Outreach central
Led by Dede Montgomery, CIH
Stimulates and broadens regional impact of Total Worker Health®

Outreach Central fosters the essence of our communication with our partners and stakeholders, while channeling a flow of contacts and connections to the other arms of the Outreach Core. We aim to create sustainable partnerships, help translate our packaged evidence-based products to stakeholders, expand our reach to include new industry partners, educate audiences on Total Worker Health (TWH) topics, expand our digital strategy, and maximize their reach, utilization, and effectiveness.

Outreach central key activities:

• Blogs and newsletters
• Social media channels
• Websites and online resources
• Face-to-face contact through presentations at key events and conferences
• Promoting Total Worker Health resources at conferences
• Development of community partnerships

Intervention incubator
Led by Ryan Olson, PhD
Foster exchange of ideas; develop steady stream of Total Worker Health® interventions

Intervention Incubator is a new component of the Outreach Core. The aim of this effort is to  generate new intervention ideas, research directions, and partnerships within the Oregon Healthy Workforce Center. Our programs address the Outreach Core’s aims to engage our current partners and outreach networks to help generate and test new intervention ideas from stakeholder groups and respond with evidence-based products for dissemination. In doing so, we will also expand our reach to include new work sectors.

Intervention incubator key activities include:

• Science-industry meet-ups
• Partners’ luncheons
• Student-scholar projects
• The “Change Makers” speaker series

Dissemination engine
Led by Leslie Hammer, PhD
Activates dissemination channels through collaborative efforts between OHWC & Industry partners

A new component of the Outreach Core is our Dissemination Engine. These efforts will help us actively disseminate and translate evidence-based trainings, tools, and approaches developed and evaluated by OHWC researchers. The purpose of the Dissemination Engine is to activate channels for sharing our intervention work with the goal of maximizing the Center's THW impact. These efforts are coordinated and implemented by  Dissemination Liaison, Helen Schuckers, MPH. While publishing in the academic and practitioner-related arena remains a focus of the dissemination engine, our multifaceted approach will create sustainable community partnerships to help identify dissemination avenues, translate and disseminate our packaged evidence-based tools and toolkits within the community. We will measure our reach, utilization, and effectiveness in practice to further expand our regional reach and impact.

Dissemination engine key activities:

• Dissemination of tools and toolkits through collaborative efforts with regional and national community partners and professional groups
• Developing sustainable and effective dissemination platform. Visit YourWorkpath.com
• Dissemination guidance from the Center’s External Advisory Committee
• Workplace safety, health and well-being podcast, "What's Work Got To Do With It"

Education launcher
Led by Anjali Rameshbabu, PhD
Stimulates opportunities for Total Worker Health® education & research within interdisciplinary field; training Total Worker Health (TWH) practitioners and champions 

The Education Launcher focuses on widening our reach and impact through TWH education. Education Launcher will help further the Outreach Core’s goals to enhance TWH interventions, disseminate and translate them within the community, and in turn, serve to expand our TWH education reach and impact. Education Launcher programs will provide opportunities for TWH education and intervention research expertise in the community by leveraging our existing networks, partnerships, and connections. In conjunction with the other components.

Education launcher key activities:

• Summer institute

• Science seminars

• Biannual symposia

• Behavior Change Innovations speaker series 
• Total Worker Health promotion at conferences

• Summer internships and dissertation awards

Upcoming and past outreach events

• Join us for our Fall Symposia on the topic, "Substance Use and the Workplace"on November 15, 2019 from in Portland, Oregon. Registration is now open and includes breakfast, lunch and parking.
• Leslie Hammer was invited by Cascade Centers EAP to speak in their Human Resources Webinar series on the topic, "The Role of Leaders in Reducing Work-Life Stress." The recording of the webinar is now available.
• Join us at a conference. See our calendar on our institute homepage. 
• Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences (where OHWC is housed), Oregon OSHA, and SAIF Corporation  have signed an alliance to join efforts to expand the knowledge and efforts of Total Worker Health®.

Visit Oregon and the Workplace blog, and subscribe today. Featured blog posts:

• HERO 2019
• Supportive managers are the  key to employee well-being
• Oregon's new family leave policy
• NIOSH release book on Total Worker Health
• SOHP features Active Workplace Study
• 2019 Partners' Luncheon
• New Be Super user guide

Exciting news! OHWC received the Safety and Health Advocate (Team) Award by the Oregon Governor's Occupational Safety and Health Conference 2017!

Testimonials from our partner organizations: