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SUMMARY:How to Write a Technical Report
DESCRIPTION:Registration (Space is Limited)Workshop Description:\nTechnical reports provide an in-depth description of the process\, progress\, or results of a project or program. Technical report writing is often a requirement at the end of a project or for grant writing. It is a skill that is used to clearly communicate a possible solution to a problem\, recommend action\, or aid decision making. This workshop will cover the unique skill and art of conveying research information in a clear\, concise\, effective\, and objective manner. \nLearning Objectives:\n\nDemonstrate how technical reports can be used to communicate efficiently and effectively\nDescribe the standard structure of a technical report\nDescribe the style that should be used when writing a technical report\nOutline best practices for report presentation\n\nFeatured Speaker\nJennifer Pharr\, PhD\nAssociate Professor\nUniversity of Nevada\, Las Vegas \nDr. Pharr is an Associate Professor of Public Health at the University of Las Vegas\, Nevada. She is currently teaching the Technical and Scientific Writing course in the graduate program and has presented tips and tools for becoming an effective writer for a variety of audiences. \nFunding Disclosure: *This project is supported by the Nevada State Division of Public and Behavioral Health through Grant Number 1 NH75OT000092-01-00 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Division nor the CDC. Any activities performed under this sub-award shall acknowledge the funding was provided through the Division by Grant Number 1 NH75OT000092-01-00 from the CDC.
URL:https://nmhec.org/event/how-to-write-a-technical-report-2/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Nevada Vaccine Equity Collaborative Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join us every third Wednesday of the month at 11AM PST for the Nevada Vaccine Equity Collaborative meeting! \nThe NVEC is a partnership comprised of diverse and interdisciplinary members of the public\, as well as private\, state\, and community partners\, co-led by Immunize Nevada and the Nevada Minority Health and Equity Coalition. \nMembers of the NVEC include state legislators\, community members representing different ethnicities and demographics\, healthcare providers\, faith-based leaders\, public and private representatives. \nRegister
URL:https://nmhec.org/event/nevada-vaccine-equity-collaborative-monthly-meeting/2023-02-15/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Community-Based Participatory Research and the Roles of Power\, Trust\, and Culture Part 1
DESCRIPTION:Registration (Space is Limited)Workshop Description:\nCommunity-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is the combination of research and partnership building when assessing a community priority. Partnerships are diverse\, often including individuals from specific communities\, organizations\, academic institutions\, and/or coalitions. The CBPR approach strives for shared decision making and involvement of partners and community members during all phases of the process. This two-part workshop will introduce CBPR\, its principles\, critical points in partnership development and issues throughout the research and partnership processes. Issues related to power dynamics\, trust\, and culture will be highlighted in the workshop sessions. This workshop is inclusive for anyone interested in research and assessment. Each session will incorporate education for organizations implementing and evaluating community programs. \nLearning Objectives:\n\nUnderstand CBPR within the scope of community engaged research\nIdentify where community participation occurs in the research and evaluation process\nProvide strategies for partner engagement and partnership development\n\nFeatured Speakers\nJulie Lucero\, PhD\, MPH\nAssociate Dean\, College of Health\nAssociate Professor\, Department of Health and Kinesiology\nUniversity of Utah \nJulie E. Lucero\, PhD MPH\, is an associate dean\, College of Health\, and associate professor\, Department of Health and Kinesiology\, at the University of Utah. Lucero’s research is centered on the identification of modifiable social determinants to reduce the impact of health inequities within underrepresented populations. Using mixed methods\, dissemination and implementation science\, and community based participatory research (CBPR)\, her projects have focused on examining factors associated with substance abuse\, mental health\, housing and food security\, and  positive youth development. Lucero has been involved with CBPR projects in collaboration with Native American/Indigenous\, Latino/Hispano\, young adult\, and LGBTQ+ communities. Much of Lucero’s research has contributed to advancing the science of community engaged research approaches. Lucero strives to achieve health equity by means of education\, research\, diversity and inclusion\, and policy development. \nKadie Zeller\nExecutive Director\nOm Namo\nProgram Specialist\nNevada Afterschool Network\nNevada Institute for Children’s Research and Policy\nKadie Zeller is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and of the people of Kiribati in the South Pacific. She is currently a Program Specialist for the Nevada Afterschool Network at NICRP. She is also a Certified Prevention Specialist and has started her own nonprofit\, in Fallon\, to share mindfulness and other wellness programs to youth and adults. \nKadie received her Bachelors Arts in Psychology\, with a focus on public service\, from the University of California\, San Diego. Her background is in primary and secondary substance prevention and mental health wellness for historically misrepresented community members in Rural and Frontier Nevada. \nKadie’s passion is connecting communities with the tools and resources needed to create positive systems of change and sustain intergenerational healing. \nFunding Disclosure: *This project is supported by the Nevada State Division of Public and Behavioral Health through Grant Number 1 NH75OT000092-01-00 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Division nor the CDC. Any activities performed under this sub-award shall acknowledge the funding was provided through the Division by Grant Number 1 NH75OT000092-01-00 from the CDC.
URL:https://nmhec.org/event/cbpr-part-1/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Building Community Power to Impact Change: Foundations of Community Organizing
DESCRIPTION:Registration (Space is Limited)Workshop Description:\nCommunity Organizing is the methodology by which people come together to build collective power to solve social problems.  Non-violent community organizing has and continues to shape much of our daily lives. In this workshop we will review introductory concepts of community organizing through short case studies and explore tools to apply organizing methodologies to your daily practice.  This workshop is designed for people unfamiliar with the basics of community organizing\, but open to all. \nLearning Objectives:\n\nAdvance a shared understanding of community organizing as a social change methodology.\nExplore the principles that guide effective community organizing.\nStudy brief examples of effective organizing.\nReflect on the application of community organizing principles in your community-based work.\n\nFeatured Speaker\nBliss Requa-Trautz \nExecutive Director\nArriba Las Vegas Worker Center \nBliss Requa-Trautz is the Executive Director of Arriba Las Vegas Worker Center. She brings more than a decade of experience in community organizing around issues of economic justice\, immigrant justice\, and education access. She holds Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst\, and a Labor Studies Certificate from the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Labor Studies and Worker Education at City University of New York. \nThe Arriba Las Vegas Worker Center unites day laborers\, domestic workers\, immigrant workers and low wage workers to defend their rights\, fight for dignity and win justice for all. Our mission is to inform\, empower\, and organize immigrant led efforts towards equality\, economic justice and social and political inclusion. \nJorge Torres \nRegional Organizer\nNational Day Laborer Organizing Network \nJorge Torres was born in Quito\, Ecuador\, where he had his first experience seeing inequality\, particularly in the way indigenous people were treated. He began organizing with indigenous people since he was 12 years old. He came to the United States at the age of 16 with his parents\, and has lived here for 17 years. He lived undocumented for 9 years of his life\, during which he learned about the frustration of lacking access to school\, work\, and travel. Also a constant fear for ICE and police. He began to organize with Unidad Latina en Acción in New Haven CT\, a community organization that works against wage-theft\, provides educational and leadership opportunities\, and community empowerment. He was able to regularize his immigration status nine years ago\, but continues to organize with immigrant communities. He founded Unidad Latina en Acción\, in New Jersey an organization that empower the community against the deportation machine. For over 10 years Torres has worked hand in hand with families in deportation proceeding. In 2012\, he was part of the Undocubus\, a ride for justice\, which was a bus traveling from Arizona to North Carolina with over 30 undocumented families that risked deportation and were unafraid to seek justice. Torres also has done community radio\, and makes films and documentaries related to migrants and social justice. He also has provided strategic direction for opening El Centro’s Community Job Center in July 2014 by organizing and doing advocacy work at the local and national level. Jorge has organized and planned the first Staten Island Workers’ Assembly that brought together about 500 workers from different industries. He founded a transnational project with members of the Staten Island community and Puebla\, Mexico to reunite families separated by forced migration through cultural and social economic projects. Torres has led and strategized with the ICEFREENJ Statewide Campaign that focuses on responding to Raids\, Detentions and Deportations cases to engage families on anti-deportation and anti-detention advocacy projects. Jorge Torres has developed a migrant protection project for the Embassy of Ecuador in the United States\, which was implemented nation-wide as a permanent program. He has managed the tri-state area by implementing a supervised system of the staff\, coordinating professional trainings for the team with clear strategies for undocumented migrant protection. Jorge has implemented community outreach and engagement strategies to advocate for cases of families risking deportation proceedings. Torres has developed and implemented a rapid response system for more than 350 cases that were in detention centers. he worked for 4 years with Faith in New Jersey a multi-faith and multi-racial network of faith leaders and faith communities working together to advance an immigration\, racial\, economic and human justice agenda at the local\, state and federal level. Currently Torres works with the National Day Laborer Organizing network as the national campaign strategist with the mission of improve the lives of day laborers\, migrants and low-wages workers to basically build power and leadership among those facing injustice\, so they can challenge inequality and expand labor\, political and human rights.  \nFunding Disclosure: *This project is supported by the Nevada State Division of Public and Behavioral Health through Grant Number 1 NH75OT000092-01-00 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Division nor the CDC. Any activities performed under this sub-award shall acknowledge the funding was provided through the Division by Grant Number 1 NH75OT000092-01-00 from the CDC.
URL:https://nmhec.org/event/building-community-power-to-impact-change-foundations-of-community-organizing/
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