Training

 

Welcome!  Thank you for your interest in the Los Angeles County Online CAHAN Training course. The California Health Alert Network (CAHAN) is the State of California’s official public health alerting system available on a 24/7/365 basis for distribution of health alerts, dissemination of prevention and treatment guidelines, coordination of disease investigation efforts, preparedness planning, and other initiatives that strengthen state and local preparedness and response efforts.

 

The following online courses have been created for your convenience: New User and Sending Alerts training. Please review the online course options below.

 

Online Alert Level Training Course

 

This course provides alert level training. We have developed this tutorial to ensure all new and returning users can easily interact and use the system’s key alerting functions. This course can be taken at your convenience and at your own pace.

 

Click the link below to begin the online course:

 

LA County Online CAHAN Training Course 

 

 

Sending Alerts Computer Based Training Course

This 30 minute course will provide the training required to send a CAHAN alert. Before you initiate this training, check with your HAN Coordinator to confirm your eligibility to send alerts. You must complete all 4 sections in order to successfully complete the course. Please verify your completion of the training by clicking the link below when you have finished. Training is required to send a health alert message. 

 

Welcome/Getting Started

This section provides an introduction to CAHAN and the types of alerts sent by LACDPH.

 

Send Alert by Role

This section will provide training on how to send a CAHAN alert by role, which is the preferred and best practice when sending an alert.

 

Send Alert by User

This section will provide training on how to send a CAHAN alert by user. Sending an alert by user is primarily used when there are a small number of people to alert or a set of users who are not all in one role.

 

Additional Key Functions

This section will provide training on the additional key functions that are available once a CAHAN alert has been sent.

 

 

Verification of Training Completion

 

In order to verify completion of the Sending Alerts Computer Based Training Course, you must click the following link after completing all four sections of the course:

 

Click Here to Verify Completion

User guides have also been developed to assist you as you go through the CAHAN system. The user guides that are currently available are the New User Guide and the Sending Alerts Guide. You may find more information about CAHAN in the Resources section.