Build A Better Health Worker Training Team
These are the essential members you’ll need to assemble a successful training team for your community health worker program.
Employee Benefits – How To Make Your Community Health Workers Happy
Job benefits is one of the reason why employees are loyal and dedicated to their job. Here are some tips to make them happy.
Massachusetts CHW Core Competencies
Massachusetts has thousands of community health workers (CHWs) employed and volunteering across the state. Most work in Boston, but they also work in the larger Metro region, Central Massachusetts, Cape Cod, Western Massachusetts and even in the far Northeast region of the state. Massachusetts CHWs work in a wide variety of settings. They’re in including …
5 Free Disease Prevention Training Resources Community Health Workers Can Use for 2022
Disease prevention is one of our greatest achievements as human beings. We’ve been able to reduce the number of people dying from infectious diseases by over 90% in just 100 years. But there’s still much to learn about how to keep ourselves healthy. Thankfully, we have community health workers (CHWs), promotores de salud, health advisors …
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Cross-training: The Simple Solution To Keep CHWs, Your Staff, and Your Clients and Patients Happier
Cross-training healthcare teams to be community health workers is accessible, easy to integrate with existing schedules, and applicable to anyone on staff. It improves health outcomes and benefits patients, healthcare teams, and agencies.
Women’s Health: 7 Skills Every Community Health Worker Needs
To build a healthy community that supports the needs of high-risk or at-risk communities, community health worker programs need to improve health and wellness for everyone. While we regularly talk about health and disease in generalized terms, women’s health requires a specific focus. Health has gender differences. The CHWs in your program need to understand …
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Community Health Worker Career: 6 Steps To Get Ahead
The news is out: more people want a community health worker career now more than ever. And the reason for this shift is simple: A CHW career is rewarding, and it is a critical piece of a healthcare team. Being a CHW is also a good career choice. There are more jobs than ever in …
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Thinking About Hiring a CHW Supervisor for Your Health Program? Here Are Tips You Can Begin Using Now
The CHW supervisor is an essential part of your community health worker program. The supervisor is responsible for providing administrative, and sometimes clinical, support. They’re also the champion of the community health workers (CHW), promotores de salud, or other health advocates within an agency. They’re the ones who hold CHWs accountable, review their work and …
15 Core Skills You Need for a CHW Career
Employment opportunities for community health workers are better than ever. Organizations like the Centers for Disease Control and the US Department of Health & Human Services are frequently announcing new programs, funding and resources for CHWs in an effort to improve health outcomes and reduce the cost of hospitalization and long-term conditions in the health …
Why You Need a Job Analysis To Hire Community Health Workers
Being able to identify all the tasks and responsibilities of a person who will join your care team is the first step to hiring for the job of a CHW. Without knowing these, you can’t really know how to build a job description to put into a job posting.