Advancing Community Health in Maryland

The Maryland Department of Health’s Center for HIV/STI Integration and Capacity in collaboration with the Office of Population Health Improvement are partnering with HealthHIV to launch the TEACH training curriculum, a specialty education training for Community Health Workers in the State of Maryland.

Together Elevating and Advancing Community Health (TEACH) is a specialty training curriculum for Community Health Workers (CHWs) who wish to gain or increase their knowledge in HIV, STIs, viral hepatitis, and drug user health. TEACH training strengthens and expands the CHW workforce capacity by:

Recognizing that by working Together, Community Health Workers, health departments, clinical workers, and community-based organizations can enhance patient care.
Elevating Community Health Workers understanding of HIV, STIs, viral hepatitis, and drug user health.
Advancing Community Health Workers as a necessary component of the public health workforce.
Placing Community Health at the forefront of public health initiatives.

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TEACH Specialty Training

TEACH training is designed to enhance the Maryland Community Health Workers’ understanding of HIV, STIs, viral hepatitis, and drug user health in an effort to combat and reverse the increasing rates of new HIV infections, STI cases, viral hepatitis, and to promote the health and well-being of individuals in an evidence-based, compassionate, and culturally-appropriate manner.

The TEACH training curriculum provides a multi-modal learner experience toward the achievement of competencies in the four (4) topic areas and the Maryland Department of Health’s nine (9) core CHW competencies. TEACH provides a comprehensive, skills-building that will:

Promote cultural responsiveness and structural competence
Ensure information provided about populations in the status-neutral HIV/viral hepatitis/STI care cascades are addressed
Account for diversity in language and English proficiency, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, ethnicity, class, country of origin, and age
Be available publicly and free of charge to organizations in Maryland

This training is a blended learning program consisting of six (6) online learning modules and a two (2) day intensive in-person training. To attend this training, participants should have completed the online sections of the TEACH curriculum. To complete the course and begin training staff, you must complete all modules of the course.

TEACH Curriculum Overview

Module Title	Delivery Method	Time	Target Audience
TRAINING AND FACILITATION SKILLS
Presentation Skills	Online	45 Min	Maryland CHWs with an interest in becoming trainers for other CHWs
Instructional Skills	Online	30 Min	Maryland CHWs with an interest in becoming trainers for other CHWs
Facilitation Skills	Online	30 Min	Maryland CHWs with an interest in becoming trainers for other CHWs
SPECIALTY TOPIC CURRICULUM
HIV From Prevention to Treatment: HIV Basics for Community Health Workers	Online	45 Min	All Maryland CHWs
Sexually Transmitted Infections	Online	45 Min	All Maryland CHWs
ABCs of Viral Hepatitis	Online	45 Min	All Maryland CHWs
For Yourself, For the Community: Mental Health, Bias, and Values	Online	45 Min	All Maryland CHWs
IN PERSON EXPERIENTIAL CURRICULUM
Day One Communication Skills HIV HIV Messaging Syphilis, Chlamydia, Gonorrhea STI Messaging	In Person	6 Hr	All Maryland CHWs who have completed the online curriculum
Day Two Hepatitis Hepatitis Messaging Drug Use Terminology Drug User Health Harm Reduction Stigma	In Person	6 Hr	All Maryland CHWs who have completed the online curriculum

TEACH Training Schedule

Registering for Training

These trainings are open to any Community Health Worker in Maryland, especially those interested in or already working in the infectious disease and/or sexual health fields in the State of Maryland.

Train the Trainer registration is for individuals who are Community Health Workers in the State of Maryland and who want to become trainers of the TEACH curriculum and provide training to other CHWs in the State of Maryland.

Not a Community Health Worker in Maryland? Go to: https://health.maryland.gov/pophealth/Community-Health-Workers/Pages/Accredited-Community-Health-Worker-Training-Programs.aspx for more information.

TEACH: Train the Trainer

January 22-23, 2024

Western Region/Deep Creek, Maryland

Wisp Resort
296 Marsh Hill Road
McHenry, MD 21541

TEACH: Train the Trainer

January 24-25, 2024

Eastern Region/Cambridge, Maryland

Cambridge Hyatt Hotel
100 Heron Blvd., US-50
Cambridge, MD 21613

TEACH: Train the Trainer

February 13-14, 2024

Central Region/Baltimore, Maryland

The Lord Hotel
20 West Baltimore St.
Baltimore, MD 21201