What to know
These materials help community health workers deliver AMIGAS.
Tools
AMIGAS is designed to be used with the following tools. You can use them during individual or group sessions.
- Presentation: The information you tell participants about cervical cancer and cervical cancer screening.
- Body Diagrams: Diagrams showing the female reproductive system and what happens during a cervical cancer screening test.
- Contact Sheet: Contact information for a participant, where she is in her decision-making process, and notes about conversations.
- Message Cards: Prompts that are used during an individual session to help the woman talk about her feelings about cervical cancer screening.
- Resource List: Detailed information about how to get cervical cancer screening in your community.
- Appointment Card: A reminder for a woman of the date, time, and location of her screening test.
- Medical Instruments: A speculum and cytology brush, which are used as visual aids when discussing cervical cancer screening.
- Gifts: Small gifts or promotional items given to participants to thank them for attending a session.
- The Web Game: This game is a fun way to introduce participants in a group session to one another and make them feel comfortable.
- The Cabbage Game: This game is used in a group session to review knowledge of information in the presentation.
- Three Friends Game: This game is used in a group session to discuss women's opinions about cervical cancer screening and help them create an action plan.
- Promise Sheet: Lists the specific actions a woman has committed to take toward getting screened for cervical cancer.
- AMIGAS Handout: An information sheet that explains the primary messages in AMIGAS. Other fact sheets or brochures may also be used.
- Evaluation Form or Survey: Feedback from participants about an education session.
- Background Information: Information about cervical cancer screening, risk factors, and test results that can help community health workers answer questions.
- Glossary: Definitions of terms you might read or hear related to the female body and cervical cancer.