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Term Effective:
Fall 2005
Description:
The Community Health Worker major program combines interactive course work and practical community experience to develop health outreach professionals as members of health care teams. These teams provide appropriate, practical services to medically under-served and high-risk populations, working with individuals, families, and communities through Health and Human Services programs, community health clinics and other health agencies and organizations.
Students will experience a variety of community health outreach strategies and techniques, including examining common disease and health problems, motivating health behavior change, preventing disease and injury, identifying and using community health resources, working with a health team, respecting cultural diversity, translating and interpreting (medical, cultural, linguistic), building trust and networks within communities, and improving client access to medical care.
Research in the Bay Area and in other areas of the United States is pointing toward a great potential for community health workers to play an expanded role in the U.S. health care system. In Sonoma County there are numerous community health workers with varying job titles and job descriptions who have had differing agency training. There is a demonstrated need for standardization of training. Students in the Santa Rosa Junior College Community Health Worker program will include both currently working Community Health Workers and individuals wishing to become Community Health Workers.
This program of study is also available as a Certificate of Achievement option. Click here for more information about the program, or contact the Health Sciences Department.
Program Requirements:
The requirements for the Community Health Worker (AS) program are:
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Complete 23 units from
- Community Health Worker Requirements
- Information Learning Resources Requirement
| Community Health Worker Requirements - complete 22.00 units |
| CHW 150 | Introduction to Community Health Work | 1.00 |
| CHW 151 | Outreach Techniques & Strategies | 3.00 |
| CHW 151L | Outreach Experience | 3.00 |
| CHW 152 | Health Issues and Resources | 3.00 |
| CHW 152L | Team Outreach Experience | 3.00 |
| CHW 153 | Community Health Education | 3.00 |
| HLE 50 | Health Choices | 3.00 |
| Course | Description | Units |
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| ANAT 58 | Introduction to Human Anatomy | 3.00 |
| CHLD 10 | Developmental Stages of Childhood | 3.00 |
| COMM 7 | Intercultural Communication | 3.00 |
| HLC 160 | Medical Terminology | 3.00 |
| PSYCH 1A | General Psychology | 3.00 |
| PSYCH 5 | Abnormal Psychology | 3.00 |
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| Information Learning Resources Requirement - complete 1.00 units |
Complete any combination totaling at least 1.00 units from the following:
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| LIR 10 | Introduction to Information Literacy | 1.00 |
| LIR 30 | Information Literacy for Research Projects | 1.00 |
| LIR 110 | Finding and Using Information | 1.00 |
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Term Effective:
Fall 2005
The requirements for this program of study are effective beginning the semester shown above. If you began working on this program before the effective semester, you may not be affected by the changes. Consult with the program contact person or the department chair to determine your eligibility to complete the program under previous requirements.
Term Inactive:
Spring 2011
Associate Degree Requirements:
The major is one of several requirements students need to fulfill in order to be awarded the Associate Degree, the highest level of academic achievement recognized by Santa Rosa Junior College. Please note that all of the following requirements must be met in order for the degree to be conferred:
For all students admitted for the Fall 2009 term or any term thereafter,
a grade of "C" or better, or "P" if the course is taken on a pass/no pass basis,
is required for each course applied toward the major.
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