OVERVIEW

Community health workers (CHWs) play a vital role in improving the health and well-being of the communities they serve and are critical to the prevention and management of diabetes. This module prepares you to develop a QI training process explicitly tailored for CHWs, empowering them to leverage their unique expertise and insights as partners in QI efforts within primary care practices and other organizations

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Recognize how CHWs impact their community and its health care.

• Design a QI training for CHWs using the ADA’s QI 101 Modules for CHWs.

• Describe three techniques for increasing practice readiness to engage CHWs in QI.

This program is part of the Know Diabetes by Heart™ initiative

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