2017 Annual Report: Promotor(a) or Community Health Worker (CHW) Training and Certification Advisory Committee April 2018
The 2017 Annual Report of the Promotor(a) or Community Health Worker (CHW) Training and Certification Advisory Committee (Committee) is prepared in compliance with Texas Administrative Code, Title 25, Part 1, Chapter 146.3(n).1 The annual report, due to the Executive Commissioner not later than April 1, describes the Advisory Committee’s composition, attendance, accomplishments in 2017, planned […]
Texas Administrative Code Title 25, Part 1, Chapter 146 Rules Regarding Training and Certification of Promotores(as) or Community Health Workers Final
The provisions of this chapter apply to any promotor(a) or community health worker, and instructor, representing that he or she performs or will perform as a certified promotor(a) or community health worker or, trains or will train promotores or community health workers respectively. It also applies to any sponsoring organization that delivers a certified training […]
Texas Community Health Worker Training and Certification Program: Shared Curriculum Report
DSHS and the approved training programs share a deep commitment to ensuring quality continuing education (CE). The potential to share approved curricula between training programs will improve consistency of training and, most importantly, will increase statewide availability of DSHS certified curricula. This will allow a more diverse selection of courses offerings for CHWs and instructors […]
Texas Community Health Worker Study Report to the Texas Legislature
The Texas Community Health Worker (CHW) Study (Study) report was developed by the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) and the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC), with support from research conducted by the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, Institute for Health Policy (UTHSCH-SPH), in response to the […]
H.B. No. 2244
An act relating to expanding the use of and funding for promotoras, patient health navigators, and community health workers in this state.
H.B. No. 636
It is in the best interest of the citizens of this state that the State of Texas create a health insurance exchange, the Texas Health Insurance Connector, to facilitate, and make transparent the purchase of, small employer and individual health benefit plan coverage in this state, to provide assistance with enrollment of eligible individuals in […]
Impact on Texas if Medicaid is Eliminated
House Bill 497, passed by the 81st Texas Legislature, directs that the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) and the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) conduct a study “to determine the effect on the health care infrastructure in this state if the state Medicaid program is abolished or a severe reduction in federal matching […]
Children’s reporting of food insecurity in predominately food insecure households in Texas border colonias
Background: Food insecurity is associated with detrimental physical, psychological, behavioral, social, and educational functioning in children and adults. Greater than one-quarter of all Hispanic households in the U.S. are food insecure. Hispanic families in the U.S. comprise 30% of households with food insecurity at the child level, the most severe form of the condition. Methods: […]
Texas’ Community Health Workforce: From State Health Promotion Policy to Community-level Practice
Promotores, a community health safety net and a natural extension of the health and human services agencies, improve health at the neighborhood level. Certification brings renewed commitment to serving others and a distinction to those who have been the unsung heroes of public health for decades.
The Outcome Evaluation of a CHW Cancer Prevention Intervention: Testing Individual and Multilevel Predictors Among Hispanics Living Along the Texas-Mexico Border
Abstract This paper evaluates the effectiveness of community health workers/promotores (CHWs) in promoting cancer preventive behaviors in the 2011–2013 Education to Promote Improved Cancer Outcomes (ÉPICO) project. The ÉPICO project utilized CHWs to disseminate cancer education to predominately Spanish-speaking Hispanics living in colonias in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. The CHWs received training […]