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COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER - GENERAL PRACTITIONER
60 CEUs
All community health worker training provided by the College of Clinical Care is trauma-focused. Community Health Workers are:
health care providers and frontline public health workers that extend health care services to vulnerable populations, including implementing programs that promote, maintain, and improve individual and overall community life, health, wellness, prevention, and recovery; and, serve as advocates, liaisons, researchers, and mediators between health/social services and the community in order to facilitate access to health services and improve the quality and cultural competence of health service delivery.
Community Health Workers are health educators, health coaches, health advocates, and health care service providers.
The CHW designation generally requires 160 hours (60 hours of education/100 hours of supervised experience) of training. CHW specialties may have additional requirements.
The CHW - General Practitioner™ curriculum combines the basic community health education with the National Council for Mental Wellbeing whole health curriculum and is designed for generalist-awareness to practitioner-competent level healthcare workers.
The National Council for Mental Wellbeing (NCMW) (formerly known as the National Council for Behavioral Health) promotes understanding of mental wellbeing as a core component of comprehensive health and health care. The NCMW trains helpers to identify, understand and respond to signs and symptoms of mental health and substance use recovery challenges.