Community Health Worker Online Certificate

Enjoy the flexibility of this 60-hour online program while gaining the skills to become a non-medical health provider. Make a difference in your community by facilitating access to housing, food, education, employment, civil rights and health care resources. Learn how to evaluate a client’s needs, create a plan to address them, and explore HIPAA guidelines for client rights and confidentiality, required documentation and reporting, and safe boundaries for interpersonal relationships. Discover your advocacy role, how to develop community resources and partnerships, how to be sensitive to ethnic, cultural, religious and gender diversity, and case management strategies that will best serve your clients. Find out how to navigate the Nevada healthcare system and promote healthy living through nutrition and disease prevention. Understand the importance of time management and how to manage your self-care with coping skills that reduce the stress of emotional attachment and help you debrief difficult cases. Most occupations in this field will require formal occupational training. Locally, workers in this field can earn an average of $22.32 per hour or $46,420 annually. Source - Bureau of Labor Statistics 2020 wage data.