Teaming of CHWs and TBAs Sample Clauses

Teaming of CHWs and TBAs. As LINCHPIN’s innovation, CHWs and TBAs are trained to work as teams. Teaming is primarily designed to bridge the gap between care provided at delivery and the early newborn period (usually provided by the TBA) and care in infancy and childhood (usually provided by the CHW). The teaming approach teaches CHWs and TBAs to do the following: 1) Make joint two, six, and eight week PNC home visits. These visits are designed to ensure that CHWs are familiar with mothers and children already identified by TBAs – and to establish the CHW as a community-based provider. TBAs and CHWs work together to conduct health education, screen mothers and newborns and solve problems; 2) Conduct joint health education and promotion activities during home visits, outreach sessions or at other community events or meetings; 3) Encourage mutual support and problem solving; and 4) Help promote and facilitate referral of sick mothers, newborns and children when necessary. In addition, NHC members are trained in the teaming approach. The intention is that they will assist with: 1) Promotion of key health practices and danger sign recognition; 2) Emergency support and referral for newborns, young children and pregnant women; 3) Promotion of CCM in the community; and 4) Monitoring the effectiveness of teams. Teaming of CHWs and TBAs is an innovative approach that is being tested for the first time in Zambia. For this reason, teaming is the focus of the project’s operations research, planned and being conducted by Boston University. More details of the operations research project on teaming are summarized in Section 1.1.3.