Course Detail: COM027 - Community-Centered Care Professional - NEW!
Build your capacity to support healthier, more equitable communities.
The Community-Centered Care Professional Certification is designed for professionals who work to improve the physical, mental, and social wellbeing of others in their communities. This program explores community-centered methods for addressing barriers to positive health outcomes and strengthening the care and support professionals provide.
Participants will examine how history, culture, and implicit bias shape people's experiences and access to care. With an emphasis on cultural competency and authentic allyship, the program helps participants better understand diverse perspectives and respond thoughtfully to the needs of the communities they serve.
Participants will gain:
- Practical tools for recognizing and correcting bias.
- Strategies for incorporating equity into workplace policies, procedures, and safeguards.
- Community-centered approaches to apply in everyday professional practice.
Put these skills into action to support more responsive care and lasting improvements in community wellbeing.
About the Instructor With more than 20 years of experience in communications and nonprofit leadership, Sharon Tubbs currently oversees community health workers in northern Indiana. She is the Executive Director of Healthways Alliance, having earned a master's degree in human services counseling from Liberty University. She also holds a certificate in Equitable Community Change from Cornell University and is a John Maxwell Leadership Certified Speaker. Her journalism degree from Indiana University supported her previous career as a newspaper reporter and editor. Sharon has authored five books, including her latest, They Got Daddy: One Family's Reckoning with Racism and Faith
Participants who successfully complete the program and miss no more than one session will earn a Community-Centered Care Professional Certificate from Purdue University Fort Wayne.
