PLI – Promotor Learning Institute

Promotor Learning Institute

What we do

Latino Health Access uses a participatory, community-driven approach to health education. Curricula are built from lived experiences, using relatable examples to explain complex topics. Promotores are recognized as trusted community experts who address health inequities at their root. Our Basic Promotor Training is grounded in popular education, connecting personal experience to learning. Experienced Promotoras facilitate dialogue, helping trainees apply new information and develop fresh perspectives within their communities.

What We Offer

The Promotor Learning Institute provides comprehensive training and support for Community Health Workers/Promotores and the organizations they serve. All our programs are available in In-Person, Virtual, and Hybrid formats to best suit your needs.

CHWs/Promotor Services

Our foundational program offers 40 hours of theoretical instruction across 12 modules, designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the Promotor model and essential CHW competencies.

Training can be tailored to meet your organization’s specific needs.

Practicum: 40 hours Hands-on practicum hours can be completed directly at your organization as part of their on-the-job training, or through supervised experience with our seasoned Promotoras in our established in-house programs

Core Competencies & Accreditation

At LHA, we believe that promotores’ most important competencies are those they already had before coming to the training. The purpose of the training, then, is to build on people’s own experiences so that they may reflect on, analyze, critique, and increase their understanding of a variety of issues that affect health and well-being. Participants will increase their skills to assist, educate, and inform their community in a way that stimulates creativity, inclusion, participation, commitment, reciprocity, reflection and action.

Core Competencies

Communication
Interpersonal & relationship building
Service coordination & navigation
Capacity building
Advocacy
Education & facilitation
Individual & community assessment
Professional skills & conduct
Outreach
Evaluation & research
Public health principles
Social drivers of health (SDOH)

CHWs/Promotor Supervisor Training

Intended Audience: Directors, managers, coordinators, supervisors, clinic staff, and institutions currently working with or onboarding Promotores in their teams

Modules Include:

Promotores as Experts
How to Supervise Promotores
- The Three Dimensions of Supervision: Human, Technical, and Financial/Administrative
Planning with Experts
Co-learning and Co-teaching: The Ongoing Effort to Develop Competencies
Documenting and Evaluating
How to Give and Receive Feedback
- 18 Competencies to Improve Our Work with Communities
The Personal and the Professional

LHA facilitates the following promotor-led programs:

Health Promotion, Disease Management & Prevention

Outreach, education, and service navigation around chronic diseases, including but not limited to Diabetes Prevention and Management, Asthma Remediation and Cardiometabolic Health.

EMOTIONAL WELLNESS:

prevention and early intervention through structured sessions leveraging narrative practices across a range of topics (e.g. domestic violence, stigma, suicide prevention, among others), linkages to therapy.

Medicaid (Medi-Cal) Services:

Medi-Cal Enrollment, Renewals, education about access and utilization, Financial Stability, CalAim Housing Navigation.

Community Engagement & Advocacy:

programming builds capacity and power among community members to advocate for social justice initiatives, in the areas of health, housing, and youth development and investment.

Family Resource Center:

designated by the OC Social Services Agenda, provides services aimed at preventing child abuse and neglect, including parenting skills, workshops, education, family social support, referrals,and domestic violence case management.

Children & Youth Engagement:

creates spaces for children and youth to lead, grow, and activate their peers, families, and community around health equity through services, academic enrichment and recreational activities, leadership development, civic engagement and policy advocacy.

Promotor Learning Institute:

builds and sustains a workforce of bilingual and monolingual Spanish-speaking promotores through ongoing training for promotores and their supervisors, and technical assistance for organizations looking to integrate this workforce.

Parque Familias Corazones Verdes:

serves as a hub of social, physical and grassroots economic activities in central Santa Ana.

Food Distribution:

weekly distribution of produce, pantry foods and a diaper distribution for children and adults.

Our program meets the minimum CHW Certificate requirements outlined by California’s Department of Health Care Access and Information State-Issued Community Health Worker Certificate Provider Manual and the DHCS All Plan Letter of September 18, 2023. Guidance Letter published July 1, 2023.

For More Information

Contact:
Hilda Ortiz – Program Director
hortiz@latinohealthaccess.org

Yuliana Wiser-Leon, Director

“We believe in the vision and way LHA sees the work of promotoras :a dignified way, a respectful way. And we believe that this work deserves this type of training, which is a training that is not something to get through the day, but something deep and that offers them a solid base to do their work that is also culturally appropriate. I recommend it 100%. It has been a joyful, fun, meaningful week. But also very deep. It is not simple training. It is deep because the work of promotoras is deep.”