You speak. We listen.

We heard you loud and clear. We know you want the opportunity to connect directly with CDC and DC Health experts, ask questions, and learn how to confidently apply the infection control principles and protocols necessary to protect yourself, your facility, your family, and your community!

Project Firstline offers easy-to-use, accurate and free infection control training resources in multiple formats to align with healthcare workers' learning needs and preferences. By meeting healthcare workers where they are, Project Firstline supports frontline healthcare workers in better understanding and applying infection control as part of their role.

DC Health Project Firstline offers the following FREE training to ALL healthcare workers in the jurisdiction:

• Long-Term Care Training Series (for long-term care facilities, this can be in-person or virtual)
• EVS and Dining Virtual Training Series (every Thursday at 8:00 am and Friday at 2:30 pm

Topics covered for the EVS and Dining Virtual Training series are:

1. Cleaning and Disinfecting: Why Cleaning is Essential
2. Cleaning and Disinfecting: The Key Differences
3. Cleaning and Disinfecting: Proper PPE to Keep You Safe
4. Role of Environmental Surfaces in Disease Transmission
5. Effective Cleaning Strategies
6. Monitoring Cleaning
7. Emerging Technologies
8. Barriers to Effective Cleaning and Disinfection
9. The Concept of Infection Control in Spanish
10. Environmental Cleaning and Disinfection in Spanish
11. Management of Bedding and Dirty Laundry in Spanish
12. The Concept of Infection Control
13. Environmental Cleaning and Disinfection
14. Linen and Laundry Management
15. Infection Control Concepts and Actions for Healthcare Settings: Medical Waste
16. Ventilation in Healthcare Settings
17. Where Germs Live: Introduction to Reservoirs
18. Recognizing Risks Using Reservoirs
19. Infection Control Micro-Learns (Blood, Rash, Cough and Congestion, Draining Wound)

To take advantage of this program, please contact our team at [email protected]. We are looking forward to hearing from you!

• If you would like to register for the upcoming events above, please email us at [email protected].
• If you would like to request a PFL Facilitator to host a training session for your facility, please use this form: Project Firstline Training Session Request Form