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Curriculum DevelopmentsooooIn 1986 The Arizona Area Health Education Center Program in the RuralHealth Office of The University of Arizona developed a “Prenatal HealthCourse titled “Un Comienzo Sano” (A healthy beginning) Joel Meister andJill de Zapien, as PIs. This was originated as a training for migrant farmworker promotores in response to their perinatal health needs in the Yuma,Arizona and San Luis, Sonora, Mexico border region. This curriculum wasadopted by the Arizona Department of Health Services for the state HealthStart program. (Dr. Ortiz talked about the short handled hoe)A shift was seen for developing curricula of entry-level common (“core”)skills and competencies in the mid 1990s.By 1995, college-based credit and non-credit curricula began to appear.The “Community Health Works” project was funded by the U.S. Departmentof Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education(FIPSE) program to establish a college credit-bearing curriculum for CHWs;this project was carried out by San Francisco State University and CityCollege (1995-1998), and a 17 credit performance-based basic certificateprogram emerged which was employer advised and accepted…they evendeveloped a career ladder of employment advancement for CHWs in theBerkley California region: CHW I (basic), CHW II (intermediate), and CHWIII (management/supervisory level).
Curriculum Developmentso Then came another FIPSE-funded rural community collegecurricular development project in 1998 titled: “Project JumpStart.” The Principal Investigator was Don Proulx, AssociateDirector of the Arizona Area Health Education CenterProgram. This project engaged 4 community colleges and 3regional AHECs. A guidebook for college-related programswas published: ”Core Curriculum Guidebook for a CommunityHealth Worker Basic Certificate Program” (Proulx andcontributors, 2002) This instructional guide contained 6 corecompetency modules and a fieldwork course guide.o A second FIPSE funded project was carried out by TheUniversity of Arizona AHEC Program, with Don Proulx as PIand with co-director E. Lee Rosenthal. This was a nationalproject titled “A National Community of Practice forPostsecondary Community Health Worker Education” (2004-2008). It became known as the Community Health WorkerNational Education Collaborative (CHW-NEC) www.chwnec.org
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Curriculum DevelopmentsooooIn 1986 The Arizona Area Health Education Center Program in the RuralHealth Office of The University of Arizona developed a “Prenatal HealthCourse titled “Un Comienzo Sano” (A healthy beginning) Joel Meister andJill de Zapien, as PIs. This was originated as a training for migrant farmworker promotores in response to their perinatal health needs in the Yuma,Arizona and San Luis, Sonora, Mexico border region. This curriculum wasadopted by the Arizona Department of Health Services for the state HealthStart program. (Dr. Ortiz talked about the short handled hoe)A shift was seen for developing curricula of entry-level common (“core”)skills and competencies in the mid 1990s.By 1995, college-based credit and non-credit curricula began to appear.The “<strong>Community</strong> Health Works” project was funded by the U.S. Departmentof Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education(FIPSE) program to establish a college credit-bearing curriculum for CHWs;this project was carried out by San Francisco State University and City<strong>College</strong> (1995-1998), and a 17 credit performance-based basic certificateprogram emerged which was employer advised and accepted…they evendeveloped a career ladder of employment advancement for CHWs in theBerkley California region: CHW I (basic), CHW II (intermediate), and CHWIII (management/supervisory level).
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