What: Facilitator CHI CHW Core Curriculum
This is a 15-week course that will meet once a week for a 3-hour workshop and is intended for people who have experience in the community health worker field. It follows the basic course for comprehensive core skills, which most CHW topical or categorical programs do not provide. The specialty of this curriculum is its community orientation. This program will additionally educate the participant to be an instructor. Upon completing this program you will be able to:
- Obtain a certificate of completion in core community health worker skills.
- Develop a training program to prepare your community health workers to meet 21st century primary health needs
- Meet emerging community health needs with a comprehensive community focus
- Obtain the facilitator training book (value $50) for $15.00 upon course completion
Below is an overview of each session!
When: Starts, Tuesday February 22, 2011
Where: SPDC (South Providence Development Corp.), 17 Gordon Street, Providence, RI 02905-1951, 1st floor conference room, (for a map go to 17gordonavenue.org, Gordon Avenue Business Incubator web page)
Sign up today for $450/ pp (group discounts are available please call 401- 729 2065)
Instructor workshop
Program Overview
SESSION 1:
Introduction to Certified Health Worker Training, CHW history & role
Key areas of Professionalism & Confidentiality
SESSION 2:
Cultural Humility and Cultural Safety
Intro to Cultural Humility and Cultural Safety
What is Community
SESSION 3:
Communication Communication Skills
Listening Skills
Constructive Criticism & Confronting Problems
SESSION 4:
Teaching (Part1) Intro to Popular Education 
SESSION 5:
Teaching (Part2) Developing a lesson plan & activities
Practicing giving instructions Practicing leading activities
SESSION 6:
Leadership & Facilitation Leadership
Group Facilitation Skills
Working with Difficult People in Groups
SESSION 7:
Focus on You as a Facilitator
Facilitation Skills Review and Practice
SESSION 8:
Community Health
Promotion & Capacity Building I Intro to community health promotion & capacity building
Root causes of health problems
SESSION 9:
Community Health Promotion & Capacity Building II Community mapping
Developing an action plan & logic model
Interventions & Evaluation
SESSION 10:
Comm. Health Promotion & Capacity Building III Community Mobilization
Community Groups
SESSION 11:
Self-care and Safety
(Part 1) Introduction to Stress Model What is Violence Response to Conflict Introduction to Creative Nonviolence
SESSION 12:
Self-care
(Part 2) Time Management
Organizational Skills Development
Stress Management
SESSION 13:
CPR & First Aid
SESSION 14:
Working With Individuals & Families I Home visiting
Interviewing individuals & families
Informal counseling
Note-taking
SESSION 15:
Working With Individuals & Families II Finding appropriate health services
Problem solving & advocacy
Presenting cases
Ethics & professional conduct
When: Tuesday February 22, 2011
Where: TBD
