LEARNING TRACKS

CHWTraining delivers health-specific online courses in a single annual subscription. Your team members can take interactive courses and download useful resources at their own pace. Customize your learning by choosing courses from the following learning tracks: Core Skills, Chronic Diseases, and Healthy Living. At the conclusion of your self-guided study, CHWTraining will provide assessments and certificates of completion.

Core Skills

Chronic illness

Healthy Living

LEARNING TRACK #1: CORE SKILLS

This track offers one-week courses teaching essential skills for communicating with, and advocating for, people from a variety of backgrounds. It is designed for people who are new to community health work as well as teams of any experience level who want standardized training. The courses provide tools, such as health coaching and motivational interviewing, to help CHWs boost health literacy in their communities. The track also teaches skills in navigating health insurance that CHWs can use to guide and empower their patients to interact more confidently with insurance representatives and health care providers.

REVIEWS

I liked the ability to practice and how interactive the workshop was

Participant Health Literacy – A Start

I gained some very useful knowledge about the Affordable Care Act and I feel equipped to share this knowledge with my community. I’m now able to serve my community even more than before when it comes to healthcare! If someone asks me, “What does the marketplace have to offer me?” or “Where can I find more information about the ACA changes?” I can give them an answer in plain English.

Alecia DistinLicensed Health Navigator
Participant, Navigating Health Insurance

LEARNING TRACK #2: CHRONIC ILLNESS

Track #2 is designed for people seeking to learn the basics of chronic diseases, what they are and how they affect the patients who suffer from them, and how chronic illness relates to communities as a whole. The courses train CHWs in essential skills to help their patients navigate a path to diagnosis, treatment, and self-management of chronic conditions such as diabetes; hypertension; asthma and other lung conditions; HIV; and chronic substance use.

Reviews

I learned a great deal from this course. I’m excited to share what I’ve learned at work, and with family & friends that struggle w/ their hypertension.

Participant High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)

LEARNING TRACK #3: HEALTHY LIVING

This learning track is for nonclinical health workers and/or their supervisors who interact with patients suffering from behavioral-health disorders such as alcohol and substance misuse, depression, anxiety and other mood disorders, obesity, poor nutrition, and lack of exercise. CHWs learn essential skills to provide social support for patients to help them get the treatment they need, and to guide and support them in healthy eating, and regular exercise, and making use of available family-planning services. This track emphasizes the relationship between healthy living and chronic disease.

REVIEWS

I work in an MAT/SUD clinic, this was excellent information. I would love to make this, or something similar, available to everyone!

Anne FinleyParticipant, Substance Use

I work in an MAT/SUD clinic, this was excellent information. I would love to make this, or something similar, available to everyone!

Cindi ClutterbuckParticipant, Substance Use