Healthy Community Conference Notes June 11-12, 2013
Notes taken from conference on Healthy Communities with a focus on financial sustainability, CHW empowerment & integration, statewide education & awareness, and effect CHW coalitions.
Project workplan
Workplan for CHW workgroup in Nebraska with goals, objectives, activities, outcomes, and accomplishments.
Community Health Workers in Nebraska Conference Agenda
Agenda for CHW meeting with goals to learn more about the status of CHWs in Nebraska, learn about other states’ initiatives to standardize and adopt statewide core competencies, and make contributions to the CHW initiative process.
Nebraska CHW Definition and Core Competencies
Nebraska’s definition of CHWs and their core competencies.
Development of Nebraska’s Community Health Worker Workforce
During the past year a diverse group of representatives from several organizations and some Community Health Workers joined together to develop a more concise picture of the community health workforce in Nebraska, adopt core competencies for Community Health Workers, identify training and education needs, and develop a sustainability plan. The purpose of this document is […]
Working Group Notes
Form for note taking during CHW work groups.
Project Description
The Chronic Disease Prevention & Control Program is funded through two grants from the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC). The program focuses on healthy environments in workplaces, schools, early childhood education facilities, and in the community. It also focuses on working through health systems and communities to reduce complications from multiple chronic diseases […]
State Health Assessment: Nebraska
The purpose of the State Health Assessment (SHA) is to serve as the foundation for setting statewide public health priorities. The 2017‐2021 Nebraska State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP) will establish statewide public health priorities. Ultimately, the goal is to strengthen public health system partnerships, which will lead to better coordination of services and resources with […]
Consultation Meeting SWOT Analysis Notes
Nebraska CHW Coalition Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats Analysis.
The Emerging Role of the Community Health Worker (CHW): Nurses as Champions and Policy Leaders in a Transforming Health Care System
A project team of nurse leaders convened to consider the emerging role of the community health worker, nationally and in Nebraska. Work products included an inventory of community health worker projects in Nebraska; a policy cross-walk to illuminate national and Nebraska policy developments; and a bibliography of useful resources regarding community health worker training, role […]