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Optimizing Performance and Accessing Funding

Online: EL308 self-paced eLearning course

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Course Length: 2 Hours | 0.2 CEU*

This eLearning course teaches you how to use a proven, self-assessment method to identify an area of improvement in your system that might be eligible for USDA funding!

Objectives

  • Explain the basic concepts of self-assessment as rooted in the principles of quality and continual improvement.
  • Apply the proven self-assessment method utilized for more than 20 years by the Partnership for Safe Water.
  • Evaluate your small system’s strengths and opportunities to improve in five core areas of everyday operations.
  • Identify your most important opportunity for improvement and develop a “draft game plan” to address that opportunity.
  • Connect with funding opportunities, technical assistance, and other resources from AWWA, USDA, and others.

Description

This course is part of a special eLearning workshop series made possible through the collaboration of the American Water Works Association (AWWA), the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Partnership for Safe Water. This eLearning course is designed to complement the series of one-day, interactive classroom-style workshops that are being delivered to small system operators and managers across the U.S. and Puerto Rico.

Course participants will learn how to complete a system-wide self-assessment of five core areas of everyday operations. Based on the assessment, participants identify a priority area of improvement that may be eligible for USDA funding, learn how to develop a short project plan, and then learn how to contact/connect with USDA to get the funding process started. All participants receive dedicated, follow-up technical assistance and helpful documents from AWWA.

But why attend? Because the community that you serve as a small system operator or manager is counting on you to provide clean and sufficient drinking water to protect public health and provide a high quality of life in your community. You owe it to yourself and to your community to take this course and give yourself an opportunity to BOTH identify your most critical area of need AND the funding to address it.

This course includes the following modules:

Module 1: Introduction to the Self-Assessment Approach

Module 2: Completing the Self-Assessment

Module 3: Connecting with Technical Assistance and USDA Funding

This course is non-refundable.

Certificates of Completion

2 Hours

*AWWA will award a Certificate of Completion upon success passing of this course. This does not automatically imply that your state agency will award you CEUs. It is the individual's responsibility, before registering for any continuing education credit program, to contact the appropriate licensing agency.