The Stanford SAGE Certificate Program is available in English and Spanish. We have extensive experience training the direct care workforce in all the Bay Area Counties. Supported by the Stanford Aging and Ethnogeriatrics Center and the Stanford Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Dr. Periyakoil and her team have trained 241 community health workers from the Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma counties.
Additionally, we have conducted conferences, hosted webinars as well as in-person training for multi-disciplinary health professionals in close collaboration with our community partners. In 2022, we partnered with 26 community organizational partners to host 4 educational sessions in Spanish (attended by 222 trainees), one conference on aging and dementia (attended by 136 people), 12 outreach events attended by 183 health workers, 70% Latinx Americans.