Community health workers (CHWs) are trusted frontline public health workers who often function as liaisons or intermediaries between health and social services and the community. Their activities can ...

The saying “not all heroes wear capes” is certainly true with community health workers. A community health worker (CHW) is a frontline public health worker with lived experience and local knowledge, ...

Nolga Valadez knows that her work for Three Square, which provides food to those in need, consists of more than offering sustenance. After a course in bilingual community health worker training, ...

RWJBarnabas Health, a 14-hospital system based in West Orange, N.J., said Oct. 9 it is widening its community health worker program across its enterprise. The program launched in 2023 to improve ...

Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health is improving patient experience and reducing the burden on providers with a new program that recruits and trains reskilled workers. Jefferson’s Community Health ...

In just two semesters, faculty at Sacramento City College teach students how they can help to save and prolong lives by becoming community health workers and stand in the gaps that lie between medical ...

Institute for Community Health Innovation will work with partners to continue building the community health worker (CHW) workforce across the state after ...

Walae Hayek of the Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association, Lissette Blondet of the Massachusetts Association of Community Health Workers, and Suzanne Curry of Health Care For All testified on ...

Mozambique more than doubled its workforce of trained and active community health workers – from 3,380 in 2018 to 8,300 in 2022 The number of technical health staff assigned to primary care services ...