Birth Registration & Child Online Safety: A Practical Training for CHNs

Timely birth registration gives every child a legal identity and unlocks access to services—education, healthcare, travel documents, social protection—while safeguarding their rights across a lifetime. In Ghana, registration is free within the first year, yet many children remain unregistered due to awareness and access barriers. This on-demand CPD training equips Community Health Nurses (CHNs) with counselling scripts, community-engagement tools, and practical steps to drive timely registration in every household they serve, alongside a focused component on Child Online Safety to help caregivers keep children safer in today’s digital world.

The course blends very short video lessons, case-based quizzes, and field-ready materials (flash-card style job-aids, checklists) so you can learn quickly on mobile and deploy the tools immediately during home visits, durbars, clinic talks, and outreach. It also bridges community traditions—like naming ceremonies—with formal registration pathways to close the last-mile gap.

WHY YOU SHOULD ENROL

1. Turn common touchpoints (ANC, CWC, postnatal visits, naming ceremonies) into high-yield registration opportunities with clear scripts and referral steps.

2. Give families a crisp, accurate “where/how” guide to register—including District Assembly, hospital points, and volunteer contacts.

3. Confidently explain why registration matters—identity, services, protection, inheritance, reunification in disasters—so caregivers act now.

4. Add Child Online Safety counselling to routine caregiver education, covering benefits of digital access and key risks (grooming, cyberbullying, harmful content) with practical family rules.

5. Learn in micro-bursts (5–8 minutes), pass the post-test, and receive an instant, verifiable certificate with automatic CPD point submission.

6. 100% online, self-paced—start, pause, and continue anytime.

WHAT WE’LL COVER

i. Birth registration: purpose, rights, and lifetime benefits (identity, services, protection, inheritance, reunification).

ii. Ghana specifics: free registration < 1 year, late-registration fees, proof of registration.

iii. Where and how to register: District Assemblies, hospitals, registration volunteers.

iv. Leveraging naming ceremonies and community influencers (family heads, pastors, imams).

v. Child Online Safety: benefits of digital tools; key risks (grooming, cyberbullying, harmful content, overuse, privacy); practical family rules.

vi. Structured CHN messaging: scripts, FAQs, and referral prompts for outreach and clinic talks.

TRAINING HIGHLIGHTS

1. On-demand micro-lessons (mobile-first, 5–8 minutes each) with captions and downloadable transcripts.

2. Interactive quick checks after each lesson + final post-test for CPD credit.

3. Printable & WhatsApp-ready job-aids (flash-card style) for immediate field use.

4. Community forum for asynchronous Q&A with the facilitator.

5. Instant, verifiable e-certificate + automatic CPD upload on completion.

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DATE: Available and Accessible on demand till 31^st December 2026

TARGET PARTICIPANTS: Community Health Nurses (CHNs)

PARTICIPANT CONSENT AND DATA PRIVACY NOTICE

By registering for this course, you consent to participate in training hosted by CES on behalf of HealthKeepers Network (HKN). Your registration information will be used solely to deliver the training and to issue CPD accreditation with the relevant regulatory bodies. CES is committed to safeguarding your personal information and will not share your personal data with HKN or UNICEF. Your data will only be shared with the appropriate regulators (e.g., Nursing and Midwifery Council) for the exclusive purpose of allocating CPD points earned through this training.

Participation is voluntary. You may opt out at any time; no further action will be taken regarding your data beyond what is required to meet regulatory obligations already fulfilled (e.g., CPD points already uploaded). We respect your privacy and treat your information with strict confidentiality and in accordance with applicable data-protection laws and CES policies.