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” Understanding Vaccine Confidence and Vaccine Hesitancy “ (2021)
How Vaccine Rumors Start — and Why They Don’t Go Away examines the origin of vaccine hesitancy and the efforts to address the anxiety and reluctance surrounding them.
A Comprehensive Training Course for Community Health Workers – Community Home Based Care for People and Communities living with HIV and AIDS (2006)
Providing knowledge and skills necessary for providing holistic CHBC for people living with HIV/AIDS, transferring knowledge and skills to caregivers and CHBC clients, and mobilizing communities around HIV/AIDS prevention, care, treatment, and support
Exploring Mental Health Strategies to Cope with Everyday Stress (2021)
Explores the science of stress and anxiety many CHWs are experiencing as a result of COVID-19. The training teaches skills that can help manage the stress and support in navigating the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Community Health Worker’s Sourcebook: A Training Manual for Preventing Heart Disease and Stroke (2013)
Manual providing research and national guidelines on heart disease and stroke and their prevention.
Role of Community Health Workers in the Prevention of Diabetes Part 2 (2018)
Learn the basics of diabetes with a focus on prevention
Role of Community Health Workers in the Prevention of Diabetes Part 1 (2018)
Learn the basics of diabetes with a focus on prevention
The Essential Role of Community Health Workers in Addressing the Opioid Epidemic Webinar 2 (2018)
Provides strategies for addressing the opioid epidemic focusing on prevention, intervention, and treatment of opioid use disorder – and supporting individuals in recovery. A review of models to incorporate CHWs into prevention, intervention, treatment and recovery support. Specific steps that CHWs can take when working with persons or families impactedRead more…
Engagement, Education, Resources, and Empowerment: The Essential Role of Community Health Workers in Addressing the Opioid Epidemic Webinar 1 (2018)
Provides an overview of the opioid epidemic, both at a federal and state-level, focusing on origins and trends related to opioid use disorder and opioid overdose. Discussion of the impact of the opioid epidemic on communities and special populations, including any emerging health disparities and provides education on how opioidRead more…
Coronavirus Seminar Series: Mental Health in a Time of Crisis (2020)
This seminar explores population mental health in the context of COVID-19.
A GUIDE TO IMPLEMENTING A COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER (CHW) PROGRAM IN THE CONTEXT OF HIV CARE (2018)
Improving HIV Outcomes through the Integration of CHWs in Care Teams
Strengthening Community Health Worker Programs (2022)
Learn to deliver high-quality primary health care at scale through national community health worker programs.
Training to increase vaccine confidence while reinforcing basic Covid 19 prevention measures (2021)
This guide aims to explain how community health workers can use the resources to build vaccine confidence in communities and collaborate with organizations that provide direct services.
Opioid Use Disorder Course ()
Trainees will gain knowledge in treatment, recovery, harm reduction, and conducting outreach programs in their communities.
Breast Cancer Prevention Detection & Treatment (2018)
Colorectal, Cervical, Breast, Liver, and Lung Cancer prevention, detection, treatment
Talking to Teens in the Era of Recreational Cannabis Legalization (2017)
Learn the latest effects of cannabis on youth development, review lessons learned from other states that have legalized cannabis, and ways to communicate with youth and parents about the risks of cannabis use.
Community health volunteers challenges and preferred income generating activities for sustainability: a qualitative case study of rural Kilifi, Kenya (2021)
Although community health volunteers are key in providing healthcare to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), retention of CHVs can be difficult. Income-generating activities (IGAs) have been known to decrease turnover rates. The authors of this study examined barriers to income generation experienced by CHVs in rural Kenya, as well asRead more…
Incentive preferences for community health volunteers in Kenya: findings from a discrete choice experiment (2021)
There are many community health volunteer incentivization methods, financial and non-financial; however, there is little research to understand what combination of financial and non-financial incentives optimize CHV performance. The authors of this study examine which incentives CHVs preferred and found that they preferred incentives that provided a high monthly stipend,Read more…
Promissory Capital: State Legitimacy among Women Community Health Workers in India (2021)
In India, Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) play a vital role in providing care for marginalized communities. ASHAs remain hopeful that their role as vital community health workers will eventually become professionalized through the government. The author of this article argues that the state’s ability to provide hope to itsRead more…
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