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What’s New for Diabetes and Prediabetes

Diabetes is a particularly difficult condition to maintain. It’s chronic and everything a person does, from what and how much they eat to how much they exercise to a good night’s rest the night before. Now, the coronavirus is making diabetes the kind of death threat it never has been before. Still, it is manageable. The newest update to Diabetes and Prediabetes shows how health promoters and community health workers can offer support, best practices, referrals, diet tips, and more.

10 Signs You Need to Make a Behavioral Health Referral

Supporting clients and patients in crisis situations is critically important. Stress can cause problems with the whole body and can also be a trigger for negative behaviors. This list of signs lets health workers know when it’s time to refer someone to a behavioral health professional for more support.

5 Ways To Save Your Budget with a Sustainable CHW Training Program

Considering the pressures on keeping a CHW program afloat, your strategy for creating a new program or maintaining an initiative needs to be flexible, smart, and strategic. Anything you can do to keep costs down is a benefit. It’s important to remember that while a CHW training program is a necessary investment, not all expenses are expensive.

CHWTraining Releases New Course for Under-served Communities: “Oral Health Disparities”

Online training offers guidance for community health workers, case managers, and others to bridge gaps in oral-health awareness and access Woburn, Mass., Feb. 14, 2020 – CHWTraining, a trusted provider of educational support and structure that enables organizations to build healthier communities from Talance, Inc., has added the new online course “Oral Health Disparities.” The …

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7 Recursos de Proyección Comunitaria para el Día de Concientización Latinx sobre el SIDA

[Read this post in English.] El contagio por VIH solía ser una sentencia de muerte, y para muchos aún lo es. El Centro para el Control y prevención de Enfermedades Infecciosas (CDC) reporta que la raza y etnicidad tienen repercusiones sobre la prevención y manejo del VIH/SIDA. El Día Nacional Latino para la Concientización del …

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7 Benefits of a Learning Subscription for Community Health Workers

7 Benefits of a Learning Subscription for Community Health Workers

If your organization needs to improve the public’s health and well-being in your community, then you already know community health workers (CHWs) are a good solution. That’s the directive of many of the Medicare health plans and clinics that work with CHWTraining. The problem comes to deciding how to train a brand new CHW workforce …

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Community Health Worker Models from Different States

Here is a link to find out what each state has in place for every Community Health Worker. You’ll find helpful information about CHW financing, education, certification, State CHW Legislation, and Organizations & Workgroup. You will also find every state’s information about CHW specific and defined roles. State Community Health Worker Models We hope you’ll find …

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