Why You Should Retrain Your Community Health Worker Team Regularly
If your agency is invested in using CHWs (or promotoras, community health representatives or other health advisors), you should get ready for retraining them on a regular basis.
How To Pick the Best Admin Staff and Facilitators for Your Community Health Worker Training Program
The best community health worker programs have teams that are well trained in working with an online student base. However, there are some clear pros and cons in terms of choosing a facilitator or administrator. Here’s how to make the right decision.
How Community Health Workers Can Support Your Maternal and Child Health Program
Maternal and child health initiatives can greatly benefit from community health worker programs. Here’s how CHWs can serve your MCH program.
Everything You Need to Know about Community Health Workers
Meta description & Excerpt: Frequently asked questions about CHWs, promotores de salud, community outreach workers, and many other titles commonly used for Community Health Workers.
Top CHW Conferences for Fall 2021
Conference season is beginning, and many are online, making it easier for CHWs and health promoters to join.
5 reasons why a community health worker program will help your clients and patients
This world has a new definition of normal, and healthcare has changed in ways we are only beginning to understand. Making some long-term plans at your agency might seem rash while so much is uncertain. But there is one change you can make this year that will only make your agency and community stronger: start …
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Boosting CHW Retention with Professional Development
If you’re involved in a program for community health workers, you’ve probably had to deal with employee turnover. Most agencies that hire CHWs, community health representatives, promotores, or similar staffers, deal with the same issue. In the case of CHWs, retention becomes an issue because career advancement as a CHW is a barrier, according to …
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COVID vaccine information for CHWs
CHWs have played a key role in helping the US navigate through the COVID pandemic. So much so that in 2021, the government increased the budget for CHW programs to $7.7B nationwide to support the fight against COVID. These programs include widespread COVID vaccine efforts. The World Health Organization and other international organisms tout community health …
How to evaluate your community health worker training program
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Successful healthcare employee training programs are those that are tracked and evaluated. Most organizations know that, but they often fail at the very beginning to look at the individual pieces of the whole program. Being too general with evaluation will mean you miss out on important data that you can use immediately to improve your efforts.
Some areas you can measure before you begin, some while a course is in process, and others as part of a longer effort. Look at the individual parts of your program, give your evaluation some context, and you’ll be able to have a clearer idea of what’s working–and what isn’t.
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The Top 11 Places To Recruit Community Health Workers
Healthy communities depend partly on how people can work and live well together. Many communities have found that community-focused health workers can help those initiatives. And these workers can be community health workers, community health representatives, promotores, or similar other similar titles. Coordinating community resources and increasing capacity through CHWs can also boost your agency’s …
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