The New Mexico Caregivers Coalition develops caregiver training that recognizes and values caregivers’ personal and professional contributions. We then deliver training that results in well-trained, knowledgeable caregivers—whether paid professionals or unpaid family members.Past trainings have included infection prevention, safe transfer and mobility, self-care, communications skills, financial literacy, navigating Medicare, a history of home, and community-based services and workers’ rights, and many more.
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Health and Safety Training for Caregivers: Special Topics
(2022-23)
This 3-hour facilitated training is beneficial to those who aspire to work in a wide variety of frontline health care services and settings, including Personal Care Assistants, Home Health Aides and Homemakers, Direct Support staff, Community Health Workers, Community Health Representatives and allied services like kitchen and custodial staff.
Participants learn about ways to keep themselves and their consumers healthy and safe in their workplace. Modules include Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection (RSV), M-pox (formerly Monkeypox), Workplace Violence and Sexual Harassment, and workers’ Rights and Responsibilities.
Respite Care Training Portal and Registry
This nationally recognized training (link) is an online self-paced training to prepare learners to work as a paid or unpaid respite (short break) care provider. Once a learner completes this approximately 7-hour online course, he/she earns a Certificate of Completion and is also eligible to be listed on the NMCC Respite Care Registry
VISIT THIS LINK in order to be found as available for work. This course is recognized by the New Mexico Department of Health as eligible for 7 Continuing Education
Units towards CHW/CHR licensure.
Health and Safety for Caregivers During a Pandemic
(2021-2023)
This 3-hour facilitated training is beneficial to those who aspire to work in a wide variety of frontline health care services and settings including: Personal Care Assistants, Home Health Aides and Homemakers, Direct Support staff, Community Health Workers, Community Health Representatives and allied services like kitchen and custodial staff.
Participants learn about ways to keep themselves and their consumers healthy and safe in their workplace. Modules include Cycle of Infection; Modes of infection (airborne, contact, droplet); Transmission of COVID-19, Hepatitis A, B, C, Ebola, H1-N1, Avian flu, Hantavirus; Preventing the spread of bloodborne pathogens.
Health and Safety Training for Caregivers: Kitchen and Bath Hazards (2018)
This 4-hour facilitated training is beneficial to those who aspire to work in a wide variety of frontline health care services and settings including: Personal Care Assistants, Home Health Aides and Homemakers, Direct Support staff, Community Health Workers, Community Health Representatives and allied services like kitchen and custodial staff.
Participants learn about ways to keep themselves and their consumers safe when working with cleaning products that might present chemical hazards like those commonly found in bathrooms and kitchens. Participants also learn about the rise in opioid overdoses, affecting thousands of New Mexicans and their caregivers every year. Overdose symptoms are discussed, as well as proven and effective ways to reverse overdoses.
Finally, caregivers learn about their rights and responsibilities in the workplace.
Customized Training for Caregivers
This 6-hour facilitated training gives New Mexico frontline healthcare workers the opportunity to explore topics and issues that are fundamental to their profession. The training covers the key concepts of person-centered care, quality care, self-care, the rights and responsibilities of caregivers and care recipients, effective communication, diet and nutrition, medication management, and infection prevention.
Participants will also learn about, and practice hands-on skills involved in safe transfers and in supporting care recipients in their activities of daily living (ADLs). Career pathways in the frontline healthcare workforce are presented and discussed.
Leadership Development Training for Caregivers
This 4-hour facilitated training gives New Mexico caregivers the opportunity to learn about various healthcare business models with an emphasis on cooperative businesses’ values and parameters. Participants are guided through modules that jumpstart their growth in the healthcare profession, including the hands-on techniques of working with vulnerable members of our communities.
Leadership skills are developed through
interactive activities aimed at strengthening healthy communication practices and networking skills. Participants will leave the training better able to leverage these leadership skills to further their careers in healthcare.
Health and Safety Training for Caregivers (2017)
This 4-hour facilitated training is beneficial to those who aspire to work in a wide variety of frontline health care services and settings including: Personal Care Assistants, Home Health Aides and Homemakers, Direct Support staff, Community Health Workers, Community Health Representatives and allied services like kitchen and custodial staff.
Participants learn about ways to keep themselves and their consumers healthy and safe. Modules on infection prevention and musculoskeletal safety focus on specific strategies proven useful for caregivers in the field. Participants also learn about their rights and responsibilities as frontline healthcare workers.
Introduction to HIPAA
A one-hour training on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA),
history of the act and how to follow these Federal rules.
Rights and Responsibilities as a Home Care Worker (FLSA)
A one-hour training on the Fair Labor Standards Act, the history of the act, how FLSA impacts the home care industry, and how the federal act impacts the New Mexico workforce.
New Mexico Caregivers Coalition hosts a wide variety of training developed by other partners, advocates, and resource organizations.
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