Resource Center Purpose:
We provide a registry of programs and services in support of employers and employees. We facilitate or meet their Community Health Worker (CHW) needs.
What is the Community Health Worker (CHW) Registry?
The Community Health Worker (CHW) Registry is a web-based system designed to track and promote the employment, training, and education accomplishments of the Community Health Workers.
Why Use a Registry for Your CHW Employer Needs?
CHW registry service saves you the time spent going through the interview process by screening and carefully matching the right CHW professional to your specific job assignment. Give us the position available and we will fill it for you with highly qualified CHW personnel you can count on!
Why Use a Registry for Your CHW Employee Needs?
Specialized Training: Wellness Coach
- CHWs can provide support in educating patients and their families on the importance of making lifestyle changes and of
- Taking their medications, following the treatment plans from their doctors, and promiting the correct use of health services.
- In addition, CHWs can educate health care providers and administrators about the community’s health needs and the cultural relevancy of certain actions.
Outreach Coordinator
- CHWs can provide outreach to individuals in the community setting.
- They can also strengthen their community’s understanding and acceptance of medical care, as well as bridge cultural mediation between communities and the health care systems.
- CHWs often ensure that people get the right services that they need, and can provide informal counseling.
Why Use a Registry for Your CHW Staff Training Needs?
Reliable Training
- We ensure a well trained, skilled and certified CHW: through classroom or virtual eLearning platform in conjunction with hands-on: on the job training at apprenticeship sites.
- We include the employer in pre-training skills development to ensure competency on day 1 of employment.
- Give us the position available and we will fill it for you with highly qualified CHW personnel you can count on!
Core Competency
- The CHWs Training Resources contain information and activities on core competencies.
- The Training Resources also includes handouts to be distributed both during training sessions and for CHWs to share with their local communities. CHWs training qualifies them to be included as members of health care teams.
- As members of the team, they serve as a bridge between health care providers, to build trust, eliminate cultural barriers, racial and ethnic disparities.
Resources and Social Support
- CHWs are trusted members of the community; we provide them with resources and technical support so that they can successfully complete the training program.
- Having experienced these challenges: they can in turn shed light on barriers to health care, facilitate providers and managers of health care systems to a better understanding of the social challenges confronting certain populations.
- CHW Eligibility Criteria
- Must be at least 18 years old;
- Must have a high school diploma or GED;
- Must have a personal email address (a computer and internet are required);
- May request support for unmet resource requirement (including computer and computer training, provided that there is a strong desire to share lived experience with the community).
- CHW’s training is linked to the job role that the CHW is expected to perform, as well as their lived experience, and the community that they wish to serve.
CHW Training Curricula
- The curricula targets individuals seeking paid employment.
- Policies relating to participant selection, certification achievement, and retention are embedded within the program.
- Funding combinations from state, CHW certification programs and DOL grants provides a unique model for CHW training and implementtion.
- The program appeals to CHWs seeking to be community advocates, serving as “coaches” for disease management and prevention, increasing access to health care, and serving as navigators through the health care system.
Certification Description
- Upon completion of the 156-hour online training, hands on apprenticeship training and passing a final exam.
- Each participant will be certified as a Community Health Worker in a Training Model and
- Will be eligible for work relevant to experience and training model.
- Eligibility for employment includes: employment in organizations serving families, the elderly, children and youth, including outpatient medical/ behavioral providers, hospitals, medical clinics, schools, churches and community center.
Why Use a Registry for Your CHW Job Training Needs?
Health Care Provider Support
- Health care providers participate in the development of the CHW training program.
- The program is guided by key community stakeholders including: health care providers, workforce development board, graduate CHWs and a network of health systems and potential employers of CHW services.
- The stakeholders collaborate to ensure that the training received by CHWs can meet the high priority health needs of the local communities that will be served by the CHWs upon program completion, certification, and attainment of core competencies..
Collective Impact Approach
- The goals of the stakeholder collaboration for this training includes:
- Expand apprenticeship that adress gaps in health equity for minority populations;
- Increase opportunities for diverse popuations to achieve the benefits of evidence-based health care apprenticeships and
- Engage a national alliance of employers, workforce development boards and other partners to support the health care workforce development for CHWs to better meet the needs of underserved populations.
