Modules
Required Mandated Reporting and HIPAA Training for CHWs
- Instructions - Set Up Account - Canvas Registration Instructions
- Training Course
Preparing for the Unknown: A Community Health Worker’s Guide to Pandemic Preparedness
As a result of this training, you will be able to define and understand pandemics, describe the role of Community Health Workers during the pandemic response, and develop a Pandemic Preparedness plan.
- Part 1: Define and Understand Pandemics (12 minutes)
- Part 2: Describe the roles that Community Health Workers play during a pandemic response. (10 minutes)
- Part 3: Develop a Pandemic Preparedness plan (20 minutes)
Understanding Diabetes: A Training for Community Health Worker
As a result of this training, you will be able to define types, symptoms and complications of diabetes; identify risk factors for diabetes; explain how a Community Health Worker (CHW) can support the prevention or delay of Type 2 diabetes in clients; explain how a CHW can assist clients in self-management of diabetes; and understand how COVID_19 can affect clients with diabetes and other chronic diseases.
- Part 1: What is diabetes? (13 minutes)
- Part 2: What are the risk factors of diabetes? (19 minutes)
- Part 3: How is diabetes managed? (8 minutes)
Understanding Hypertension: Training for Community Health Workers
As a result of this training, you will be able to define hypertension, along with the associated risk factors, signs and symptoms; explain what blood pressure readings mean; understand how hypertension is diagnosed, treated, and the importance of compliance with treatment; describe the role of CHWs in the prevention and treatment of hypertension; and recognize how COVID-19 impacts those with hypertension.
- Part 1: Define hypertension and explain blood pressure readings. (15 minutes)
- Part 2: Understand how hypertension is diagnosed, and treated and the importance of compliance with treatment. (15 minutes)
- Part 3: Describe the role of Community Health Workers in the prevention and treatment of hypertension, and recognize how COVID-19 impacts those with hypertension. (10 minutes)
The Prevention of Domestic and Sexual Violence: A Healthcare Approach
This course will help Community Healthcare Workers design a comprehensive strategy for preventing violence in their own communities. Participants will learn the history of oppression and social norms that contribute to violence; the public health approach; and the social-ecological model for violence prevention. Innovative partnerships like this will make health care more accessible to survivors when they need it most.
Motivational Interviewing
Featuring a look into the Show Me Healthy Women & WISEWOMAN Programs.
To receive CEUs for this training, please complete the questions in the pdf below and email the document to chw@health.mo.gov.
Train the Trainer Course
- Train the Trainer Syllabus
- Module 1: Introduction, Lesson Plans, Teaching Skills
- Module 2: Adult Learning, Popular Education
- Module 3: Roles and Boundaries
- Module 4: Communication, Facilitation and Mediation
- Module 5: Cultural Competency and Humility
Cancer and the Community Health Worker Cancer Courses
As a result of this training, you will become familiar with the different types of cancer, screening options, and prevention strategies. Recognize the important role Community Health Workers have in cancer awareness, resources during and after treatment, information on screening, and prevention. There are nine trainings for a completion status. Please complete each one to receive credit.
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- Module 1: Cancer Screening and Prevention (50 minutes)
- Module 2: Colorectal Cancer Part 1 (30 minutes)
- Module 2: Colorectal Cancer Part 2 (15 minutes)
- Module 3: Lung Cancer Part 1 (29 minutes)
- Module 3: Lung Cancer Part 2 (25 minutes)
- Module 4: Breast Cancer Part 1 (24 minutes)
- Module 4: Breast Cancer Part 2 (20 minutes)
- Module 5: Cervical Cancer Part 1 (21 minutes)
- Module 5: Cervical Cancer Part 2 (21 minutes)