Empowering Connections for Community Health Workers 2024-2025
Open Allied Health Public Health
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Description
This zoom-based webinar is geared towards Community Health Workers throughout North Carolina. It is a free webinar that provides continuing education, networking and sharing your successes in your programs. This webinar has been running for three years online on the third Thursday of the month. We ask you to register for this whole series. This webinar series is funded by North Carolina Area Health Education Centers Program Office (NC AHEC) a partner supporting the NC CHW Initiative (NC CHW) at the state level in collaboration with the NC Office of Rural Health (NC ORH) and other stakeholders.
The "Empowering Connections for CHWs" sessions are scheduled from 12:00noon - 1:15pm on the following dates:
August 15, 2024
September 19, 2024
October 17, 2024
November 21, 2024
December 19, 2024
February 20, 2025
March 20, 2025
April 17, 2025
May 15, 2025
June 19, 2025
This project is funded by North Carolina Area Health Education Centers Program Office (NC AHEC), a partner supporting the NC CHW Initiative (NC CHWI) at the state level in collaboration with the NC Office of Rural Health (NC ORH) and other stakeholders.
Target Audience
Community Health Workers in North Carolina
Objectives
- To build a collaborative peer learning environment for Community Health Workers
- To provide resources that can improve access to healthcare services in marginalized population groups
- To increase engagement of community health workers using statewide platforms and decrease barriers with client referrals for meeting social determinants of health needs
- To increase health knowledge and self-sufficiency through a range of activities such as outreach, community education, informal counseling, and social support and advocacy
- To network and get support for CHW programs
Faculty
- Kathey A. Avery, RN
- Ellen Bailey, MA, MPH
- Amy E. Marietta
- Divya Venkataganesan, MPH
- Rosario Villarreal Redondo, CHW
Sessions
Empowering Connections for Community Health Workers 2024-2025
9/19 12:00 PM – 6/19 1:15 PM
Credits
.000 No Credit Offered