**Registration Open for the 2024 MALPH Communication Training Series: Preparing Public Health Employees for Public Communications**

Meeting Dates: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Meeting Time and Location: 

March 6, 2024: Calling All PIOs – Gaylord

At Calling All PIOs, we will bring the communications professionals together to examine the work challenges of every PIO, including:

developing and strengthening executive support for comms, proactive and reactive media relations, getting the most out of social media, techniques for navigating any public meeting, tips to manage stakeholders. . . and more!

April 23-24, 2024 Two-Day Camera-Ready Bootcamp – Grand Rapids

This is an immersive, two-day session, taking the Communications 101 lessons to the next level. Participants learn the essentials of communicating their work to the public, then put the principles to work in a series of situations. 

May 2, 2024 Communications 101 – Chippewa County Health Department

This session provides the bedrock for understanding and managing modern communication challenges, with a specific focus on things local and state government employees need to know, including how the news cycle works, how modern communications are not solely reliant on that news cycle, and how social media contributes to your communications arsenal.

Note: 

2024 MDARD Calling All PIOs - March 6th - Gaylord

Being a public information officer or department spokesperson isn’t something one can get a college degree for.

Whether you’re a pedigreed former journalist or simply the person in your department who was tapped to be the PIO in addition to a list of other duties, we can help you sharpen your tools to more effectively tell your department story and create a more responsive, professional, effective communications operation – at any scale.

Please register by Friday, February 23rd.

See Flyer for more info on all 3 trainings.