CHW Community Engagement

Description: 
Engaging your community to address issues or topics that affect the well-being of the people in the community is an important part of emergency preparedness. This course provides information, ideas, and learning activities for Promotores.
Learning Objectives: 
  • Define community engagement
  • Describe the six stages of community engagement for emergency preparedness
  • Describe the importance of stakeholders
  • List the steps taken to identify stakeholders that will contribute to community emergency preparedness
  • Identify potential stakeholders in your community
  • Describe the roles and responsibilities of Promotores in community engagement
  • Define the steps in planning a discussion with stakeholders
  • Understand how to prepare target questions for your discussion
  • Learn how to facilitate a discussion
  • Review next steps that move you forward to address the topic of concern
  • List the positive outcomes or results of community engagement
PHEP Capabilities: 
Community Preparedness
Topic: 
Emergency Management
Format: 
Online Course
Time: 
1 hour
Level: 
Introductory
University: 
Texas A&M University
PERLC: 
Training and Education Collaborative PERLC
Bundles: 
Community Preparedness