemplary family planning services even when patients present as angry, agitated or needed some extra considerations at the clinic level.
Trainer’s Name: Marlene Reil, PhD, CASAC and Michelle Gerka
Disclaimer for the archived “Providing Family Planning Services to the Most Vulnerable Populations Webinar” recording:
Disregard the CE instructions on the recording from the original December 14, 2011 webinar. Staff can obtain CE credit or a general attendance certificate; see “Handouts, Evaluation, Post-test & Certificate” below. General instructions to view the recording are as follows.
Please allow time for the recording to load. Depending upon your connection, it may load in a few seconds or several minutes.
Adjust your internal or external computer speaker volume as needed to hear the presenters.
The recording can be heard by using the Microsoft Internet Explorer and the Mozilla Firefox web browsers.
Direct questions about the recording to Heather Todaro at this email with a subject line of “Heather - Most Vulnerable.”
After viewing the archived recording, staff will need to complete the required online documents, which include the evaluation, in order to print a CNE or general attendance certificate from the Cicatelli Associates Inc. website. Materials will be available until May 14, 2012. For questions about the electronic documents, please email Gina Martin.
Compliance with the state mandatory reporting laws has been a longstanding Title X requirement beginning with its inclusion in the FY 1999 appropriations language. The Office of Population Affairs (OPA) has increased its efforts towards ensuring that each Title X agency is compliant with state laws regarding notification of the reporting of child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape or incest, as well as federal anti-trafficking laws. OPA and the Women’s Health Branch (WHB) will continue to closely monitor Title X agencies regarding adherence to federal and state laws, internal policies and completion and storage of yearly training documentation. The orientation webinar to the federal Title X program is also important for all funded family planning staff to understand the program and its requirements.
By October 1, 2011, ALL Title X staff funded by the Federal Title X/Family Planning Program should complete the 3 required trainings listed below. After October 1, 2011, the information will be reviewed and the training document should be signed yearly by the employee and supervisor and placed in each Title X employee’s personnel or education file located at the Title X/Family Planning agency.
Family Planning/Title X Required Yearly Training Sheet (PDF, 91 KB; should be signed by the employee and supervisor and placed in each Title X employee’s personnel or education file located at the Title X/Family Planning agency)
Disclaimer for the archived “Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse and Neglect Webinar” recording:
Disregard the CE instructions on the recording from the original November 3, 2010 webinar. Staff can obtain continuing education credit as proof of attendance; see “Evaluation & Certificate” below. Please allow time for the recording to load. NEW Title X/Family Planning staff must listen to the webinar within one month of hire date and place the certificate in the employee’s personnel or educational file located at the Title X agency to meet the Title X and continuing education requirement. The audio recording can be heard by using the Microsoft Internet Explorer and the Mozilla Firefox web browsers.
The roster sheet (PDF, 16 KB) provides proof the archived webinar has been heard and fulfills continuing education (CE) requirements. After listening to the archived webinar, fax the completed Public Health Nursing and Professional Development Educational Activity Roster to Mary Rodgers at 919-870-4827 or you may email it to Mary.Rodgers@dhhs.nc.gov. It is the sender’s responsibility to confirm fax receipt via email to Mary.Rodgers@dhhs.nc.gov.
After listening to the archived audio of the Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse and Neglect Webinar, staff will need to complete the required online evaluation form, download the CE certificate as proof of completion AND place the certificate in each Title X employee's personnel or education file located at the Title X/Family Planning agency.
By Oct. 1, 2011, the evaluation and certificate will be removed for CURRENT Title X/Family Planning staff (who did not attend the original November 3, 2010 webinar) to complete per the Title X/Family Planning requirement.
As of Oct. 3, 2011, a new evaluation and certificate of the archived webinar is posted for NEW Title X/Family Planning staff to complete within one month of hire date in order to meet Title X and continuing education requirements. New employees should follow the instructions above in the “Roster Sheet” section to email or fax the roster.
The archived audio “Human Trafficking: A FP Perspective Webinar” with a CE contact hour certificate is available September 20, 2011 - September 19, 2012 at the Cicatelli Associates Inc. Title X Region IV website.
The link to the archived webinar is at http://www.cicatelli.org/titlex/Region4/archive_library.htm. Please follow the instructions at the Cicatelli website to hear the audio recording, download the handouts and receive a CE contact hour certificate to meet the federal Title X training requirement.
NEW Title X/Family Planning staff must listen to the webinar within one month of hire date and place the certificate in the employee’s personnel or educational file located at the Title X agency to meet the Title X requirement.
Within one month of hire date, NEW Title X/Family Planning staff must complete the online Title X Orientation courseone time only and place documentation of course completion in the employee’s personnel or educational file located at the Title X agency. Follow online instructions to print a certificate that will provide proof the course was completed when WHB and Title X employees review the personnel or education file during the monitoring process.
Title X Family Planning Media Review is required by all local health departments in North Carolina. North Carolina Health Departments are required to submit a summary of their Family Planning Media review meeting, with DHHS 3491 (PDF, 31 KB) forms filled out to Program Consultant, Family Planning and Reproductive Health Unit, Women’s Health Branch, 1929 MSC, Raleigh, NC 27699. If you have questions regarding Media Review, please call 919-707-5695. If no new materials are added in a year, a letter stating that should be sent to the same address.
The Oregon Reproductive Health Program has developed a 15-minute Title X web training, Information and Education (I & E) Advisory Committee and Community Participation Made Easy, that provides step-by-step instructions on meeting Title X requirements for advisory committee membership, organization and function, and meeting Title X community participation requirements. These requirements are the same for NC as well as for other states.
Oregon also updated its Information and Education (I & E) Advisory Committee and Community Participation Guidelines. The guidelines provide information, tools and ideas for organizing or improving your local advisory committee and meeting Title X community participation requirements.
The web training is accessible any time from Oregon's website and no registration is required. Click on the link below to access the training and guidelines.
, download the CE certificate as proof of completion AND place the certificate in each Title X employee's personnel or education file located at the Title X/Family Planning agency.
one time only and place documentation of course completion in the employee’s personnel or educational file located at the Title X agency. Follow online instructions to print a certificate that will provide proof the course was completed when WHB and Title X employees review the personnel or education file during the monitoring process.