CHW Services
This is the act of directing someone to a different place or person for information, help, or action, often to a person or group with more knowledge
What is a Referral?
This is the hierarchy of human motives, or needs, as described by:
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
This is a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community.
What is Mental Health?
These are negative experiences that happen between the ages of 1 and 17 years. These experiences are usually traumatic events, including: Abuse, Neglect, & Household Dysfunction
What are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)?
This refers to the process of educating individuals and communities about health and wellness to promote healthy behaviors and attitudes and prevent illness and injury.
What is Health Education?
This CHW service involves meeting with clients where they live (apartment, home, trailer, etc.) to connect them to resources?
What are Home Visits?
This is a structured approach to modifying habits, actions, or routines to achieve specific goals or improve one’s life.
What is a Behavior Change Plan?
This is a medical condition that affects a person's thinking, emotions, or behavior. It can also cause distress and make it difficult to function in social, work, or family settings and prevent them from completing daily activities.
What is Mental Illness?
These are conditions in which we are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age. These conditions can affect our health, how well we can function, and our overall quality of life.
What are Social Determinants of Health?
These are programs designed to improve access to healthcare services for underserved populations, aiming to reduce health disparities and promote
health equity.
What is Community Health Outreach?
This consists of going with your patient to medical, dental, and social services visits or connecting him/her to resources.
What is Accompaniment?
This is a process that helps the patient move through the stages of change. The approach attempts to increase the client's awareness of the potential problems, consequences and risks associated with their behavior; and is designed to strengthen personal motivation for and commitment to a specific goal.
What is Motivational Interviewing?
This is a course that teaches you how to identify, understand and respond to signs of mental illnesses and substance use disorders, or someone experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis.
What is Mental Health First Aid?
These are policies, programs and practices that aim to minimise the negative health, social and legal impacts associated with drug use, drug policies and drug laws.
What is Harm Reduction?
This is the ability of a community to prepare for anticipated natural hazards, adapt to changing conditions, and withstand and recover rapidly from
disruptions.
What is Community Resilience?
This is the guidance provided to patients, helping them navigate through the intricacies of the healthcare system to ensure they receive timely, appropriate, and coordinated care.
What is Health and Social Service Navigation?
This is a clinical evaluation that examines a patient's
biological, psychological, and social factors to understand how they affect their health.
It's often conducted by a therapist or counselor at the beginning of therapy sessions.
What is a Bio-Psycho-Social Assessment?
This refers to a set of consistent behaviors, attitudes, and policies within an organization or among professionals that support effective work in cross-cultural situations.
What is Cultural Competence?
This is the degree to which the person’s behavior corresponds with the agreed recommendations from a health care provider.
What is Medication Adherence?
This is the provision of assistance or comfort to others, typically to help them cope with biological, psychological, and social stressors.
What is Social Support?
This is a person who helps guide a patient through the health care system. This includes helping patients go through the screening, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up of a medical condition, and helping patients communicate with their health care providers so they get the information they need to make decisions about their health care.
What is a Patient Advocate / Patient Advocacy?
BONUS: This is a best practice framework for setting goals that are carefully and thoughtfully planned out, executable and trackable as well as specific,
measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound.
What are SMART goals?
This is the process of committing to a lifelong journey of self-reflection and recognizing our own biases in order to encourage ongoing learning and curiosity rather than arriving at an expert, "competent" endpoint of a cultural group.
What is Cultural Humility?
This is the concept by which the effects of a disease are prevented or minimized through integrated care. This is done in order to improve the quality of life for those with chronic conditions and reduce healthcare costs.
What is Disease Management?
Bonus: This is the act of eliberately organizing patient care activities and sharing information among all of the participants concerned with a patient's care to achieve safer and more effective care.
What is Care Coordination?