NC AHEC CHW Specialty Training Program: Transforming Rural Health: A CHW's Guide to Reducing Disparities

Description

Register now for this online, self-guided course!

About This Module
This Module focuses on the distinctive needs of rural communities. This guide empowers community health workers with the knowledge to overcome obstacles such as limited healthcare access and geographic isolation. It emphasizes the development of tailored approaches that leverage local resources and strengths, ensuring that CHWs can effectively promote health and prevent disease among rural populations.

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 Division 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.

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!

In Collaboration with

Partners on the CHW Specialty Training Work Group:
Avery Health Education and Consulting, LLC
Carolina Community Tracing Collaborative
Central Piedmont Community College
Charlotte AHEC
CommUnity Healing through Activism and Strategic Mobilization (CHASM) Institute
Durham Technical Community College
Duke AHEC
Greensboro 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
Southern Regional AHEC
Wake AHEC
UNC Pembroke

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

• Identify key health disparities face by rural populations
• Describe strategies for engaging with rural communities as Community Health Workers
• Demonstrate knowledge of a successful case study by outlining key interventions and outcome

Faculty

• Diana McCullough, PhD(C), MS, BSW