NC AHEC Specialty Training Program. Specific Population: Justice Involved 'Boots on the Ground'

Description

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About This Module

This Module focuses on the distinctive needs of those Justice Involved and the challenges they experience upon re-entry into society. This module explores systemic racism within the criminal legal system and mass incarceration as a public health crisis. We explore areas where CHWs can leverage their lived experience to improve access to social determinant of health resources.

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.

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.

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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 Technical Community College
Duke 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
Piedmont AHEC
Saint Augustine's University
South Piedmont AHEC
Southern Regional AHEC
Wake AHEC
UNC Pembroke

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

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

Objectives

Upon completion of this course the participant should be able to:

• Identify areas where CHWs can be the boots on the ground for those people in the re-entry space
• Discuss advocacy as the core of the work for CHWS
• Explore mass incarceration as a public health crisis and how it impacts families and communities
• Discuss systemic racism within the justice system
• Examine the reasons a CHW is drawn to work in the justice field
• Bring the CHW learner into the world of those who have served time and the challenges they experience upon re-entry into society

Faculty

• Philip A. Cooper, CHW, NC-CPSS
• Deborah Rose, CPSS, CHW