Education

The goal of the Education component is to use experiential learning and innovative teaching methods to increase the competency of faculty and undergraduate and graduate students.

  • Education workgroup formed
    • Developed new courses and modules that provided opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to be exposed to improving health among children and families on the U. S. border with Mexico
    • Developed Promotora 101 module
      • Content included definitions, characteristics of Promotores/CHW (Community Health Workers), qualities of Promotores/CHW, core and emerging competencies, roles and responsibilities, training, workforce development, literature findings, models of care, reasons employers utilize Promotores/CHW, barriers/challenges, national movements, certification/credentialing, national strategies, best practices, and resources
    • Course/modules developed
      • Culture
      • Cultural competence
      • Border Health
      • deployed in public health courses for graduate students
  • Students recruited as project research interns
    • Supervised all transcription and translation
    • Moderated children’s and mothers’ platicas and fathers’ dyadic interviews
    • Coordinated all data entry and verification
    • Coordinated all GIS analysis
    • Lead author on two manuscripts for journal submission
  • Students completed public health internships and practicums
  • Learnings and strategies were incorporated in graduate class for second-year MPH (Masters in Public Health) students
  • Linkage established with Central Texas Maternal and Child Health Program (CTXMCH)
  • Filmed a promotora-focused guest lecture
  • Student developed Paseo Por El Super (A Trip through the Supermarket):  A Hands-on, Fun Activity to Improve Supermarket Literacy for Limited-Resource Mexican-heritage Women in Texas Border Colonias
    • Presented as a poster at 2016 Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior conference
    • Lead author on game development
  • Worked with TX promotoras and community residents to create digital stories
  • Students were given opportunities for field observations