CITC

This 90-minute webinar presentation helps health care professionals and service providers to recognize and appropriately manage the TB-related health needs of their clients. The webinar describes how substance abuse, mental health and incarceration increase TB risk among unstably housed individuals and identifies measures to improve housing or stabilize social situations for individuals with TB infection or disease.

This presentation gives an overview of TB in the homeless population and includes basic information on TB transmission, infection control recommendations for shelters, and information on a large urban TB outbreak among homeless persons.

Designed for homeless shelter staff, Shelters and TB: What Staff Need to Know is an 18-minute training video about how to prevent the spread of TB in homeless shelters. It includes information on how to develop and implement a TB infection control policy and how shelters and health departments can work together to create a healthy and safe environment for staff and clients.

This presentation was created by Kathleen Murphy Shuton RN, PHN and gives a general overview of the intersection of public health and social service providers in San Francisco, CA. It includes tips on training shelter staff and poster templates to be used in shelter settings.

An overview of the concepts of motivational interviewing from a practitioner specializing in dual-diagnosis, this webinar will also include practical application of motivational interviewing in outreach to persons experiencing homelessness.

This interactive online course, created by CDC in association with the Regional TB Training Centers, is designed to educate newly hired TB program staff, health care workers in areas related to TB (HIV, corrections), and those who may work with TB patients in their work settings (like homeless shelters) and wish to know more about basic concepts related to TB prevention and control in the United States.