Community Capacitation Center

The Community Capacitation Center provides support to community agencies and leaders to develop the skills they need to identify and address their own most pressing health issues. We provide training (capacitation) for community health workers and conduct popular education training with a variety of groups.

We also conduct community-based participatory research, and do culturally-specific health promotion in a variety of communities, such as youth of color, Latinos, and the disability community.

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What's New

So far, 2010 has been a busy year for the Community Capacitation Center! We have been conducting trainings (see below) with the following organizations:

• Benton County Health Department
• Care Oregon
• Immigrant & Refugee Community Organization
• Janus Youth Village Gardens Project
• Lutheran Community Services Northwest
• Oregon Health & Sciences University
• Providence Parish-Based Health Promoters
• Yakima Valley Farmworkers Clinic

Community Health Worker Capacitation

Capacitation (empowering training) is available for community health workers and other community leaders. Academic credit is often available for an additional fee. Some groups who have participated include:

• Cascade AIDS Project
• Yakima Valley Farmworkers Clinic
• Providence Health and Services Parish Health Worker Program

Sign up: Please contact us at 503-988-6250 ext. 26489 to learn more about arranging a training for your organization.

Popular Education

We teach a variety of groups to use popular education, a philosophy and methodology that helps people and communities identify problems and causes and develop solutions. Some of our past participants have represented:

• Migrant and community health centers
• Local government agencies
• Community-based organizations

Intro to Popular Education Workshops

Sign up: Please contact us at 503-988-6250 ext. 26489 to register or to learn about upcoming workshops.

Updated June 23, 2010