Community Health Worker Trainings

OCECHE partnered with the University of Chicago Medicine Urban Health Initiative to provide cancer-focused trainings for their community health worker program. Topics for trainings were provided by the community health workers themselves, based on educational deficits experienced in the field.

Additionally, Dr. Marcia Tan secured external funding to support research on adapting health behavioral and educational trainings for community health workers (CHWs), who work directly with at-risk populations.

Dr. Tan and the CHAT Lab team’s formative work has supported the development Community Health Allies Nicotine Guidance Education (C.H.A.N.G.E.), a motivational interviewing tobacco cessation curriculum, as well as the initial development of CHWs CARE (Connect, Advocate, Refer, Empower, Educate), an advance care planning curriculum in oncology.

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C.H.A.N.G.E. Training

June 27, 2025