CHN Lingo
CHN stand for this ____.
What is Community Health Navigator?
This program provides food, breastfeeding support, and nutrition education to pregnant women, new moms and young children.
What is WIC (Women, Infants, and Children)?
Anyone can be a Community Health Navigator?
What is Fact ?
Formal training, certifications and/or degrees are not required to be a Community Health Navigator.
This quick, intentional break can improve focus, reduce stress and prevent burnout.
What is a mental health break, mindful pause, brain break, "let's go for a walk"?
The name of the population health program that supports maternal women and children under the age of 5.
What is Strong Starts?
This acronym stands for the federal privacy law that protects patient health information.
What is HIPAA?
This resource helps clients access free or low-cost food, and may include pantries, meal programs or churches.
What is a food bank?
If a client doesn't speak English, it's ok for their child to interpret.
What is myth?
Using children as interpreters can violate confidentiality and cause confusion.
Trained interpreters should be used whenever possible.
True or False: Setting boundaries with clients is a form of self-care.
What is true?
Healthy boundaries protect both the client and the CHN from emotional exhaustion.
What is ABC - Alone, on their back, in their crib
CHN/CHWs often refer clients to this food assistance program, also known as SNAP.
What is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program?
This community-based service connects clients to housing, medical care, job help and more -- all from one entry point.
What is 2-1-1?
Community Health Navigators help reduce disparities by connecting client to culturally appropriate care.
What is fact?
CHNs play a critical role in building trust and improving access to services in the underserved communities.
This common self-care tool helps CHNs reflect, vent, a track emotions privately.
What is a journal?
This type of visit checks on a mother's physical and emotional recovery after childbirth.
What is a postpartum check-up?
This 3 letter acronym refers to the barriers like housing, transportation, and income that affect a person's health.
What are the SDOH (Social Determinants of Health)
This legal document protects survivors of abuse by limiting or preventing contact with their abuser.
What is a restraining order or protective order?
It's the CHN's job to make decisions for the client to get the best outcome.
What is a myth?
CHNs empower clients to make their own informed decisions. It's about guidance not control.
This type of fatigue happens when CHNs absorb too much of their clients' trauma.
What is compassion fatigue?
These two substances are most commonly linked to poor birth outcomes when used during pregnancy.
What are alcohol and tobacco?
The agency that you send clients to so they can apply for benefits (health, food, childcare)
What is the Department of Social Services?
This type of housing provides short-term shelter and case management for people fleeing abuse.
What is a domestic violence shelter or emergency shelter?
Even if a client doesn't have insurance, CHNs can help them access care through local or sliding-scale resources.
What is fact?
CHNs are skilled in helping clients navigate affordable or no cost services in their community.
This wellness strategy includes hydration, nutrition, sleep, and movement and is the foundation of CHN well-being.
What is physical self-care?
Who is Paula Masters?