Staff Bio
Nick Vera
User Experience and Education Strategist, Region 2
Classes I Teach
| Event Title | Summary |
|---|---|
| Informal Weather Education Outreach | This one-hour webinar explores best practices in informal weather education outreach and shares successful examples from the Extreme Events Institute (EEI) and International Hurricane Research Center (IHRC) at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida (http://eei.fiu.edu/). |
| Librarian's Guide to Consumer Health | This 4-week, 4 credit-hour self-paced online class covers the health information seeking behavior of consumers and the role of the librarian in the provision of health information for the public. |
| Preparing Your Library for Weather Emergencies | This one-hour session will equip participants with practical strategies to prepare their library or worksite for environmental disasters. |
| Providing Mental Health Resources at Your Library | Responding to questions involving topics on mental health is challenging even for the most experienced librarian. In this 1-hour webinar, participants will explore several websites to respond to requests for mental health information at their libraries. |
| Strengthening Our Foundation: Disaster Preparedness, Community Resilience, and the Future of Libraries | This one-hour session distills nearly a decade of research on disaster preparedness and community resilience, sharing lessons from disaster-affected public libraries to help you strengthen your own emergency readiness. |
| The Role of Qualitative Research in Evidence-Based Practice | This session introduces practical strategies for getting started with evidence-based practice, covering how to formulate clinical research questions and identify the librarian's role in supporting evidence-based practice. |
| Trauma-Informed and Relational Care for Libraries - Part 1 | This is a two-workshop series to introduce trauma-informed care tools. The first workshop will focus on what is and isn’t trauma-informed through a set of reframes. We will then focus on how to better navigate shifting power dynamics from a lens of liberatory power by examining the trauma-informed reframe: Power Over to Power With. In the second workshop, Nisha will focus on the impact of feelings and needs in your everyday work life, and she will introduce trauma-informed communication strategies based on her Trauma-Informed Communication Framework. |
| Trauma-Informed and Relational Care for Libraries - Part 2 | This is a two-workshop series to introduce trauma-informed care tools. The first workshop will focus on what is and isn’t trauma-informed through a set of reframes. We will then focus on how to better navigate shifting power dynamics from a lens of liberatory power by examining the trauma-informed reframe: Power Over to Power With. In the second workshop, Nisha will focus on the impact of feelings and needs in your everyday work life, and she will introduce trauma-informed communication strategies based on her Trauma-Informed Communication Framework. |
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