Workshops for Direct Care Staff
CARE U provides valuable education for certified nursing assistants (CNAs), personal care workers (PCWs), community health workers (CHWs) and other direct care staff who work with older adults.
We know that CNAs and direct care staff want continuing education and use the information to improve the care they provide. That’s why our Center for Aging Research and Education (CARE) began offering free one-day workshops for direct care staff in 2014.
CARE U workshops offer interactive presentations and active learning exercises on the following topics:
- Aging and vision
- Caring for people living with dementia
- Maintaining older adult mobility
- Nutrition and swallowing
- Putting the person in person-centered care
- Understanding pain
- Emergency preparedness
Please use the button below to register for the January 28 CARE U workshop in Rice Lake. If you would like to express interest in attending a future CARE U workshop in another area of the state, please fill out this form.
Are you a Certified Direct Care Professional?
CARE U has been approved as a microcredential by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services for people who have completed the Certified Direct Care Professional (CDCP) training. Microcredentials are opportunities for continuing education that demonstrate relevant knowledge and expertise to employers.
If you are a CDCP who would like to receive a microcredential for participating in CARE U, please indicate that when you fill out the registration form for the CARE U workshop.
For more information:
Do you want to become a CARE U trainer, to bring CARE U workshops to your area?
To reach more CNAs and direct care staff across Wisconsin, CARE developed a train-the-trainer program to prepare health educators to offer their own local CARE U workshops.
To learn more about the CARE U train-the-trainer and apply, please click here.
Participate in CARE U
Workshop for direct care staff
- January 28 from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm at Northwood Technical College, Rice Lake, WI
- In a different part of the state? Sign up here and we’ll let you know when additional CARE U workshops are scheduled.
Train-the-trainer for health educators
- January 27 & 28 at Northwood Technical College, Rice Lake, WI
- In a different part of the state? Sign up here and we’ll let you know when additional CARE U train-the-trainers are scheduled.
Contact CARE with any questions at (608) 265-4330 or care@son.wisc.edu
This project is supported by a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (award U1Q53041, Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program).
Read about a previous CARE U for direct care staff workshop in Monroe, Wisconsin.
Direct care staff participants in CARE U workshops say:
There was not a thing that I wasn’t interested in. It was an excellent event! Even the simple tips. I told my manager some and she said, wow. … There’s not a lot of information out there for CNAs to grab onto.
I feel very lucky to have attended and can’t wait to take what I’ve learned and apply it to my residents.
