health LITeracy and advocacy training
Signature Training Series
Signature Training Series
Signature Training Series
- H.E.A.R.T.: Advancing Maternal and Infant Health Advocacy
- H.E.A.R.T.: Enriching Early Childhood Experiences
- The HEART of the Matter: Exploring Total Women's Wellness
- A H.E.A.R.T. for Grace (Geriatrics, Caregiving and Elder Care)
- Matters of the HEART: Identifying and Managing Relational and Environmental Stress
- H.E.A.R.T. Bridge: Navigating the Journey from Adolescence to Adulthood
Participant Expectations
Signature Training Series
Signature Training Series
- Completion of training cohort (10-15 hours/depending on program)
- Flexible training schedule offered: Mid day sessions and evening sessions
- Ability to make up sessions as needed
- Communicate, Communicate, Communicate!
- Participate, Participate, Participate!
- Demonstrate health literacy and patient advocacy applications through "Skills in Action"
- Completion of training cohort (10-15 hours/depending on program)
- Flexible training schedule offered: Mid day sessions and evening sessions
- Ability to make up sessions as needed
- Communicate, Communicate, Communicate!
- Participate, Participate, Participate!
- Demonstrate health literacy and patient advocacy applications through "Skills in Action" assessments.
- Promote healthy outcomes with your circle of influence.
- Practicum Offered for interns, fellows and health related professionals
- Be a Champion for H.E.A.R.T. for Families in your community (promoting H.E.A.R.T. trainings, resources and opportunities)
Facilitators and Trainers
Facilitators and Trainers
Facilitators and Trainers
- Knowledgeable, experienced, engaging and passionate facilitators deliver the modules to ensure participants of all learning styles effectively receive the curriculum in a practical and empowering manner.
- Facilitators and trainers collectively represent diverse educational, cultural, professional experiences.
- 100% of facilitators have lived
- Knowledgeable, experienced, engaging and passionate facilitators deliver the modules to ensure participants of all learning styles effectively receive the curriculum in a practical and empowering manner.
- Facilitators and trainers collectively represent diverse educational, cultural, professional experiences.
- 100% of facilitators have lived experience in the areas of women's health, maternal and infant health and patient advocacy.
- The curriculum developers, facilitators and trainers include: Moms, Family Members, Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Master Level Public Health professionals, Licensed Professional Counselors, Master Trainers for Community Health Workers, Registered Nurses, Medical School Professors, Neuroscientists, Educators, Librarians, and Doctorate level professionals.
Deeper Dive Modules
Facilitators and Trainers
Facilitators and Trainers
For those desiring to increase their knowledge with more training opportunities:
- REAL Essentials Advance ©– Healthy Relationship Development (8 Hours)
- Adverse Childhood Experiences and Trauma Responsive Practices (8 Hours)
- Mental Health First Aid © (8 Hours)
- Youth Mental Health First Aid ©(8 hours)
- Talk With Me Baby and Better Brains For B
For those desiring to increase their knowledge with more training opportunities:
- REAL Essentials Advance ©– Healthy Relationship Development (8 Hours)
- Adverse Childhood Experiences and Trauma Responsive Practices (8 Hours)
- Mental Health First Aid © (8 Hours)
- Youth Mental Health First Aid ©(8 hours)
- Talk With Me Baby and Better Brains For Babies © (16 Hours)
- Neuro Nurturing ©
- Triple P ©
- Community Resilience Model ©
- EPIC Center (NICHQ/HRSA) Community Health Worker Training
- Connections Matter © (8 hours)
The H.E.A.R.T. Portfolio of Programs & Impact Pathways
H.E.A.R.T. Advancing Maternal and Infant Health Advocacy
The flagship H.E.A.R.T. offering, designed to build confident health advocates at the family and community level. This program strengthens communication with providers, informed consent and decision-making, systems navigation, and advocacy skills that translate into improved health outcomes and reduced disparities.
The program places a targeted emphasis on maternal and infant health to eliminate disparities in perinatal outcomes by offering evidence-informed strategies and best practices for families, healthcare providers, and community health educators and advocates. The sessions are co-facilitated by registered nurses, nurse practitioners, midwives, doulas, medical doctors, neuroscientists, licensed clinical social workers, licensed professional counselors, and women with lived experience, ensuring both clinical expertise and authentic, community-informed perspectives.
This offering may be tailored for professional development or community health education.
H.E.A.R.T. Enriching Early Childhood Experiences
A prevention-focused, evidence-informed program intentionally designed to interrupt early adversities that, if unaddressed, compound across childhood and adulthood and create significant downstream burdens on public systems. By reducing Adverse Childhood Experiences and strengthening Positive and Nurturing Experiences (PNEs) during critical periods of early brain development, this program helps alter life-course trajectories before harm becomes entrenched.
The program equips parents, caregivers, and early childhood professionals with practical, developmentally grounded strategies that support healthy brain architecture, family stability, and emotional regulation—protective factors shown to reduce later involvement with struggling school districts, child welfare agencies, law enforcement, and juvenile justice systems. This upstream investment strengthens community well-being while reducing long-term costs to city and county governments. The sessions are co-facilitated by neuroscientists, licensed clinical social workers, licensed professional counselors, educators, mandated reporters, childcare providers and women with lived experience, ensuring both clinical expertise and authentic, community-informed perspectives.
This offering may be designed for professional development or community health education.
The H.E.A.R.T. of the Matter: Exploring Total Women’s Wellness
A whole-woman wellness education and empowerment series designed to address the full range of interconnected physical systems alongside the social, emotional, relational, and environmental conditions that shape women’s health across the life course. This training responds to a critical gap in traditional health education by recognizing that untreated stress, trauma, caregiving strain, financial pressure, relationship dynamics, and environmental exposures directly disrupt physiological systems and drive preventable chronic disease.
Participants gain practical tools to identify how life stressors manifest in the body, influence health conditions, and compound over time—affecting not only individual wellness but family functioning, caregiving capacity, and household stability. By integrating social, emotional, and environmental awareness with active monitoring of physical systems, the program equips women to take informed, proactive action that strengthens personal health, supports family wellness, and reduces long-term risk for preventable illness and system-level strain. The sessions are co-facilitated by registered nurses, nurse practitioners, midwives, doulas, medical doctors, licensed clinical social workers, licensed professional counselors, neuroscientists and women with lived experience, ensuring both clinical expertise and authentic, community-informed perspectives.
This offering may be designed for professional development or community health education.
A H.E.A.R.T. for Grace (Geriatrics, Care Giving and Elder Care)
This intentional, innovative initiative champions healthy aging with power and purpose—elevating health literacy, chronic disease self-management, and proactive care planning at every stage of life. Participants and caregivers gain real-world strategies to navigate complex healthcare systems, coordinate services seamlessly, and advocate fiercely for respectful, high-quality care that protects dignity and independence. The result is more than management of illness—it’s equipping individuals and families to thrive, sustain vitality, and move forward with confidence, clarity, and control over their evolving health journey.
H.E.A.R.T. Bridge: Navigating the Journey from Adolescence to Young Adulthood
This is a dynamic, evidence-informed development initiative designed to strengthen health literacy, identity formation, executive functioning, and self-advocacy during one of the most critical transition periods of life. The program equips youth, families, educators, and youth-serving professionals with practical tools to understand brain development, emotional regulation, risk navigation, reproductive and mental health awareness, goal setting, and decision-making within real-world systems—including healthcare, education, workforce, and relationships. By addressing the social, environmental, and relational factors that shape outcomes during this stage, H.E.A.R.T. Bridge builds resilience, strengthens protective factors, and prepares young people to move confidently into adulthood as informed, self-directed leaders of their health, purpose, and future.
Matters of the H.E.A.R.T.: Identifying & Managing Relational and Environmental Stress
Matters of the Heart is a bold, transformative experience that uncovers how relational and environmental stress silently shapes health, behavior, and long-term well-being. This powerful session examines the physiological and emotional impact of workplace strain, home instability, caregiving burden, parental and sibling dynamics, blended family pressures, and cumulative life stress—revealing how unmanaged tension disrupts the body and fuels preventable illness. Participants leave equipped with practical tools for emotional regulation, boundary-setting, resilience-building, and sustainable behavior change—empowering them to protect their peace, strengthen relationships, and restore balance across every domain of life.