The Care Group Difference: A Guide to Mobilizing Community-Based Volunteer Health Educators
This Guide, developed by World Relief, explores the evidence base for the Care Group model, offers criteria to assist project managers in determining the feasibility of using this approach within their own programs, and provides a step-by-step guide for starting and sustaining care groups. A care group is a group of 10 to 15 volunteer, community-based health educators who regularly meet together with project staff for training, supervision and support. Care group volunteers provide peer support, develop a strong commitment to health activities, and find creative solutions to challenges by working together as a group. World Relief pioneered the Care Group model as part of its Vurhonga child survival projects in Mozambique (1995-2003).
- The Care Group Difference: A Guide to Mobilizing Community-Based Volunteer Health Educators
- Care Group Criteria (2009)
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Examining the Evidence of Under-five Mortality Reduction in a Community-based Programme in Gaza, Mozambique (Anbrasi Edward, Pieter Ernst, Carl Taylor,Stan Becker, Elisio Mazived, Henry Perry)
- A Diferenca Dos Grupos De Assistencia (The Care Group Difference/Portuguese)