Addressing Training Gaps: A Competency-Based, Telehealth Training Initiative for Community Health Workers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To overcome vast variations in Community Health Worker (CHW) training, investigators for the CHW Core Consensus Project (CCCP) derived three types of CHW (Category 1, 2, 3) and established competencies for each category. However, studies are needed that implement these competencies in real-world settings.

Objective

Using the six competency domains of the CCCP as a theoretical backbone, we developed and evaluated a training for Category 1 CHWs, individuals whose focus is on community outreach and advocacy.

Methods

We developed five telehealth-based, bilingual (Spanish/English) training sessions and implemented them among Category 1 Latino(a) CHWs. We measured the number of CHWs who achieved ≥70% correct on a domain-based posttest, attendance, a

SUBMITTER: Porterfield L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10282968 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature