The Development of a Novel, Standards-Based Core Curriculum for Community Facing, Clinic-Based Community Health Workers.

ABSTRACT: Introduction: Historically, CHW trainings have been developed to support community-based CHWs. When CHWs have been trained to engage with patients, typically such trainings have been for short term grant funded projects, focusing on a specific health intervention and not for long term, ongoing engagement of CHWs employed in clinical settings. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such effort to describe the development of a standards-based training curriculum for clinic-based CHWs using a novel conceptual framework. Methods: Our conceptual approach for curricular development has several innovative features including: (1) a foundational consultation process with CHW national experts to inform curricular development approach, process and content; (2) utilization of th

SUBMITTER: George S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8215713 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature