mission
envision
envision is a collaboration of expert community health workers (CHWs) and CHW allies whose mission is to support CHW programs and networks in expanding and maximizing CHW leadership and the potential of the CHW workforce.
We use CHW best practices while applying our collective years of diverse professional and lived experience in realizing our mission. Our work has financial and administrative support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Community Health Workers for COVID Response and Resilient Communities (CCR) Program.
The envision team uses multiple proven strategies to ensure CCR recipients and other CHW programs have the opportunity to do their best work and achieve their goals.
We do that by providing training and technical assistance (TA) and facilitating peer to peer connections.
Alongside program consultation, we deliver interrelated services through webinars, small group training, and communities of practice that help CHW programs enhance their skills, improve their outcomes, and learn from one another.
We use a collective approach to building a workforce. We support a strategy of equity and sustainability.
The envision team is a multi-state partnership of long-term CHWs and allies guided by the principle of ‘nothing about us without us’.
We are deeply invested in supporting CHWs and CHW programs in the work they do and have decades of collective experience and skills in all aspects of CHW work and support.
At envision, we believe that health happens on the front porch, at the clinic, and everywhere in between. We meet people where they are. We have lived this life and walked this walk.
We are the communities we serve.
CHW Council
Council members serve as subject matter experts and provide leadership and knowledge to propel envision’s equity-based goals forward.
CHW Council activities are framed from an equity lens, centered on uplifting the expertise of individuals with lived experience, seasoned CHWs, and CHW allies in the field.
Peer-to-peer learning supports programmatic implementation that is relationship-based with an emphasis on collaboration and co-creation. envision ensures that there is CHW co-creation in this work.
Community Health Workers for COVID Response and Resilient Communities (CCR)
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Launched in August 2021
CDC’s Community Health Workers for COVID Response and Resilient Communities (CCR) initiative provides financial support and technical assistance to 69 states, localities, territories, tribes, tribal organizations, urban Indian health organizations, and health service providers to tribes.
Community health workers (CHWs) are frontline public health workers who are trusted members of the community they serve.
This trusting relationship enables the worker to serve as a link between health/social services and the community to facilitate access to services and improve service delivery.
Public health crises, such as COVID-19, worsen existing health disparities. CHWs are well-positioned to reach communities hit hardest by COVID-19, stop the spread of COVID-19, and move toward health equity.
About the Funding Opportunities
The CCR initiative consists of two funding opportunities intended to put more trained CHWs in communities that have been hit hardest by COVID-19 and among populations at high risk for COVID-19 exposure, infection, and illness.
Intended communities are those with high rates of COVID-19 and long-standing health disparities related to race, income, geographic location, or other sociodemographic characteristics. Intended populations are those at high risk because of their race or ethnicity, income, incarceration, homelessness, or medical conditions.