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. Popular learning collaborative topics will be repeated monthly, so if a class is full, keep checking back!

Date: April 9, 2021
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Eastern
 

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 skill and confidence to ask these important questions.

Date: April 16, 2021
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Eastern

This Learning Collaborative will consider how to respond to challenging situations that occur during the interviews. Contact tracers and case investigators have identified concerns such as dealing with anger, disbelief, resistance, grief, and mistrust as common challenges they experience. Strategies, techniques, and skills to respond to interviewees respectfully will be discussed and applied during sessions to support your confidence in conducting the contact tracing and case investigation interviews.

Date: April 23, 2021
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Central

This interactive learning collaborative will focus on elements of self-care and strategies to minimize burnout. In this time of continual stress as we work to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, our threshold for balancing work responsibilities and personal commitments have been stretched to new limits. We will focus on tools, recommendations, and successful strategies for contact tracers and case investigators to consider for remaining focused and energized in the work.

Date: April 30, 2021
Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 am Pacific

This trainer learning collaborative will focus on responding to frequently asked questions related to COVID-19 vaccine and overall messaging for contact tracers and case investigators to consider. We invited Dr. Lisa Chen, medical director of The Curry International Tuberculosis Center and faculty on the COVID-19 response team for the California Department of Public Health to present and answer questions.

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