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Orientation to Healthcare for Individuals with Disabilties and their Families
Author: Goldfarb, F.


Orientation to Healthcare for Individuals with Disabilities and their Families is a curriculum to train Community Health Advocates (CHAs) in the Opening Doors Project, which is funded by a grant from the California Endowment and in part by the Administration on Developmental Disabilities. CHAs are bi-cultural/bi-lingual lay health advocates and may also be the parent of an individual with a developmental disability, who provide quality information to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families in underserved communities on healthcare and healthcare systems.
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Targeted Population: Community Health Advocates (CHAs), Students/Trainees (long or intermediate trainees);  Professionals and Para-Professionals;  Family Members/Caregivers;  General Public
Program Type: UCEDD
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Project Period:
Project Director: Barbara Wheeler
Phone: (323) 361-3829
Email: 
bwheeler@chla.usc.edu
Author: Fran D. Goldfarb, MA, CHES
Phone: (323) 361-3831
Email:
fgoldfarb@chla.usc.edu

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