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CHW core competencies

Understanding the Core Competencies of Community Health Workers: A Beginner’s Guide

Core competencies for community health workers (CHWs) are the essential skills, knowledge, and abilities they need to do their job well. These competencies are like the building blocks for being great at what they do and successful in their field. Training that focuses on these core competencies helps them develop and improve these important skills …

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7 Benefits of a Learning Subscription for Community Health Workers

The right learning subscription offers flexibility, simplifies administration and ensures that community health workers (CHWs) have the resources they need to deliver and coordinate high-quality care to their communities. This approach offers a successful strategy for training and upskilling your CHW workforce. Many individuals want to promote health and foster community capacity for health equity. …

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How to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Your CHW Program: Best Practices and Strategies

Assessing your community health worker initiative is crucial for its success and impact on community well-being. Discover how to evaluate your CHW program effectiveness and make data-driven decisions to enhance your program. As someone working on a CHW program, you’ll need to know how well your program is faring if you want it to continue …

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5 Ways to Boost your multidisciplinary team with Community Health Workers

Just five years ago, most healthcare centers and providers across the US had no idea what a community health worker (CHW) did—never mind how they might fit in with a larger multidisciplinary healthcare team. Then the coronavirus arrived, the health of millions changed, and CHW advocates everywhere jumped at the chance to rebuild their client …

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3 CHWs Who Improve Patient Outcomes and Where They Work

Community health workers work all around the world in settings as diverse as inner-city hospitals to rural farmlands. They might specialize in one narrow area, such as encouraging more women to receive breast cancer screenings. Or they could be generalists who address anything from connecting someone to low-cost transportation while coaching them on how to …

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