Jossey-Bass Public Health/Health Services Text: Foundations for Community Health Workers (ePub)

Foundations for Community Health Workers
Foundations for Community Health Workers is a training resourcefor client- and community-centered public health
practitioners, with an emphasis on promoting health equality.Based on City College of San Francisco's CHW Certificate
Program, it begins with an overview of the historic andpolitical context informing the practice of community health
workers. The second section of the book addresses corecompetencies for working with individual clients, such as
behavior change counseling and case management, and practitionerdevelopment topics such as ethics, stress management, and conflictresolution. The book's final section covers skills for practice atthe group and community levels, such as
conducting health outreach and facilitating community organizingand advocacy.
Praise for Foundations for Community Health Workers
"This book is the first of its kind: a manual of corecompetencies and curricula for training community healthworkers.
Covering topics from health inequalities to patient-centeredcounseling, this book is a tremendous resource for both
scholars of and practitioners in the field of community-basedmedicine. It also marks a great step forward in any setting,
rich or poor, in which it is imperative to reduce healthdisparities and promote genuine health and well-being."
--Paul E. Farmer, MD., PhD, Maude and Lillian Presley Professorof Social Medicine in the Department of Global Health and SocialMedicine at Harvard Medical School; founding director, Partners InHealth.
"This book is based on the contributions of experienced CHWs andadvocates of the field. I am confident that it will serve as aninspiration for many CHW training programs."
--Yvonne Lacey, CHW, former coordinator, Black Infant HealthProgram, City of Berkeley Health Department; former chair, CHWSpecial Interest Group for the APHA.
"This book masterfully integrates the knowledge, skills, andabilities required of a CHW through storytelling and real life caseexamples. This simple and elegant approach brings to life theintricacies of the work and espouses the spirit of the role that isso critical to eliminating disparities--a true modeleducational approach to emulate."
--Gayle Tang, MSN, RN., director, National Linguistic andCultural Programs, National Diversity, Kaiser Permanente
"Finally, we have a competency-based textbook for communityhealth worker education--well informed by seasoned CHWsthemselves as well as expert contributors."
--Donald E. Proulx, CHW National Education Collaborative,University of Arizona