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NC AHEC CHW Specialty Training Program: Chronic Disease Prevention and Intervention

Course # 69298
NC AHEC CHW Specialty Training Program: Chronic Disease Prevention and Intervention

Location

Online Course
MAHEC
Asheville, NC 28803

Dates & Times

Jul 11, 2022 9:55 AM – Dec 10, 2026 9:55 AM

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About This Module

In this module, you will learn about chronic disease prevention, intervention, and management, and the role CHWs play in supporting clients' health and safety. You will explore how social and environmental factors influence chronic disease risk, recognize protective behaviors and warning signs, and understand how CHWs can help clients prevent, manage, or reduce chronic conditions.

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 ongoing training and professional development. As a vital workforce advancing health outcomes across the state, CHWs must have the opportunity to deepen their knowledge and strengthen their skills to support the health and wellness of all North Carolinians.

With funding from the NC Department of Health Benefits (Medicaid), NC AHEC has collaborated with CHWs, CHW supervisors, and other key stakeholders to develop CHW Specialty Training standards, identify core training topics, and create a series of online modules designed to prepare CHWs to work alongside primary care practices within the Medicaid Managed Care network.

Each module offers continuing education credit recognized by the NC CHW Association for certification maintenance. Some modules address standalone topics, while others may be taken together to build deeper understanding in key areas. All modules are co-developed with CHWs to ensure the learning content and format reflect CHW culture and real-world experience.

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

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 Explain how social and environmental factors, including the Life Course model, influence chronic disease risk
check Recognize signs and symptoms of metabolic syndrome
check Identify protective factors that support chronic disease prevention and intervention
check Describe the role of CHWs in supporting clients to prevent, manage, or reduce chronic disease

Fees

Cancellation Policy

Free, but must register to attend

FREE

Available Credits

CEU .200

The Mountain Area Health Education Center designates this entire online continuing education activity as meeting the criteria for 0.20 CEUs as established by the National Task Force on the Continuing Education Unit.

Contact Hours 1.500

MAHEC designates this online continuing education activity as meeting the criteria for 1.50 Contact Hours.

Speakers

Evan Richardson, RN, CNM, MSN
Stephanie Stewart, MPH
D. Dow Stick, MSN, APRN, NP-C
Rosario Villarreal Redondo, CHW

Sessions

NC AHEC CHW Specialty Training Program: Chronic Disease Prevention and Intervention

12/10 9:55 AM – 9:55 AM

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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