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

Continuing Education Self-study Course with 14 hours of study assignments. Take the 15-question TF, multiple choice and short answer post-test. ($38, for total of 14 CPEs and 14 Category 1 continuing education credit hours (CECH) (includes 6.0 hours linked to advanced-level sub-competencies), 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, (PDF). Download now to see what you will study and decide if this course is for you. 
• Goal: Help health professionals and partners provide expert assistance applying the public health approach with effective evidence-based, sound theoretically-based and legal and ethical 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, and Supreme Court decisions on laws permissible under the 2nd Amendment and U.S. Constitution.
    • Describe Presidential executive orders, Congressional and state legislation that has been implemented to prevent gun violence
    • List public health and other organization recommended stratgegies
    • List potential collaborative partners for wide spread adoption (allies and opponents)
    • Use evidence-based research to develop policies to promote health
• NCHEC Participant Course Evaluation Summary (PDF, from social marketing self-study course)
  • Overall Quality of Courses: 4.4  to 4.8 (1 = Very Poor, 5 = Excellent)