What is a Community Health Worker?
Community Health Workers provide direct services to communities — filling many roles in our communities, such as case managers, outreach specialists, community organizers, peer workers, direct service workers and health education specialists. They provide services such as informal counseling, service coordination, health education, advocacy, cultural adaptations, system navigation and social support.
CHWs use their existing relationships and connections to the community to partner with clients to support them in overcoming health disparities. They help by addressing root causes of poor health, such as a lack of housing, employment, finances, food, employment and healthcare.
Our Work
At The Center, we are collaborating with stakeholders to empower, grow and sustain this critical workforce in 猎奇重口. We are accomplishing this by:
- providing free, accessible online training for new and existing CHWs to improve their skills.
- hosting an advisory board to discuss community needs and formalize future funding opportunities to maintain the CHW workforce.
- creating a CHW Committee to standardize CHW work in 猎奇重口.
- creating a CHW documentary to highlight the existing work and value of CHWs in 猎奇重口.
eLearning/Tele-Coaching
Offering 24/7, drop-in learning for all community health workers. We combined that with the structured peer-to-peer discussions in the tele-coaching sessions. Visit this page to learn more about what is offered.
CHW Committee and Workforce Development
Additional information about the CHW committee and workforce development projects.
Current Sessions
This session is now closed.
The CHW training program is funded by a federal grant that concludes in September 2025. We remain committed to offering additional future CHW trainings. Please revisit this page for updates on future sessions. If you wish to be notified when new information becomes available, use this link to join our CHW Training Contact List.
We welcome your input. Email Mackenzie Petersen for more information.
This program is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $2,930,656.00 with 0% financed with non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit .