2024 - 2025 Community Health Team Trainings
The following trainings are for relevant Blueprint Community Health workers, staff, supervisors, and DULCE staff. Community Health Team workers will receive email invitations.
Community Health Workers in Primary Care Settings Training
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the early global roots of the CHW profession and the evolution of this field in the U.S
- Identify the ways in which CHW's contribute to helping achieve Triple Aim goals
- Differentiate between the roles of CHWs in community and clinical settings
- Recognize actions that fall outside of established CHW professional boundaries
Motivational Interviewing Training
Learning Objectives:
- Define MI as a counseling style
- Understand and be able to define the Spirit of MI
- Define the 4 principles of MI
- Demonstrate skills with OARS
- Demonstrate an ability to identify sustain and change talk
- Demonstrate at least 2 methods to elicit change talk
Pediatric Model Webinars
- Blueprint for Health has collaborated with the Vermont Department of Health/Division of Family and Child Health (FCH) to expand our offerings for Vermont's pediatric population. This includes the implementation of the DULCE (Developmental Understanding and Legal Collaboration for Everyone) approach and the placement of DULCE Family Specialists in six Blueprint practices.
- We are excited to announce the launch of a new virtual pediatric learning series for all Blueprint practices and teams. This new series emphasizes a relational approach and trust building with families to promote social-emotional health among our pediatric patient population. The series will occur over the next year and will combine best-practice learning with practical and real-life examples and tools, with loads of opportunities to ask questions, workshop strategies and collectively problem solve challenges.
Structural Competency and Cultural Humility Webinars
Learning Objectives:
- Identify links between racial and health inequities and health disparities
- Define cultural and linguistic competency and indicate familiarity with the stages of cultural competency
- Describe the implications of demographic trends for health disparities
- Integrate National CLAS Standards into service providing and practice
- Describe how cultural beliefs shape clinical encounters and patients’ health outcomes
- Incorporate structural competence and cultural humility into service providing and practice
Supervisor Community Health Worker Training
This training focuses on the important role of the supervisor for support, advocacy, and sustainability of the CHW role and workforce.
Topics covered will include
- Systems thinking
- Upholding the roles and boundaries of the CHW workforce,
- Staff development including performance reviews, and
- Supervisor action steps for developing their teams.