Team-Based Training Institute
The University of South Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness' (USC-CPHP) team-based training strategies are the basis of its unique systems change strategy. By providing linkages between academic and practice partners, the Center strengthens the preparedness capacity of the public health workforce, and of local communities where team members work and serve. Team-based training provides critical networking and collaboration opportunities, performs comprehensive evaluation of projects based on the Center’s logic model, and shares/disseminates Center products to reach target audiences.
USC-CPHP Team-Based Training Institute (TBTI)
The USC-CPHP brings stakeholders together to tackle significant issues.
The USC-CPHP teams provide critical networking and collaboration opportunities for groups.
The USC-CPHP team-based training strategies are:
- Uniquely tailored to meet each team's needs
- Offered at times that are compatible with teams' individual schedules
- Conducted away from ringing phones, office chatter...
- Time tested, using a proven planning process, supportive and consistent technical assistance, and seasoned with content expertise and team building as needed
- Offered at no cost to eligible teams (eligibility criteria are available upon request)
TBTI Quick Facts
- TBTI team members unite for an individually-tailored, intense learning experience during which they plan and implement a significant preparedness initiative
- TBTI integrates National Preparedness Guidelines with a proven planning process, ensuring that team initiatives align with regional, state, and national priorities using an all-hazards approach
- TBTI provides teams with consistent technical assistance and access to additional subject-matter experts as needed
- TBTI teams select Expert Panelists to review their work and recommend steps for success
- TBTI teams incorporate Expert Panel recommendations into the final products that are then shared readily for the benefit of communities with similar needs
TBTI Initiatives
The Team-Based Training Institute draws together groups that represent state, regional or local constituencies to tackle problems that require a think-tank approach. The TBTI is evaluated through comprehensive process and outcome evaluations, and is enhanced using continuous quality improvement and lessons learned. The accomplishments of the teams that attend TBTI training attest to the quality of our evaluation philosophy and the outcomes it brings.
TBTI Teams' Success Stories
- Two teams from SC Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC), a state-level team and a Region 7 team, attended the 2008 TBTI to develop fatality management plans which will help localities coordinate responses across the state's regions during disasters.
- In 2007 a DHEC Region 4 team began developing a plan to implement Behavioral Health Teams in each of ten counties. In 2008, the team returned to refine their plan into a model that can be shared with others regions across the state.
- In 2008 a DHEC Central Office team developed and implemented a protocol for a unified, coordinated response to reported environmental and community health/emergency issues for use across the entire DHEC agency. Their team represented both "sides" of the agency (health services department and environmental quality control department).
- An interdisciplinary team of scientists is developing an Environmental Surveillance Network for Coastal South Carolina which will provide a front-line, real-time observational framework to identify adverse environmental responses to unusual events. Team members represent NOAA, Clemson University Livestock & Poultry Health, South Carolina Emergency Management Division, US Geological Survey, the Department of Natural Resources, DHEC and other agencies.