Education and Training

Our Training and Professional Development Strategies

Our facilitators are bilingual in English and Spanish and bring lived experience as community promotoras. They deliver engaging, culturally grounded trainings that inspire trainees to practice servicio de corazón—service from the heart—through mutual respect, trust, and egalitarian relationships.

Our Training and Education team brings decades of experience in the design, delivery, and evaluation of learning and development programs for promotoras. We work with partners across organizational fields and industries, from health care, health and human services, to research and many more.

Promotoras are the future of community health. Our training and technical assistance for organizational leaders and promotoras gives them practical tools to succeed across increasingly diverse and interconnected work environments—from government agencies and health systems to grassroots community settings.

We believe that learners are active participants in their learning process and that understanding is constructed within the interaction between people sharing and exploring ideas.

We provide a comprehensive range of courses through in-person, instructor-led or hybrid modalities, facilitated in either English and Spanish, to ensure accessibility and inclusivity for multicultural audiences throughout the US, Mexico and Latin America.

What Makes Us Unique?

The uniqueness of our training approach is that all our curricula and implementation guidelines are developed by content experts and informed by promotoras, experts in the challenges and opportunities faced by their communities.

We focus on learners’ experience and learning styles.

Our learning principles are grounded in Popular Education, where all participants are learners and educators, leaning in from lived experience with a focus on developing critical consciousness and action for social change.

We transform communities.

Our approach positions community change as a collective cycle of Action-Reflection-Action. Transforming personal experience into a deeper understanding of power, issues and systems towards liberation and justice.

We remain relevant.

We are a trusted advocacy leader and a proven partner for workforce readiness and employment pathways for promotoras. Since 2000 we’ve partnered with promotoras to identify and address pressing community health needs, to date, reaching 5,000 promotoras in California through our training. In 2024 we expanded to implement the CHW/Promotora/Representative CalAIM benefit for Medi-Cal users and collaborate with Medi-Cal Care Plans to ensure promotoras and CHWs have the training and support they need to implement Community Care Plans.

We align our training programs to your learning goals.

Each curriculum is purposeful, relevant, and directly applicable to your unique learning goals and organizational competencies.

Our partners trust us:

“Visión y Compromiso’s ongoing support has fostered environments of trust, support, and growth within our community.”

—VILLAGE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER, BRENTWOOD, CA

“They also provide support with training and necessary tools to help achieve our final objectives.”

—CITY OF NEWARK, CA

“Visión y Compromiso training facilitators truly care and are able to connect and make a difference with diverse populations.”

—SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES

“We highly value our partnership with Visión y Compromiso, not only for their dedication to transparency, teamwork, and strong leadership, but also for their commitment to fostering community partnerships and working with local organizations. This support has been instrumental in our efforts to revitalize Newark promotoras and our community.”