3242.0 Building capacity with community/lay health workers

Monday, November 8, 2010: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Roundtable
Community/lay health workers serve an important role in reaching and teaching various disadvantaged populations. This roundtable session features projects that utilize community/lay health workers to help build public health capacity within their communities. Best practices, challenges, and acheivements will be discussed.
Session Objectives: 1. Discuss the role of community/lay health workers in building public health capacity. 2. Synthesize findings from presentations to describe barriers and benefits of using community/lay health workers.
Moderator:
Keiko Sakagami, EdD, CHES

Table 1
Culturally appropriate delivery of asthma management education via Community Health Workers: Evaluation of a Chicago based intervention
Melissa A. Gutierrez, MS, Helen Margellos-Anast, MPH and Steven Whitman, PhD
Table 2
Lessons learned from the "Native Navigators and Cancer Continuum" public health intervention
Linda Burhansstipanov, DrPH, Linda U. Krebs, PhD, RN, AOCN, FAAN, Brenda Seals, PhD, MPH, Noel L. Pingatore, BS CPH, Shinobu Watanabe-Galloway, PhD and Daniel Petereit, MD
Table 3
Using community pased participatory approaches to influence system support for community health workers
Timothy Noe, PhD
Table 4
Effectiveness and utilization of a parent education curriculum: A two-level evaluation of educators and parents
Sheetal Malhotra, MBBS, MS, Diane M. Santa Maria, MSN APRN-BC, Hilda M. Chavarria, BS and Melissa Steiner, MSA, CHES
Table 5
An evaluation of the Avon Foundation community education and outreach initiative (CEOI) patient navigation program
Dana Allen, BS, Kimberly Arriola, PhD, MPH, Winifred Wilkins Thompson, PhD, MSW and Tamara Mason, MPH, CHES
Table 6
Exploring evaluation findings from the Getting on Target with Community Health Advisors project
Susan Mayfield-Johnson, PhD,MPH,CHES, Laura Hall Downey, DrPH, Charkarra Anderson-Lewis, PhD, Lachel Story, PhD, RN, Rebekah Young, MPH, CHES, Pearlean Day, MEd and Arnecca Byrd, MPH, MS
Table 7
Promotores as partners in a community-based diabetes intervention
Carmen Maynes, MPH and Joanne McCloskey, PhD
  
Table 8
Using community based participatory approaches to influence system support for community health workers : Lessons from REACH communities
Shannon Cosgrove, MHA
Table 9
Project Dulce's diabetes peer educator program assessment on behavioral outcomes: January 2008 – November 2008
Sonia Contreras, MS, Leticia Ocana, MPH, Chris Walker, MPH and Alba Araujo
Table 10
Jump Start To Health: A beauty salon -based health behavior education program
Kimberly Fowler, PhD, Shainika Thompson and Shallon Craddock, MD, MPH

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Organized by: Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Endorsed by: Community Health Workers, Social Work

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