Community Health Worker Institute Announces Inaugural Cohort of the SC Community Health Worker Program
The South Carolina Community Health Worker Ambassadors Program (SC CHW Ambassadors) is an initiative dedicated to advancing the CHW workforce in South Carolina. The SC CHW Ambassadors Program will have a diverse group of Ambassadors to serve each year to provide expertise, advice, and guidance to state-wide partners and fellow CHWs across the state.
Variation in State Approaches to Community Health Worker Certification
Workforce development initiatives typically begin with efforts to promote commonly accepted definitions, scopes of practice, and training standards for CHWs, based on understanding how CHWs help improve health outcomes, health equity, and quality of care with demonstrated cost effectiveness. Several states have instituted formal, voluntary certification programs for individual CHWs and CHW training programs. Many […]
Legal Considerations for Community Health Workers and their Employers
This issue brief explores legal issues relating to the regulation and employment of community health workers. It outlines the authority for states to regulate CHWs, describes types of state legislation and activity currently affecting CHWs, and provides considerations for employers utilizing the services of CHWs. Accompanying CHWs’ professional growth is an evolving area of legislation […]
Reciprocity and Career Advancement for CHWs: South Carolina CHW Learning Community Presentation
This presentation examines reciprocity in state CHW certification programs, explores career pathway issues, and plans next steps for the South Carolina CHW Workforce Development Effort.
Documenting Community Health Worker Roles in Primary Care: Contributions to Evidence-Based Integration Into Health Care Teams
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provided community health workers (CHWs) with new opportunities, and current efforts develop evidence-based guidelines for CHW integration into clinical teams. This qualitative study documents CHW roles and activities in 3 federally qualified health care centers in southern Arizona. Community health worker clinical roles, activities, and integration varied by […]
Making the Case for Community Health Workers on Clinical Care Teams: A Single-Session Implementation Guide
With a long history of successfully and effectively addressing health disparities, Community Health Workers (CHWs) are capable of filling the gaps in services that many health care organizations experience in reaching underserved populations. However, the incredible potential to improve health outcomes that CHWs offer has yet to be fully realized in clinical settings. A significant […]
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services Notice of Proposed Policy
In 2014, the gubernatorial-created Mental Health & Wellness Commission recommended a Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) appropriation to implement a primary care health home benefit under Section 2703 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Their recommendation was based on the burden of chronic mild-to-moderate behavioral health issues within the Medicaid population, and […]
The State of the Community Health Worker Field in Minnesota
The State of the Community Health Worker Field in Minnesota report provides a descriptive overview of the field within the broader context of national trends and developments. Commissioned by the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH), the report is prepared by the Minnesota Community Health Worker Alliance (the Alliance) as a resource for community health workers […]
MHP Salud Executive Summary
As part of its “Promotoras Make Cents” study, MHP Salud partnered with four Federally-Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) with CHW programs that targeted specific outcomes: Ampla Health, the Community Health Partnership of Illinois, Whittier Street Primary Care, and Franklin Primary Health Center. Financial data was collected for a period unique to each program. Relevant costs for […]
The Changing Roles of Community Health Workers
Objective: To examine what different types of employers value in hiring community health workers (CHWs) and determine what new competencies CHWs might need to meet workforce demands in the context of an evolving payment landscape and substantial literature suggesting that CHWs are uniquely qualified to address health disparities. Study Design: We used a multimethod approach, […]
