Adeyemi (Brice) Oke, Manager of Emerging Multilingual Programs and Dr. Patricia Valverde, Principal Investigator for PNCT, share about trainings in French at the Benin Independence Day Celebration Aug. 1 in Colorado Springs.
Adeyemi (Brice) Oke, responsable des programmes multilingues émergents, et Dr Patricia Valverde, chercheuse principale du PNCT, présentent les formations offertes en français lors de la célébration de la fête de l’Indépendance du Bénin, le 1er août à Colorado Springs.
PNCT is excited to announce that the entire Community Health Worker training pathway will soon be available in French.
PNCT would like to welcome Adeyemi (Brice) Oke as the new Manager of Emerging Multilingual Programs who will lead the French curriculum effort. Oke is originally from Benin, Africa, and worked as a CHW and CHW supervisor on community-based public health projects. He earned his Master of Public Health in Community Health Education at the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Northern Colorado.
Northern Colorado is home is a large French-speaking African community, and there is a lack of French-speaking CHWs who can help with access to care and resources, Oke said. To fill out an interest form for upcoming trainings in French, click here. You can also reach out directly to Brice Oke at [email protected].
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Prochainement: la formation des agents de santé communautaire offerte en français par PNCT
PNCT est heureux d’annoncer que l’ensemble du programme de formation des agents de santé communautaire (ASC) sera bientôt disponible en français.
PNCT souhaite également souhaiter la bienvenue à Adeyemi (Brice) Oke, nouveau responsable des programmes multilingues émergents, qui dirigera les efforts de développement du curriculum en français. Originaire du Bénin, en Afrique, Oke a travaillé comme agent de santé communautaire (ASC), puis comme superviseur d’ASC, dans le cadre de projets de santé publique communautaire. Il est titulaire d’une maîtrise en santé publique (MPH), avec une spécialisation en éducation à la santé communautaire, obtenue à l’Ecole de Sante Publique de Colorado de l’Université du Nord du Colorado UNC).
Le nord du Colorado abrite une importante communauté africaine francophone, mais il existe un manque d’agents de santé communautaire francophones capables d’aider les membres de cette communauté à accéder aux soins de santé et aux ressources disponibles, a expliqué Oke.
Pour remplir un formulaire d’intérêt concernant les prochaines formations offertes en français, cliquez ici. Vous pouvez également communiquer directement avec Brice Oke à l’adresse email [email protected].
National Community Health Worker Awareness Week (NCHWAW) is an annual celebration of the essential role of Community Health Workers (CHWs) and related roles in promoting public health, advancing health equity, and connecting communities with health and social services. Led by the National Association of Community Health Workers, this week (Aug. 24-28, 2026) encourages CHWs, allies, organizations, and policymakers across the United States to celebrate the workforce, commemorate its achievements, and collaborate to raise awareness of the diversity, impact, and advance sustainability of the CHW profession.
NCHWAW 2026 is the fourth year of celebration and is an opportunity for CHWs and allies to spread the word about CHWs’ unique core roles, contributions to community health and wellbeing, and capacity for leadership. Let’s work together to promote policies that respect, protect, and authentically partner with CHWs and our communities.
🌱 Join the Patient Navigation and Community Health Worker training program for a course this spring! In-person and online options available for courses such as Level 1: Health Navigation Fundamentals, Level 2: Care Coordination and Motivational Interviewing.
Level 1: Health Navigation Fundamentals in-person (Denver, CO)
Topics in this comprehensive “Level 1” 3-day training include patient navigation history and role, client communication, health promotion and professional conduct and basic motivational interviewing.
🗓️ Three consecutive Fridays: 9 am-5 pm March 27, April 3 and April 10, 2026
Register for in-person Level 1: Health Navigation Fundamentals
Basic Motivational Interviewing Online
Through interactive discussions and small-group practice in breakout rooms, you’ll learn how to build stronger connections, spark insight, and support meaningful behavior change.
🗓️ Live learning sessions held Tuesdays, 11 am-12 pm MT, April 7-28, 2026.
Register for Basic Motivational Interviewing Online
Intermediate Motivational Interviewing: Learning Lab
Elevate your Motivational Interviewing skills in this hands-on virtual workshop. Together, we’ll dig into what to do when conversations get tough—especially when a client pushes back.
🗓️March 19, 10 am- 3 pm MT (with lunch break)
Virtually via Zoom
FREE
Register for Intermediate MI Learning Lab
Level 2: Care Coordination
Whether you’re new to care coordination or looking to sharpen your expertise, this course empowers you to become a driving force for high-quality, patient-centered care.
🗓️ In-person: April 29 and 30 (Denver, CO)
Online: 4-week course starts April 30
Register for Care Coordination in-person
Community Health Worker Fundamentals Online
Dive into essential topics such as defining your scope of practice, navigating ethical dilemmas, building effective cultural mediation strategies, sharpening your presentation skills, and conducting community assessments.
🗓️ 8-week course starts May 12
Register for Care Coordination Online
We hope you can join us for one of our fall course offerings!
In-Person Trainings:
Level 1: Health Navigation Fundamentals:A great opportunity to improve your patient navigation skills and network with other navigators!
Two Courses Available:
- Lakewood, COSept. 21-23
- Denver, CO
Nov 30-Dec 2
Online Courses
- Level 1: Health Navigation Fundamentals
Sept 14-Nov 2 - Level 2: Care Coordination
Sept 9-Oct 7 - Basic Motivational Interviewing
Sept 7-28 - Basic Motivational Interviewing
Nov 7-Dec 5
Cheers to 2022!
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Please share your experience by participating in an one hour interview or focus group in the fall of 2020. To join in the discussion, please take a moment to fill out the survey to share your contact information and availability.
As a thank you for participating in the interview/focus group, you will receive a Amazon $25 gift card for your time.
Information from these interviews and focus groups will be used to improve technology to better serve patients and caregivers after a cancer diagnosis.
Project Funding: SBIR NCI Funded, Lead Agency – University of San Diego – Colorado Collaboration
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The Reducing Barriers to Care webinar series started last fall will continue in May and June, with a focus on mental and behavioral health. Mark your calendar for every Wednesday at 1-2:30 PM MT starting May 6. Brought to you by the Patient Navigator Training Collaborative and The Alliance of Colorado Community Health Workers, Patient Navigators and Promotores de Salud.
Mental and Behavioral Health in Colorado: The current landscape and navigating into care
May 6: Framing the Landscape of Mental and Behavioral Health in Colorado
May 13: Landscape and Legislation in Community Behavioral Health
May 20: Assessing Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Strategies
May 27: Integrating Mental and Behavioral Health into Chronic Disease Navigation Programs
June 3: Navigators at the core of mental and behavioral health programs in urban, suburban and rural Colorado
This workshop offers strategies and tools for your survival kit that you can put into practice so they don’t require much thought or effort when they are really needed. You can also share these techniques with your clients to help them develop more resilience to the stress and trauma in their lives. Presented by the Human Services Network of Colorado.
When: Dec. 12, 9 am-noon
Where: 6100 Smith Road, Denver, CO 80216
Cost: $95
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The Patient Navigator Training Collaborative is excited to announce its lineup of fall courses. We have Level 1, Level 2, in person and online courses, so there is something for everyone, whether you are a new or experienced navigator.
We recommend starting with Level 1, to learn the basics. Level 1 and Care Coordination are required to take the state of Colorado Health Navigator Assessment and be listed on the registry. If you are not a Colorado resident, we still recommend these two courses as the foundation of your learning. And, both are available online!
We are thrilled to offer the Level 2 online course Emotional and Social Aspects of Disease this fall, which is a great course if you are looking to expand your knowledge on the complex emotional issues related to chronic disease.
Registration is now open for the following fall courses:
- Level 1: Health Navigation Fundamentals in Aurora
- Level 1: Health Navigation Fundamentals Online
- Emotional and Social Aspects of Disease Online (Level 2)
- Care Coordination Online
- Team-Based Care Coordination ECHO Learning Series
- Basic Motivational Interviewing
And spots are still open in these August courses!
- Level 1: Health Navigation Fundamentals in Colorado Springs
- Advanced Motivational Interviewing in Frisco
We hope to see you in a course soon! Financial aid is available for all courses, so don’t let cost be a barrier to signing up. Apply here for a scholarship.
We have just scheduled two upcoming Level 1 courses – one in Colorado Springs and one in Aurora!
Level 1: Health Navigation Fundamentals is a three-day in-person course with online prework designed to improve your navigation skills. Topics in this comprehensive “Level 1” training include patient communication, health promotion, professional conduct and motivational interviewing.
Perfect for: Patient navigators, health navigators, care coordinators, community health workers or anyone working with clients to overcome barriers to care.
Don‘t miss this opportunity to network with other navigators!
Cost: $500 Colorado navigators, $750 out of state
Level 1 Colorado Springs, CO: Aug. 6-8
Level 1 Aurora, CO: Sept. 18-20
Fall course preview
Registration is opening soon for these fall courses!
- Level 1: Health Navigation Fundamentals Online
- Level 1: Health Navigation Fundamentals in Spanish
- Emotional and Social Aspects of Disease Online (Level 2)
- Basic Motivational Interviewing
- Care Coordination Online
- Care Coordination ECHO series
Bring on spring!Join us for an upcoming course.
Level 1: Health Navigation Fundamentals
Topics in this comprehensive “Level 1” training include patient navigation history and role, patient communication, health promotion and professional conduct.
When: April 16-18
Where: Aurora, CO
Cost: $500 Colorado residents/$750 out of state
Register
Level 1: Health Navigation Fundamentals Online
This 8-week virtual course includes both online coursework (reading, quizzes, assignments) as well as Live Learning Sessions via Zoom web conferencing.
When: April 1-May 24
Cost: $550
Register
Save the Date! Advanced Motivational Interviewing
In this course, you will expand your MI skills related to the strategic use of questions and reflections to build upon and deepen client change talk.
When: June 13
Where: Denver metro area
Registration Opening Soon!
The Patient Navigator Training Collaborative (PNTC) and ECHO Colorado are partnering on a study to evaluate how our trainings improve team-based care coordination skills. This project is designed to learn more about the effectiveness of these trainings in increasing self-efficacy, knowledge, attitudes, and skills related to team-based care coordination among participants.
How do I participate?
Register for PNTC’s Care Coordination Online Course or the Care Coordination ECHO Learning Series. (It is strongly recommended to participate in the course before the learning series.) You will have the opportunity to join the study during registration. These courses will be offered quarterly through 2019. You must be a Colorado resident to participate.
How much time will it take?
In addition to attending each session of the course or learning series, you will be asked to complete a 10-15 minute pre/post survey and a 30-minute pre/post assessment with a “team member” actor, via Zoom web conferencing. It will take about 1.5 hours total. You will receive a link for the survey before and after the learning opportunity and the pre/post assessments will be scheduled at a time that works for you.
Why should I participate?
You will earn online Visa gift cards for your time for each portion of the study you complete, up to $80 for full participation. You will also receive the results of your assessment at the end of the study. The assessment results will identify areas of strengths and improvement that you can use to improve your skills.
Questions? Email Erin Martinez at [email protected].
Upcoming Care Coordination Trainings
Care Coordination Online Course
When: March 1-29
Cost: $250 Colorado residents/$350 out of state
Register
Team-Based Care Coordination ECHO series
When: Tuesdays 8-9 am MT, March 5-April 9
Cost: Free
Register
Webinar highlights national navigation efforts
“A Report from the National Navigation Roundtable: the State of Patient Navigation Today,” is now available for viewing. This webinar was recorded in December and presented by Monica Dean, Director, National Navigation Roundtable, with Elizabeth A Calhoun, PhD, MEd, Executive Director of the Center of Population Science and Discovery and a Professor in the Department of Community, Environment and Policy at the University of Arizona and Sanja Percac-Lima, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a primary care physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Chelsea Community Health Center.
The National Navigation Roundtable is a collaboration of navigation stakeholders and field experts, dedicated to establishing patient navigation as a recognized and valued part of the healthcare system to assure optimal health outcomes for cancer patients.
Webinar presented as part of the Alliance to Advance Patient-Centered Cancer Care webinar series.
It’s almost a new year and course dates for 2019 are coming your way!
Level 1: Health Navigation Fundamentals
Join us in Arvada on Jan. 30-Feb. 1 for Health Navigation Fundamentals. Topics in this comprehensive “Level 1” training include patient communication, health promotion, professional conduct and motivational interviewing. This course will be offered quarterly, depending on demand. Our online Level 1 course will be offered in March.
Basic Motivational Interviewing
Motivational interviewing is a patient-centered communication technique that helps people resolve ambivalent feelings and insecurities to find the internal motivation they need to change their behavior. In this interactive workshop, you will learn basic MI techniques you can use with patients to help support behavior change: open-ended questions, affirmations, reflective listening and summarizing. This one-day course will be offered Jan. 24 in Arvada. Please note: This is the same content that is covered on Day 2 of the Health Navigation Fundamentals Course. It is designed for those new to MI or who would like a skills refresher.
Care Coordination Online
Join us online in March for this 4-week course! We will explore care coordination and related concepts, including their application to practice and commonly encountered challenges. You will be guided step-by-step to learn the basic skills and advanced strategies to enhance team-based care and client engagement for better health outcomes, patient safety, and workflow efficiency.
Care Coordination ECHO series
Learn practical care coordination skills from experts and peers within a multi-professional team during this free six-week learning series. You will connect with your peers in an interactive, virtual setting to work through case examples and practice skills. Learn how you can better understand, communicate, and work at the top of your scope. Recommended Prerequisite: Care Coordination for Health Navigators course. This series will be offered quarterly in 2019 as part of a study in partnership with PNTC. Learn More
Dates coming soon …
We will also offer Advanced Motivational Interviewing and Care Coordination in-person in 2019. Social and Emotional Aspects of Disease Online course will be offered in fall 2019.
Join us online for a virtual MI workshop Oct. 23!
This event is sponsored by the Colorado Community Health Worker, Patient Navigator and Promotore de Salud Alliance.
Please join the CHW PN PdS Alliance for the first installment of a three part series focused on motivational interviewing for patient navigators, community health workers and promotores.
This series will specifically target reaching the “hard to reach’” population for cancer screening. The first session will focus on the basic skills of motivational Interviewing and applying case studies around specific barriers to apply and practice motivational interviewing. This work is based off of the experience of the Colorado Cancer Screening Program for colorectal cancer and now expanded to also include breast and cervical screening, HPV vaccination, lung cancer screening and also prostate screening.
We encourage participation statewide and specifically invite rural partners to join us for this special event.
This “virtual workshop” will be held using Zoom, which is free and easy to use. Zoom will allow us to connect face-to-face, without requiring travel. The trainer for this workshop will utilize breakout rooms so that participants have an opportunity to practice skills.
Funding for this initiative is provided from the Colorado Cancer Coalition, so it is FREE for participants.
Space is limited and we ask that anyone registering is planning to actively participate in this interactive online session.
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NEW ONLINE COURSE! Care Coordination for Patient Navigators focuses on the role of the patient navigator in team-based care coordination. We will explore care coordination and related concepts, including their application to practice and commonly encountered challenges. You will be guided step-by-step to learn the basic skills and advanced strategies to enhance team-based care and client engagement for better health outcomes, patient safety, and workflow efficiency.
Audience
This course is designed for care coordinators, case managers, patient navigators, health navigators and others who want to provide high quality, coordinated care to their clients. Also appropriate for nurses and social workers doing care coordination.
Cost
This is a pilot course and is being offered free of charge to Colorado residents. Out of state participants are $75.
Course format
This course is an instructor-led virtual course (not self-paced). The format include both online coursework (reading, assignments, quizzes) as well as Live Learning Sessions via Zoom web conferencing.
When
This course runs Oct 13-Nov. 9 with live sessions at noon MT on Fridays.
he Patient Navigator Training Collaborative, in partnership with the Denver Prevention Training Center, is offering two Social Determinants and Health Equity courses this spring.
This two-day course examines the effects of social determinants of health such as economic status, stigma, homophobia, racism and other social and political issues on risk, prevalence, and access to services. Participants will become familiar with strategies for improving health equity so that individuals are more empowered to make healthy choices regardless of their living condition, income, sexual orientation or ethnic background.
Upcoming courses:
May 2 & 3: Glenwood Springs, CO
Register
June 12 & 13: Arvada, CO
Register
This course is brought to you by the Denver Prevention Training Center. Due to grant funds through June 2018, this course is FREE.
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Join the Colorado Health Literacy Coalition Feb. 28 for a FREE networking event.
WITH A PRESENTATION FROM:
Tamas Farkas, Interpreter and Program Manager at the Interpreter Network, a program of the Spring Institute. Born in Budapest Hungary, Tamas moved to the United States in 1999. He attended university at Metropolitan State University of Denver, spending one year abroad in Fribourg, Switzerland studying at the University of Fribourg. After graduating with a B.A. in German and French, he spent a year in San Juan, Puerto Rico learning Spanish. At Spring Institute, Tamas is excited to do everything he can to help everyone have access to the public services they deserve.
Tamas will talk with us about the importance of literacy as it relates to interpretation, as well as using plain language when interacting with an interpreter.
ATTEND TO:
• Connect with other champions of health literacy.
• Increase your knowledge of and skills in health literacy.
• Improve written and spoken communication with your patients or clients in a variety of settings.
LOGISTICS:
• Parking: Metered parking and paid lots.
• Refreshments: Visit the Spring Café on the first floor for a FREE drip coffee and sweet bread.
• RSVP here.
Did you know that more than one-third of the US population has basic or below basic health literacy skills? The ability to understand, interpret, and process health information is known as health literacy. Patients need to understand health messages in order to make appropriate health decisions for themselves and family members, and patient navigators are essential in helping communicate this important information.
The Advanced Health Literacy course is designed to help Patient Navigators recognize patients with low health literacy and how to increase comprehension, readability, retention and apply skills to increase health outcomes.
Learning Objectives
This 1-day training will be highly interactive and activity based. By the end of the training, you will be able to:
- Identify a variety of health education materials that are appropriate for your patients/clients.
- Modify your verbal communication (e.g. word choice, explanations) to increase patient/client understanding of health-related information.
- Use appropriate strategies to checking for understanding in order make sure that the patients/clients that you work understand important health information.