15 Community Health Worker Job Titles and Different Roles
Ready to take your community health worker program to the next level? This guide provides step-by-step instructions on skills and training supervisors need for maximum impact.
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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.
5 Strategies for Creating a Sustainable Community Health Worker Training Program on a Budget
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.
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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Top Strategies for Recruiting CHWs in Your Community
Community health workers (CHWs) play a vital role in improving healthcare access and outcomes in underserved communities. That part is clear and simple. Coordinating community resources and increasing capacity through CHWs can also boost your agency’s reputation and reach in an area. Once you’ve established this, your program will begin to grow on its own …
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Creating a Structured Interview Template for CHWs
If you’re expanding your community health team and need to hire a new community health worker, promotor(a) or similar role, a structured interview can be your new best friend. A structured interview can help you choose the best candidate for the position by creating a fair and organized framework for interviewing. With this guide, you …
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Career Development for Community Health Workers
Understand where and how to recruit or train community health workers, encourage career growth, and create career development for experienced CHWs.
How to Prevent Employee Burnout and Increase Productivity: Seven Top Tips
CHWs, like other healthcare workers, are prone to feeling burnt out. Here’s how you can prevent employee burnout in your agency in 7 easy steps.
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 …