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Community Health Workers in Rhode Island: A Study of a Growing Public Health Workforce

Year:
2018
State:
RI
Website Link:
Publicly Available:
Yes
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Certification:
Evidence Generation:
Documentation of how CHWs can work within care teams, Surveys and assessment tools to define and develop workforce
Policy:
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Workforce Development:

Summary

Community Health Workers are gaining recognition as a valuable, newly emergent public health workforce. This article describes a qualitative study that generated a snapshot of Community Health Worker employment in Rhode Island, gathered collective wisdom and stakeholders’ perspectives about how to pay for a community health workforce, and highlighted promising opportunities to grow and sustain the field. This article summarizes the study’s findings, and discusses its implications.