Vermont Community Health Worker – Scope of Practice and Core Competencies
Well-articulated scope of practice and competency guidelines for Community Health Workers, as in other professions, can help to give the Community Health Worker field more tools to guide education, practices and policies that impact the workforce across the state. In the Fall of 2019, the Vermont Community Health Worker Workforce Development Subcommittee performed a cross […]
Diffusion Of Community Health Workers Within Medicaid Managed Care: A Strategy To Address Social Determinants Of Health
The integration of CHWs into the health care system in New Mexico began almost a decade ago when a relationship between the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (UNMHSC) and the New Mexico Medicaid system was born. As a capitated managed care system, the Medicaid program contracted with insurance companies, which saved money by […]
South Carolina Framework for Community Health Worker Practice
A taskforce was formed in February, 2018 with the goal of developing an over-arching framework for community health workers (CHW) to be fully adopted in South Carolina (SC). A group of internal and external stakeholders met three times to determine what components are necessary for CHWs to be recognized as valuable and integrated members of […]
Community Health Worker Intervention in Subsidized Housing: New York City, 2016–2017
From April 2016 to June 2017, the Health + Housing Project employed four community health workers who engaged residents of two subsidized housing buildings in New York City to address individuals’ broadly defined health needs, including social and economic risk factors. Following the intervention, we observed significant improvements in residents’ food security, ability to pay […]
Funding Model Worksheet – Draft
Explanations of various funding models for CHWs and how they might be employed in Montana.
Integrating community health workers into HIV care teams: Impact on HIV care outcomes
Objectives: To assess the impact of a Community Health Worker (CHW) intervention within HIV primary care on patient outcomes. Methods: We evaluated a 10-site initiative integrating CHWs into HIV care, examining changes in three outcomes: viral load suppression, a prescription for ART, and appointment attendance. We also assessed the relationship between the three outcomes and […]
CHW Certification Considerations: Discussion with New Hampshire DHHS – Presentation
Presentation provides an overview of options/processes for CHW certification/credentialing, discusses administrative structures to “house” a certification program, and discusses whether certification is a desirable path forward for New Hampshire DHHS
Recommendations for Internships for Community Health Worker Certification
The purpose of this document is to provide recommendations for how CHW internships will be structured for consideration by the Connecticut Community Health Worker Advisory Body. As part of the certification process, CHWs will be required to complete an internship. In addition to being trained or educated as a community health worker by an organization […]
Defining Peer Roles and Status Among Community Health Workers and Peer Support Specialists in Integrated Systems of Care
Current strategies for integrating general medical and behavioral health services focus primarily on improving the coordination of care and expanding team-based services. Absent from most discussion has been a focus on the workforces that provide the bulk of community-based outreach, engagement, activation, motivational support, and self-management: community health workers (CHWs) and peer support specialists (PSSs). […]
Community Health Workers and Children With Special Health Care Needs
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 […]
