There are four components to the Empowerment and CBPR course:
History of Curriculum
The development of this curriculum was an initiative from Nina Wallerstein of the Center for Participatory Research, University of New Mexico, with an initial workshop co-sponsored by the Health Promotion Unit of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in July 1999. Attending the workshop were health professionals from the Americas with the intention of co-creating an interactive curriculum in empowerment, participation, and health promotion, also in collaboration with Interamerican Consortium of Universities and Centers for Training in Health Education and Health Promotion (Consorcio Interamericano de Universidades y Centros de Formación de Personal en Educación para la Salud y Promoción de la Salud, CIUEPS).
In May of 2005, the University of Sao Paulo’s School of Public Health, with translation assistance from CEPEDOC (Center for the Study and Documentation of Healthy Municipalities), hosted the first five-day workshop to pilot-test the Empowerment and Health Promotion curriculum, facilitated by Nina Wallerstein, Marta Lucia Gutierrez (Javeriana University - Colombia) and Mario Gonzales Sobera (Uruguay). The pilot had 35 participants, half from Brazil and half from other Ibero-American countries, including: Peru, Mexico, Uruguay, Colombia, Bolivia, Paraguay, Chile, Argentina and Spain. The result of this collective work from numerous professionals from different countries and by the primary authors led to the 2nd edition of the curriculum (Wallerstein, Gutierrez, Sobera, 2008). Workshops and University courses, using all or part of the curriculum, have been held throughout the Americas, including Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, etc.
The third edition is co-authored by Nina Wallerstein and Laura Chanchien-Parajon, (2022) with coordination from Rosilda Mendes and Carmen Santana for the Portuguese/Brazilian edition (to be published by Hucitec, Sao Paulo); and with coordination by Jessica Hinshaw for the Spanish edition. The third edition has been transformed to incorporate new material from Wallerstein’s Engage for Equity study in the U.S. as the core grounding for social participation and empowerment.
The new edition of the third version of the curriculum in Portuguese and Spanish will be available from Nina Wallerstein, nwallerstein@salud.unm.edu in 2022. The English Version will follow.
The Second Edition of all three language versions from 2008 is available below.
Please click here for the Social Participation and Empowerment: Methodologies for Health Promotion (Wallerstein, Gutierrez, and Sobera, 2008) with complete introduction and course materials. You may also click here to download the English version of the Empowerment Curriculum. This zip file is 18 megabytes and take a few minutes to download depending on your connection speed.
Haga clic aquí para la Participación Social y Empoderamiento: Metodologías para la Promoción de la Salud (Wallerstein, Gutiérrez y Sobera, 2008) con materiales de introducción y cursos completos. También puede hacer clic aquí para descargar la versión en Español de Curriculum de Empoderamiento. Este archivo zip es de 25 megabytes y crea tardar unos minutos en descargarse dependiendo de su velocidad de conexión.
Por favor clique aqui para Participação Social e Empoderamento: Metodologias para a Promoção da Saúde (Wallerstein, Gutierrez, e Sobera, 2008), com introdução e cursos materiais completos. Você também pode fazer clique aqui para baixar a versão em Português do Curriculum de Empoderamento. Este arquivo zip é de 18 megabytes e fazer demorar alguns minutos para baixar, dependendo da sua velocidade de conexão.
