Supporting the Nontraditional Workforce: Community Health Workers and Promotores
Community health workers and promotores (CHW/Ps) have been part of the health care landscape in the United States for decades. Payers and providers increasingly recognize their essential role in supporting patients with complex medical and social needs. With support from the California Health Care Foundation, the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) is examining the critical value that CHW/Ps […]
CHW Toolkit
The CHW Planning and Assessment Toolkit is intended to provide you with background knowledge, resources, tips, and recommendations for hiring and utilizing a CHW. It is ideal for managers and key decision makers advocating for, or implementing, a CHW program at their organization. The focus of this toolkit is on healthcare and social service settings; […]
ASTHO CHW Learning Community: Kentucky State Team Call – Agenda Setting and TA Needs Discussion (October 11, 2019)
Meeting minutes from Kentucky State Team Call. Objectives of meeting include: hearing updates from Kentucky state team on activities related to CHWs; discussing opportunities and challenges to help identify areas where ASTHO and SMEs can provide TA, and; agenda setting for the next 6 months and discussing sustainability considerations.
Training and Supporting Community Health Workers and Promotores: Lessons for California and Other States
States increasingly recognize the value of community health workers/promotores (CHW/Ps) for reaching underserved populations and the need to support this workforce with professional development opportunities. There is, however, currently no single, nationally recognized standard for CHW/P training, and many organizations and states have developed different approaches. Whether training is undertaken by the state, an educational […]
Community Health Worker and Promotores Training in California – Request for Proposals
This request for proposals is intended to identify a grantee to coordinate a process to advance the California Future Health Workforce Commission Community Health Worker/Promotores recommendation to “scale the engagement of community health workers, promotores, and peer providers through certification, training, and reimbursement.” This project is specifically focused on developing recommendations for state certification of […]
ASTHO CHW Learning Community: New Hampshire State Team Call January 31, 2020
Meeting summary from New Hampshire State Team Call. Objectives of the meeting include: understanding the national C3 (CHW Core Consensus Project) competencies for CHWs and how it could relate to CHW certification, training, hiring, and financing; and providing an update on discussions within New Hampshire about CHW certification, while recognizing the importance of CHW leadership.
Supporting the Integration of Community Health Workers in Whole Person Care Pilots
Whole Person Care (WPC) is a California waiver program that provides counties, cities, and/or health/hospital authorities with an opportunity to coordinate clinical care, behavioral health, and social services for the most vulnerable and high-utilizers of Medi-Cal. Many WPC-participating entities plan to or are already employing community health workers (CHWs) to achieve their aim of care […]
Scaling the Engagement of Community Health Workers and Promotores in the Bay Area: Charting a Path to the Future
The purpose of the convening was to share preliminary findings from a survey of CHW/P training programs and health sector employers in the Bay Area and to initiate a dialogue among diverse stakeholders that focuses on how to align and build the capacity of CHW/P training programs and expand their engagement in the health sector.
The Role of Community Health Workers in Health Systems: A Multisectoral Exploration
In this report, Community Health Councils (CHC) seeks to inform the current and ongoing dialogue about the impact CHWs have had, and will continue to have on the healthcare system, particularly among vulnerable communities who experience disproportionate health disparities, such as South Los Angeles. As such this report: provides an overview of the role Community […]
Community Health Worker Employer Study – 2020
MiCHWA has conducted CHW Employer surveys biennially since 2014, with funding support from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. The 2020 Community Health Worker Survey was open from May 1 to June 30, 2020 to all Michigan-based CHW programs that MiCHWA could identify. The final dataset included 53 CHW programs from 47 organizations. […]
