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
• 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.