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.

PROMOTING VACCINE EQUITY
Date: July 8, 2022
Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Eastern Time
 

COVID-19 vaccine equity occurs when everyone has fair and just access to COVID-19 vaccination. There are many social, geographic, political, economic, and environmental factors that create challenges to vaccination access and acceptance. This learning collaborative will examine some of these challenges, offer resources and recommendations to promote equity and work through some challenging cases.

COLLECTING SENSITIVE DEMOGRAPHICS
Date: July 15, 2022
Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Eastern Time
 

This learning collaborative provides an opportunity for contact tracers and case investigators to discuss challenges and successful strategies for asking sensitive demographic information regarding race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Information on this topic will be presented and resources will be shared to build skills and confidence to ask these important questions.

KEEPING CURRENT WITH CHANGING INFORMATION
Date: July 22, 2022
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Mountain 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. 

MEDICAL MISTRUST
Date: July 29, 2022
Time: 9:00 am - 10:30 am Pacific 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.
 

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