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Health Services Management - Trainer  (45 units)

The Credentialed Trainer (CT) program is designed for professionals who are responsible for ensuring the professional development of Head Start staff. Candidates enrolled in this program usually have 2 years or more experience administering Head Start training curriculum. The Credentialed Trainer program is designed to identify leading trainers who can deliver superior training events, conferences and seminars on Head Start standards. Candidates enrolled in this program will have a competitive edge in their career and will be a vital resource in today's Head Start training community. In addition to the national recognition, candidates are provided with a valuable set of resources to aid them in becoming some of the best trainers in the Head Start community.

A credential at HS University is an "educational process" of establishing the qualifications of professionals in Head Start, Early Head Start, Migrant Head Start, American Indian/Alaska Native and Early Childhood employees.  The process consists of the attainment of a specific skill level and knowledge of regulations and the assessing of the candidate's educational background and experience. A license is then awarded to the professional who meets the standards set for the credential.  It signifies that a student has enrolled, attended and successfully completed the requirements of a specific health services area within a Head Start program.  The specialist credential process usually takes about 9 months to complete and requires 45 units.

The credential in Health Services Management is designed to help students develop a “systems approach” to monitoring health services, reflecting the vision articulated within the Performance Standards and health protocol that strong systems are essential to maintaining program quality. Under this approach, students will learn how to identify a failure within health service area and identify the underlying problems in which federal review teams might identify as a non-compliance finding. The credential focuses on how systems, services, and health activities interact to create and maintain quality support and services. The focus of the credential will be on both the child and family, using the regulations and best practices to develop procedures and policies. This credential is a holistic, multifaceted credential that allows students to learn how to integrate quality health support systems and services. The credential uses the health milestones as the core of the credential. Students learn the provisions of establishing a Head Start-based health program that emphasizes a programmatic way of observing and recognizing health and behavioral changes in staff, children and families and directing them to the best support services. 

The training credential in Health Service Management is designed for those individuals who are responsible for training and professional development to acquire skills for training and procedural management of health service workers.  The course will help you build comfortable rapport with staff and buy-in for new health service procedural changes, deliver health services standards logically and simply in a brain-friendly fashion, orchestrate the optimum environment for training, engage the audience in multi-faceted, ingenious ways to facilitate health service compliance, use and combine compelling audio and visual aids to utilize holistic thinking of family engagement systems and apply health service strategies for quality services. 

 

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of all program requirements, graduates will be able to:

1. Develop health policies and procedures that support the healthy goals for children, families and staff                                           
2. Link children and families to ongoing sources of continuous, accessible health care
3. Integrate health within the Head Start program curriculum
4. Respond to questions about strategies to address community health problems
5. Ensure center environments support a healthy child's social, emotional, cognitive and physical development
6. Engage parents in identifying and accessing health services and resources
7. Support parents as advocates for their child's health
8. Support efforts to improve health in the community
9. Develop comprehensive health services for children and pregnant mothers
10. Educate providers and other professionals on the needs and issues of Head Start children and families
11. Advocate for community system changes that support the health of children and families

 

 Program Information

 

 

Program Length

All courses are five days or one week in length, 15 units unless specified otherwise. HS University students are Head Start working adults who can earn their certificate at their own pace and on their own schedule.  Most students attend part-time, and the normal time to complete this program is 9 months.

 

Program Cost

Cost information for HS University program is available at http://www.hsuniversity.org/cost_fees.html.  The tuition and fees for the entire program, at current tuition rates, are $5395. 

 

Program Course of Study

The following list a suggested course of study. Students must complete 15 credits/ 45 units in order to earn a certificate. Please contact your advisor and student representative for an individual Professional Development Plan (Plans consist of a detailed program of study requirement and Proposal for Tuition payment).  Students must complete an application and pay application fee in order to receive Professional Development Plans of Study.

 

Course of Study

 

Course #

Description

Units

Credits

HS1101

Health Management Specialist Course

10

4

HS1102

Health Management Specialist Credential

15

5

70-101C

Exam Level I & II

5

1

HS2101 Health Management Administrator Course 10 4
HS2102 Health Management Administrator Credential 15 5
70-201C Exam Level III & IV 5 1
HS3101 Health Management Trainer Course 10 4
HS3102 Health Management Trainer Credential 15 5
70-301C Exam Level V & VI 5 1

 

 

 

 

 

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