CENTERFORCE Peer Health Educator Training

1. CENTERFORCE Peer Health Educator Training DAY 1

2. Introductions and Overview • Facilitators • Housekeeping • Schedule and Breaks • ETO slips • Priority Ducats • Orientation to Materials and Topics • Parking Lot • Group Contract

3. CENTERFORCE Peer Health Educators As Peer Health Educators, our mission is to actively engage, encourage, educate, and equip our peers to understand, make decisions and take action about health and wellness issues that are relevant and important to them. We provide factual and essential information that supports individuals to realistically reflect on risks, choices, options, and decisions. We respect each person’s beliefs and values, and their ability to make choices and decisions for themselves. We believe that individuals are able to make positive changes, both large and small.

4. Peer Education Training Goals • To increase participant knowledge of peer health education topic areas, including health education/ behavior change approaches and Hepatitis A, B and C. • To support the development and/or strengthening of peer health education skills and competencies, including communication, one-to-one and small group health education. • To prepare participants to function effectively as peer health educators.

5. Overview of Topics • Module 1: Introduction to Health and Peer-based Health Education • Module 2: Health and Self-Awareness • Module 3: Culture, Cultural Awareness, & Cultural Humility • Module 4: How Individuals Change Behavior –Stages of Change and Harm Reduction • Module 5: The Immune System

6. Overview of Topics • Module 6: Liver Basics • Module 7: Overview of Viral Hepatitis • Module 8: Hepatitis Review • Module 9: Hepatitis Jeopardy • Module 10: Communication & Presentation Skills

7. Dale’s Cone of Experience Learners generally remember… 10% of what is read 20% of what is heard 30% of what is seen 50% of what is seen and heard 70% of what they (the learner) says and writes 90% of what they (the learner) does

8. Day 1: Schedule

9. Day 2 Schedule

10. Day 3: Schedule

11. Day 4: Schedule

12. Peer Introduction Activity • Material: Peer Introduction Activity Sheet • Directions: Locate a partner. You will have 5 minutes to interview each other using the questions on the activity sheet as your guide. Only share what you want shared with the larger group. After we have finished the interviews, we will share with the group what we have learned about our partners.

13. Pre- and Post-Training Survey The pre and post training survey is a measure of the effectiveness of the training – not a pass/fail test. • The pre-training survey establishes a baseline • The post-training survey measures against the baseline It is important that you complete both the pre and post training survey. After you complete the pre-training survey- it will be time for LUNCH.

14. Module 1: Introduction to Health and Peer-based Health Education By the end of this Module, participants will have • Shared personal definition of health • Examined how other participants define health • Discussed the WHO definition of health • Discussed peer health educators roles, skills and challenges

15. Activity: What is Health? • Material:What is Health? Activity Sheet • Directions:This is a 5 minute brainstorming activity. Please answer the question “What is health?” as many times as you can. At the end of the 5 minutes we share and discuss our answers.

16. World Health Organization (WHO) The WHO definition of “health” "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity".

17. Activity: Role of Peer Health Educators Materials: Blank poster and markers Directions: Break into groups by table. Each table has paper and a marker. As a group, spend 15 minutes answering the following questions to share with the group. • What roles/functions do you think a peer health educator can play to support peer health and wellness? • What skills do you think an effective peer health educator should have? • What challenges do you think peer health educators face?

18. Types of Peer Support Types of Peer Health Educator Support can include the following: • Listening, showing concern • Time • Advice, suggestions, directives, referrals • Affirmations and feedback

19. Module 1: Closing In this module we have… • Shared personal definition of health • Examined how other participants define health • Discussed the WHO definition of health • Discussed peer health educator functions, skills and challenges

20. Module 2: Health and Self-Awareness By the end of this module, participants will have • Explored their own ideas and attitudes about health issues • Developed and appreciation and sensitivity to the wide range of values and attitudes toward health issues • Identified controversial issues involved with health education • Developed a system to separate their own personal values from their ability to provide unbiased and representative education to a wide range of audiences.

21. Personal Health Values Exercise What do you think? Why do you think that? What is someone else’s perspective?

22. Personal Health Values Exercise What do you think? Why do you think that? What is someone else’s perspective?

23. Balancing Personal Values and Peer Health Education • Should you share your personal values with someone when you are providing peer health education? Why/why not? • How can you hold onto your own values and still perform your “job” as a peer health educator?

24. Module 3: Culture, Cultural Awareness and Cultural Humility By the end of this module, participants will have • Discussed the impact culture has had on “who participants are today” • Explored the meaning of the terms cultural awareness and cultural humility • Discussed why cultural awareness and cultural humility are important for effective peer health education

25. Activity: RUTSMAP Materials: RUTSMAP Activity Sheet R = Relationships M = Medicine U = Unions A = Acquisitions T = Teachings P = Politics S = Spirituality

26. What did you learn about your own cultural influences that you may not have considered before? What did you learn about other people’s cultures that you may not have considered before? What was helpful about this activity for you? Why was it helpful? What was difficult about this activity for you? Why do you think it was difficult? How do you think an individual’s culture shapes his/her ideas and attitudes toward health and health education? How do you think understanding others’ cultures can help you as a peer health educator? Activity: RUTSMAP

27. What is Culture? • What do you think culture is? How would you define it?

28. What is Culture? • Culture is • shared values, norms, beliefs, attitudes, customs, rituals, traditions, perspective, and history. • Cultures may have their own • music, religion, geography, race/ethnicity, language, food, clothing, literature, art, sports/leisure activities, etc.

29. Culture • Cultural awareness - The ability to stand back from ourselves, become aware of our own cultural values, beliefs and perceptions and develop an understanding of another group and that group’s values, beliefs and perceptions.

30. Culture • Cultural humility – Not making assumptions about someone’s beliefs, values, health behavior, etc. based on knowing they are a member of a particular group (examples: religious, racial/ethnic, geographic, age)

31. Day 1: Wrap Up and Feedback • Thank you for your time and participation today • Outstanding questions • Review Parking Lot Items • Feedback Form: Please complete the Day 1 Feedback Form that is in your folder and turn it in before you leave • The next class is: ____________.