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
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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
Moving from Local to Global: Expanding World Vision’s Impact through Community Health Workers
Background: The rapid scale-up of community health workers (CHWs) has been recognized as a global priority in achieving universal health care in the hardest to reach communities and health workforce crisis settings. A single CHW, well trained and supported, can provide essential basic health services to communities that otherwise would have limited access to healthcare. One … [Read more...] about Moving from Local to Global: Expanding World Vision’s Impact through Community Health Workers
The Gender Agenda Webinar Summary
Community Health Workers: The Gender Agenda A Summary from the Webinar on February 10, 2016; Sponsored by Health Systems Global and CHW Central To view the webinar archive click here. CHWs serve their own communities and help build a link to the formal health system. CHW gender influences their work, management and experience. The webinar opened by defining some … [Read more...] about The Gender Agenda Webinar Summary
Recruiting and Selecting CHWs: Strategies for Success
This is the eighth 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. This chapter focuses on what might seem like a simple step in CHW program construction: the recruitment … [Read more...] about Recruiting and Selecting CHWs: Strategies for Success