FHI - Training and Education Materials

FHI has a wide selection of materials to aid service providers, researchers, program managers, trainers, educators, and policymakers. FHI collaborates with developing country colleagues to develop educational materials, design communication-based interventions and implement training to enable health organizations to meet their program and research objectives. Our staff collaborate with developing country organizations to:

develop educational and training materials, from conducting formative research to message development, pre-testing, production, distribution and evaluation;
design, facilitate, and evaluate training programs from needs assessment to follow-up activities;
use multiple communication channels and innovative approaches, such as peer education and social marketing.

Many of the training and multimedia materials listed below are available on this Web site. Others can be ordered using the FHI order form (link provided).

Service Provider Training and Job Aids

Contraception for Women and Couples with HIV: This learning module/presentation contains guidance for providers who offer contraception to clients with HIV, including those on ARV therapy. Also included are a pre-/post-test to assess knowledge, and additional materials such as factsheets and research articles.

Contraceptive Technology & Reproductive Health Series: These training modules provide the most current information available about reproductive health and contraceptive methods.

"Meeting the Needs of Young Clients" Provider Handbook: The 108-page guide has been developed to help service providers and health workers strengthen the reproductive health care and services offered to young women and men. It focuses primarily on preventing unplanned pregnancies and STIs/HIV. It also contains information on counseling, creating youth-friendly programs, and creating a referral network. Some of the tools it offers are role plays on abstinence and condom negotiation, in-depth charts on contraceptive methods for adolescents, and a chart on key issues to discuss regarding STIs.

Screening Checklists for Family Planning Services: To promote better reproductive health services for women and men, FHI has developed and validated three checklists for health care providers. Based on standard medical criteria developed by the World Health Organization and USAID, the checklists are designed to assist health workers in their efforts to help family planning clients make informed choices about safe and effective use of contraception. The three checklists include "How to be Reasonably Sure a Client is Not Pregnant;" "Checklists for Clients Who Want to Initiate Combined Oral Contraceptives (OCs);" and "Checklists for Clients Who Want to Initiate DMPA (or NET-EN)."

WHO Quick Reference Chart: A quick reference guide summarizes the World Health Organization's medical eligibility criteria for combined oral contraceptives, Noristerat, Depo-Provera, and copper IUDs.

HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment: A Clinical Course for People Caring for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS: Facilitator's Manual: This guide presents new knowledge and skills for delivering and organizing clinical care and treatment services for people living with HIV/AIDS. The guide also offers Microsoft PowerPoint presentations to use during training sessions. There is also a Participant Manual.

Ethics Training

Research Ethics Training Curriculum (RETC): The RETC CD-ROM is a teaching aid for international biomedical and social science researchers who conduct research that involves human participants and who want to include basic ethical considerations in their work.

Research Ethics Training Curriculum for Community Representatives: FHI designed this curriculum specifically to educate community representatives about their roles and responsibilities so that they have a stronger voice before, during, and after the research process.

Youth Reproductive Health and HIV Prevention

My Changing Body--Fertility Awareness for Young People: Developed by FHI and the Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown University, this training manual is used by health educators to teach girls and boys ages 10 to 14 years about the changes they experience as they approach puberty.

Health and Family Life Education (HFLE) Program in Jamaica: FHI and Ashe, a performing arts group in Jamaica, have developed an HFLE training curriculum for guidance counselors, teachers, school nurses, and youth group leaders to teach young people about reproductive health.

"Parenting Vibes in the World of Sexuality" in Jamaica: With its partners, FHI developed an innovative program to help parents talk to their children about sex, peer pressure, drugs, alcohol, and violence. A resource kit, made up of a manual and videotape, emphasizes positive parenting tools, such as knowledge, communication, discipline, and example setting.

Healthy Adolescents Project in India (HAPI): FHI, in collaboration with the Family Planning Association of India, World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts and Bharat Scouts and Guides, has trained nearly 900 peer educators in its RH program. Participants complete a badge curriculum and earn a merit badge upon completion of the designated activities.

YouthNet is a global, USAID-sponsored program to improve reproductive health and prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS among people 10 to 24 years old. It has multiple training and education projects that focus on peer education, faith-based programming, teacher training, distance learning, and media interventions.

Gender and Reproductive Health

Gender and Rights Training Manual: The manual, "Rethinking

Differences and Rights in Sexual and Reproductive Health,"

assists people working in the reproductive health field to

promote training that is designed to improve gender and

culturally care among the service providers with whom they

work. The conceptual framework on which the manual is

based aims to target both private and public health

professionals and activists. Its practical modules include

discussions of issues that vary from administrative visions and

decisions to details of service provision that will be useful for

all staff.

Journalism Training

FHI has developed a training manual for anyone interested in

improving news media coverage of reproductive health issues,

such as journalism school lecturers, faculty at communications

institutions, information officers at health agencies, staff at

family planning and health organizations, directors of news

media organizations, and national HIV/AIDS committees.

"Developing Health Journalists: A Training Manual for

Improving News Coverage of Reproductive Health" presents a

step-by-step strategy for planning, facilitating, and evaluating

journalism training workshops. The manual is available in

hard copy. To order a copy, please fill out an order form.

Training of Trainer Materials

Is your training interactive? Engaging? Creative? Learning is not an automatic consequence of pouring information into the heads of training participants — it requires the learner's involvement. Effective training means that participants are partners in the learning experience and are actively engaged in learning new knowledge and skills. To ensure real and lasting results, training needs to be fast-paced, fun, and engaging. "Interactive Reproductive Health Training = Interesting and Innovative Training" (494 KB) is a workshop presentation created by FHI for the "Training in Africa: Best Practices, Lessons Learned, and Future Directions" conference held in Lusaka, Zambia in August 2003. The presentation will help you learn how to maximize learning energy and make training more interesting and innovative in e-learning, distance-learning, multiple-day and shorter intervention settings.

FHI is proud to announce the recent completion of a training guidelines document...Led by JHPIEGO in collaboration with FHI, the Population Leadership Program, Training Resources Group, Inc., and IntraHealth, this new publication, Training Works!...what you need to know about managing, designing, delivering, and evaluating group-based training (PDF, 1.49 MB), is now available free online. Training Works! can help providers of family planning/reproductive health services to improve their performance and make their training more successful. This handbook summarizes the tasks that should be completed at each stage of training to ensure an effective training course. If you carry out these tasks, you will have a high-quality training course. Think of these tasks as standards to be achieved or guidelines to be followed. This handbook will be useful to anyone who has a role in the management, design, delivery, or evaluation of group-based training for healthcare professionals who are currently providing services such as in-service training. You may be a project manager, an instructional designer, a clinical trainer, an evaluation specialist, or a trainer who "does it all." Or, you simply may be interested in knowing more about training to help you make program decisions or participate in stakeholder meetings. There is something in this handbook for everyone! Also, you will recognize that many of these standards apply to other types of training, such as on-the-job training, distance learning courses, and computer-assisted learning.

Other

Family Planning Terminology Glossary (FamPlan): Created through a collaborative effort of the Population and Health Materials Working Group (PHMWG) — a group of organizations that work with USAID's Office of Population, Health and Nutrition — , this glossary is meant to help standardize translations of reproductive health terms into French and Spanish.

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