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NC AHEC CHW Specialty Training Program: Introduction to Motivational Interviewing for Community Health Workers

Course # 68932
NC AHEC CHW Specialty Training Program: Introduction to Motivational Interviewing for Community Health Workers

Location

Online Course
MAHEC
Asheville, NC 28803

Dates & Times

Jun 14, 2022 10:00 AM – Oct 31, 2025 10:00 AM

Contact

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About this Module

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a person-centered approach designed to help people identify their readiness, willingness, and ability to make meaningful changes in their lives. This course describes MI techniques CHWs can deploy to evoke motivation and empowerment in their clients to make change and meet their goals.

Approximate time to complete the course: 90 minutes

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

About this Series

NC AHEC, as an anchor partner in the NC CHW Initiative, is committed to ensuring that Community Health Workers have access to high quality training and professional development resources. A vital workforce, 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.


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


UNM ECHONC-CHWA

IHI

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

check Describe the benefits of evoking a client's own motivations for change
check Identify how the OARS methodology is used to evoke change talk
check Recognize the four processes of Motivational Interviewing (MI)
check Assess a client's readiness to change and apply MI strategies to address ambivalence or resistance

Fees

Cancellation Policy

Free, but must register to attend

FREE

Speakers

Andrew L. Brewer, MS, NBCHWC
Rachel A. Galanter, MPH
Leslie D. McDowell, DNP, ANP-BC, RN

Additional Resources

Cancellation Policy

MAHEC has a pay-up-front policy for all CE programs. The only exceptions will be for pre-approved programs where an individual payment plan is appropriate. Registrations received without accompanying payment will not be processed and participants who have not paid the course fee will not be admitted into the program.

Unless otherwise noted in course materials, the following cancellation policy applies to all programs:

  • Cancellations must be in writing (fax, email, or mail).
  • Cancellations received more than 2 weeks prior to the event will receive 100% refund.
  • Cancellations received between two weeks and two full business days prior to the first day of the event are refunded at 70% of the registration fee subject to a minimum $25 cancellation fee.
  • No refunds or credits will be given for cancellations received less than two full business days prior to the event.
  • No vouchers will be issued in lieu of a refund.
  • Transfers/substitute(s) are welcome (please notify us in advance of the program).
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