The National Center for Community Based Services for Children With Special Health Care Needs and The HSC Foundation have been collaborating to find ways of improving health and related services for children with special health care needs from traditionally underserved communities. The engagement of community health workers (CHWs) has emerged as a very promising strategy for addressing the persistent disparities in the delivery of health care and related services to CSHCN.
As part of our work, we have performed this environmental scan to identify programs across the United States that are combining the strengths of the community health workers with programming for CSHCN. We have focused primarily on programs that address Latino families.
