Diné College Training

Diné College

Presenters

Sergio Matos

CHW-NEC Project Expert Consultant Community Health Worker Director for CHW Training and Development Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health 917-653-9699 sergio@chwnetwork.org

Sergio Matos has been a community health worker for over 20 years. As a CHW he has worked to help communities organize around issues of environmental and social justice; worked with families in crisis intervention for suicide, hunger, disease management and housing issues and has worked to help families access health services and navigate complicated health care systems to improve their health. For the past six years, Sergio has developed various programs to advance the field of health outreach in New York City through education, advocacy and research. He is a cofounder and executive director of the Community Health Worker Network of NYC – an independent professional association of CHWs that works to organize a CHW voice on issues of policy and practice for the field. Sergio presently serves the Community Health Worker Special Primary Interest Group of the American Public Health Association – the largest association of health professionals in the world--where he is the chairperson and works to develop a national platform that promotes the integration of the CHWs more fully into the healthcare system with recognition, dignity and respect. For the past few years, Sergio has worked to develop a CHW model to improve access to healthcare for poor and newly-immigrant communities in a managed care setting in New York City. This program serves as a sustainable CHW model fully integrated within the quality of care division in a corporate setting with full funding and support. Sergio has also developed and delivered training programs in an international effort to develop CHW models in the Caribbean. This work is currently being used in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to train CHWs who will help develop community capacity in a national effort to address HIV/AIDS education, prevention and treatment in that country. Most recently this work has extended to include the member nations of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, and The Bahamas, in partnership with the Clinton Foundation and the International Training and Education Center on HIV (I-TECH).

Mark Homan

CHW-NEC Core TA Institutional Partner Pima Community College (520) 206-6958 Mark.Homan@pima.edu

Mark has been playing off Broadway for twenty-seven years at Pima Community College, and he has also taught and lectured in graduate and undergraduate programs at numerous colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. He has been the primary instructor for the Community Health Worker Education Program at Pima Community College since its inception in 1998. Mark has been active in community development work throughout his career, and he often serves as consultant to public and private groups working to strengthen communities. Mark is the author of two widely used books: Promoting Community Change: Making It Happen in the Real World (3rd ed.) and Rules of the Game: Lessons From the Field of Community Change. Mark Homan is the former Chair of the Social Services Department at Pima Community College. In addition to his duties at Pima, Mark has served as an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at Northern Arizona University, the Graduate School of Social Work at Arizona State University, the Counseling, Deafness, and Human Services Department at the University of Tennessee, and the Human Services Program at St. Edward's University. He has also been a guest lecturer at other colleges, universities and training consortia in the United States, Russia, and Sweden. He received his MSW from Arizona State University in 1975 and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Mark is a strong advocate of community empowerment. He uses his own very active involvement in the community to contribute to its improvement and to increase his own learning. For over thirty years he has worked with diverse populations in urban, rural, and reservation communities on a broad range of issues, including neighborhood stabilization and empowerment, hunger, reproductive rights, children with special health care needs, community mental health, family planning, community health work, capital punishment, public schools and community development, political campaign organizing, foster care, and adoption. In addition to his roles as organizer, lobbyist, consultant and teacher, Mark has developed and directed several human services programs. He has also been a founding member of many community organizations and agencies and has served on numerous community boards and councils. Mark's textbook, Promoting Community Change: Making it Happen in the Real World, 3rd ed., is used in colleges and universities throughout the United States and abroad, as well as by public and private groups. His book, Rules of the Game: Lessons from the Field of Community Change, which is also used both as a textbook and as a guide for community change agents, is based on his many years of experience in community organization and development work. He has also been the author of numerous articles related to community work. Mark served on the Editorial Board of two national publications: Human Service Education, the Journal of the National Organization of Human Services; and Frontline Initiative, the publication of the National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals, published by the University of Minnesota. Mark has been the keynote speaker for significant state and national conferences. He has been the recipient of the numerous awards including the Outstanding Faculty Award from Pima Community College, Outstanding Field Faculty award from Arizona State University, and the President's Award and the Lenore McNeer Award given by the National Organization for Human Service Services, and the Lifetime Achievement award from the National Association of Social Workers, Arizona, District II. At this stage of his career Mark has come to accept the fact that he will not be playing shortstop for the San Francisco Giants.