The Centre for Learning and Childhood Disabilities (CLCD) is exploring a project dubbed: Our Peer -Empowerment and Navigational Support (OP-ENS)” where selected parents of children with disabilities will be trained to serve as peer navigators.
Under the project, three Peer Health Navigators (PHN), all parents
of children with disabilities have been trained to empower other parents of
children with disabilities by providing them individualized support and
structured problem-solving skills to overcome barriers to healthcare.
Ms Esinam Adade, a Researcher at CLCD who facilitated the PHN
training, said most persons with disabilities have poorer access to health care
and poorer health and a Peer Health Navigator could help remove some of these
barriers.
She said the PHN programme have been used successfully in
cancer and chronic illness treatment to reduce health disparities.
Ms Adade said the CLCD PHN programme is tailored to meet the
primary needs of caregivers of children with disabilities.
She urged the trainees to integrate their unique experiences
and background with the course content.
The trainees were taken through the various Developmental
Disabilities, their symptoms, the risk
factors, some basic management techniques and the available resources that
could help parents of children with disabilities.
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