Cook County Department of Public Health

The Alliance for a Healthier Generation’s Healthy Schools Program is hosting a Suburban Cook County Schools Engagement Event:“Taking School Wellness to the Next Level!”

This event will offer networking opportunities with other suburban Cook County schools to identify successful strategies for creating healthy school environments, using the Alliance for a Healthier Generation’s Healthy Schools Program Framework. The event is open to all school administrators, nurses, teachers, youth workers, and parents that are interested in being a champion of school health in your community.

Learning objectives:

• Identify how to re-engage school wellness committees to achieve wellness goals
• Deepen knowledge of the Healthy Schools Program Framework to help achieve wellness goals
• Deepen knowledge to create effective school-wide action plans
• Identify local, state and national best-practice resources
• Discuss how to effectively apply for national school awards
• Build relationships with local, regional, or state stakeholders that can assist with your efforts

Where: Grant Park Recreation Center, 44 W. Golfview Drive, Northlake

Registration is now closed. For more information, contact Tarneka Manning at Tarneka.Manning@phimc.org

Courage to Quit is an adult smoking cessation program that is consistent with evidence-based smoking treatments and can be delivered in multiple settings. This training is designed for health educators, community health workers, social workers, and other health professionals looking to gain the knowledge and skills to assist those interested in quitting smoking. The full day training will prepare you to lead a group or one-on-one Courage to Quit program and covers tobacco cessation in detail, as well as nicotine addiction, behavior change, strategies and best practices for tobacco dependence treatment (including medications), program planning and implementation, and learning styles and facilitation skills. Lunch, materials, and continuing support will be provided. For nonsmokers only.

Registration closes one week prior to training date. Please register early to secure your spot. Trainings with fewer than 5 registrants will be cancelled.

To register for this event, please download and return the registration form.  

• http://www.lungchicago.org/site/files/487/106214/366018/609990/Spring_2012_Registration_Cook_County.pdf

Location: Broadview Public Library,

2226 S. 16th St, Broadview, IL 60155

Guest Presenters:

Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids

Meg Riordan, Director, Policy Research

Ann Boonn, Research Manager

This webinar focuses on the report, Deadly Alliance: How Big Tobacco and Convenience Stores Partner to Market Tobacco Products and Fight Life-Saving Policies.  As other forms of tobacco marketing have been restricted, tobacco companies now spend more than 90 percent of their marketing budget — nearly $10 billion a year — to advertise and promote tobacco products in the retail environment.  Tobacco companies pay stores billions to ensure that cigarettes and other tobacco products are advertised heavily, displayed prominently and priced cheaply to appeal to both kids and current tobacco users.  In this webinar, participants will learn about how the tobacco industry utilizes convenience stores to maximize youth exposure and to prevent passage of tobacco policies.

To register for this webinar, please visit https://cc.readytalk.com/r/euv9kmlthxvx

Hosted By:

The Illinois Coalition Against Tobacco and the Cook County Department of Public Health's Tobacco Prevention and Control Unit

Guest Presenters:

Steven Sussman, PhD

Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research

Professor, Preventive Medicine and Psychology

University of Southern California

For more than 10 years there was a steady decline in youth smoking rates, but recently declines are negligible and appear to be stalled.  Preventing youth tobacco use is complex and requires a multi-component approach .  What works for teens, may not work for kids in middle school and what works today, doesn’t work 100 percent of the time.  Dr. Sussman, a principal investigator in several prevention programs, will briefly describe the research on available programs and outline the key components needed to counteract tobacco industry influence.  

To register for this webinar, please visit https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/s/showReg?udc=l3lkfz94xraw and clicking on the date of the webinar.

Hosted By: 

The Illinois Coalition Against Tobacco and the Cook County Department of Public Health's Tobacco Prevention and Control Unit

Guest Presenters:

Kari Sapsis, Campaign Development Team Lead Health Communications

Karla Sneegas, Branch Chief, Program Services Office of Smoking and Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

In April, the US Surgeon General released a landmark report on tobacco and youth and the CDC launched an unprecedented national media and public education campaign.  Participants will get an overview of the report and the campaign and hear about innovative ways to approach community leaders, youth, smokers and elected officials to reduce tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure.

To register for this webinar, please visit https://cc.readytalk.com/r/j68j82cwaj4n

Illinois Health Cares, in co-sponsorship with South Suburban Family Shelter, is offering Health Care Response Efforts to Domestic, Elder and Sexual Violence---it's 10th Annual Training of Trainers on June 5th at Prairie State College in Chicago Heights with internationally known and respected expert, Elaine Alpert, MD as the instructor. Dr. Alpert is known for her violence prevention work in professions education, policy development and community advocacy. There is no fee for this all day training; lunch and resource materials will be provided; registrations are accepted on a first come first serve basis. 

For more information about the location or registration, please contact: Brianne Hetman, SSFS Training Coordinator; Phone: 708.794.2140; Email: Brianne@ssfs1.org

The Cook County Department of Public Health (CCDPH) will host a meeting for Infection Preventionists and hospital Emergency Response Coordinators at the Brookfield Zoo on June 8th, 2012, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Registration is restricted to suburban Cook County health professionals only. 

Registration is FREE.* Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Event registration will close on May 25, 2012.