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 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

Fees and Registration
Self-Study Course Fee: $37 (refundable*)

Online registration using PayPal with debit/credit card or echeck

After payment you can click to print a receipt. Be sure to click on the Return to Merchant button to get guidelines to complete the course efficiently (or go to this link for the Thank You for Signing Up web page)

• Registration using check or money order, download, type info and print registration form
• Thank You for Signing Up Web Page – click on the text to the left for extra instructions that will help you complete the course efficiently. You will get a Thank You for Signup email – Usually within 24 hours after signing up.

Need for the Course

The prevention of gun violence needs more advocates who are knowledgeable about professional health organization and American Bar Association recommended, and evidence-based and evidence-informed strategies (programs, practices, policies) available to prevent gun violence. The need to know how laws can be permissible under the U.S. Constitution and 2nd Amendment based in its history, interpretations by legal scholars and Supreme Court decisions.

• Full refund if payment was 1) electronic at the PayPal sign up link, 2) requested within 60 days of sign up and 3) completion certificate and credit hours not awarded
• Partial refund (course fee less $10 processing fee) if:
  • 1) payment was electronic at the PayPal sign up link, 2) not requested within 60 days and 3) completion certificate with credit hours was not awarded or
  • 2) payment was not through PayPal (i.e., check, money order sent with printed registration form)
• No refund at anytime after signup with payment if a completion certificate and credit hours have been awarded.

One of the course evaluation questions, “I would rate this learning activity positively.”