Helping Haitians help themselves

Rehabilitation Training 

Healing Hands for Haiti is dedicated to providing a comprehensive training program for all disciplines of the Rehabilitation Medical Team.  Through formal classroom training, continuing medical education and real-time mentoring we believe our physicians, therapists, technicians and nurses will be better prepared to deliver high quality care to the patients we serve. Since its inception, HHHI has employed a ‘train the trainer’ model and is dedicated to supporting rehabilitation by Haitians for Haitians in Haiti. 

Rehabilitation Technician Training

Continuing Medical Education (CME) Seminars

This program will provide training courses to Haitian medical professionals with continuing medical education and is designed to promote rehabilitation medicine at a level of expertise not currently obtainable in Haiti.

Hispaniola Island Prosthetic and Orthotic Education Program (HIPOE) 

HIPOE is a distance learning degree program for Prosthetic and Orthotic practitioners on the island of Hispaniola. The program blends curriculum from El Salvador’s University of Don Bosco using distance learning, in country instruction and hands on practice in functioning facilities hosted by Healing Hands for Haiti and supported by Handicap International and International Committee of the Red Cross Special Fund for the Disabled.  This program has been developed by HHHI and long-time supporter Physicians for Peace and since late 2010 is running in the Dominican Republic.

Nursing School Seminars

Rehabilitation Nursing Specialty Practice Core Training (under development)

Preventive and Public Health Education

This program provides preventive and public health education to patients and families about the major causes of amputations and other rehabilitation disorders. It will include personal instruction by a nurse educator, along with written and video materials in the following subjects:

• Burns

• Infections

• Wound care

• Cerebral Palsy

• Diabetes

• Hypertension

• Stroke