VISIONS OF THE FUTURE: Building Tomorrow's Community Health Workforce As part of the ‘Symposium on CHWs and Their Contribution Towards the Sustainable Development Goals’ Makerere University (Uganda), CHW Central, Nottingham Trent University (UK) and World Vision are supporting a series of interviews with academic leaders and experts in international health development … [Read more...] about Tomorrow’s CHWs: Reaching the Most Vulnerable Families and Addressing Social Determinants
Listening to the voices of community health workers: USAID ASSIST Project
In 1505, the Polish Parliament stated, "Nothing new without the common consent." Today we understand that ‘nothing about us without us’ is the rallying cry for inclusion and change. I recently returned from an international Health Systems Research Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia and then participated in a webinar entitled, … [Read more...] about Listening to the voices of community health workers: USAID ASSIST Project
CHW Visions: Upcoming Series of Interviews
Symposium on CHWs and their contribution towards the Sustainable Development Goals: February 21st-23rd, 2017 Makerere University School of Public Health – Uganda, Nottingham Trent University – UK, World Vision and CHW Central are partnering in an initiative to support CHW Visions, a series of interviews with leading academics and thought leaders to help us envision the … [Read more...] about CHW Visions: Upcoming Series of Interviews
CHWs and Mental Health: Equipping community health workers with essential skills for addressing mental health and violence in the home
Maternal psychosocial concerns, which include depression, anxiety, and psychosocial problems in the home such as intimate partner violence (IPV), serve as significant risk factors to healthy child development. In their daily work, Community Health Workers (CHWs) commonly encounter families experiencing these problems, but on the whole CHW trainings don’t include any … [Read more...] about CHWs and Mental Health: Equipping community health workers with essential skills for addressing mental health and violence in the home
Training Community Health Workers for Large-Scale Community-Based Health Care Programs
This is the ninth chapter of the CHW Reference Guide produced under the Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program, the United States Agency for International Development Bureau for Global Health’s flagship maternal, neonatal and child health project. To be effective workers, CHWs need specific competencies and skills. This chapter focuses on how these competencies … [Read more...] about Training Community Health Workers for Large-Scale Community-Based Health Care Programs