Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES)

The Region V Public Health Training Center is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 37.25 total Category I contact education contact hours(CECH). Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours available are 0.0. Continuing Competency credits available are 37.25. Provider ID# 99038.

If you are seeking CHES Category I CECH, please enroll with the Region V Public Health Training Center to do so after completing each module. After completing each module’s content, you will complete an evaluation and must pass a post-quiz, and then will be directed to access your certificate through the Region V PHTC website. 

This activity was released on October 17, 2022. CHES credit is available to participants completing the course between May 10, 2023 through December 31, 2024.

1. Overview of Child and Adolescent Firearm Injury

Describe public health frameworks and the injury prevention model for preventing child and adolescent firearm injury, interpret firearm injury data to better understand how to implement firearm injury prevention research frameworks, determine the most and least prevalent causes of firearm injury and death, discuss epidemiological trends in prevalent causes of firearm injury among children and teens 0-17, identify populations vulnerable to the different causes of firearm injury, highlighting the disparities and societal responses, evaluate key studies and the methodologies appropriate for studying different outcomes, identify ways that researchers, practitioners and stakeholders can advance the prevention of child and adolescent firearm injury

This module will cover CHES Areas of Responsibility: 2.3.1, 4.4.5, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.1, 1.1.2, 4.4.2, 4.4.3, 1.4.4

2. Firearm-Related Suicide

Describe population epidemiology of firearm-related suicide, identify the populations at most risk of firearm-related suicide, highlighting various disparities, classify risk and protective factors for suicide across ecological levels, determine the possible scope of prevention strategies, discuss the extant research on the effectiveness of suicide prevention strategies, evaluate which firearm laws and policies affect firearm suicide, identify research designs used to estimate the effectiveness of firearm suicide prevention policies, explore key studies, unanswered questions and data sources

This module will cover CHES Areas of Responsibility: 1.3.1, 1.1.2, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, 4.2.5, 1.2.1

3. Unintentional Injury

Describe population epidemiology of firearm-related unintentional injury, identify the populations at most risk, and discuss disparities, classify risk and protective factors for unintentional injury across ecological levels, determine the possible scope of prevention strategies, review the extant research on the effectiveness of unintentional injury prevention strategies, evaluate which firearm laws and policies affect firearm unintentional injury, identify research designs used to estimate the effectiveness of unintentional injury prevention policies, explore key studies, unanswered questions and data sources

This module will cover CHES Areas of Responsibility: 1.3.1, 1.1.2, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, 4.2.5, 1.2.1

4. Community violence

Describe population epidemiology of firearm-related community violence, identify the populations at most risk, and discuss disparities, classify risk and protective factors for unintentional injury across ecological levels, determine the possible scope of firearm-related community violence prevention strategies, review the extant research on the effectiveness of firearm-related community violence prevention strategies, evaluate which firearm laws and policies affect firearm community violence, identify research designs used to estimate the effectiveness of firearm community violence policies, explore key studies, unanswered questions and data sources

This module will cover CHES Areas of Responsibility: 1.1.2, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, 4.2.5, 1.2.1

5. Intimate Partner Violence/Dating Violence and Family Violence

Describe population epidemiology of intimate partner violence/dating violence and family violence, identify the populations at most risk, and discuss disparities, classify risk and protective factors for intimate partner violence/dating violence and family violence across ecological levels, determine the possible scope of firearm-related intimate partner violence prevention strategies, review the extant research on the effectiveness of firearm-related intimate partner violence prevention strategies, evaluate which firearm laws and policies affect firearm-related intimate partner violence/dating violence and family violence, identify research designs used to estimate the effectiveness of firearm-related intimate partner violence/dating violence and family violence policies, explore key studies, unanswered questions and data sources

This module will cover CHES Areas of Responsibility: 1.1.2, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, 4.2.5, 1.2.1

6. School & Mass Shootings

Describe population epidemiology of school/mass shootings, identify the settings where mass shootings occur and the populations affected, classify risk and protective factors for mass shootings/school shootings across ecological levels, and highlight potential modifiable points for intervention, evaluate the impact that ‘mass shootings’ and their responses have for policymakers, evaluate the specific strategies K-12 schools are currently implementing as they respond to the anticipation of school/mass shootings, discuss the implications of safety strategies for a school’s climate, child health, and learning outcomes.

This module will cover CHES Areas of Responsibility: 1.3.1, 1.1.2, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 5.1.3, 1.3.4 1.3.5

7. Officer Involved Shootings

Describe population epidemiology of Officer Involved Shootings, identify the populations at most risk, and discuss disparities, describe risk and protective factors for Officer Involved Shootings across ecological levels, determine the possible scope of prevention strategies addressing officer-involved shootings, review the extant research on the effectiveness of officer-involved shooting prevention strategies, evaluate which firearm laws and policies affect Officer Involved Shootings, identify the research designs used to estimate the effectiveness of laws and policies related to officer-involved shootings, explore key studies, unanswered questions and data sources

This module will cover CHES Areas of Responsibility: 1.3.1, 1.1.2, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, 4.2.5, 1.2.1