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Why You Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Making Your Traditional Learning Program Virtual

Blended learning for health workers

Deciding to train health workers in an online classroom versus a traditional in-person setting is the easiest part of the undertaking. Virtual learning is an easy answer to educating a quickly growing workforce that has restrictions on travel, time and money.

The difficult part is in the execution. Most training programs for healthcare teams offer live instruction, and converting those training materials into an online format is about as easy is it is to move from a house you’ve lived in for decades.

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27 Funding Resources for Healthcare Projects

Blog / Monique Cuvelier

27 must-know funding resources for organizations launching or sustaining a public health program.

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Virtual Training: Top 10 Questions From Program Managers and Directors

Blog / Eliana Ifill

The way we think of learning has changed forever. Workshops, presentations, and courses have been through a major shift in the last year. Now almost everyone is involved in some kind of virtual training. That trend is likely to continue. This trend has caused many managers to reach out for advice. Most often, they start

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Webinar: Women’s Health and COVID-19

Blog / Monique

Women’s health has been hit harder by COVID-19 than men. They’re skipping cancer screening (and missing diagnoses), dropping out of their jobs, and more effected by domestic abuse–just to name a few reasons why. As we continue to learn about this pandemic and how to navigate through this time, understanding the key ways you can

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Women’s Health and COVID-19

Blog / Monique Cuvelier

The coronavirus has affected women more than men. Here’s what you need to know to support your community.

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Autism: New Course Helps Underserved Families in Washington

Blog / Monique Cuvelier

The number of children who have been diagnosed with Autism has increased sharply in recent years—at least for some children. White children in the U.S. are tested for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as a part of regular care. This means they can be diagnosed earlier and go down a road for intervention and services that

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How Stereotypes Are Bad for Your Health

Blog / Monique

Think you’re immune to stereotyping the people in your community? That you never notice a person’s skin color, what they’re wearing, what their gender is? Then look at this cartoon and think about your reaction: It comes via the article “The Bubbles Inside Our Heads,” by Marilyn Gardner, educator, nurse, trainer, thinker, “third-culture kid” (and

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Susan G. Komen Uses Talance to Empower New Patient Navigators

Blog / Monique

Timing is everything when it comes to breast cancer. Early screening and detection can save a life, and dealing with a diagnosis requires knowing what to expect and when. Susan G. Komen knows all this, and they also know that patient navigator training for breast cancer is the key to improving outcomes in detection and

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It Pays To Evaluate Professional Development

Blog / Monique

With the work it takes to implement a training program, it can be difficult to find time and resources to evaluate the effectiveness of it. Many administrators view evaluation as time-consuming and costly, but they shouldn’t. In fact, by ignoring how well (or poorly) your training program is engaging participants and making a difference in

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It Pays To Evaluate Professional Development

Blog / Monique

With the work it takes to implement a training program, it can be difficult to find time and resources to evaluate the effectiveness of it.

Many administrators view evaluation as time-consuming and costly, but they shouldn’t. In fact, by ignoring how well (or poorly) your training program is engaging participants and making a difference in their work, you could be wasting time and money.

Thomas Guskey writes specifically about evaluating professional development programs in his article “Does It Make a Difference? Evaluating Professional Development,” but his “Critical Levels of Professional Development Evaluation” apply to any program without the burden of cost and time.

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