Community Health Worker Professional Development Hours

Community Health Worker Professional Development Hours

Our Professional Development hours provide continuing education credit toward recertification for current CHWs. 

Human Rights

Do you know your human rights? What
are human rights? Come to HEC's
professional development course for
Community Health Workers from a
Human Rights perspective. Learn about
the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, what those rights are, and what
it means to focus on human rights when
practicing Community Health Work.

Event Date 05-26-2023 10:00 am
Event End Date 05-26-2023 12:00 pm
Capacity Unlimited
Registered 22
Individual Price Fifty USD

We are no longer accepting registration for this event

Gender and Orientation

This class will dive into unpacking gender identity and sexual orientation to help CHW's better serve people from various backgrounds. An analysis of our culture's current position on gender identity and sexual orientation will be done. Participants will be exposed to a diverse range of sexual orientations, gender identities, sexual expressions, life and love styles, and erotically marginalized populations. Participants will also gain a greater perspective of healthcare issues related to sexual orientation and gender identity.

Event Date 06-16-2023 10:00 am
Event End Date 06-16-2023 12:00 pm
Capacity Unlimited
Registered 0
Individual Price Fifty USD
Adverse Childhood Experiences & Trauma Informed Care

This workshop aims to create awareness and engage community involvement around preventing and healing trauma among vulnerable communities throughout Connecticut, on the impact of trauma, including Adverse Childhood

Experiences (ACEs) on longer-term health outcomes and wellbeing.

In this workshop, Community Health Workers will learn: What is ACEs

The types of ACEs prevalence in Connecticut

The negative health outcomes of ACEs

Learn some protective factors of ACEs

Event Date 07-21-2023 10:00 am
Event End Date 07-21-2023 12:00 pm
Capacity Unlimited
Registered 0
Individual Price Fifty USD
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Connecting students to health education careers, professionals to communities, and communities to better health.

55 Main Street, Ste 270

Norwich, CT 06360
P: (860) 465-8281
F: (860) 760-6230 
info@healtheducenter.org

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