Principles of Community Organizing
Join our trainer, Ande Stone, as we go over the principles of community organizing and how we can effectively better serve the community and identify disparities that affect our clients.
A Space for Everyone: A Deeper Look at Trans Identities and Inclusivity
This training session is designed to introduce participants to fundamental concepts of transgender identities, emphasizing the importance of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in service settings. The workshop will equip attendees with the essential knowledge and skills needed to foster inclusive environments that respect and affirm transgender individuals.
Cultural Competency: Structural Frameworks to Address Health Disparities
This session focuses on enhancing care and client interactions by taking into account structural factors that can and do effect patient health outcomes. By looking beyond individual patient behaviors that are often attributed to cultural differences, we can develop strategies and care plans that better serve patients without ignoring the various contributors to individual patient health.
Affirming Trans Access to Housing
Description:
The goal of this training module is to build better awareness, and enhance cultural humility and equitable competencies for San Francisco-focused CBOs & providers engaged in providing services and programs in homelessness response and behavioral health systems centering, prioritizing, and including Transgender, Gender Non-Confirming, Intersex (TGNCI)+, and all gender expansive communities who need and access housing services.
This training is part of the city-wide initiative of “Ending Trans Homelessness”. The principle of ending trans homelessness by 2027 means that the existing trans homeless community would be stabilized and housed over the next five years, and any future trans people that become homeless would have the resources and support to get them housed quickly, making any instance of homelessness brief and rare.
During this training, participants will learn how to build welcoming and affirming environments for TGNCI+ people, the unique needs of TGNCI+ communities who are accessing services related to housing, and review policies in place to ensure TGNCI+ populations can safely access housing services.
Trainer: HSH Equity Office & Office of Transgender Initiatives
Healthcare for People Experiencing Homelessness: Barriers and Strategies That Work (recorded webinar)
April 2, 2024 9-10:30AM
Training Overview:
People experiencing homelessness suffer illness and premature death at rates much higher than the general population. Black / African American people are severely over-represented among people experiencing homelessness nationally and particularly in San Francisco. This webinar will address the causes of these disparities and strategies for mitigating their adverse effects.
At the conclusion of this training, participants should be able to:
- identify at least 3 barriers to healthcare for people experiencing homelessness relevant to their work setting.
- address the health effects of intersecting disability, disadvantage and discrimination on people experiencing homelessness.
- identify 3 strategies relevant to their work setting for improving healthcare access and reducing healthcare disparities for people experiencing homelessness.
About the Trainer:
Barry Zevin, MD is Medical Director of Whole Person Integrated Care: Street Medicine, Shelter Health and Maria X Martinez Health Resource Center for the San Francisco Department of Public Health. He has 32 years of experience as a physician delivering healthcare to people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco. He is Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. Dr. Zevin has provided leadership for many innovative SFDPH projects including the current low barrier buprenorphine project to improve access to treatment for addiction disorders for individuals experiencing homelessness.
Instructions:
- Watch all four video segments. You will not be able to progress through the course until you’ve completed each segment. For closed captions, go to the lower right hand corner of the video screen and click on the three vertical dots. Click on closed captions to turn English captions on. Enable cookies on your computer to save your progress.
- Complete the evaluation.
- Pass the quiz.
- You will find a certificate of completion on your learning dashboard.
- If you are requesting CEs, CE certificates will be sent separately.
- A copy of the powerpoint slides and a list of references can be downloaded from the Resources section, under Course Tools, on the menu on the right.
As of June 19, 2024, we are no longer providing CEs for taking this course. Everyone who has requested CEs for this course prior to June 19th should’ve received their CE certificates by email.
Attending one of these trainings fulfills the annual harm reduction training contract requirement, which is part of the SFDPH Declaration of Compliance for SFDPH systems of care and funded agencies that provide direct service to clients.
Equity Statement
The San Francisco Department of Public Health is committed to leading with race and prioritizing Intersectionality, including sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, class, nationality, language, and ability. SFDPH strives to move forward on the continuum of becoming an anti-racist institution through dismantling racism, building, building solidarity among racial groups, and working towards becoming a Trauma-Informed/Trauma Healing Organization in partnership with staff, clients, communities, and our contractors. When attending, SFDP trainings, events, and/or meetings, we uphold expectations and standards of rules of engagement for our employees and contractors. We expect that all participants operate in professional integrity and adhere to the DPH Employee Code of Conduct or their employee conduct. Participants will be accountable for upholding any group agreements provided by the trainer or host and uphold principles of transparency, confidentiality and respect. We support respectful participation across intersecting identities and experiences including race, ethnicity, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, class, nationality, religion, language, physical and mental ability, and political ideology. While we strive to make an space of inclusivity, belonging, and hub for various perspective, we do not tolerate any inappropriate behavior or comments rooted in anti-blackness, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, sexism, or any comments or behavior that is discriminatory, disruptive, or divisive. If participants cannot abide by these expectations, they will be removed from the training or event and will not be allowed to attend any additional DPH trainings, event, and/or meetings. Trainers have been informed to notify DPH of any misconduct and a DPH representative will follow up with that employee’s supervisor or participant’s agency regarding the misconduct.
Annual Training for Authorized Backflow Prevention Assembly Testers 2024
This training reviews the basic responsibilities of Authorized Backflow Prevention Assembly Testers in San Francisco. Topics covered include updates to the City’s Cross-Connection Control Program, obtaining backflow tags, using CCAMS, maintaining a permit to operate, tester violations and enforcement, and tester responsibilities.
Directions
- Watch all five videos from the annual training. If you need to stop and come back later, please complete the video that you are on to prevent having to rewatch it when you return. You may download the transcripts of the videos on the lesson pages.
- After completing each video, select “next lesson” to record completion and to proceed to the next video.
- You may view the Q&A from the live webinar when you get to Video 5.
- Complete the quiz with a score of 90%. You will be allowed to retake the quiz if you do not pass.
- Click on the “Click here to complete” button upon completing the quiz. You will be redirected to your “My Learning” dashboard, where you can download your certificate to save for your records.
Covered California Open Enrollment Basics 2023
HIV FOG Bootcamp IX
This recorded presentation provides an overview of Covered California Enrollment Basics. The presentation was delivered by Bill Stewart in-person at the SF HIV Frontline Organizing Group 9th Annual Bootcamp on Oct 18, 2023.
Goals
- Understand Open Enrollment
- When is it?
- Why is it important?
- What can your clients do during Open Enrollment?
- Understand Covered California
- How do you enroll or renew?
- What plans can you choose from?
- What subsidies and premium assistance programs are available?
- What happens if your client misses Open Enrollment?
Presenter
Bill Stewart, Esq
Positive Resource Center
Medi-Cal Update 2023
SF HIV FOG Bootcamp IX
This recorded presentation provides an overview of changes to Medi-Cal in 2023. The presentation was delivered by Andy Scheer in-person at the SF HIV Frontline Organizing Group 9th Annual Bootcamp on Oct 18, 2023.
Objectives
By the end of the training, participants will be able to:
- Explain, briefly, how the Medi-Cal Continuous Coverage Unwinding affects clients enrolled in this insurance
- Identify two recent changes to Medi-Cal eligibility
- Describe the transition process from Medi-Cal to private insurance
Presenter
Andy Scheer
Email: andy.scheer@sfdph.org
Community Program Coordinator
End the HIV Epidemic
SFDPH HIV Health Services
Medicare Open Enrollment Basics 2023
HIV FOG Bootcamp IX
This recorded presentation provides an overview of Medicare Open Enrollment Basics. The presentation was delivered by Ryan Leong in-person at the SF HIV Frontline Organizing Group 9th Annual Bootcamp on Oct 18, 2023.
Presenter
Ryan Leong, Esq
Hospital Dentistry and Exemplary Models for People with Special Health Care Needs across their Lifespan (recorded webinar)
Date: May 31, 2023
Time: 5:30PM
Description:
This session will give dental providers and their support personnel a better understanding of hospital dentistry. It will highlight the indications and contraindications of dental treatment under anesthesia. The experts will also demonstrate the real-time working models of hospital dentistry centers catering to people with special health care needs across their lifespans.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about the basics of hospital dentistry.
- Learn about indications and contraindications of performing dental treatment under general anesthesia.
- Learn about improved clinical outcomes through hospital dentistry models.
- Learn about the Pediatric Dental Initiative (PDI) to improve the overall health of Children with Special Health Care Needs.
- Learn about the Bay Area Dental Surgery Center to improve the overall health of adults with Special Health Care Needs.
Directions: You must watch the entire video and submit your answers to the poll questions in order to receive credit. After answering the questions, a screen will pop up asking you to “submit answers”. Please remember to click on “submit answers.” You must also fill out an evaluation.
