NC AHEC CHW Specialty Training Program: Adolescent Health

Description

Register now for this online, self-guided course!

About This Module

This module is divided into the following sections focusing on Overview of Adolescent Health, Health and Wellness Practices for Adolescents, and Role of CHW's in Supporting Adolescents.

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.

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 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. Through funding provided by the NC DHHS Department of Health Benefits (Medicaid), NC AHEC has worked with other key stakeholders, including CHWs and CHW supervisors, to develop standards for CHW Specialty training, identify key training topics, and develop a series of online modules specifically geared towards preparing CHWs to partner with primary care practices as part of the new Medicaid Managed Care network.

Each module provides continuing education credit recognized by the NC CHW Association for the purposes of maintaining certification. Some modules stand alone in terms of the topic covered while others can be combined to deepen CHW knowledge and skills on a particular topic. Each module has been co-developed with CHWs to ensure the focus of learning and style of education reflects CHW culture and real-life scenarios.

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

Click here to see all the current CHW online courses. Check back later for more options!

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

In Collaboration with

By registering for this program,
participants understand that their contact information may be shared with NC DHHS.

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

Upon completion of this activity, the participant should be able to:

• Define "Adolescent Health"
• List the key aspects of Adolescent Development
• Describe the health challenges and inequities Adolescents experience
• List the key components and benefits of Adolescent Health
• Discuss parenting strategies for Adolescent that promote positive youth development
• Discuss benefits of healthy nutrition, physical activity, stress management, and sleep for Adolescents
• Discuss healthy relationships, mental health and sexual health among Adolescents
• Discuss connection between school performance and health and wellbeing for Adolescents
• Describe the link between Adverse Childhood Experiences, poverty and systemic racism on Adolescent health and wellbeing
• Discuss the important role SDOH screening and resource linkage plays in supporting health and wellness of children and families
• Identify community resources to support Adolescents and their parents
• Identify accurate and culturally responsive sources of information for Adolescents and their parents

Faculty

• Betsy K. Thompson, M.Ed, LCMHC