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SUMMARY:Older Adults & Dementia Care Training
DESCRIPTION:Office of Health Aging Presents: Community Health Worker Older Adult Training \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis training targets individuals who are certified as CHWs or are working toward CHW certification. Please join us for this specialized training for Community Health Workers who are interested in serving older adults in the state of RI.  \n\n\n\nThis training is supported by the Rhode Island Office of Healthy Aging with ARPA funding  from the U.S. Health and Human Services’ Administration for Community Living. \n\n\n\nAll participants who successfully complete the full training will receive a $350 stipend and RI College certificate of completion. The training is provided by RI College and includes: \n\n\n\n\n Building Holistic Relationship with Older Adults (35-hours) a RICB Specialization\n\n\n\n Dementia Competent Practice: Promoting Dignity & Person-Centered Care (5-hours).\n\n\n\n\n\nShare Flyer\n\n\n\nApply\n\n\n\n\nThe training will be delivered over a six-week period: 5 in-person session and 1 online session. The in-person sessions will be held at RI College’s Alger Hall\, room 107 (morning and lunch refreshments will be provided). Classes will meet on Saturdays from 9am – 3pm (see the schedule below): \n\n\n\n\nAugust 24\, 2024 9am – 3pm in-person\n\n\n\nAugust 31\, 2024 and September 7\, 2024 no in-person classes; participants complete online work •  \n\n\n\nSeptember 14\, 2024 9am – 3pm in-person \n\n\n\nSeptember 21\, 2024 9am – 3pm in-person\n\n\n\nSeptember 28\, 2024 9am – 3pm in-person \n\n\n\nOctober 5\, 2024 9am – 3pm in-person\n\n\n\n\nUpon completing the training\, participants will increase their understanding of: \n\n\n\n\nCommunity Health Workers (CHWs)\, Aging & the Workforce\n\n\n\nSociological Contexts of Aging: Obstacles & Opportunities\n\n\n\nPractice Perspectives: Building Partnerships that Empower\n\n\n\nSocial Determinants of Health & Aging: Obstacles & Opportunities\n\n\n\nThreats to Healthy Aging: Behavioral Health Challenges & Dementia (5-hours)\n\n\n\nHealthy Aging\n\n\n\nEmpowering Partnerships & Resource Navigation\n\n\n\n\nIn support of building the CHW Workforce in the field of aging\, this training program will support applications and fees for certifications for Community Health Worker and Older Adults Specialization. \n\n\n\nPlease submit your application by August 20th. You will receive confirmation of your acceptance by the 21st. \n\n\n\nIf you have questions\, please contact Tonya Glantz (401-456-4626; tglantz@ric.edu).  \n\n\n\nClick here to apply: Office of Health Aging Presents: Community Health Worker Older Adult Training Application \n\n\n\n\nApply
URL:https://chwari.org/event/older-adults-dementia-care-training/
LOCATION:Rhode Island College\, 107 Alger Hall\, 600 Mount Pleasant Street\, Providence\, RI\, 02908\, United States
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SUMMARY:In-Person CHW Panel Discussion: “We Need To Get Paid For Our Value"
DESCRIPTION:“We Need to Get Paid for Our Value”:\n\n\n\nMaking the Community Health Worker Role and Peer Recovery Specialist Role Sustainable\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin CHWARI in-person on 2/26\, 1-4pm\, at Rhode Island College’s Institute for Education in Healthcare for a vibrant discussion with a panel of researchers (two of whom have lived experience of addiction) and CHWs/peer recovery specialists. This in an in-person event at Alger Hall Room 110 on the Rhode Island College campus. Zoom is only being used for registration purposes. \n\n\n\nThis event is a panel of researchers who were involved with a recent study of CHW/Peer role definitions and work conditions in Rhode Island\, published in Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly. They will discuss their own experiences of working in these roles as well as the changes needed to make them sustainable on the program\, institutional\, and legislative levels.    \n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\n\nRead Article\n\n\n\nPDF Flyer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbstract: \n\n\n\nAfter decades of playing a critical role in extending healthcare to the most marginalized\, Community Health Workers (and more recently\, peer recovery specialists) are becoming widely recognized. From the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMSHA) to the American Journal of Public Health\, important voices have called to expand these roles in response to the staffing crisis facing healthcare and mental healthcare/substance use disorder treatment. However\, all is clearly not well. A series of recent publications have described wide-spread burnout\, emotional exhaustion\, moral injury\, economic exploitation\, and high workforce turnover. Although these impacts were intensified during the COVID 19 pandemic\, they began well before March 2020 and\, if anything\, have only worsened since. As one harm-reduction worker recently stated: “The new normal is a non-stop crisis.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanelists:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnthony Thigpen\, CCHW/PRS \n\n\n\nI am a program coordinator for a program called Connect For Health. This program is housed in Lifespan’s Community Health Institute which connects men and women and families to resources in the community. I started out as a community health worker with Providence RI Transition Clinic at the Center for primary care\, and one of the founders of Docs For Health\, a tool that has been designed to screen and intervene for social determinants of health. Also\, formally incarcerated\, and recently celebrated 16 years of being free.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArryn A. Guy\, PhD \n\n\n\nInvestigator\, Brown University School of Public Health \n\n\n\nDr. Arryn A. Guy (she/they) is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in Rhode Island and an Investigator in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the Brown University School of Public Health. Dr. Guy’s work focuses on community-based participatory research with queer and trans communities to develop and implement evidence-based behavioral health interventions. Their work aims to heal negative psychological sequelae resulting from stigma\, support addiction recovery\, increase access to gender affirmative care\, and reduce HIV health inequities.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTee Dorsey\, CPRS  \n\n\n\nTee Dorsey\, CPRS has worked as a Community Health Worker\, Certified Peer Recovery Specialist\, Violence Interrupter and now works at Project Weber Renew as a Court Support Navigator. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJon Soske\, PhD \n\n\n\nJon Soske is a person in long-term recovery from drug and alcohol addiction and researcher at the Lifespan Division of Addiction Medicine.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSara Alavi\, MA \n\n\n\nMD Candidate at University of California\, San Francisco \n\n\n\nSara Alavi is a medical student at the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program. She is pursuing an MD from the UC San Francisco and an MS from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health\, researching environmental health disparities and urban greening. Following her graduation from Brown University in 2021\, she completed a Fulbright-funded MA in Medical Anthropology at SOAS University of London. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLex Morales\, CCMC \n\n\n\nLex Morales is Pawtucket Program Manager for Project Weber/Renew
URL:https://chwari.org/event/panel-discussion-we-need-to-get-paid-for-our-value/
LOCATION:Rhode Island College\, 107 Alger Hall\, 600 Mount Pleasant Street\, Providence\, RI\, 02908\, United States
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SUMMARY:Apprenticeship Accelerator: Win-Win for Healthcare Employers and Employees
DESCRIPTION:Register!\n\n\n\n\nLearn about CHWARI’s new CHW Apprenticeship Program here: CHW Apprenticeship Program
URL:https://chwari.org/event/apprenticeship-accelerator-win-win-for-healthcare-employers-and-employees/
LOCATION:Rhode Island College\, 107 Alger Hall\, 600 Mount Pleasant Street\, Providence\, RI\, 02908\, United States
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SUMMARY:CHW Career Fair
DESCRIPTION:If you are not yet certified but are interested in working as a Community Health Worker and also in receiving support to obtain certification – this is for YOU!   \n\n\n\nThe Community Health Worker Association of RI (CHWARI) and the Institute for Education in Healthcare at Rhode Island College are sponsoring a CHW Career Fair!! Fifteen CHW employers will be on site conducting interviews for about 20 open positions!  All of these positions are eligibile for an additional apprenticeship stipend (potentially $5000 to $9000 on top of your salary!) to help you get certified and prepared to be a great CHW! \n\n\n\nTime\, Location\, and Public Transportation\n\n\n\nOctober 24th\, 2023 from 4:00- 6:00pmRhode Island CollegeAlger Hall Room 110Providence\, RI 02908 \n\n\n\nRhode Island College is accessible by RIPTA bus #92 and 5 and 27 is nearby. See schedules.  \n\n\n\nEmployers with Open Positions\n\n\n\nSeveral employers will be there representing organizations including but not limited to: \n\n\n\n\nTides Family Services\n\n\n\nEBCAP\n\n\n\nThundermist\n\n\n\nBosWell\n\n\n\nLifespan\n\n\n\nPCHC\n\n\n\nTricounty\n\n\n\nBlackstone Valley Community Health\n\n\n\nAND MORE!!!!\n\n\n\n\nNeed help getting prepared?\n\n\n\nPlease reach out if you would like assistance in preparing a resume\, cover letter\, or interviewing skills in advance and we will do our best to connect to available services. Contact Tara LaMarre with interest! tlamarre@ric.edu. 401-456-8706 \n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\nRegistration link: https://forms.gle/XjZA3XqVK5gLtKgu7 \n\n\n\nCan’t make it but are interested in these jobs?Contact Tara LaMarre for more details!
URL:https://chwari.org/event/chw-career-fair/
LOCATION:Rhode Island College\, 107 Alger Hall\, 600 Mount Pleasant Street\, Providence\, RI\, 02908\, United States
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