Bridging Gaps and Enhancing Communication Strategies in Veterans’ Health (Live Webinar-CE)

Live Webinar - May 13, 2025 from 12-1 PM EST (Registration closes at 8AM EST on May 13. The Zoom link will be emailed prior to start.)

PLEASE NOTE: You must pay a $5 fee to enroll in this CE version of the course. 

If you are NOT seeking CE or a certificate of completion, please enroll in the free version: https://www.mitrainingcenter.org/courses/bgecw0525noce 

This 60-minute webinar will explore the current state of veterans’ health, including presumptive conditions and social drivers that affect veterans, and ways to improve veterans’ access to care. Participants will gain insight on the Improving Rural Enrollment, Access, and Health (I-REACH) in Rural Veterans Program and learn communication strategies for effectively screening for veteran status.

Note on Accessibility: This live session will have auto-transcription in Zoom. The recorded on-demand version to follow will have closed captions as well. To request ASL interpretation and/or CART captioning, please email us within 2 weeks of the live training at rvphtc@umich.edu.

Audience

Public health professionals, social workers, clinicians, and other healthcare providers who work with veterans or may potentially work with veterans

Learning Objectives

• Explain the current status of veterans’ health, including presumptive conditions and social drivers of health that affect veterans
• Describe the IREACH program and how it supports veterans
• Describe one evidence-based communication strategy that can be applied when engaging with the veteran community

Instructors

• Jim Yates, IREACH - Rural Veterans, Project Manager and UP Together With Veterans Coordinator, Michigan Center for Rural Health
• Dr. Emre Umucu, PhD, MPH, Associate Dean for Research in the College of Health Sciences and Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso  

Continuing Education Credit

• 1.0 CHES Category I CECH (Areas of Responsibility: 1.3.3, 1.3.4, 6.3.3)*
• Up to 1.0 CPH Recertification Credits may be earned at this event
• Certificate of Completion

*We report credits to NCHEC on a quarterly basis: January, April, July, and October.

The Region V Public Health Training Center is a designated provider (ID# 99038) of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc.

Sponsors

The Region V Public Health Training Center is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number UB6HP31684 Public Health Training Centers ($970,593). This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by Region V PHTC, HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.

Technical Information

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Contact us at rvphtc@umich.edu with questions.