Training Complete 7.10.13

After a wonderful dinner Monday night, we started training in earnest on Tuesday. The first order of business was a cultural sensitivity training with Linda Hemby, who has been an amazing asset to our project. After her introduction, the team worked through all of the surveys in depth. Here's a quick overview of training.

Linda Hemby leads a discussion on the Latino population of Charlottesville.

Latinos in Charlottesville - Linda Hemby

• Health trends at US, VA, and Charlottesville level
• Health disparities: prevention, screening, misdiagnosis, medication problems
• Charlottesville population: age, income, ethnicity, living situation, documentation status
• Barriers to healthcare: language, transportation, childcare, education, experience in healthcare system
• Needs from providers: language/cultural training, awareness in interpersonal interactions

Service Providers - Steven Nguyen

• Goals, specific aims, purpose of study
• Development/structure of the interview guide
• Interview procedure
• Stakeholders overview: who they are, what they do
• Interview schedule 
• Coding... TBD
• Mock interview with Linda Hemby 7/10
• NEW RESOURCES: check the GoogleDrive

Community Members - Melissa Ogden

• Approaching community members and the oral consent process
• Structure/overview of the survey
• Survey delivery and coding instructions
• Anticipation of questions and sources of confusion
• Next steps- location visits, timing of interviews (nights and weekends)
• Coding- an Excel spreadsheet is being set up for data entry to begin immediately

Steven familiarizes Vianca and Ariel with all of the stakeholders.