PROVIDE HEALTH EQUITY TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

State IVP programs face a dual training and technical assistance challenge: keeping their own skills and knowledge current, while also sharing their expertise with partners and other stakeholders

(e.g., students and colleagues in local health departments). Given the wide range of topics, functions, and skills that IVP professionals must have, keeping up to date is a considerable challenge. Efforts to meet training needs can take many forms, ranging from conferences to webinars, and can include a wide variety of information, from updates on specific injury topics to skill-building in leadership, coalition building, communications, evaluation, DEI, or policy. A valid assessment, such as the Intercultural Development Inventory, can be used to measure individual staff or an organization’s cross-cultural competence along a continuum. Following trainings and/or technical assistance, organizations or individuals may choose to re-take the assessment to measure progress along the continuum.

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