Train Care Group volunteers in BCC messages every two weeks through Care Group promoters Sample Clauses

Train Care Group volunteers in BCC messages every two weeks through Care Group promoters. During biweekly Care Group meetings held in their communities, volunteers are trained in prevention, care seeking, and home management of childhood illness using culturally appropriate, participatory adult education techniques such as dialogue, story, song, drama and pictures. Training emphasizes technical behavior change messages as well as problem-solving skills to address a wide variety of barriers to behavior change due to a given household’s physical or social environment. The volunteers use role plays to practice how they will accurately convey the information they learn with their neighbors. Volunteers are also empowered to help families solve problems or overcome obstacles to adopting key family practices for child health. For example, volunteers learn to prepare and administer ORS, to hang an ITN in a variety of housing and bed configurations, to set up hand washing stations using locally available materials and minimizing water consumption, among other skills. Volunteers learn counseling skills and problem-solving strategies to increase the self-efficacy of caregivers and families. The curriculum for volunteer training will be developed by the senior project staff in consultation with CSP managers in other countries where WR has implemented programs using the Care Group Model. As interventions are phased in, CG volunteers will be trained to use simple job aids for BCC, which typically consist of laminated color drawings of caregivers practicing key behaviors or short story-boards illustrating care-seeking narratives with positive and negative outcomes. An example from Mozambique is in Annex E. Project staff will conduct formative research to develop locally appropriate messages related to the key family practices; the same research process will inform the development of job aids for household-level health education.