The Southeast Public Health Training Center (SPHTC) represents a partnership between academic and practice partners in North Carolina and West Virginia. The Center's primary focus is on training development, dissemination, maternal and child health, rural public health, leadership and management and competency development and application.

The SPHTC is located at the NC Institute for Public Health at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and is part of the National Public Health Training Center Network.

The SPHTC's mission is to:

1. assess and strengthen competency-based training delivery systems with regard to academic and practice linkages;
2. build state regional and national capacity for workforce development
3. share best practices locally, regionally and nationally
4. support and enhance regional collaboration
5. respond to requests from state and local health departments for training.

Thirty-Seven Public Health Training Centers across the United States have been funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to strengthen the core public health competencies and capabilities of the current and future public health workforce," particularly in under-served areas. The core competencies are critical to the delivery of the 10 essential services and are the foundation on which preparedness competencies are built. These 32 centers comprise the National Network of Public Health Training Centers.

FEATURED TRAININGS

Pediatric Nutrition Course, Module 1: Nutrition Assessment
Begins February 14, 2012

What About the Children? Symposium on Children of Incarcerated Parents
February 14, 2012

33rd Annual Minority Health Conference: Translational Research: The Road from Efficacy to Equity
February 24, 2012

Introduction to Public Health Nursing
March 12-14, 2012

Management and Supervision for Health and Human Service Professionals
Begins March 26, 2012

2012 Spring Child Health Regional Workshops
Begin April 16, 2012

RESOURCES

• PHTC Comptency-based Distance Education Opportunities available through the National Public Health Training Center Network.

• 2011 Quad Council Competencies for Public Health Nurses

• NC Academy for Public Health

• New National Public Health Core Competency Continuum

• Tier 1 Self Scoring Self Assessment (Entry Level)
  Tier 2 Self Scoring Self Assessment (Management)
  Tier 3 Self Scoring Self Assessment (Leadership)

• Public Health Leadershship and Management Self Assessment tool

• Environmental Health Non-Technical Competency Self Assessment tool

• Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce, National Library of Medicine. A one stop shop for public health data sources, reports, training opportunities and more.

• Public Health History Timeline, this a new resource developed by the Southeast Public Health Training Center for use by anyone as part of education, training or just information.

The SPHTC is less about creating new training and more about increasing access to resources already available. To find out how the Training Center can help you to develop, test and implement training in your area or to be added to our listserv, contact: Janet Place, SPHTC Director.