Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 950 - OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY, OFFICE OF EQUITY AND INCLUSION › Division 60 - TRADITIONAL HEALTH WORKERS › Section 950-060-0100 - Training Program Requirements

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
(1) All Authority
			 approved training programs shall:
(a) Meet
			 the curriculum requirements for the THW type being trained;
(b) Demonstrate active efforts to establish
			 equivalency for students who have previously completed training that meets one
			 or more training requirements for their THW type;
(c) Require experienced THWs of their THW
			 certification type be involved in developing and teaching the core
			 curriculum;
(d) Demonstrate that
			 the organization has sufficient cultural diversity or collaborates with an
			 organization devoted to cultural diversity to address the needs of a culturally
			 diverse population both in training traditional health workers and in training
			 traditional health workers to administer to the needs of the culturally diverse
			 population served;
(e) Demonstrate
			 the use of various teaching methodologies, including but not limited to popular
			 education and adult learning;
(f)
			 Demonstrate the use of various training delivery formats, including but not
			 limited to classroom instruction and group and distance learning;
(g) Demonstrate efforts to make training
			 inclusive and accessible to individuals with different learning styles,
			 education backgrounds, and needs;
(h) Demonstrate efforts to remove barriers to
			 enrollment for students;
(i)
			 Include any combination of written, oral, or practical cognitive examinations
			 to evaluate and document the acquisition of knowledge and mastery of skills
			 required by the curriculum designed to instruct in the THW
			 competencies;
(j) Demonstrate the
			 inclusion of a method or process for individuals trained by the program to
			 evaluate and give feedback on the training experience;
(k) Maintain an accurate record of everyone's
			 attendance and participation in training for at least five years after course
			 completion;
(l) Agree to verify and
			 provide the Authority with names of individuals who successfully completes the
			 training program when those individuals apply for certification and registry
			 enrollment;
(m) Agree to issue a
			 certificate of completion or a certificate of attendance to all successful
			 training program participants. Only a certificate of completion is acceptable
			 as verification of Authority approved training for placement on the registry. A
			 certificate of completion indicates that the participant meets all required
			 instruction, demonstrates achievement of all competency requirements, and has
			 life experience as defined in OAR 950-060-0010  if applying for PSS, PWS, FSS,
			 or YSS certification or if applying for CHW and has experiential knowledge from
			 the same community in which they serve as a CHW as defined by race, ethnicity,
			 geography, age, disabilities, language or culture;
(j) The certificate of completion must have
			 the name of the person taking the training, the date range of the training, the
			 specific worker type and/or sub worker type, the number of hours of the
			 training, the trainer's name, and the name of the
			 organization.