Mission

Help professionals, individuals and groups use evidence-based cost-effective health promotion  and wellness programs to improve living, learning, working and playing conditions.

Continuing Education Self-study Course with 17 hours of study assignments. Take the TF, multiple choice and short answer post-test. ($37, for total of 17 Category 1 continuing education credit hours (CECH) (includes 8.0 hours linked to advanced-level sub-competencies, and continuing competency credits), scroll down to view fees (refundable*) and register).

• Easy and convenient: no deadline to complete, study when and where you prefer
• Study Guide (click here to view and download pdf) This is the key document to help you efficiently complete the course. Includes instructions, objectives based on entry- and advanced-level competencies, assignments, helpful hints. Download pdf file to see what you will study and decide if this course is for you. 
• Goal: Help health professionals and partners provide expert assistance to community members, public authorities and legislators. Help those groups use the public health approach with effective evidence-based, constitutional strategies to reduce gun violence.
• Objectives: Participants will be able to provide expert assistance to
  • Describe the public health approach and its steps of defining the problem, identifying risk and protective factors, developing and testing prevention strategies and assuring wide spread adoption.
  • Explain the Principles of Prevention by defining violence, the burden of violence, three types of prevention, the Social Ecological Model.
  • Describe evidence (best available, contextual, experiential) for decision making and how to assess potential strategies using the continuum of evidence of effectiveness.
  • Define the health problem of gun violence.
  • List risk and protective factors
  • Describe the 2nd Amendment, Supreme Court and lower court decisions on gun / public safety laws. Define decision making terms justices use such as originalism, text and history only (Scalia, Thomas) to interest balancing inquiry / pragmatic (Breyer).
  • Describe Presidential executive orders, Congressional and state legislation that have been implemented to prevent gun violence
  • List public health and other organization recommended strategies
  • List potential collaborative partners for wide spread adoption (allies and opponents)
• Test Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/gvptest
• Test & Course Verification Form: Verify Course Completion (healthedpartners.org)