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In this interactive workshop, facilitators (two of whom are experienced CHWs) will use popular/people’s education methods (which build on what participants already know) to support participants to get in touch with their own feelings and thoughts about research and evaluation, as a step towards decreasing fears and increasing confidence to be involved in research and evaluation.

The group will jointly identify the benefits of CHW leadership and involvement in research and evaluation about their profession and their programs. Participants will get more familiar with key research and evaluation terms and concepts and will feel more confident in using them. Participants will increase their awareness about community based participatory research and evaluation (CBPR/E), an approach that shares many historical roots and key principles with the CHW model and popular education. They will understand why CBPR/E is a particularly appropriate approach to research and evaluation with and about CHWs.

Participants will become familiar with the mission and activities of the CHW Center for Research and Evaluation (CHW-CRE), the first national organization led by CHWs that is dedicated to increasing CHW leadership of research and evaluation about the CHW profession. They will learn how they can get involved. Finally, participants will practice key skills essential to meaningful involvement in research and evaluation, be able to use those skills in their own settings, and will know how they can continue to build those skills.