Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 272 CMR - CERTIFICATION OF COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS, BOARD OF › Title 272 CMR 5.00 - COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMS › Section 5.03 - Minimum Standards for Full Approval

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
The Board may grant full approval status to a Community Health
				Worker Education and Training Program provided that the Board determines that
				the program meets the following minimum standards:
(1)
Program Mission and
			 Governance
.
(a) The Community
			 Health Worker Education and Training Program shall have and operate in
			 accordance with a mission statement that recognizes and supports the history
			 and purpose of the community health worker workforce.
(b) The Community Health Worker Education and
			 Training Program shall be organized independently of any other education and
			 training program offered by the parent institution.
(c) The Community Health Worker Education and
			 Training Program shall employ practices and methodologies that are:
1. inclusive and accessible to individuals
			 with different learning styles, educational backgrounds and student needs,
			 including but not limited to disability;
2. consistent with the diversity principles
			 and cultural competency that drives community health work.
(d) The Community Health Worker Education and
			 Training Program shall be affiliated with a parent institution. The parent
			 institution shall appoint a competent administrator and shall provide the
			 administrator with adequate resources to effectively administer the program.
			 The resources shall be sufficient to allow the program to:
1. offer a curriculum that meets the
			 requirements at 272 CMR 5.03(3);
2.
			 maintain an adequate number of instructors who meet the faculty requirements at
			 272 CMR 5.03(4); and
3. maintain
			 ongoing fiscal health to ensure that the program will not be discontinued
			 before a cohort of students who have commenced the curriculum have had adequate
			 time to complete it.
(e)
			 The Community Health Worker Education and Training Program shall award a
			 certificate of completion to students who successfully complete the
			 program.
(f) The Community Health
			 Worker Education and Training Program shall publish current policies which
			 describe the specific, non-discriminatory criteria for the following:
1. Admission into the program; credit
			 transfer; attendance; withdrawal from the program, termination from the
			 program, and re-admission into the program;
2. Documentation and record maintenance with
			 respect to matriculation, attendance, faculty appointments, student performance
			 and participation, and program completion by students; and
3. Student rights and grievances.
(g) The Community Health Worker
			 Education and Training Program shall maintain written policies for conducting
			 the following:
1. Internal assessments
			 designed to evaluate the program; and
2. Systematic and objective evaluation of
			 students' acquisition of the knowledge and skills related to the ten core
			 competencies for Community Health Workers specified in 272 CMR 5.03(3)(a) and
			 specific health topics offered in the program's curriculum in accordance with
			 272 CMR 5.03(3)(b).