Santa Clara Co. Community Health Outreach Volunteer (CHOV) Training Application
Santa Clara County CHOV volunteers work with Santa Clara County Public Health Department staff to provide harm reduction services including syringe and harm reduction supply access, overdose prevention education, safer drug use education, MAT recruitment and harm reduction outreach throughout the County of Santa Clara.

CHOV workers undergo a 12 week harm reduction and outreach training and are expected to volunteer at least twice a month for at least one year after they complete their training. CHOVs are given a certificate by the county at the end of their year of service.

It is recommended that you are vaccinated for HEP A/B, and tetanus. It is required that you are COVID vaccinated.  

We will notify you if you are accepted for an interview by July 27th.  

The CHOV training includes the following classes:
* Outreach
* Harm Reduction
* Harm Reduction Program Service Provision
* Intro to Communication and Behavior Change
* Cultural Competency and Structural Violence for Harm Reduction Work
* De-Escalation, Boundaries, Security and Community Relations
* Pathogen Control and Universal Precautions
* Introduction to Drugs and Safer Drug Use
* Specific Harm Reduction Interventions and Responses
* Safer Sex and Safer Sex Work
* Trauma and Response
* Harm Reduction Focused Substance Use Disorder Recovery 

Training is provided by Balanced Imperfection, the staff and existing volunteers of the SHHRP and BAMAT programs and outside experts.

The following questions are designed so we can better get to know you to make sure you're a good fit for this work and the team. There are no right or wrong answers (except your name and email! we kind of need to know those) so be honest, be authentic and give us at lease a few sentences. 

Thank you so much for your interest! 

The CHOV Training Team
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Name *
Email Address *
Phone # *
Are you confident that you can provide people health education on safer drug use and harm reduction in any other language(s)?  If yes, which one(s)? *
Please tell us what attracts you to this work? *
What, if any, experiences have you had with syringe exchange, HIV testing, hepatitis, outreach or the provision of counseling or health services? (these can include personal experiences as a participant/client/patient). *
How do you feel about drug use and why? *
We strongly encourage people with lived and living experience with drug use and sex work (past or present) to volunteer with us. Though this experience is in no way required, you must answer one of the following two questions:
1) If you ARE a person with lived/living experience, what would you like us to know about that as it relates to being a CHOV volunteer? What support do you think you might need from us to best support you in doing this work?  (write NA if you do not have lived/living experience) *
2) If you ARE NOT a person with lived/living experience- what attitudes or beliefs do you think you'll need to tackle to work directly with people who use drugs or do sex work? What support do you think you might need dismantling these attitudes and beliefs (write NA if you have lived/living experience) *
We believe very strongly in the ideals of participant centered services and harm reduction. What do you feel are good examples of these philosophies at work in your own life or the lives people you know? *
We want you to very clear on the commitment you are making if you are accepted to the program. Essentially you are committing to about 6-8 hours per week during the training and at least 8 hours per month for a year. Please check that you understand that by committing to this training you are committing to: *
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County Employees: Please note that you are only responsible for completing the virtual classwork and attending the live-virtual trainings. Please also share your title and department below:
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