NEON TRAINING PROGRAM

Offering Courses for CHW Certification and Continuing Education

We are a community collaborative

Inclusive • Innovative • Supportive

Northeast Oregon Network (NEON) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, with a comprehensive training and consulting program offering online (or in person upon request) trainings and workshops. We provide training opportunities to Executive Directors, HR, C-Suite staff, Community Health Workers, Traditional Health Workers, Social Workers, and other frontline staff across the State of Oregon.

We are passionate about systemic changes to ensure diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging which is why these ideal principles are instilled in all of our offerings. Our goal is to offer healthcare professionals in Oregon opportunities to build knowledge and skills within their profession, while gaining confidence to learn fundamental practice techniques for systemic changes.

All of our trainings and workshops, offer continuing education units through MHACBO, NASW, or SHRM and are earned by hours attended. We also can provide custom training dates to organizations needing a large group to attend as well as custom training curriculum that aligns with our mission, vision, and values.

NEON's mission is to support individuals, communities, and systems to collectively promote equity, health, and well-being at home and beyond.

Offering Trainings to Support You and Your Organization

Wellness at Work Training Program

NEON's Wellness at Work project supports the health care workforce throughout Oregon by providing training to frontline staff working with rural or culturally underserved populations. We also offer training for supervisors and administrators who support this workforce.

Trainings offered in this program: Supervising for Resilience, Wellness at Work for Healthcare Executives. Self-Care at Work series includes: Take Care of Yourself, Inside Job, Dynamic Duo, Set Your Scene, and For the Fun of It.

*Scholarships are available for this program to those that qualify. Scholarships cover a portion of the full price towards the Supervising for Resilience and Workforce Wellness for Mid-Level Leaders trainings.

Apply for the Scholarship!

Addiction Trainings

In these sessions, workers build their knowledge and skills to work with people who struggle with addiction.

Topics covered: Brain Basics, Compassion Fatigue and Addiction, Family Impacts of Addictions, Health Risks of Addiction, Motivational Interviewing and Addiction, and Medication-Assisted Treatment and How to Support It.

Community Health Worker (CHW) Certification Course

CHWs are found in all sorts of settings, working to address systemic inequities and reduce barriers to health care for our communities' most vulnerable. They are there to build bridges between underserved communities and the health care services they need.

In this course, participants share and learn about the roles of CHWs and a range of topics relevant to their work. By the end, they have a big-picture understanding of community and public health and the ways they can have a positive impact. NEON's CHW certification course is a 90-hour training approved by the Oregon Health Authority and runs three times a year.

Tobacco Cessation Skills Training

Tobacco cessation is a complex process that requires not only a personal commitment but also access to cessation resources and the availability of a social support system.

This training series provides an overview of the nature, extent, and impact of tobacco use on health. It also offers a detailed exploration of counseling and support strategies that Community Health Workers and other frontline staff can implement with those patients interested in tobacco cessation or quitting.

*Looking for a different training topic? Contact us for a complete list of our available training topics.

NEW Grant Project

NEON is excited to announce we are recipients of the Future Ready Oregon Workforce Grant, where we will be creating the NEON Community Health Worker (CHW) Training HUB. A project that will create a satellite and hub training program in ten counties. Our goal is to provide onsite, hybrid, culturally responsive recruitment, and training to 90 new CHWs from communities of color and low-income communities.

We will also focus on upskilling and career pathway developments for an additional 110 current CHWs by providing supervisor and Train-the-Trainer facilitator training to experienced CHWs.

You can find out more information about this Grant project at the links below:

PRESS RELEASE: Workforce Ready Grants Expand Career Pathways in Healthcare, Manufacturing, and Technology

Higher Education Coordinating Commission : Future Ready Oregon : About Agency Offices : State of Oregon

About Our Trainings

Trainings are held online via Zoom but in-person accommodations can be made upon request.
All trainings are in real time and use popular education methods.
Targeted audiences include the broader state of Oregon with a focus on those working with rural and culturally underserved populations.
Collectively the trainers have over 40 years of experience in training, curriculum development, and human services.
Continuing Education Units are offered for all our trainings and workshops.

Hear From Our Participants

"Really appreciate how well you integrate chat and breakout with the teaching portions". - Opioid Addiction Training Participant

"The content was great and very useful. It was delivered in a manner that was easy to understand." - Compassion Fatigue Training Participant

NEON is a connector, innovator, and expert resource

Rural and culturally underserved communities in Oregon are often under-resourced, particularly in their capacity to support the health of residents. As a result, barriers to community health can be enormous—providers experience gaps in funding, technology, and training; community members commonly have limited access to information and care. Our mission at NEON is to create a healthier Oregon. We accomplish this by reducing barriers for both residents and the systems that support their health. We are connectors, innovators and experts. We connect people and organizations to one another and to resources they need to meet their goals. By thinking out of the box and harnessing the creativity of our communities, we help lead the development of solutions to the unique challenges faced in our region. We make it our priority to learn and share policy, practice, and tools that will help others accomplish more. We believe that by working together, the communities of Oregon can move from surviving to healthy, happy, and thriving.

Our History

Northeast Oregon Network (NEON) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit health collaborative originally serving Union, Wallowa, and Baker counties in Northeast Oregon and recently expanded into Umatilla and Malheur counties. NEON was launched in 2004 by a small group of individuals who recognized the value of community collaboration in ensuring the health of our residents.

The Workforce Wellness project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $2,280,666 with 0% financed with non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.