Improving Health and Human Services
Center for Health Training (CHT) and its staff are dedicated to improving the abilities of organizations to deliver accessible, high quality, culturally proficient and compassionate services to their clients.
We provide training, technical assistance, and support to organizations and programs that deliver health care and related services to underserved populations, especially women and children. In so doing, CHT serves its clients by improving the quality and effectiveness of these programs.
Recognized for its expertise nationwide, CHT provides customized assistance to administrators, managers, directors, clinicians, and patient and community educators who work in a variety of health and human service settings.
Highlighted projects from our offices include:
- Title X Family Planning Training and Technical Assistance
- Infertility Prevention Projects—addressing chlamydia and gonorrhea testing and treatment
- HIV Integration at Reproductive Health Clinics—helping staff provide client-centered HIV counseling and testing services
- Adolescent Reproductive Health Project—building agency capacity to implement science-based approaches to teen pregnancy and STD/HIV prevention
- The Lotus Project—women's HIV peer educator training
- HIV/AIDS prevention for women attending historically Black colleges and universities and Hispanic serving institutions
- Prison Inmate Peer Project—helping inmates’ understanding of and access to healthcare
- Family Child Care Association Development & Provider Training Project
- Male Reproductive Health Research Project
Over 30 Years of Service
Founded in 1977, CHT is a non-profit corporation with offices in Oakland, California; Austin, Texas; and Seattle, Washington (US Public Health Regions IX, VI and X, respectively).
CHT is affiliated with two other agencies: James Bowman Associates (JBA), incorporated in 1971; and CHT Resource Group (CRG), established in 1996 as our private, non-profit 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization. All three organizations operate as a unified training, technical assistance and research/evaluation agency sharing office space, management, and professional and support services.
Upcoming Events
- CPT and ICD-9 Coding for Family Planning Clinics Webinar Series
- Session 1: Diagnosis Coding
- February 3, 2010
- Session 2: The Visit Code
- February 17, 2010
- Session 3: Nurse Visits / Contraceptive Management Scenarios
- February 24, 2010
- Family Planning Community Participation Meetings
- Waco, TX
- February 17, 2010
- Lubbock, TX
- February 23, 2010
- Houston, TX
- March 1, 2010
- McAllen, TX
- March 4, 2010
- Teacher Training in the 7/8 F.L.A.S.H. Curriculum (Family Life and Sexual Health)
- Pocatello, ID
February 24-25, 2010
- Integrating HIV Services in Native Communities: Part Two
- Audio Conference
- February 24, 2010
- Chlamydia Partner Management
- Audio Conference
- February 25, 2010
- RH2010: Reproductive Health Conference
- Bellevue, WA
- April 7-9, 2010
- The 29th Annual Family Planning and Reproductive Health Conference
- Honolulu, Hawaii
- May 5-6, 2010
- Texas Department of State Health Services 2010 Clinical Conference
- Austin, TX
- May 5-7, 2010
- WRITCHE: Western Region Institute for Teachers and Community Health Educators
- Sonoma, CA
- July 12-16, 2010
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Online Trainings
Training Calendars
Region IX Training Calendars:
Resources
Family Child Care Association Grants Program Grantee Orientation
- Orientation Materials
- (Click above to download)
New training curriculum:
- Effective Contraceptive Counseling—ECC
- Training Clinicians, Educators and Counselors to Help Clients Use Contraception More Effectively