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The Comprehensive Health Education Workers Project and Caring Professionals as Asset‐Builders
Author(s) -
Lévesque Michel
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
new horizons in adult education and human resource development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1939-4225
DOI - 10.1002/nha3.20200
Subject(s) - asset (computer security) , mental health , psychological resilience , health professionals , psychology , nursing , resilience (materials science) , medical education , public relations , sociology , medicine , political science , health care , social psychology , psychiatry , computer security , computer science , law , physics , thermodynamics
The Comprehensive Health Education Workers (CHEW) Project is a community‐based initiative that educates sexual and gender minority (SGM or LGBTQ) young people about comprehensive—mental, physical, sexual, and social—health and that supports their comprehensive health needs with other services. Since October 2014, CHEW Project staff have served as caring professionals building assets that facilitate young SGMs' resilience in Edmonton, Canada. This article profiles two of the project's comprehensive health education workers to illustrate asset building through caring professional practice.