Florida Technical Assistance Workshop

Florida

Presenters

Donald E. Proulx

Director of the FIPSE Funded "National Community of Practice for College Responsive CHW Education," also known as "The Community Health Worker-National Education Collaborative (CHW-NEC)" University of Arizona Area Health Education Centers Program 1834 East Mabel St. Tucson, AZ 85721 phone:(520) 626-4026 dproulx@u.arizona.edu

With the University of Arizona, Don served as the director of the Arizona Border Health Education and Training Centers (HETCs) program. This program addressed health personnel and consumer training, with an emphasis in border public health issues. Training was included for community health workers, known as promotores. Promotores are integral to effective border health services outreach, and they are included in interdisciplinary health professions student teams. Cross-border and bi-national programs were included in the work of the HETCs to address health disparities and access to care issues unique to the border region. Mr. Proulx now serves as associate director of the Arizona Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) program, and he is the principal investigator and co-director of the Community Health Worker National Education Collaborative, funded by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) of the U.S. Dept. of Education. A higher education and microbiology graduate of the University of Arizona, the emphasis of Don's graduate work in higher education was in curriculum and instruction. Mr. Proulx has served the Arizona AHEC program since 1989 both as a founding center (AHEC) director and as the Arizona AHEC Program associate director. Don served as instructional dean and district director for all the Health Sciences Programs with Pima Community College in Tucson for 15 years (1970-85). He was field director, stationed at Pan American University in Texas, for Project HOPE's Southwest Mexican Border Health Workforce Development Program from 1985-88. This program collaborated with nine institutions of higher education all along the Mexican border region from Texas to California to develop, implement, and evaluate accredited programs in nursing and allied health disciplines, include community health workers/promotores. Project HOPE provided recruitment, retention, and placement services for border area Hispanic students indigenous to the border neighborhoods; the project improved border area Hispanic representation in the delivery of health and human services.

E. Lee Rosenthal

Co-director of the CHW-NEC Project Assistant Professor, College of Health Sciences University of Texas at El Paso 1101 N. Campbell Street El Paso, TX 79902 (915) 747-8233 Cell: (520) 909-0262 Fax: (915) 747-8315 elrosenthal@utep.edu

Lee is an Assistant Professor in Health Promotion at the University of Texas at El Paso. Her interests include community-based public health research projects and a broad array of community health worker program research and field development efforts throughout the United States. She is currently co-director of the Community Health Worker National Education Collaborative and an associate scientist to a Community Health Worker National Workforce Study; both projects are federally funded. She also serves as a co-investigator on a newly funded study entitled: "Can Promotores Change Clinical Outcomes for Chronic Disease?" This was funded in fall 2005 by the National Institute's of Health National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Recent research areas have included an analysis of rural domestic violence issues facing rural Pima County immigrants at the Arizona-Mexico border as well as work exploring ways to strengthen migrant farm worker CHW/promotora programs along the U.S.-Mexico border. Among her most notable accomplishments is her work as the director/initiator of the National Community Health Advisor Study (University of Arizona, 1998) and as consultant/initiator of the Community Health Worker Evaluation Tool Kit (University of Arizona, 2000); both projects were funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Lee has served on the Governing Council of the American Public Health Association (APHA) and was instrumental in the development of the Community Health Worker Special Primary Interest Group of the APHA. She served as an advisory committee member of the national Center for Sustainable Health Outreach throughout its five years of federal funding. Lee also served as a member of the National Expert Panel to the Health Resources and Services Administration's Evaluation of Community Health Workers. Currently she has joined El Paso Community College's Community Health Worker Program Advisory Council and the Health Advisory Committee of the El Paso Independent School District. Dr. Rosenthal's Ph.D. was completed with the University of Massachusetts at Boston; her dissertation is entitled "The Sustainability Dance: Lessons to Learn for an Emerging Force in Community Health-Community Health Workers." Her Master's degree in Public Health with a specialty in policy and administration is from the University of California at Berkeley.

Brenda Cartwright

Associate Professor and Coordinator, Rehabilitation Counselor Education Program University of Hawai‘i at Manoa 1776 University Avenue, EH-221 Honolulu, HI 96822 (808) 956-4386 - Phone (808) 956-3814 - Fax bcartwri@hawaii.edu

Brenda Cartwright has served for the past year as an adjunct faculty member in the Ho`olokahi Department, Waianae Health Academy (WHA)/ Kapiolani Community College in Waianae, Hawaii. She has developed and taught four distinct courses in the WHA certificate program designed to (1) empower community residents to meet the healthcare needs of their families and the larger community, and (2) provide culturally competent services that address and respect the community values, learning styles and educational needs of residents of the Waianae Coast. She is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Rehabilitation Counselor Education Program at the University of Hawaii Manoa. Formerly, she taught at several university programs in the Metropolitan Washington DC area and had over 20 years experience in State-Federal vocational rehabilitation programs in management and direct service delivery positions. She served in the U.S. Navy as a Communications Specialist, and in 2006, she served as a Visiting Scholar at Kyungpook National University in Daegu, South Korea. She is fluent in American Sign Language. Brenda has initiated and collaborated on several research projects, all of which have resulted in over 30 publications in refereed journals and textbooks, 48 major presentations at national, regional and state conferences, workshops and meetings. Her research interests include cultural diversity issues, including HIV/AIDS, aging, deafness rehabilitation, and holistic/alternative therapies. She has received numerous national awards, including the Rehabilitation Educator of the Year, 2007; Who’s Who in America, 2006; Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 2005, 2002; Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Education, 2005; Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development Research Award, 2005; Research Award, 2005; Bobbie Atkins Research Award, 2004; Sylvia Walker Education Award, 2004; and the Thinking Out of the Box Award, 2004. Brenda received her terminal degree in Rehabilitation Counseling Leadership from George Washington University. She holds national certification and state licensure in counseling.

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).

Carl Rush

CHW-NEC Project Expert Consultant Community Resources, LLC P. O. Box 700373 San Antonio, TX 78270 (210) 745-0560 or (210) 241-3983 carl@chrllc.net

Carl Rush recently served as Director of the New Jersey Community Health Worker Institute, a project of the New Jersey Area Health Education Centers program, and continues to work with NJCHWI as a consultant He is working for the American Dental Association on training requirements for a new dental specialist CHW position. He was also recently a member of the research team for a national workforce study on CHWs for the Health Resources and Services Administration, and he serves as a consultant to The California Endowment on a statewide study of CHWs. He recently convened a national invitational conference for a group of funders to draft a national research agenda on CHWs. Before serving in New Jersey, he was coordinator (and principal instructor) of the Community Health Worker program at Northwest Vista College in San Antonio, Texas. He was CEO of the Family Health Foundation in San Antonio from 1997 to 2001, developing initiatives to apply the capabilities of Community Health Workers to problems of health care access under Medicaid and SCHIP. Carl has worked with the Health Education Training Centers Alliance of Texas on various projects, including the Border Visión Fronteriza initiative and the organization of statewide conferences and workshops for CHWs. He currently serves as Secretary of the Executive Board of the CHW Special Primary Interest Group of the American Public Health Association, and on the Policy Committee of the new American Association of CHWs and the Advisory Board of the Center of Excellence in Women's Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. In San Antonio, Carl was a founding member of Health Care for Every Child, the Bexar County Health Literacy Coalition, and the South Texas Asthma Coalition. Carl's earlier experience includes over 20 years in nonprofits as a grant maker, project director, researcher, and management consultant. He holds a Masters of Regional Planning degree from Cornell University.

Anne Willaert

Healthcare Education Industry Partnership Director of Project Design and Development Minnesota State Colleges and University System MSU, 124 Myers Field House Mankato, MN 56001 507.389.2590 Anne.willaert@mnsu.edu

Anne is the Director of Program Design and Development with the Healthcare Education and Industry Partnership (HEIP), a project sponsored under Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. Through her work at HEIP, Anne develops partnerships between higher education and healthcare industry to form solutions to meet the increased and critical needs in the healthcare workforce. Anne currently is managing four statewide healthcare projects, one of which is directing the Minnesota Community Health Worker Project. The Minnesota CHW project has developed and is publishing an 11-credit core curriculum which is currently being implemented at five higher education institutions in Minnesota. The CHW project is also doing work around policy and workforce development supporting the role of the Community Health Worker Before coming to work for HEIP, Anne did consultant work and created two local Mankato area non-profit organizations. Anne"s background is in social worker, and she is currently working on her master"s degree in non-profit administration and anthropology. Ms. Willaert serves as a Core Technical Assistance Higher Education site in the CHW National Education Collaborative in which she is supporting CHW college-responsive program development with four colleges in Minnesota and with Ivy Tech State College in Indiana.

Napualani Spock

Community Health Workforce Development Director Hawaíi Primary Care Association P.O. Box 264 Púunene, HI 96784 (808) 280-0984 nspock@hawaiipca.net

Napualani Spock has been working with a Community Advisory Committee from Hawaíi’s Community Health Centers and Native Hawaiian Health Care Systems to develop curriculum appropriate to the needs of the community health workers at those agencies since 2002. The Community Advisory Committee has developed two certificates in collaboration with Maui Community College, a “Certificate in Case Management for Health and Human Services” and a “Certificate in Outreach for Health Promotion”. Napua is now working with the University of Hawaíi System to develop and deliver training to the mid-level managers at Hawaíi’s Community Health Centers and Native Hawaíian Health Care Systems. Previous to her role at Hawaíi Primary Care Association, Napua served as the Community Health Coordinator at Hui No Ke Ola Pono, the Native Hawaiian Health Care System of Maui, organizing community health education activities for the Hawaiian community of Maui from 2000-2002. Her background is Hawaiian and Pacific Island Studies, and she was a Hawaiian Studies teacher from 1993-2000 at the University of Hawaíi at Manoa, Kula Kaiapuni o Maui (Páia Elementary School Hawaiian Immersion Program), Baldwin High School and Maui Community College. She also served as the University of Hawaíi Outreach Counselor at Maui Community College.