Bucking the norm, New York City-based Montefiore has opted to directly employ and embed community health workers within its clinical teams to connect patients with social services as part of broader ...

Community Health Workers (CHWs) are frontline public health workers who are trusted members of and/or have an unusually close understanding of the community they ...

Are you interested in pursuing a career in health care? Become a Community Health Worker. The next training session starts on May 2. The primary function of the CHW is to link the community and its ...

Public health crises often converge, creating syndemics that exacerbate their collective impact. The intersecting challenges of HIV, hepatitis C (HCV), and opioid overdoses illustrate this phenomenon, ...

Local nonprofit ConnectionHealth was recently awarded a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to expand their ...

Supporting Your Needs in Community Healthcare (SYNCH) is a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration community health worker training program designed ...

Community Health Workers (CHWs) are valuable resources for programs and teams striving to improve maternal and child health outcomes and address health inequities. As members of the community and with ...

Ohio University’s CHW program has trained more than 500 participants since 2015, growing a community health workforce across Ohio.

Western Nevada College Continuing Education is launching an eight-week Community Health Worker training program beginning Oct. 1. The program provides a low-barrier entry point into the healthcare ...

75 community health workers are slated to receive training by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and the Arkansas Office of Skills Development, as the institution pushes to boost the ...