Facilitation Trainings

Community Facilitator 101 Training

Topic Areas: Community group, Group facilitation

Target Audience: Public health

Approximate length: 45 minutes

Offered by: Bureau of Community Health Systems, Local Public Health Program

Requirements: Launch through TRAIN (Create account)

Cost: Free

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Facilitating Focus Groups

Topic Areas: Focus groups

Target Audience: Individuals with a background in designing or implementing quantitative research & who would like to expand their work to include conducting focus groups. Ideal for those with a MPH or another social/behavioral or health science discipline or who have equivalent experience in the design or conduct of quantitative research

Approximate length: 30 minutes

Offered by: New York City-Long Island-Lower Tri-County Public Health Training Center

Requirements: Launch through TRAIN (Create account)

Cost: Free

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Making Meetings Work: Facilitation Skills for Public Health Professionals

Topic Areas: Communication, Leadership & Management, Tools and Resources

Target Audience: Local and state public health practitioners, Public Health Nurses, Local and state emergency management staff, Anyone who facilitates meetings

Approximate length: 1 hour

Offered by: Northwest Center for Public Health Practice

Requirements: Create account

Cost: Free

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Facilitator Training

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Target Audience: Administration, public health administrators and leadership, and the general public health workforce

Approximate length: 32 minutes

Offered by: Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

Requirements: Create account; Enroll

Cost: Free

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Facilitation Management

Topic Areas: Facilitation skills

Target Audience:

Approximate length: 1 hour, 30 minutes

Offered by: Alabama Public Health Training Center

Requirements: Registration required

Cost: Free

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Strengthening Your Facilitation Skills

Topic Areas: Facilitation principles

Target Audience: IPLAN coordinators, administrators, Health educators, Coalition/Committee leaders, Preventionists & Health promoters are encouraged to participate

Approximate length: 78 slides

Offered by: Illinois Department of Public Health and Illinois Public Health Institute

Requirements: None

Cost: Free

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Participatory Facilitation Techniques Workshop Curriculum

Topic Areas: Facilitation techniques

Target Audience: Knowledge management practitioners, Other development practitioners and anyone interested in building skills in facilitation

Approximate length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Offered by: US AID (United States Agency International Development) supporting the curriculum developed by TOPS (Technical and Operational Performance Support), Food Security & Nutritional Network

Requirements: None

Cost: Free

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The Practice Facilitation Handbook: Training Modules for New Facilitators and Their Trainers

Topic Areas: Practice facilitation

Target Audience: Practice facilitators; Designed to be used by a trainer as a resource when preparing new facilitators to work with primary care practices. New facilitators may use it directly as a resource for self-study

Approximate length: 158 pages

Offered by: Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)

Requirements: None

Cost: Free

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Group Facilitation and Problem Solving: Developing Facilitation Skills

Topic Areas: Facilitation

Target Audience:

Approximate length: Online; 11 slides

Offered by: Community Tool Box

Requirements: None

Cost: Free

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Effective Adult Learning: A Toolkit for Teaching Adults

Topic Areas: Communication, Tools & Resources

Target Audience: Public health lawyers; Any professional who leads trainings for adults

Approximate length: 2 hours; 30 pages

Offered by: Northwest Center for Public Health in partnership with the Network for Public Health Law

Requirements: Create account

Cost: Free

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