Learning Series for Community Health Workers: Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy

Session 2

Community health workers play an important role in increasing confidence in and uptake of vaccines in the communities they serve. Comagine Health and Boost Oregon invite community health workers, home health workers and others who provide care to the elderly to attend this two-part learning series. 

This session will focus on motivational interviewing as it relates to vaccination. Participants will build and practice critical skills for encouraging vaccination within the populations they serve.

Speaker

 Carrie Bader, MPH, MOT, CHES, training director, Boost Oregon

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

• Describe the foundational spirit of motivational interviewing in vaccine conversations
• List core motivational interviewing skills used in effective conversations
• Discuss examples of motivational interviewing-adherent and non-adherent responses when encountering vaccine hesitancy