Webinar Date(s) |
Title |
Purpose/Description |
December 8, 2011 December 9, 2011 |
Motivation 101: How to Get Students Off the Couch |
This webinar looks at ways to maximize students' motivation to adopt lifelong healthy behaviors. |
December 6, 2011 |
Celebrating Differences |
This webinar is designed for all Job Corps Center staff to better understand the concept of cultural diversity and how it applies to Job Corps students. This program challenges you to examine your attitudes and perceptions about diversity and how it may affect Job Corps students and other staff. |
December 1, 2011 |
Dietary Management of Food Allergy |
This webinar provides an overview of food allergy and its dietary management. Topics include how to provide comprehensive elimination diet education including not only how to avoid specific allergens, but also how to safely and appropriately substitute for the nutrients inherent in the eliminated food. Additionally, how to manage food allergies in a food service establishment is discussed. |
October 28, 2011 |
Preventing and Responding to Sexual Assault in Job Corps |
This webinar reviews the specific sexual assault prevention policies outlined in the PRH, as well as best practices used in the prevention of sexual assaults. |
October 25, 2011 |
Preparing for Alcohol and Drug Licensure |
This presentation helps Job Corps TEAP specialists learn the necessary information for both the IC&RC/AODA and NAADAC credentialing tests. Strategies are presented to strengthen the test taker's knowledge base and take a multiple choice exam. |
October 20, 2011 |
Confidentiality in Your TEAP Program |
Confused about how to implement confidentiality regulations for TEAP? Wondering who has a 'need to know' for the drug screen results? This webinar addresses these issues as well as provides a forum to discuss related topics. |
October 11, 2011 October 12, 2011 |
A Review of PRH Chapter 1: Changes & Updates for Health and Wellness Staff Part 1 and Part 2 |
This webinar is a two-part series. Part 1 reviews the specific changes and updates applicable to the administrative components of the center file review process. Part 2 reviews changes and additions related to conducting both a health care needs and a direct threat assessment as a part of the center file review process. |
September 28, 2011 September 29, 2011 |
Case Management & Reasonable Accommodation: What is the Difference? |
This webinar discusses the concepts of reasonable accommodation and case management of health care needs, describe the relationship between each, provide examples of each, and discuss related documentation requirements. This course is offered at a beginner level. No prerequisite knowledge is required for this course. |
September 7, 2011 September 15, 2011 |
Managing Asthma in the Job Corps Student |
This webinar reviews the comprehensive outpatient management of asthma with the goals of improving asthma control and enhancing employability. This course is offered at an intermediate level. |
August 30, 2011 |
Dental Sealants: To Seal or Not to Seal, That is the Question |
Dental sealants are a proven evidence-based method of reducing the incidence of dental caries in susceptible teeth and high-risk populations, yet sealant utilization remains low. This webinar presents the advantages of sealant placement and discuss those concerns that deter their placement. The process of adopting a new procedure into one's armamentarium is explored as well as the specific challenges and opportunities found in the Job Corps dental setting that affect treatment. |
August 23, 2011 August 25, 2011 |
Cyberbullying: What You Need to Know |
Bullying now includes the use of new tools, including cell phones, text and instant messaging, and social network sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Job Corps staff are uniquely positioned to serve as strategic assets in the effort to stop cyberbullying in center. It is important that staff be knowledgeable about the epidemiologic characteristics of bullying and be able to assess center students for bullying and intervene in appropriate ways. |
August 2, 2011 August 17, 2011 |
Fitness in Trades: Using Functional Fitness for Career Sucess |
From welding to business technologies, functional training can help students physically prepare for the demands of the workplace. This webinar highlights exercises that train students for their various trades. |
July 20, 2011 |
HEALS Policies for Regional Office Staff |
This presentation provides an overview of the new policy and PAG changes and strategies to evaluate compliance and quality programming. |
July 11 and 13, 2011 |
Nursing Code of Ethics |
This webinar focuses on review of the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses and Privacy Act, and use of scenarios to discuss the gray areas in nursing ethical and moral decision making. |
July 6 and 14, 2011 |
Meeting the Healthy Eating and Active Lifestyles (HEALS) Policy |
This webinar provides tools to meet and exceed the new food service, recreation, and health and wellness PRH requirement. |
June 7, 2011 |
Beyond Boca Burgers: Tasty Vegetarian Entrees |
This webinar provides information for vegetarian-themed quantity menu for vegetarians and "interested" students. |
May 31, 2011 June 3, 2011 |
Social and Emotional Learning as a Foundation for Vocational Training and Success |
This webinar provides an overview of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) competency areas and the outcomes associated with SEL curriculum. The webinar also discusses how this information it relates to vocational training and success. A description of how SEL competencies are being used at Cascades Job Corps Center is also presented. |
May 23, 2011 |
Methamphetamine's Dental, Medical & Social Implications: What Health Care Providers Should Know |
In this webinar, Dr. Chris Steward addresses the dental, medical, and social implications of meth use. Students with a history of past methamphetamine use require a multi-disciplinary team approach as methamphetamines produce devastating effects on the users' overall health and wellbeing. The oral manifestations are an employability barrier, are difficult to treat, and can pose numerous patient management issues. Dr. Steward offers a pragmatic approach to providing care to those students who can benefit from Job Corps' scope of basic oral health services and the ingredients for a multi-disciplinary approach that is necessary to support outcomes. |
May 16, 2011 |
Community Connections: Providing Cost Effective, Quality Services to Our Students |
This webinar covers community and national resources, tips on how to implement cost saving strategies, and information on various internships, pharmaceutical, and government programs to offset center expenses while maintaining quality services to students. |
May 11, 2011 May 12, 2011 |
Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Treatment Guidelines from the CDC |
This webinar reviews the most recent treatment guidelines for sexually transmitted diseases published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This webinar also reviews Job Corps PRH requirements for STD screening. Participants can learn how to implement current treatment recommendations for STDs on center and ensure appropriate follow-up and contact notification following treatment of STDs. |
April 21, 2011 |
Food Service Budget Success |
This webinar provides ideas for offering healthy foods to Job Corps students while staying within budget. Strategies for working with manufacturers and responding to students' food preferences are also addressed. At the completion of the course, participants will be able to describe ways to take advantage of savings available from manufacturers, articulate how to arrange strategic agreements, discuss how to obtain student communication and input, and list simple strategies to add healthier foods to the cafeteria menu at little to no cost change. |
March 14, 2011 March 21, 2011 March 28, 2011 April 4, 2011 April 11, 2011 April 25, 2011 |
Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Your Health Promotion Programs |
This six-week course introduces participants to public health concepts in program planning and evaluation. Participants walk through the process of assessing needs, and planning, implementing, and evaluating a health promotion program. This course includes assignments between sessions. At the completion of the course, participants will have a plan that can be implemented on center. |
May 2, 2011 March 16, 2011 February 23, 2011 February 22, 2011 |
Demystifying Applicant File Reviews: Learn How to Stop Getting Your Files Returned to Your Center! |
This webinar discusses the mechanics of the file review process. Topics covered include: a review of what kind of information and provider contact is necessary during the file review process; the importance of the interactive applicant interview and summary; the importance of using specific and current behaviors and adaptive functioning, rather than diagnostic categories or test scores, in making recommendations for denial; considerations of accommodations; review of helpful resources; plus much more! |
March 11, 2011 |
Relapse Prevention and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
This webinar discusses the basic understanding of the principles behind the CBT approach to substance use, fundamental elements involved in the CBT approach to treatment, and the skills to implement core CBT treatment strategies. |
March 10, 2011 March 4, 2011 |
Healthy Eating and Active LifeStyles (HEALS) Program Introduction |
This webinar provides an overview of obesity in America, and addresses specifically how this public health concern affects Job Corps. The Healthy Eating and Active LifeStyles (HEALS) program is outlined. |
March 3, 2011 April 20, 2011 |
That's an Interesting Vase: Teaching Others How to Identify Drug Paraphernalia |
This webinar allows participants to define paraphernalia, difference between user-specific paraphernalia and dealer-specific paraphernalia, current status of federal law relating to drug paraphernalia, and develop a center-specific training to educate center staff on drug paraphernalia. |
February 28, 2011 |
Oral Cancer Screening |
This webinar reviews the elements of an appropriate extraoral exam, oral cancer risk factors, how to take a significant medical history, soft tissue exam, an inspection technique, and optional screening aids. |
February 18, 2011 January 28, 2011 |
Humor as a Therapeutic Tool |
This webinar allows participants to learn how the experience of humor can build the therapeutic alliance and defuse difficult situations. Participants can learn a model (based on research and clinical theory) of how humor as a therapeutic intervention can help relieve psychological distress, and promote physical health and wellness. While many clinicians understand how humor may assist in the development of the therapeutic relationship, this program expands that knowledge by demonstrating how humor can be used as a clinical treatment approach. |
February 11, 2011 |
Protecting Students' Private Health Information: What Everyone Needs to Know |
This training primarily focuses on protecting students' health information covered under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, commonly known as HIPAA. This training is broken into five sections: personally identifiable information or PII; overview of HIPAA and the Privacy Rule; how to share and handle private information in accordance with HIPAA; documentation and safeguards in place in Job Corps; and which center staff members are responsible for protecting students' privacy. |
January 18, 2011 |
Not Your Mother's Drugs |
This webinar is for staff who missed this presentation at the 2010 National Health and Wellness Conference. This webinar provides information on the new batch of legal drugs, focusing on K2 and other synthetic cannabinoids. This course is offered at an intermediate level. |