PURPOSE OF THE TRAINING

The purpose of planning and developing the Training Package for Community Health Workers is to produce Community Health Workers who will provide quality community based health care and eventually scale down reproductive and child health morbidity and mortality rates in Tanzania. Therefore, learners who will undergo the training will adequately cement their knowledge, skills, attitudes in preventing and controlling diseases or conditions leading to ill health, and providing immediate and rehabilitative care at the community level.

GOAL OF THE TRAINING

The goal of this Training Package for Community Health Workers is to build capacity to Community Health Workers on improving promotive, preventive and rehabilitative health services at community level.

OBJECTIVES OF THE TRAINING PACKAGE

This Training Package for Community Health Workers intends to:-

• Respond to identified gaps in the existing Community Health Worker training materials and modalities
• Respond to revised Policy Guideline for Community-Based Health Services and the National Operational Guideline for Community- Based Health Care Services towards improving health and social welfare services at community level across the country
• Put emphasis to basic procedures and updates related to the provision of health and social services at community level

LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE PACKAGE

By the end of the course, the learner is expected to be able to:-

• Provide health promotion services required at community level
• Provide reproductive maternal, new born, child and adolescent health services in a community
• Prevent and control communicable and non-communicable diseases in a community
• Prevent and control malnutrition at community level
• Provide social welfare services in a community