The 60-minute webinar, held on January 16, 2014 at 1:30 PM ET, focused on how United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley in Allentown, Pennsylvania used The Guide to Community Preventive Services (The Community Guide) to influence their investments and community-level strategies to support older adults, including the launch of the Gatekeeper Initiative.

 

During the webinar, presenters introduced The Community Guide and provided an overview of how this resource can be used to navigate community solutions so that limited resources can be used to implement strategies that work. The United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley also talked about their work with their partners to launch the Gatekeeper Initiative, which uses untraditional health advocates to connect older adults with essential health and safety services. This initiative strives to connect older adults to services that can assist this population with healthy eating, physical activity, and access to mental and physical healthcare and other services to meet basic needs that impact health. The webinar addressed a number of recommendations for behavioral and mental health care for older populations.

 

 

Registration is now closed. Read a summary of the webinar or view the recorded webinar on TRAIN (course ID: 1048690), the nation’s premier learning management network for professionals who protect the public’s health. For questions, please contact Cheryl DeAguiar at cdeaguiar@phf.org.

 

The free webinar is co-sponsored by the Public Health Foundation (PHF) and the United Way Worldwide. Participants had an opportunity to ask questions during the Q&A portion of the webinar, view part of the Q&A on the PHF Pulse Blog.

 

 

In November 2013, PHF began a series of webinars to promote awareness and use of The Community Guide and encourage public health, healthcare, and community-based organizations to implement evidence-based interventions to improve community health outcomes. This webinar is the second in the series.

 

The first webinar in the series, co-sponsored by PHF and the Association for Community Health Improvement (ACHI), was titled “Application of The Community Guide by Two Health Systems to Improve the Health of a Community.” The webinar introduced participants to The Community Guide and how two health systems in Akron, Ohio used it as a resource of best practices for a diabetes prevention program. The archived webinar is available on TRAIN (course ID: 1047702).

 

Funding for the webinars is provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under Cooperative Agreement Number 5U38HM000518-03.