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Volunteer community health workers (CHWs) are a major strategy for increasing access to and coverage of basic health interventions. Our village health worker training course reviews the process of training and continuing education of CHWs as an important component of involving communities in their own health service delivery. Participants will be guided through the steps of planning training and continuing education activities for village volunteers. The course draws on real-life examples from community-directed onchocerciasis control, village health worker programs, community case management efforts, peer educators programs and patent medicine vendor training programs, to name a few.
In this module, we will focus on monitoring, as well as look at a sample community volunteer session. There will be a quiz covering lectures 7-8 after completing the lectures in this module. You will also be able to revise your rough draft in the Course Project section of this module.
treatment, would be some treatment scenarios.
these four different situations, and ask the group, what would you do?
what would they advise, how would they counsel the person, et cetera.
And then, the groups would come back and report.
would do and get feedback from the other trainees.
with each other and give feedback to each other.
part of the learning process, so that they are very active.
The trainer doesn't have to talk all the time.
to make sure that the client takes the medicine correctly.
We've done some storytelling about this already.
What would happen if people don't take it, making up some educational stories.
printed up too, to hand out for the trainees to take home.
patient comes to the village health worker's house.
have the appropriate packet, but then they show that to the caregiver.
that we had samples of the packet to pass around and they discussed.
themselves becoming expert in the packet, can show and explain.
trainees what they saw on the packet, that they ask the client.
the tablets, any other pictures on the packet.
time of days, number of doses, they could literally point to that.
importance of taking the medicine correctly.
not be able to comply with this and figure out how to overcome those problems.
to be sure that he or she has understood them and remembered them correctly.
the client and one is the village health worker.
your training program for a particular session.
The take home job aids are very important.
We talked about having a job aid that would list counseling steps.
Here is a job aid that shows tablets of the different kinds.
themselves, as we said, in a way are job aids.
they have things to carry home with them.
be reinforced among the trainees, if they do some role play.
medicine, take it, take all the drugs, whatever.
training, of getting them involved and thinking and remembering.
to the village to help with their own health education and counseling.
We would want to make up a record form for the villagers to use.
but the record forms could be simple checklists.
for whom you've given that treatment and submit that.
register and then you summarize.
the level of literacy and understanding of the volunteers in your community.
example.
and we can then practice recording those in on the sample forms that they have.
each other feedback on the quality of how well they've recorded the information.
very good register and has the level of education.
the end of the month, they summarize that.
tools that they're going to use in their village.
you hand over the medicine and say bye-bye.
up with the neighbors to see what's happening.
of the age dose, the medicine would be take twice a day for three days.
we need to, again, emphasize the problems of not taking the medicine in time.
that the people they gave that medicine to are taking it completely and correctly.
it happens to be.
what time of day people are on the farms or in their shops.
They know how to find people and how to talk to them.
how best to follow up people that they've treated.
cost we have transportation lack of transportation in many cases.
But, for severe Malaria we may not be able to handle it in the village.
when it's time to refer somebody to the health center.
or seen in their own village about serious Malaria.
leave home and go ten or 15 kilometers to the health center.
back or there may be a larger group discussion.
What are you going to do?
may be other ways of getting people there.
about how they, themselves, are going to get this to happen.
volunteer is trying to convince the family to take the child to the nearby clinic.
role play, maybe repeating it, trying to do it better.
At the end of the session, we will want to do an evaluation.
We can do simple question and answer.
ask the volunteers to see what they have remembered.
And again, getting as many different people as possible to participate.
people give an answer being sure to ask the others, do you agree with this?
Is there anything else you want to add?
So, that this becomes an interactive review of preceding activities.
were the village volunteer receiving this training.
Do you think we made the information easy to understand for a typical villager.
Think about this, what would you do differently?
hear your answers, but we want you to think about this.
for training volunteers where you come from?
What would you do different?
How do these methods differ from classroom instruction?
Why are they different?
The key issue of adult learning is we want the volunteers to participate actively.
questions, give feedback, demonstrate to us what they've learned.
to evaluate, in a situation like this, what volunteers have learned.
can you observe during the session and afterward?
What can you ask or interview?
Are there any written documents?
you can review to see what they have accomplished.
us and pretending you were a village volunteer.
to adapt to other health problems in your own communities.
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