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Community Workforce Institute: Community Health Worker

WebDescription: Education for healthy behavior change means providing people with information, tools, and encouragement to help them improve their health and stay healthy over time. CHWs respect people’s experience and their abilities to learn, take advantage of resources, and set priorities for changing their own behavior. CHWs work with clients, …

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Community Workforce Institute: Community Health Worker

WebThe CWI team is a group of seasoned consultants informed by their first-hand experience as frontline workers and leaders in healthcare organizations. We combine a systems-thinking approach with our knowledge of best practices in the field. We believe that solutions to problems come, not only from highly credentialed experts with academic and …

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Public Health Concepts & Approaches

WebDescription: The knowledge base for CHW practice is strongly influenced by the field of public health. Public health is a science-based discipline that focuses on protecting and promoting population health, preventing illness and injury, eliminating health inequities, and working to improve the health of vulnerable communities and populations.

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Heart Health for CHWs

WebAs amazing as the heart is, there is reason to pay attention to heart health: Heart disease is the leading cause of death for men, women, and people of most racial and ethnic groups in the United States. 1; One person dies every 34 seconds in the United States from cardiovascular disease. 1; About 697,000 people in the United States died from heart …

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Community Workforce Institute: Community Health Worker

WebCHW Core Competency Course - 12 Modules CWI offers an 80-hour course fully aligned with the standards set forth by the Massachusetts CHW Board of Certification. We devote 64-hours to the 10 state-required core competency topics. An additional 16-hours will be dedicated to special topics that you may select to meet the particular needs of…

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Community Workforce Institute: Community Health Worker

WebCommunity Workforce Institute provides training and technical assistance for frontline workers and leaders dedicated to improving the overall wellbeing of people from underinvested communities. We offer an array of services with a proven track record of building new skills and strengthening services in the fields of health, human services, …

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Community Workforce Institute: Community Health Worker

WebDirector of Clinical & Cross-Cultural Training Contact: [email protected] Marilyn Gardner is the Director of Clinical and Cross-cultural Education at CWI. In this capacity, Marilyn develops and coordinates our cross-cultural and clinical courses. Her work includes relationship building in marginalized and under-resourced communities to better …

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Community Workforce Institute: Community Health Worker

WebDr. Heba Abolaban, MPH, CPSS Senior Associate Instructor Dr. Heba Abolaban is a physician by training who obtained her medical degree from Damascus Medical School, Syria. Then, she obtained her Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from Northeastern University in Boston. She worked for several years at the Massachusetts Department of …

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Community Workforce Institute: Community Health Worker

WebWho are your trainings for? Our trainings are primarily for those who work as Community Health Workers (CHWs), with CHWs, or those wanting to enter the field. This includes all of the categories that fall under the umbrella of a CHW. Included are CHWs, Promotores, Community Health Ambassadors, Supervisors, Managers, Peer Recovery Coaches, …

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Community Workforce Institute: Community Health Worker

WebA practical guide to becoming a community health worker!. Coming in April – The 3rd Edition of Foundations for Community Health Workers!Our Executive Director – James Figueiredo – and our Director of Clinical & Cross-Cultural Training – Marilyn Gardner – cowrote the chapter on guiding principles including ethical guidelines, establishing and …

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Community Workforce Institute: Community Health Worker

WebContact: [email protected]. Gloria serves the dual role of managing CWI’s finances and using her clinical expertise to support the development of trainings which include content related to mental health. She has over 20 years of clinical experience working with adolescents and their parents/guardians. Gloria remains current in the field

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Community Workforce Institute: Community Health Worker

WebOur team members have worked with many different organizations and institutions. Here are some of the places where our work has made a positive impact. Baystate Health Berkshire Fallon Health Berkshire Health Systems Beth Israel Deaconess Beth Israel Lahey Health Boston Children's Hospital Boston Health Care for the Homeless Boston Medical Center …

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Community Workforce Institute: Community Health Worker

WebThis series provides an overview of health attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that diverse communities may hold as well as the institutional, community and provider level barriers that may prevent diverse communities from accessing health care and human services. Each class is a full day. Muslim Community- Health Beliefs and Barriers.

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Community Workforce Institute: Community Health Worker

WebCurriculum Design The CWI team has expertise and a long history of designing customized, and revising and upgrading existing, curricula for health care organizations and government agencies at the local, national, and international level. With stakeholders, we identify strengths, determine systematic and capacity building needs, and design curricula to …

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Community Workforce Institute: Community Health Worker

WebProject Manager & CHW Instructor Contact: [email protected] Jaenia is a lead Instructor of CWI’s 80-hr Core Competency training, and does much of the behind-the-scenes work to assure that the training participants receive the support necessary to succeed in the courses. She brings her graphic design skills and full extroverted self to …

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Community Workforce Institute

WebOur Ethos-Expertise-Energy. ETHOS: We are passionate about helping people flourish and reach their full potential in communities and in multicultural workplace settings. We know that many communities labeled as “hard-to-reach” are in fact the “hardly reached” populations. EXPERTISE: We are a highly-seasoned and diverse multidisciplinary

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Clevanne Julce, MPH

WebCHW Instructor & Research Consultant Contact: [email protected] Clevanne ‘ Cle’ Julce brings over 15 years of experience in research, public health practice, and community programming spaces to the CWI team. Cle is a member of the American Public Health Association and Dana Farber Cancer Institute Alumni planning committee. She is …

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James Figueiredo, Ed. M

WebExecutive Director. Contact: [email protected]. James Figueiredo leads CWI’s multidisciplinary team providing training and technical assistance for healthcare systems, health departments, and educational institutions. He has over 3 decades of experience working in the public health field throughout the United States and internationally.

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