New Coordinator Orientation

This page contains all the required trainings, materials to review, and other requirements for new Coordinators.

Note: Some webpages within HPCDP Connection may be in need of an update, please check with your liaison if there is any information you would like help finding.

All Coordinators

Review the following documents and discuss with your liaison in the first two weeks:

• HPCDP 2017 - 2025 Strategic Plan
• Current program Request for Application (RFA)
• TPEP and Tribal TPEP
• ADPEP and Tribal ADPEP
• Your program plan and budget
  

Subscribe to your corresponding listserv:

• Subscribe to the TPEP Listserv
• Subscribe to the HealthyTribes Listserv
• Subscribe to the ADPEP Listsev
• Subscribe to the RHEC Listserv

Within six weeks:

• Review: How can we create an Inclusive and Equitable Planning Process?
  
• Watch PSE 101: Webinar on Building Healthier Communities Through Policy, Systems and Environmental Change - Presented by ChangeLab Solutions and Network for a Healthy California, this archived webinar provides an overview of best practices for implementation of policy, systems and environmental (PSE) change approaches.
• Review HPCDP Equity-Centered Policy Change Model
• Review the health impact pyramid
• Explore the Chronic Conditions Data Portal
  
• Review how to make an online request for specific data
• Review Oregon's tribal service areas
• Read the Tribal Tobacco Policy section of HPCDP Connection
• Read Oregon Tribal Best Practices
• Review the Oregon Native Quit Line campaign

TPEP Coordinators

Within the first two weeks:

• Read about the Indoor Clear Air Act (ICAA) and review the Enforcement Toolkit, prioritizing the ICAA policies and procedures manual, the recorded webinar, the LPHA delegation agreement, and the WEMS user manual
• Fill out the ICAA WEMS username and password fillable form and return to liaison
• Request log in information from liaison for smokefreeoregon.com TPEP portal and explore resources. A seven-minute tour of the portal is available here: https://youtu.be/CgZiUBbFRcE.
• Recommended Staffing Competencies  for TPEP Coordinators

Within six weeks:

• Complete the Take Down Tobacco 101 Training
  
• Review tobacco prevention campaigns throughout Oregon and explore the website at www.SmokefreeOregon.com
• Review Oregon Tobacco Facts and Oregon Tobacco Laws
• Review your county's tobacco fact sheet
• Review tobacco quitting resources 
  
• Review Oregon's Indoor Clean Air Act, Tobacco 21 and Tobacco Quit Line Materials for download
• Review Policy section of Tobacco page on HPCDP Connection, prioritizing Tobacco Retail Environment, ICAA Expansion resources, and Cessation resources
• Review CDC State and Community Resources

Tribal Coordinators

Within six weeks:

• Review the Commercial Tobacco Smoke-Free Tribal Policy Toolkit and other tools at www.KeepItSacred.org
• Review the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board Tobacco Resource Library
• Review In a Good Way: Indigenous Commercial Tobacco Control Practices
• Review Public Health Law Center: Tribal Commercial Tobacco Control
• Review Oregon Tobacco Facts and Oregon Tobacco Laws and the American Indian/Alaska Native Data Report
• Review CDC State and Community Resources
• Review National Native Network resources and webinars
  

ADPEP Coordinators

Within the first two weeks:

• Review Alcohol and Other Drugs website on HPCDP Connection
• New ADPEP Orientation Slides

Within six weeks:

• Review Oregon Alcohol Laws
• Review Alcohol and Other Drugs website on HPCDP Connection
• Review SAMHSA's Strategic Prevention Framework
• Tribal Coordinators: Review National Native Network resources and webinars

RHEC Coordinators

• Learn about other Regional Health Equity Coalitions

• Review Why Place and Race Matter - Policylink
• Review Health Equity Tools and Models on HPCDP Connection located here: https://www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/DISEASESCONDITIONS/CHRONICDISEASE/HPCDPCONNECTION/Pages/TechnicalAssistance.aspx

Additional Resources