 | The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA |
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| The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA |
Sally Henry, MA RN FHCE, Oregon Pacific Area Health Education Center (AHEC), 327 Snell Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, 541-737-8601, sally.henry@orst.edu, Wendy Coppage, BS, Southeast Field Team and Community Capacitation Center, Multnomah County Health Department, 3653 SE 34th St., Portland, OR 97202, and Noel Wiggins, MSPH, Community Capacitation Center, Multnomah County Health Department, 10317 E Burnside, Portland, OR 97217.
Oregon Pacific Area Health Education Center (OP AHEC) and Multnomah County’s Community Capacitation Center have developed a cross-training initiative for Native American/American Indian Community Health Representatives (CHRs) and Oregon State University’s Master of Public Health (MPH) students as one component of the Oregon Health Education and Training Center (HETC) program. Using popular education techniques, participants learned the roles and responsibilities of CHRs, public health principles, and basic health and disease concepts as well as Native American cultural views of health and illness with and from each other. Community health representatives (CHRs) from four tribal entities in Oregon were recruited and participated in a capacity-building program based on findings from the National Community Health Advisor Study (Anna E. Casey Foundation, 1996) For the first time in this region, graduate students in public health promotion and education were included in the capacity-building sessions. The public health students contributed as facilitators for modules on public health principles and techniques and the CHRs facilitated sessions about culturally appropriate strategies for working with Native Americans/American Indians. The methodology used in the sessions, Popular Education, draws out and builds on what participants already know based on their life experiences. Sessions are lively and consistently highly rated by learners whose personal expertise is validated and honored. This poster session will describe the establishment of initial relationships, curriculum design and use of popular education, program highlights, participant learnings and reactions. It will offer tips for implementation in other settings.
Learning Objectives:
Keywords: Career Development, Cultural Competency
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
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.