Linyi trains family health instructors to strengthen grassroots services

Linyi in East China's Shandong province held a 2026 training program for family health instructor trainers on Nov 6, jointly organized by the municipal family planning association and the municipal health commission, with 85 participants including executive vice presidents of county-level family planning associations and instructor trainers from across the city.

The program emphasized hands-on practice over theory. Courses covered the promotion of vitality exercises, reading food labels, measuring vital signs and helping residents regulate emotions. Together with the municipal Red Cross, organizers ran a special training and graduation assessment on family emergency first aid, aiming to strengthen trainees' ability to act within the critical first minutes of a household emergency.

Participants also visited the Lanshan district elderly care service center to study its models of health and wellness services and learn from its operations. Organizers said the training is intended to move instructors from knowing theory to performing procedures and from doing it themselves to teaching teams, with each trained trainer expected to bring along a wider circle. The city's family planning association system will keep building the instructor corps and weaving a denser grassroots family health service network.

Editor：韩蒙蒙