Abstract:

This essay discusses the need for Covid 19 prevention training program and its effect to community members. Community training create enabling environment for community members to critically look to their skills, prepares community members to adapt new lifestyle in systematic and in logical manners in how they address the immerging health challenges. Community training stimulates, motivates, empowers and streamline community members to improve quality of their lives and ability to deals with life challenges, particularly in health and personal hygiene. The community training increase health promotion effect and has higher chance of improving how community members may be able to comply and adhere to the instructions of Covid 19 preventions. Community training has an effect on positive attitude and safe community and working environment which also bring good relationship between community members and leaders, employers, employees and visitors of community organizations or places. The community health training fosters collective responsibilities to respond to new health challenges and motivate community members to easily adapt new knowledge and attitude to eliminate diseases of public health importance. The main purpose of this training must be to increase knowledge, skills and improve mental health condition that will influence psychosocial change and remove discouraging factors that has been observed to critically affecting the community and health staff in providing services while fighting Covid-19 to increase vaccine uptake. The training program should use competent trainers with well-planned and structured contents that include specific goal, objectives, and training activities to address mental health; Depression, anxiety, psychological distress and vaccine intake hesitance. The appropriate Pedagogical approaches of training will be able to create effective interaction between trainees and trainers for effective learning that influence changes.

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