NC AHEC CHW Specialty Training Program: Introduction to Health and Wellness Coaching for Community Health Workers

Description

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NC AHEC, as an anchor partner in the NC CHW Initiative, is committed to ensuring that Community Health Workers have access to ongoing training and professional development resources. As a vital workforce for advancing health equity, it is important that CHWs are able to deepen their knowledge and sharpen their skills for providing all North Carolinians with the opportunity for health and wellness.

NC AHEC has developed a series of trainings geared towards deepening CHW knowledge and skills of Health Coaching and Behavior Change. Standards for CHW Specialty training developed by key NC CHW Initiative stakeholders, including CHWs and CHW supervisors, guided the development of these modules. Each module provides continuing education credit recognized by the NC CHW Association for the purposes of maintaining certification.

Chronic diseases are leading causes of death and disability in the U.S. Adopting healthy behaviors can reduce these risks, and now more than ever, people need guidance and support from trusted allies to support them in their path to wellness and living their best life. Health and wellness coaching is an approach to partner with clients seeking self-directed, lasting changes which promote wellness and enhance wellbeing. This course will introduce learners to the process and approach to coaching clients for lasting behavioral change.

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Partners on the CHW Specialty Training Work Group:
Avery Health Education and Consulting, LLC
Carolina Community Tracing Collaborative
Central Piedmont Community College
CommUnity Healing through Activism and Strategic Mobilization (CHASM) Institute
Durham Tech Community College
Duke AHEC
Mountain AHEC
NC AHEC
NC Community Health Center Association
NC CHW Association
NC DHHS Office of Rural Health
North Central Carolina University
NorthWest AHEC
Piedmont AHEC
Saint Augustine's University
South Piedmont
Southern Regional AHEC
Wake AHEC
UNC Pembroke

Approximate time to complete the course: 90 minutes

Learner content includes: Video, corresponding course handout, exercises and a brief post test

Participants have unlimited time to complete this course and access course materials.

This course is part of the online NC AHEC Community Health Worker courses of recorded content.

This module was fully funded by Center for Disease Control grant "Community Health Workers for COVID Response and Resilient Communities (CCR)" awarded to the NC Dept of Health and Human Services for advancement of the NC CHW Initiative.

In Collaboration with

Target Audience

Community health workers, lay health workers, outreach workers, and other frontline public health workers improving the health of their communities, and the supervisors, colleagues and allies of the CHW workforce

Objectives

• Describe the role of health coaching and the differences between a coach and a healthcare provider
• Demonstrate coaching techniques and approaches to evoke change talk, goal setting, and action plans for healthy lifestyle behavior change
• Review general wellness metrics used in chronic disease management
• Apply common assessment tools used to assess a client's readiness to change
• Understand the societal factors beyond an individual's control that effect wellness

Faculty

• Andrew L. Brewer, MS, NBCHWC
• Leslie D. McDowell, DNP, ANP-BC, RN