Ethical Guidelines for Community Health Workers

Ethical Guidelines for Community Health Workers

As professionals, Community Health Workers (CHWs) are encouraged to reflect on the ethical obligations that they have to the communities that they serve. In this course, you will learn more about ethics, common ethical challenges, and how to use values to make ethical...

CHW Scope of Practice

Scope of practice, which is utilized in many professions, is a set of skills or competencies and services that someone is permitted to perform. In this course, you will learn what activities lie within the Community Health Worker (CHW) scope of practice.  In this...

Duty of Self-Awareness

A lack of self-awareness (not knowing what you know), can compromise a  Community Health Worker’s ability to support the clients and communities being served. Personal lived experiences, values and beliefs, and unresolved challenges, if left unchecked, can...

Care Coordination for Patient Navigators

Welcome to the Care Coordination for Patient Navigators Online Course! In this course, we will focus on the role of the advanced patient navigator in team-based care coordination. Specifically, we will explore advanced care coordination and related concepts, including...

Community Education and Facilitation

Welcome! This course has been designed to enhance group facilitation and education skills.  The skills can be applied to any type of group including health and education settings. (is this necessary?– Appropriate participants may include new group facilitators,...
Motivational Interviewing for Vaccine Hesitancy

Motivational Interviewing for Vaccine Hesitancy

As trusted messengers. community health workers and health navigators can help provide reliable information about COVID-19 vaccinations and other routine immunizations. Motivational Interviewing (MI) skills can be used to guide respectful and empathetic discussions...
Lung Cancer Screening for Patient Navigators

Lung Cancer Screening for Patient Navigators

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death. As a Patient Navigator, you are uniquely positioned within a team of primary care providers and specialists to build relationships with at-risk patients to encourage and guide them through the stages of screening,...
Reducing Anxiety in Yourself and Others

Reducing Anxiety in Yourself and Others

With the extra personal and global stress emerging due to the COVID-19 pandemic, stress levels and anxiety have escalated. If you are a health care worker or caregiver, you may have the extra burden of dealing with your own anxiety as well as those of the people you...
Motivational Interviewing: A Brief Overview

Motivational Interviewing: A Brief Overview

In this course we focus on a very brief overview of the basic skills of motivational interviewing. Motivational interviewing (MI) is a communication technique used to help people facing ambivalence and support those ready to make a change in health behavior.Audience:...
Health Literacy: Making Information More Accessible

Health Literacy: Making Information More Accessible

The Health Literacy course is designed to improve navigation skills for those delivering prevention services. This comprehensive course is intended for Patient Navigators (PNs) who want to improve navigation skills, find out more on the topic, and discuss how health...
Motivational Interviewing and Cancer Screening

Motivational Interviewing and Cancer Screening

This 3-part video series focuses on reaching the “hard to reach” population for cancer screening.  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...
Opioid Use Disorder for Community Health Workers

Opioid Use Disorder for Community Health Workers

Welcome to the Opioid Use Disorder Course! This online course is a self-paced training for those working on the front lines of opioid crisis. Trainees will gain knowledge in treatment, recovery, harm reduction, and conducting outreach programs in their communities. In...