NWCPHP has compiled a variety of no-cost training resources for professionals living and working in rural communities.
Our training materials can be accessed by creating an account in PH LearnLink.
Hot Topics in Practice Webinars
View a recording of these webinars.
Addressing Rural Health Disparities with Data
This webinar shares how public health professionals can use data to identify, communicate about, and address health inequities in rural communities.
Building Trust in Public Health for Rural Communities
This webinar shares frameworks for defining and measuring trust-building and identifies examples of trust-building activities that are of particular interest for rural communities.
Climate Change and Public Health: Alaska on the Frontlines
This webinar explains how receding glaciers, rising sea levels, increasing temperatures, permafrost thaw, and other influences are impacting Alaska's rural and indigenous populations.
Economic Development for Rural Health
This webinar reviews several initiatives one rural community coalition is working on to address many social, economic, and environmental factors related to health.
Expanding Oral Health Services in Northwest Tribal Communities
This webinar reviews the major barriers to accessing oral health services in tribal settings and describes how these communities are using policy advocacy and training to expand care networks and reduce costs.
Mental Health and Suicide Prevention in Rural America
This webinar reviews how local public health agencies can be involved in mental and behavioral health issues and the role they can play in rural suicide prevention.
Supporting Emotional Wellness in Frontier Areas
This webinar discusses how one rural health department increased training, service referrals, and messaging campaigns to promote emotional health and wellness and improve community resiliency.
Trauma-Informed Practice – a Rural Perspective
This webinar reviews how a small rural agency is applying trauma-informed principles to improve client interactions and their physical environment to improve health.
Self-Paced Training
Data for Rural Health Series:
This series is presented through a narrative, problem-based learning structure in which the learner steps into the role of a health promotion specialist in the rural Pacific Northwest. Individual modules cover Understanding Population Health Concepts, Communicating Effectively, and Visualizing Data Stories
Idaho Disease Intervention Basics
This training educates learners through the lens of disease intervention specialist (DIS) work to conduct contact tracing, partner services, and case investigation to contain the spread of disease.
Suicide Prevention Training Series
This training series introduces learners to upstream prevention efforts in suicide prevention, with an emphasis on community engagement and data-informed decision-making.
Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS) Webinars
PH WINS for the Future: Understanding the Strengths and Needs of Rural Public Health
This webinar examines how training, education, and support may need to be tailored for rural practitioners and considers policies that could help strengthen the workforce.
Advancing Health Equity: Insights from PH WINS
This webinar discusses recommendations to improve workforce development and training, the application of new concepts, and skill development.
Publications
Creating Public Health Policy with Rural Communities
NWCPHP Director, Betty Bekemeier co-authored two publications about the effects and importance of co-creating public policy with rural communities.
Supporting Students
Read more about the work of public health students in rural areas supported by our stipend program.
Aging in Place in Rural Idaho
While working toward her MPH at Boise State University, Andrea Hill, conducted a community assessment to measure the challenges of aging in place in rural communities.
Student Builds Indigenous Intervention Framework with Community, Tribal Partners
Celena McCray partnered with Pacific Northwest tribal members and Elders to co-design an Indigenous-based framework that addresses the holistic health and wellness of American Indian and Alaska Native peoples, known as 49 Days of Ceremony.
Student Explores Oregon Grange as Potential Rural Public Health Partner
While working toward her MPH at Oregon State University, Lillian Anderson studied the Grange as a potential public health partner for rural communities.
Additional Resources
Public Health Training Center Network
Check out these rural-focused trainings offered by members of the national Public Health Training Center Network.
WWAMI Rural Health Research Center (UW)
The mission of the Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho (WWAMI) Rural Health Research Center is to improve and sustain rural health through research that engages policymakers, planners, and practitioners advancing equity in rural access to care.