CHWs Get Credit: A 10-Year History of the First College-Credit Certificate for Community Health Workers in the United States  

Oleh:

Love, Mary Beth ; Legion, Vicki ; Shim, Janet K. ; Tsai, Cindy ; Quijano, Vickie ; Davis, Catherine

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Health Promotion Practice vol. 5 no. 4 (Oct. 2004), page 418-428.
Topik: community health workers; community colleges; evaluation of training; health promotion; health workers; outreach; performance- based training; popular education; training
Fulltext: 418 HPP54.pdf (124.62KB)

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Community health workers have become increasingly important in the U.S. health care system, playing a significant role in basic health promotion and care coordination; however, their status and visibility have not kept pace with their wider use. A major impediment has been the absence of systematic preparation—the field needs standardized education in programs that emphasize the actual skills and knowledge used by community health workers, programs that attract and retain nontraditional students from underserved communities and that foster professional advancement. This article chronicles the 10-year history of the first college credit– bearing community health worker certificate program in the country to address this need. Systematic research resulted in a program centered on the core competencies universally practiced by community health workers regardless of their topical focus. The certificate program combines performance-based methods with popular education into an innovative pedagogical approach that teaches skills, while solidifying, contextualizing, and enhancing crucial experiential knowledge. Program outcomes validate the approach.

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