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Bridgeport's Housatonic CC Trains Community Health Workers

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – The popular Community Health Worker course at Housatonic Community College in Bridgeport is filling up fast.

Housatonic Community College

Housatonic Community College

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The course, taught by Bridgeport’s Loretta Ebron, prepares students for a career in helping individuals, families, groups and communities develop access to a variety of resources that include health care and social service agencies, and others that provide health insurance, food and housing.

Community Health Workers perform a range of activities that include outreach, community education, counseling, social support and advocacy. Community Health Workers also make home visits to chronically ill patients, pregnant women, nursing mothers, individuals with high-risk health issues and the elderly.

The program meets four nights per week, Mondays through Thursdays, from Jan. 12 to April 7, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. The fee is $295, including the textbook.

The Community Health Worker program is funded by the Forward Program through a TAACCCT grant from the U.S. Department of Labor.

HCC is part of the Northeast Resiliency Consortium, a collaboration of seven East Coast Community Colleges in partnership with Achieving the Dream and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Forward’s goal is to train a highly skilled and resilient workforce of dislocated workers, veterans, underemployed and unemployed individuals to enter high-demand jobs in health care and information technology occupations.

New noncredit and credit curricula are being developed in response to specific industry needs and opportunities. In addition, innovative instructional methods and technologies are being integrated into the college programs.

For more information about the course, contact Marilyn Wahlberg at 203-332-8509.

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