Your opinion is important! Please let us know how we can continue to support and expand our CHW Community of Practice by completing this survey.
This CoP is yours, so help make it better. Your feedback will directly impact the way we meet in coming months and what kind of resources we can provide.
It should take less than five minutes to complete. We’ll release the results of our survey in a coming meeting.
If you are planning to attend this meeting, suggest items for our agenda and discussions, or offer your institution as host for a monthly meeting in the future, please contact:
Monique Cuvelier
President, Talance, Inc.
(888) 810-9109
We’re taking December off (happy holidays!). Please help choose our next meeting date in January 2019 by selecting the best dates and times for you on this poll by Monday, December 3.
Please join us for our next CHW Training Community of Practice on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 10:00 AM-11:00 AM PST.
Our member Quinn Cartwright from the Nevada CHW Association will be talking about the state’s Formal Career Pathways Model. How are you helping your CHWs follow their career? Write down 1-2 thoughts and be prepared to share. Read more about the Nevada Community Health Worker Association.
Agenda:
If you are planning to attend this meeting, suggest items for our agenda and discussions, or offer your institution as host for a monthly meeting in the future, please contact:
Monique Cuvelier
President, Talance, Inc.
(888) 810-9109
Everyone agrees that CHWs need to know how to do their job. Their supervisors, on the other hand, are less informed.
Most of our CoP participants offer—or are soon to offer—some kind of training to CHWs. But there are few options for training their supervisors.
This is true even when supervisors admit that they’re not sure what to do with CHWs, either because they’re new to the job or CHWs are new to their organization.
No one who attended the October 22, 2018, meeting offers formalized training for supervisors, but everyone who attended recognizes the need.
Here are some takeaways about what CHW supervisors should learn in an introductory course:
Supervisors might benefit from additional more focused training that’s specific to their work environment, such as managing CHWs in a multidisciplinary team or managing CHWs in a community environment.
Any training should dovetail with more skills-based training, including:
There is a very basic curriculum from the CDC about how to train CHWs.
Quinn Cartwright says the Nevada Community Health Worker Association where she works offers technical assistance for people in field placement program. This focuses on helping supervisors better understand how to work with new CHWs, how not to be overburdened or overburdening.
Engaging this group of learners is a challenge. Often it’s because supervisors are already busy and the idea of squeezing in lengthy training is unrealistic. Sometimes it’s because training isn’t well targeted to their work environment, such as a clinical vs. community setting. Sometimes it’s because existing programs are unengaging.
Some possible solutions:
More suggestions? Request to become a member so you can participate in our newsgroup and forums.
Please help choose our next meeting date by selecting the best dates and times for you on this poll by Monday, October 29.
Please join us for our next CHW Training Community of Practice on Mon., Oct. 22, from 1-2 p.m. PDT.
We’ll be talking about training supervisors. In preparation, jot down 1-2 training challenges you’re having with supervisors, and we’ll talk them through. If you currently have a supervisor training program, please share!
Agenda:
If you are planning to attend this meeting, suggest items for our agenda and discussions, or offer your institution as host for a monthly meeting in the future, please contact:
Monique Cuvelier
President, Talance, Inc.
(888) 810-9109
Please join us for our next CoP meeting for the month of September.
CHW CoP Monthly Meeting:
If you are planning to attend this meeting, suggest items for our agenda and discussions, or offer your institution as host for a monthly meeting in the future, please contact:
Monique Cuvelier
President, Talance, Inc.
(888) 810-9109
Please help choose our next meeting date by selecting the best dates and times for you on this poll by Monday, September 3.
Save the date for Tuesday, July 10, 2018, from 1-2 p.m. Pacific for the continuation of the conversation about substance use with a focus on tobacco cessation.
Leah Farchmin, Senior Associate for the Geographic Health Equity Alliance (GHEA), CADCA, will be leading an information discussion about her program and ways for CHWs to engage in tobacco cessation efforts.
Agenda: