Learning Collaboratives

ENCOUNTERING CHALLENGES WITH CASE INVESTIGATION OR CONTACT TRACING?
Join us for our learning collaboratives!
 

In our learning collaboratives, you’ll enhance your knowledge and skills by discussing critical issues, solving problems, and sharing challenges that are unique to contact tracers and case investigators.

Session topics are determined based on feedback from participants and announced in advance, so check back regularly. If a session is full, you may sign up for the waitlist online or email [email protected]. Popular learning collaborative topics will be repeated monthly.

MANAGING BURNOUT
Date: May 20, 2022
Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Eastern Time
 

This interactive learning collaborative will focus on elements of self-care and strategies to minimize burnout. In this time of continual stress as we work to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, our threshold for balancing work responsibilities and personal commitments have been stretched to new limits. We will focus on tools, recommendations, and successful strategies for contact tracers and case investigators to consider for remaining focused and energized in the work.

MEDICAL MISTRUST
Date: May 27, 2022
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Mountain Time
 

The purpose of this learning collaborative is to provide attendees with information about how medical mistrust and distrust adversely impacts efforts related to contact tracing and case investigation. We will discuss strategies to meaningfully engage priority populations to address medical mistrust and distrust while responding to COVID-19.
 

MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING
Date: June 3, 2022
Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Eastern Time

 

One of the challenges for contact tracers and case investigators is to motivate people in making some important changes needed to support their health-related to COVID-19. There are tools and techniques from a communication style called, Motivational Interviewing that can be helpful in moving people to make healthier decisions and overcoming barriers, whether it is about testing, vaccines, changes to the household environment, or other concerns. These strategies can help with resistance and ambivalence that may come up as you are offering recommendations. This learning collaborative will introduce you to some tools and techniques from Motivational Interviewing that can be applied to your work.

KEEPING CURRENT WITH CHANGING INFORMATION
Date: June 10, 2022
Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Eastern Time
 

One of the challenges of responding to the pandemic is keeping up with changing information which affects guidelines, recommendations and responding effectively to the questions posed by contacts and cases.  This learning collaborative will focus on an overview of current guidelines and latest information to respond to COVID-19 including resources to stay current. We will also discuss the challenge of keeping up with the changing information and how to address the ambiguity that exists in our work. 

TRAUMA-INFORMED APPROACH
Date: June 17, 2022
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Mountain Time

 

Hearing that you have been exposed to COVID-19, or that you have tested positive can be stressful. This stress can be compounded by current or previous experiences your cases and contacts have experienced. This can include experiences of trauma, which can affect the way in which people cope with new stressful situations.  This learning collaborative will discuss the tenets of a trauma-informed approach and give opportunities to consider examples of challenging cases in an interactive format.

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