The NN\/LM Pacific Northwest Region is pleased to announce two new Express Outreach Projects underway by the Northwest Regional Primary Care Association (NWRPCA) and the Multimedia Resources and Training Institute (MMRTI).<\/p>\n
Community Health Worker Outreach and Training Program – Northwest Regional Primary Care Association<\/strong><\/p>\n The goal of this project is to increase Community Health Workers’ familiarity, understanding and use of online health information resources.\u00a0 By doing so, Community Health Workers will be able to effectively access resources, thereby bolstering their ability to communicate critical health information to the populations they serve.\u00a0 The recognized value of Community Health Worker services will increase, which will help them become more fully integrated into the health care delivery system.<\/p>\n The Northwest Regional Primary Care Association<\/a> (NWRPCA) will develop a community health worker training curriculum for hands-on and webinar classes that will be piloted in Oregon and Washington.\u00a0 NWRPCA will integrate this program into its training plan, to be offered as a competency-building component of future trainings.\u00a0 Resources demonstrated will include MedlinePlus<\/a>, ToxTown<\/a>.\u00a0 Preliminary findings from the trainings and subsequent use of online resources will be presented at the Western Migrant Stream Forum, an annual conference produced by NWRPCA that brings together a broad representation of migrant health professionals and advocates for the purposes of education and training, information and resource sharing, coalition building, and policy development. In addtion, NWRPCA will explore the possibility of developing short bilingual video tutorials to be disseminated to Community Health Workers.<\/p>\n