Community Health Representative Integration: Public Health Emergency Preparedness & Response
This document is intended for Tribal Emergency Management Coordinators and Community Health Representative (CHR) Program leadership and teams as a best practice guide to ensure appropriate integration of CHRs into emergency preparedness and response efforts.
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Community Health Representative Integration: Vaccine Deployment
This document is intended for Tribal Public Health and Community Health Representative (CHR) Program leadership and teams as a best practice guide to ensure appropriate integration of CHRs into vaccine deployment efforts.
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Preserving a Transformative CHW/Promotor Workforce
A case study analyzing the approach, and lessons learned, from the El Sol CHW/P Training Center.
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Addressing Legal Obstacles to Hiring Formerly Incarcerated Individuals as CHWs
Network for Public Health Law & Transitions Clinic brief promoting health equity in communities affected by mass incarceration. They identify barriers, elevate opportunities, and share possible policy recommendations to navigate barriers.
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Transitions Clinic Network
TCN is a national organization committed to reversing the harms of mass incarceration by eliminating racial health and economic disparities. They work to transform health systems to better meet the needs of impacted communities, including hiring and training formerly incarcerated individuals to work as CHWs embedded into primary care teams to engage patients returning from incarceration.
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Bridging the Gap: How CHWs Promote the Health of Immigrants
Immigrants in the U.S. face a range of challenges with respect to access to quality health care. This book provides evidence and recommendations for engaging CHWs to serve immigrant populations and connect them to necessary care and treatment resources.
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Hope + Healing Podcast
A series to inform Tribal citizens and leaders on healthcare options that offer better care to Indian Country. Topics include Medicare, Medicaid, the Health Insurance Marketplace, and more.
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Día de la Mujer
This organization promotes healthy behaviors within the underserved Latino community by providing a culturally and linguistically proficient education, facilitating early detection screening, culturally preventative care interventions; promoting wellness, training and patient navigation.
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Morehouse School of Medicine High School Pipeline
Information about the High School & Young Adults Community Health Worker training program, a year-long training program that seeks to increase the number of trained HSYACHWs to engage family, peers and community in strategies for better health and wellness.
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