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Community Health Volunteer's Training Manual - Population Council

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Module 1 The CHPS Concept<br />

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Volunteers have to relate to the committee as a team and as their supervisors and partners.<br />

They also relate to VHC as individual community members and family. Volunteers also<br />

discuss the health programmes with VHC and implement them.<br />

Both the VHC and the CHV have to talk and discuss health issues with the CHO. They refer<br />

patients to the CHO. Along with community members they help keep the CHO compound<br />

clean and help with health education among other things.<br />

What comes across very clearly is that VHC members see volunteers as partners in the<br />

delivery of health care. The Committee helps elect the volunteers and exercise oversight<br />

responsibility over them. The VHC also gives them their job description and supervises their<br />

work. Together, VHC members and volunteers see each other as members of the same team<br />

working for the health of the people.<br />

The CHO acts as the health provider at the community level. The CHV/VHC report to the<br />

CHO on all health matters (Box 1.3.2). The CHO in turn reports to the sub district and<br />

district teams. Let’s draw this relationship.<br />

Figure 1.3.2: A CHO and a health committee discuss community health at a routine meeting.<br />

Exercise 1.3.3: Group work<br />

Objective<br />

1. To discuss how to relate with people at<br />

the community level<br />

Time: 10 minutes.<br />

Questions<br />

1. What roles do the CHV and VHC play<br />

when working with CHO that shows they<br />

are relating well?<br />

2. How do these relationships help with the<br />

work of the CHO and the volunteers?<br />

Instructions to the Facilitator<br />

1. Lead the volunteers in the<br />

discussions on how they have<br />

been relating to the CHO<br />

2. Assist participants to draw<br />

Figure 1.3.3 on a flip chart<br />

3. Use the suggestions below for<br />

the discussions<br />

4. Discuss the effects of the CHO<br />

and volunteers relating well.

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