Jennifer Braun (She/Her)
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension’s Health & Well-Being and Positive Youth Development Institutes’ collaborated to create a free and engaging e-learning course, “Groundwork For Community Change,” to help foster a shared understanding of social determinants of health, health equity and policy, systems & environmental change (PSE) work within our Extension programming. This session will provide an overview and access information for the e-learning course. This course went through a thorough review process by fourteen Extension professionals and seven young people.
Key aspects of the course include:
- Youth Empowerment and Development
- Positive youth development principles
- Capacity Building for Adults
- Promoting Health Equity
- Interconnectedness of Social Determinants
- PSE Efforts as a Framework
- Interactive Learning Experience
Some comments by those that have completed the course include:“These activities really made me think and try to understand what communities can do to betterthe lives of people living in them!”“Good script, good clear explanations of these concepts, great work in distilling things that arevery complicated into twenty minute modules.”“This is really well done and actually fun! I liked the focus on rural communities,transportation, health care and disability. This is an angle I haven't seen before and it's reallyrelevant here.”“I love how easy it is to understand everything. From the navigation to the way things arepresented, it is very user friendly. I like how there's read-aloud and text so that it's suitable formore people!”
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