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Thursday, August 30, 2018
Workshop on Hiring and Retaining Individuals with Disabilities
The Business Relations team would like to invite you to participate in our upcoming events. These events are great opportunities to begin or continue your partnership with The Utah State Office of Rehabilitation. They also make great additions to Federal 503 Affirmative Action Plans.
We will be holding our next Workshop on Hiring and Retaining Individuals with Disabilities on September 11th from 9am to 2pm at DSBVI (Division of Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired). This workshop is designed to provide information on hiring and retaining individuals with disabilities. Current issues surrounding disability and employment will be discussed. Lunch will be provided with an opportunity to speak with other business representatives and professionals in the disability field. There is no fee to participate. This Spring, we ended up with a waiting list for the event, so register as soon as possible to reserve your seat. The Workshop is limited to the first 70 participants.
If you have previously participated in the workshop, we strongly encourage sending hiring managers and supervisors for this experience.
Additionally, the Work Ability Career Exploration and Job Fair will be on October 2nd. This job fair is an excellent opportunity to market your business and open positions to individuals with disabilities who are ready, willing and able to work. The career exploration component allows you to participate even if you do not have current positions available. The information fair will allow the job fair participants to gather information on how to better prepare to apply with your business in the future. As in the past, we will offer workshops that both business partners and job seekers can attend. The workshops include online applications, business partner panel, answering tough interview questions, and SSI/SSDI & working. Lunch will be provided for participating business partners and there is no fee to participate, however, space is limited to the first 45 employers.
If you have questions about any of these events feel free to contact Leah Lobato, Director, Governor’s Committee on Employment of Disabilities & Business Relations at (801) 887-9538/ leahlobato@utah.gov, Thomas Smith, Business Relations Specialist at (801) 887-0282/ thomassmith@utah.gov
Space for all events is limited, so if you are interested in attending the events listed please register at the following links:
If you are unable to attend at this time, the Spring 2019 dates are listed on our fliers at https://www.usor.utah.gov/
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Webinar Series: Taking Action to Promote Health Equity
Trust for America’s Health’s (TFAH) is launching a four-part Web Forum series called Taking Action to Promote Health Equity—Using the Lessons from Cutting-Edge Practices to Improve Health and Well Being.
Our goal is to shine a bright light on some of the most compelling and replicable activities that help advance health equity. Program speakers will share their lessons learned through practice and experiences that are transferable to diverse community settings—large or small, urban or rural—and with substantial or minimal resources. And while a few of the examples may be familiar, the Web Forum series will feature excellent work that has not received much national attention.
TFAH designed the series so you can participate in all four Web Forums or any that you want to attend. And when the series is over, they will be available online. Each segment is being planned with substantial time for questions and answers. Furthermore, if the participants identify topics of further interest, TFAH will use that information to plan future Web Forums.
The series will be hosted by J. Nadine Gracia, MD, MSCE, TFAH’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, and presented through the Dialogue4Health platform. The first Web Forum of the series will analyze the impact of The California Endowment’s unprecedented Building Healthy Communities initiative. This $1 billion, multi-year effort in 14 communities across California has shown what can be achieved with long-term, community-led, place-based campaigns. The panelists will provide a broad overview of the initiative, highlight two community examples, and equip audience members with strategies and tools they can use to advance health equity in their work and communities.
Registration is free and closed captioning is available to all attendees. This event is recommended for anyone working in public health, advocacy, community-based systems, insurers, and local and state health officials.
Copy and paste the following text into your browser: https://publichealthinstitute.webex.com/publichealthinstitute/onstage/g.php?MTID=ee9a718ac9487ad23cf66cc9e81226fb7
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Presenters
Tony Iton, MD, JD, MPH, Senior Vice President for Healthy Communities, The California Endowment
Andrea Manzo, Hub Manager, East Salinas Building Healthy Communities
Sandra Celedon, Executive Director, Fresno Building Healthy Communities
Moderator
J. Nadine Gracia, MD, MSCE, Executive Vice President and COO, TFAH
Webinar: Learn About Increasing Access to Primary Care
PCPs play an important role in protecting the health and safety of the communities they serve. By working in the context of family and community, they can provide integrated services and develop meaningful, sustained relationships with patients. Having a usual PCP is associated with greater patient trust in the provider, effective patient-provider communication, and increased likelihood that patients will receive appropriate care.
Join Healthy People 2020 on Thursday, September 20 at 12:00 p.m. ET to learn about progress made toward achieving the Healthy People 2020 Access to Health Services Leading Health Indicators. You’ll also learn about a nonprofit community benefit organization working to increase access to primary care providers (PCPs) for vulnerable populations.
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Salt Lake County presents The Diversity of Families & Individuals who Experience Homelessness
Join the Office of Diversity & Inclusion and the Human Rights Subcommittee as we explore the homelessness condition and gather information for understanding the problems families and individuals face and how we can help those facing homelessness.
Panel:
Michelle Flynn, Associate Executive Director of Programs, The Road Home
Andrew Johnson, Vice President of Program Operations, Volunteers of America Utah
Jimmy Lee, Youth & Family Programs Manager, Utah Pride Center
Shaleane Gee, Director, Mayor’s Initiatives and Special Projects, Salt Lake County
Rich DeBlasio, Homeless Network Coordinator, Veterans Administration Rocky Mountain Region
Tricia Davis, Program Manager of the State of Utah, DWS, Housing and Community Development Division, Homelessness Programs Office
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OHD Releases New Report about Cross-Cultural Education in Utah's Oral Health Schools
OHD released findings of a survey of local oral health institutions. OHD surveyed dental residency programs, dental schools, dental hygiene schools, and dental assisting schools in an effort to understand cross-cultural training offered to future oral health professionals.For survey respondents, the key findings include:
- The majority of institutions address cross-cultural issues either in the classroom and/or in an extracurricular setting.
- The largest motivator to offer cross-cultural training to students is a diverse patient population.
- The largest overall barrier to providing additional cross-cultural training is competing curricular time.
- Institutions with longer programs tend to offer more cross-cultural opportunities and rate their level of cross-cultural competence higher.
OHD produced this report as a second installment in a series of reports regarding oral health in Utah. Find OHD published reports on the Data and Reports page of the OHD website.
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