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"Project Jumpstart," led by the University of Arizona, has produced a Curriculum Guidebook useful to both CHW programs and community colleges.
Click here to browse the contents of the Guidebook; click here for a brochure with ordering info .
Curriculum guidelines from San Francisco
Community HealthWorks in San Francisco is believed to be the first formal college-based program for CHWs in the country. Click here to review their highly-regarded Standards of Practice Manual.
Community
Health Advisor Network (CHAN) training materials
CHAN has published a CHW training curriculum, a program advisor (developer) guidebook and an evaluation handbook. Click here for a publications list and ordering information.
To review an outline of CHAN materials:
click here
for the table of contents of their CHW training curriculum.
Cornell Family Development Curriculum
Although it was not developed specifically for CHWs, Cornell's Family Development Worker curriculum covers many of the important skills required by CHWs. The State of New York awards a family development worker credential based on completion of this training with an individual worker portfolio. Cornell provides train-the-trainer sessions twice a year in Ithaca, NY and will conduct local TOT sessions by special arrangement.
Click here to review a description of the FDC program; click here to download a publication order form
Other curriculum materials
Latino
Health Access is considered one of the most successful disease
management programs developed by and for Latinos. Contact Caleb Arias,
Education Director, at (714) 542-7792.
Missouri Volunteer Resource Mothers (manual and video $115.00)
MotherNet America (INMED) Resource Mothers training materials - Click here for order form.
Community Health Outreach Workers training (King County, WA)
Pacific Community Health Worker Certificate (New Zealand)
Migrant Health Promotion has "flip charts" for training on subjects like substance abuse and domestic free for download from their Web site, (there is a charge for ordering the materials to be mailed as hard copy); they also offer basic CHW training materials and a women's health video series. These materials will be available from their Web site in Spring 2004. All MHP materials are in English and Spanish. For information on MHP's teen peer education materials (Infórmate) go to our curriculum materials page.
An outline of the pre-service training provided to "Healthy Start" workers in North Philadelphia
An outline of the training provided for the "MOMobile advocates" by the Maternal Care Coalition of Philadelphia.
A description of oral health training provided to promotoras in a Brownsville project.
Contents of the "Reaching Out" curriculum used by the Healthy Start program in New Mexico.