The Southeast Public Health Training Center (SPHTC) represents a partnership between academic and practice partners in Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. The Center's primary focus is on training dissemination, public health nursing and rural public health. Our academic partners are: East Tennessee State University, University of Kentucky College of Public Health, the Norman J. Arnold School of Public Health at University of South Carolina and West Virginia University.

The SPHTC is located at the NC Institute for Public Health at the School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is part of the National Public Health Training Center Network.

The SPHTC's mission is to:

1. assess and strengthen competency-based training delivery systems with regard to academic and practice linkages;

2. build state and regional capacity for workforce development

3. share best practices locally, regionally and nationally

4. support and enhance regional collaboration and

5. respond to requests from state and local health departments for training.

Fourteen Public Health Training Centers across the United States have been funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to strengthen the core competencies and capabilities of the current and future public health workforce," particularly in under-served areas. The core competencies are critical to the delivery of the 10 essential services and are the foundation on which preparedness competencies are built. These 14 centers comprise the National Network of Public Health Training Centers.

FEATURED TRAININGS

• PHTC Comptency-based Distance Education Opportunities available through the National Public Health Training Center Network.
• NC Academy for Public Health, a resource for public health discipline specific competency-based professional development tools and resources.
• Public Health Grand Rounds, an ongoing series from West Virginia niversity.

RESOURCES

• Public Health Leadershship and Management Self Assessment tool
• General Public Health Competency Self Assessment tool
• Environmental Health Non-Technical Competency Self Assessment tool
• Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce, National Library of Medicine. A one stop shop for public health data sources, reports, training opportunities and more.
• Public Health History Timeline, this a new resource developed by the Southeast Public Health Training Center for use by anyone as part of education, training or just information.
• The SPHTC is less about creating new training and more about increasing access to resources already available. To find out how the Training Center can help you to develop, test and implement training in your area or to be added to our listserv, contact: Janet Place, SPHTC Director.