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<p class="MsoNormal">CDC and partners are proud to announce the new <span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.cdc.gov_nceh_ehs_elearn_swpi.html&d=DwMFAg&c=7gilq_oJKU2hnacFUWFTuYqjMQ111TRstgx6WoATdXo&r=7wXQ9sf2qmGcklwOPFFGKrM8mA0ZyW1jYW5BqaYFlFg&m=w4jNnw9Kak7XyTtTudnRgyDKgraUGXxPlonYQu2dWbo&s=91iS7prZUcz7bNyGREbHN916PL3aybQsyMY4QKQFguo&e="><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Safe
Water Program Improvement e-Learning Series</span></i></b></a></span><b><i> (SWPI).
</i></b>SWPI helps health<span style="color:#1F497D"> </span>department programs strengthen services to people that use wells, cisterns, springs, and other private drinking water systems not<span style="color:#1F497D">
</span>covered by the Safe Drinking Water Act.<span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">What Are the Benefits of This Training?</span></b><b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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free and flexible: Take the courses you want, when you want. <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;line-height:110%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
It’s practical: Improve drinking water in your community by improving your program.
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It’s strategic: Gain experience with the framework used in accreditation of health departments as you apply the 10 Essential Environmental Public Health Services and the Environmental Public Health Performance Standards to your drinking water program.
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You can earn continuing education units (CEUs): Obtain CEUs from the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) upon completion of the courses and final evaluation (optional).<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">What Are People Saying?</span></b><b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">We tested this course among drinking water and other environmental health staff.
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">More than 4 out of 5 identified specific actions they could take in their job as a result of SWPI.
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">9 in 10 said they would recommend SWPI to a colleague.<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Pilot Tester comments:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">I plan to…“(u)tilize the 10 Essential services! I had no idea they even existed specifically for the Environmental Health realm of Public Health.”<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">“This course will allow me to think more on the sources of unregulated drinking water instead of totally focusing on the public sources of water. It will also help me be ready with answers to
questions from people using unregulated drinking water sources.”<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Who Developed the Training?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health collaborated with the National Network of Public Health Institutes, Texas Health Institute, Tulane University, NEHA, and additional subject-matter experts in performance
improvement and drinking water.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Domestic Well Safety Program
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">800 NE Oregon Street, Suite 640<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Portland, OR 97232<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Phone: (971) 673 - 0977<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Fax: (971) 673-0979<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Email: <a href="mailto:domestic.wells@state.or.us">domestic.wells@state.or.us</a>
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">URL: <a href="http://www.healthoregon.org/wells">www.healthoregon.org/wells</a>
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