Resources | Region V (2025)

General Resources

Looking for a better way to budget? What about injury prevention? Check out these general resources from the RVPHTC and our partners.

Take a look at our Accessibility Best Practices guide for tips and resources!

Accessibility Best Practices

Find information on a myriad of topics, including COVID-19, on the CDC Learning Connection. The Learning Connection offers a variety of digital trainings, toolkits, resources, and more.

CDC Learning Connection

That’s Public Health is a video series by the American Public Health Association covering a variety of public health topics to spread awareness in a quick, informational manner.

That’s Public Health

This toolkit educates our members on how to educate and engage with their elected officials about the critical work of local public health and what resources are needed to keep communities safe. The toolkit explains the difference between education, advocacy, and lobbying, and offers strategies for how to effectively communicate with lawmakers through a variety of engagements.

Advocacy Toolkit

This webinar focuses on budgeting practices within local government and features speaker Joe Gris of the Vanderburgh County Health Department in Indiana.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) offers the Building Private-Public Partnerships guide, providing recommendations and best practices to establish and maintain a private-public partnership. These partnerships should work together to help coordinate mitigation, response and recovery planning and preparedness.

The Building Private-Public Partnership guide builds on the recent National Response Framework update, which focuses on non-governmental capabilities to stabilize community lifelines while addressing the continued need for aligning government efforts with the private sector.

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U-M Injury Prevention Center Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)

Injury is the leading cause of death for children and adolescents. This course, designed for training a variety of professions and knowledge levels, draws from a multidisciplinary panel of expert researchers and practitioners using lectures, interviews, and demonstrations. Also relevant for educators, coaches, child care providers, and parents, the course will help you apply useful, evidence-based strategies and interventions.

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Science of Firearm Injury Prevention Among Children & Teens Online Course

Through lectures and interviews from over 35 of the leading firearm injury researchers around the country, and activities, readings, discussion boards, and quizzes, learners can become familiar with the epidemiology, prevention strategies, and policy efforts related to pediatric firearm injury prevention.

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This presentation focuses on defining and understanding recovery housing and it’s importance to the recovery community. Recovery Residences also play a role in Indiana’s efforts to end the Opioid Epidemic.

Speaker: AhNonda Bates, MS, LCAC- Indiana Affiliation of Recovery Residences

What Works for Health provides communities with information to help select and implement evidence-informed policies, programs, and system changes that will improve the variety of factors that affect health. The research underlying this site is based on a model of population health that emphasizes the many factors that can make communities healthier places to live, learn, work, and play.

Click the image to be taken to the interactive model and website.

Before we develop our own training, we take an inventory of what’s already available from other organizations. In this way, we’re able to craft new training around areas of greatest need and interest as well as avoid duplicating material. This inventory is an ongoing resource that is available for you to access to broaden your knowledge of a variety of public health topics which include:

• Tribal Health and Climate Change
• Physical Activity and Health
• Rural Health
• HIV and HEP C
• Maternal Child Health
• Air Pollution, Housing, Asthma
• Community Violence

Download the curated training inventory