4 Outreach Skills That Turn Make Your Programs More Successful
Learn the 4 essential outreach skills that can dramatically enhance the success of your programs. Boost your impact with these expert strategies.
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Why You Should Renew Your Community Health Worker’s Training 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.
What Is a Certified Community Health Worker and How Can They Help You?
Uncover the hidden heroes of healthcare–certified community health workers (CHWs)–and their remarkable contributions to community well-being.
COVID-19: Summer of 2022 Update
Over the past couple of years, a lot’s been said and done about COVID-19. Now, differing mandates have many people feeling conflicted, and new variants continue to spread. Thankfully, community health workers can educate patients, prevent them from getting this dangerous virus, and avoid its advancement. At CHWTraining, we compiled the most common questions any …
December 2021: The Latest COVID vaccine information for CHWs
Updated December 24, 2021. 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 …
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12 Skills Every Community Health Worker Needs for COVID-19 Care and Coordination
Training your team to be community health workers (CHWs), or hiring new CHWs, is a priority for many healthcare agencies in the fight against COVID-19. CHWs—and other health educators such as promotores, community health representatives (CHRs) or care coordinators—have a vital role in helping clients and patients receive care and avoid getting sick in the …
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These Are The Virtual Outreach Skills Your Chw Program Needs To Build Rapport Online
One of the biggest challenges community health workers, community health representatives, and other lay health advocates continue to face during the pandemic is connecting with their clients and patients. Traditional outreach and engagement efforts make it much easier to offer preventive care, see first-hand what kind of support and services they might need and develop …
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9 Must-Have Skills To Combat Food Insecurity
In the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, many people have food insecurity as they deal with higher medical bills and added daily stressors. Add high unemployment and many people struggle to make ends meet. According to the USDA, most people in America are food secure (89.5%), but that leaves 13.8 million food insecure, and a …
Your Agency Needs Training for Food Insecurity
By Gabrielle Carrero The coronavirus is emptying America’s cupboards. Growing food insecurity is making more people wonder where their next meal will come from. Income disruption and limited access or availability of food at grocery stores are only a few reasons why families and individuals are experiencing it for the first time. Meanwhile, many that …
What’s New for Navigating Health Insurance
By Monique Cuvelier Health insurance is—if possible—even more important for Americans now than ever before. Everyone’s healthcare needs have been turned upside down, thanks to the coronavirus. Some people are sicker, some are withholding their preventative care checkups, such as breast cancer screenings, until they feel comfortable visiting doctors, and others still have shifts—or gaps—in …