A program to train nursing, medical, occupational therapy and physical therapy students in interdisciplinary community-based practice was developed and is being implemented by an interdisciplinary team of faculty at an urban health sciences university. An elective and concentration track in community health are offered for the students. Both tracks require participating in an interdisciplinary community health course during which students develop, implement and test public health interventions as members of interdisciplinary teams for homeless individuals and families residing in shelters and transitional housing programs. During last semester, four student teams completed comprehensive needs assessments of their sites. The results of their needs assesments lead to proposed interventions for each site. This semester, each student team will design and implement the intervention for their site. One student team will design and implement a train-the-trainer program of staff development for a shelter that provides a day program for homeless adults and a sixty-one bed residency for homeless men. This program will train designated staff to conduct a conflict and anger management program for homeless men and women at the shelter. This presentation will discuss the process of developing the train-the-trainer program, the program curriculum, and the results of the first cycle of training. Program evaluation will include pre- and posttests of participant knowledge on conflict and anger management, skills in group facilitation, perceived self-efficacy regarding job performance, global self-esteem and job satisfaction.
Learning Objectives: At the end of the session, the participants will be able to: 1) describe an innovative interdisciplinary community health curriculum, 2) describe a collaborative process for designing a train-the-trainer program in conflict and anger management, 3) discuss the results of the program evaluation, and 4) apply principles and processes from this training program to other training programs
Keywords: Homeless, Training
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: None
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.