Community Health Worker (CERT)
The Certificate of Achievement for Community Health Worker (CHW) will prepare the student to assist individuals in accessing health care services, recognize the specific needs of the community, collect community data to improve health education efforts, and network with public health, clinical, and social service agencies. The student will learn to interpret and monitor community health data for improvement in population well-being, explore possible environmental or systemic causes of adverse health conditions, identify need for changes in policies to improve the health and safety of the community, and investigate legal and regulatory actions for greater understanding of services. Students w
Courses
- HED 100 — Contemporary Health Problems
- HED 101 — Stress Management
- HED 102 — Introduction to Public Health
- HED 103 — Women, Their Bodies and Health
- HED 104 — Introduction to Health and Society
- HED 110 — Community First Aid and CPR
- HED 200 — Nutrition for Health, Fitness and Wellness
- HED 201 — Principles of the Community Health Worker
- HED 202 — Health Systems and Perspectives
- HED 204 — Work Experience in Community Health Worker
- HO 102 — Introduction to Public Health
- KIN 110 — Community First Aid and CPR
- MA 161 — Medical Terminology
- WGS 103 — Women, their Bodies and Health