World Vision's Timed and Targeted Counselling for Health and Nutrition (ttC) is a comprehensive training course for CHWs, Care Groups and volunteers working in maternal and child health. ttC takes a life-cycle approach, supporting through pregnancy to two years of age, which offers the best opportunity to put children on a path to life-long health. World Vision’s newly released … [Read more...] about Timed and Targeted Counselling for Health and Nutrition, 2nd Edition: A Comprehensive Training Course for Community Health Workers
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Community Tool Box
The Community Tool Box is a free, online resource for those working to build healthier communities and bring about social change. Our mission is to promote community health and development by connecting people, ideas, and resources. The Tool Box consists of 46 chapters with topics ranging from community assessment to strategic planning to leadership and … [Read more...] about Community Tool Box
Integrating Mental Health into HIV Services: Standard Operating Procedures & Training Manual
Integration of mental health and HIV programs has the potential to significantly improve health outcomes for PLHIV. This training package, which is comprised of a training-of-trainers manual, an accompanying presentation, and a standard operating procedure, was developed to support a pilot project for MH and HIV integration at the community level such that health facilities, … [Read more...] about Integrating Mental Health into HIV Services: Standard Operating Procedures & Training Manual
mPowering Frontline Health Workers: CHW Consultations
This report outlines a series of workshops convened by mPowering Frontline Health Workers and partners to consider whether the global health community is following the most beneficial route to provide relevant and effective health training for FLHWs. Focusing in particular on CHWs, who work directly in the communities they serve, the forums … [Read more...] about mPowering Frontline Health Workers: CHW Consultations
Community Health Workers in California: Sharpening Our Focus on Strategies to Expand Engagement
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides a policy framework to re-imagine a system of care that emphasizes health and wellness through new models of primary care and population health interventions. These new models offer the potential to deliver care services at a lower cost, to detect and treat disease earlier, to deploy data and technology to improve … [Read more...] about Community Health Workers in California: Sharpening Our Focus on Strategies to Expand Engagement