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Community Based Organizations
El Sol
Castro Valley Adult &Career Education (Online)
El Sol Neighborhood Educational Center (El Sol).
El Sol is a pioneer in Community Health Workers (CHWs) and Promotores programs in the Inland Empire, California. El Sol is the leading agency focused on identifying, training, deploying, and supporting CHWs and promotores in the region. CHW/Promotores Training Center El Sol has more than 15 year of experience implementing programs and training CHWs/Promotores in multiples topics and projects.
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San Bernardino Sites: Main Office: 766 North Waterman Ave, San Bernardino CA 92410-4435 Ontario Office: 718 E Maitland St, Ontario CA 91761-3429 High Desert Office: 15000 7th Suite 212-b, Victorville CA 92392-3582 Riverside Sites:
Coachella Valley: 41550 Eclectic St., Palm Desert CA 92260-1967 Perris Office: 21091 Rider St. Suite #204, Perris CA 92570-8800 Phone Office: (909) 884-3735 https://www.elsolnec.org/
Castro Valley Adult &Career Education (Online)
Castro Valley Adult &Career Education (Online)
Program Cost: $799 + textbook
9/9/24 - 1/27/25
Mondays & Wednesdays
9am - 12pm
This course is completely online. Students must have basic computer skills, access to a computer and the internet.
Call 510-886-1000 or go to www.cvadult.org to register for the mandatory virtual orientation.
This will be sent to you through email, and will give you detailed program and registration information.
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Talk to us about CHW ESL Support Class
Learn about...
- roles in public health
- affordable housing resources
- benefits programs (SSI, IHSS,
- CalFresh, EBT)
- care coordination
- transitions support
- recovery support
- accurate documentation
- patient coaching/ health promotion
- health literacy
- career development
To register, go to
or call 510.886.1000
Castro Valley Adult & Career Education
4430 Alma Avenue, Castro Valley, CA 94546
Phone: (510) 886-1000
Fax: (510) 537-8537
San Francisco AHEC
CONTACT: SF AHEC DIRECTOR, BEAU SANCHEZ AT BSANCHEZ@SFCCC.ORG San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium 2720 Taylor St, Suite 430 San Francisco, CA 94133 Phone: (415) 355-2222 Fax: (415) 355-227
The Leon Institute
Community Health Worker Certificate
We currently offer a four-week basic Community Health Worker certificate training program plus continuous support and mentorship for up to six months after completion of the program for individuals looking to gain entry into the health field.
Email info@theleoninstitute.org for more information.
Organization-Based CHW Training
The Leon Institute offers specialized training for organizations that employ or utilize Community Health Workers.
Email info@theleoninstitute.org for more information.
Continuing Education
We offer training to healthcare professionals that would like to learn more about care of vulnerable, migrant & underserved populations or are in need of continuing education (CEU’s) credits.
Email info@theleoninstitute.org for list of course offerings.
Administrative Office: 2900 S. Harbor Blvd, Suite 100, Santa Ana, CA 92704
Hours of Operation: Monday - Friday 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Email: info@theleoninstitute.org
Phone: 714-750-9285
Promotoras Con Alma
Indian Health Service
Vision: Working together we will achieve a society with well-being, justice and equity in which the contribution of all its members is honored with love and integrity.
We create a space in which Promotoras discover their personal wealth, acquire knowledge, increase their skills and receive support in being the trigger for community transformation. Within this space, action is motivated through advocacy and collaboration between promoters, organizations and public agencies, resulting in mutual respect and effective responses to community needs.
- Core skills and leadership training
- Continuing education opportunities
Contact: Chely Romero Edgar Aguilar Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/promotorasconalma/
Indian Health Service
Indian Health Service
"CHR Basic Training for CHRs"
The Community Health Representative (CHR) Program is a unique concept for providing health care, health promotion, and disease prevention services. CHRs have demonstrated how they assist and connect with the community, and their work has become essential to the spectrum of Tribal community-oriented primary health care services. CHRs are great advocates, in part, because they come from the communities they serve and have tribal cultural competence. Their dedicated work has assisted many to meet their healthcare needs. The health promotion and disease prevention efforts that CHRs provide have also helped people from the community improve and maintain their health. By providing health education and reducing hospital readmissions, CHRs have contributed to lowering mortality rates. The demand for CHRs continues to grow.
Join our CHR LISTSERV list to stay informed.
Public Health Institute
Online Training Hub for Community Health Workers
Explore online, self-paced trainings for Community Health Workers (CHWs) to help increase health skills and knowledge, created by the Northern ACEs Collaborative, a project of PHI’s Population Health Innovation Lab.
Community Health Workers (CHW) are frontline health workers and trusted leaders who have a unique understanding of the needs of the communities they serve. CHWs serve as an intermediary between health service, social services, and community members. On behalf of community residents, they advocate for change, build knowledge and self-sufficiency, and increase access to quality and culturally competent services.
The Northern ACEs Collaborative, a project of PHI’s Population Health Innovation Lab, has created a training hub which offers CHW training through online, self-paced courses in three learning branches: core skills, healthy living, and chronic illness.
Sowing Seeds Community Health Center
4902 Irvine Center Drive, Suite 105
Irvine, California 92604, US
+1 949-436-8836
President:
Dr Shawn Hamilton
Chi Qian Chen
Santa Barbara County Promotores
MaryEllen Rehse (MSW)
CFRS Administrator/Director
mrehse@sbceo.org
(805) 964-4710, ext. 4465
Darnyl Dal Bon
Office Assistant
healthlinkages@sbceo.org
(805)964-4710, ext. 4453
Fax: (805)682-4646
Santa Barbara County Education Office
3970 La Colina Road
Santa Barbara, CA 93110
- Collaborative on Social Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL)
- Welcome Every Baby Family Connects (WEB-FC)
- Health Linkages program
- Santa Barbara County Promotores Network
Santa Barbara County Promotores Network members understand and respect the traditional beliefs of the Latino community and can help agencies integrate these cultural beliefs in their programs and services. They do this by engaging the underserved and marginalized Spanish-speaking recent immigrant community around strategies to enhance systems to improve community awareness about health and social service issues that affect them. We participate in health fairs, community forums, and peer-to-peer education and provide information on a variety of issues of interest or benefit to our community, such as:
- Childhood obesity prevention and parent education
- Diabetes prevention and resources
- Children’s oral health screenings
- Low cost health insurance resources
- CalFresh for families and individuals
- Tobacco Prevention
- Family violence prevention
- Communicable diseases
- Mental health, counseling, alcoholism and drug abuse
- Cancer Prevention and Detection
- Emergency Preparedness
Santa Barbara Promotores Network
Santa Barbara Promotores Network
https://sbcpromotoresnetwork.weebly.com/
Santa Barbara Promotores Network began in 2002 with three women who, while working in the Health Program Center for the Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics, through the clinic outreach, discovered that health issues were interconnected. Diabetes, Cancer Prevention, Well Child Check-ups, HIV/AIDS, and other physical health issues were the main education discussions going on within the community.
Founded in 2002 by Guadalupe Perez, SBNC Outreach Coordinator at that time, developed a training for “Promotores de Salud”, which included basic education on a wide variety of health topics. Josefa Rios, Cancer Detection Program Coordinator, who was also at the time working for SBNC, was joined by Maribel Landeros, Health Program Center assistant and Teen Health Advocate Coordinator, and together they began working on developing connections with other agencies that served the community. In 2007 they became an independent group known as the Promotores and in 2010 became a county wide promotores network.
Lead Promotores are employed by the Santa Barbara County Office of Education Health Linkages program and supported by the SBC Coalition in Support of Promotores.
Mission: To empower families and individuals with respect, dignity, and compassion by enhancing the quality of all aspects of their lives through education and the promotion of healthy behaviors.
Organizational Chart ( expanded version coming soon)
For More Information, Contact:
Josefa Rios
South County Lead Promotora
Phone: (805) 448-2578
E-mail: jrios@sbceo.org
Maribel Landeros
Mid and North County Lead Promotora
Phone: (805) 680-7805
Email: mlanderos@sbceo.org
Santa Barbara County Education Office
3970 La Colina Road
Santa Barbara, CA 93110
Esperanza Community Housing Corporation (LA)
Esperanza Community Housing Corporation (LA)
3655 South Grand Avenue, Suite 280
Los Angeles, California 90007
(213) 748-7285
info@esperanzacommunityhousing.org
Nancy Halpern Ibrahim: Board President and Executive Director
Nancy joined Esperanza’s staff as inaugural Director of Health Programs. She developed the model community health leadership program, Promotores de Salud, which led to the first class of Esperanza’s Community Health Promoters graduating from the program in 1996. To date this program has graduated 533 bilingual women and men.
Esperanza Community Housing Corporation (“Esperanza”) was established in 1989 to support the residents of the Figueroa Corridor of South Central Los Angeles, whose homes were being threatened by encroaching construction. Today, Esperanza remains committed to investing in this vibrant community, offering support through five core program areas: Affordable Housing, Health, Arts, Environmental Justice and Economic Development; these areas are also underlined by a policy component. Esperanza broadens and strengthens its impact through strategic partnerships with community members, nonprofits, businesses and policy makers.
Esperanza currently serves 126,000 individuals a year. In all of its activities, Esperanza strives to build hope with community
Program Areas
- Affordable Housing
- Economic Development
- Environmental Justice
- Arts and Culture
- Health
- Systems Change and Policy Advocacy
Latino Health Access
Contact : Dr America Bracho Executive Director
Address: 450 W Fourth St., Suite 130 , Santa Ana, CA 92701
Phone: 714.542.7792
Promotores are neighbors, moms, dads, children, youth and members of our communities who believe in helping and including others to be part of the solution to create healthier places for all. Our promotores are as young as 6 and as old as 76. They are Latino Health Access employees or volunteers with a special gift of creating enduring relationships with neighbors and participants in the many activities we offer. They gain the trust of the community and engage residents to create a synergy that comes with inclusion and participation.
Stationed in laundromats, churches, supermarkets, parking lots, apartments, streets, bus stops, living rooms, patios, schools and other places, they offer information about nutrition, diabetes, mental health, how to access doctors, the need for parks, safe communities and civic engagement. They draw out residents who might not otherwise reach out for help. Our promotores conceive unique and creative strategies to talk to our community about issues important to their health.
Promotores do not “target” the community. They join with neighbors to create relationships built on trust. As a result, our participants do more than learn about managing their diabetes or receiving a mammogram. As the relationship matures, they partner with us to make Orange County a healthier place.
Our programs, implemented by promotores and a team of health and human service providers, include:
• Diabetes Self Management
• Breast Health
• Healthy Weight
• Senior Door-to-Door outreach
• Health Policy Advocacy
• Mental Health
• Children and Youth Leadership
vision y compromiso
Training
VYC innovative training programs are designed to give Promotores the information, skills and understanding they need to communicate with and advocate for their communities.
- Advocacy and Leadership Training for Promotores
This 50-hour policy and advocacy program trains promotores as advocates to address inequalities in institutional policies and enhance local capacity to engage residents in a culturally respectful process to generate sustainable social and environmental changes. - Latina Saludable es Familia Saludable (Latina Health is Family Health)
Visión y Compromiso has trained hundreds of community residents as promotores with this 40-hour core competency curriculum The curriculum contains sessions that focus on increasing communication skills, adult learning and skills development for the community in general. The methodology used to conduct the sessions is based on the popular adult education that emphasizes the interaction and the inclusion of the participants. The training provides a space where community promotores share their experiences and increase skills and knowledge through information and activities supporting them in their work with the community. - Emotional Wellness
In partnership with The Center for Multicultural Development at the California Institute for Mental Health, Visión y Compromiso developed this 4-day, 32 hour mental health training based on Salud Para Todos to provide promotores with information about common mental health concerns and to increase their capacity to assist community members in need of mental health prevention, treatment and recovery services. - Bailoterapia (Dance therapy)
Developed by Visión y Compromiso (VyC), Círculos de Bailoterápia (loosely translated as cardio dance therapy circles) provides promotores—natural leaders in their communities—with training and support to implement culturally and linguistically relevant wellness programs in their communities that are community-based and respond to the health needs and interests of neighborhood residents. This two-day, 12-hour training provides promotores with the information and skills they need to 1) help community members incorporate moderate movement into their everyday lives, and 2) develop social networks that offer critical peer support to sustain these physical activity levels and lifestyle changes into the future. Delivered by VyC’s expert trainers, curriculum modules include: 1) The role of nutrition and food in exercise; 2) Living with diabetes and other chronic diseases; 3) Strategies for healthy eating; 4) Understanding aerobic exercise and intensity levels; 6) How to develop the right physical activity program for the community; 7) Warning signs, contraindications and alternatives; and 8) Instructor’s roles and responsibilities. - Salsa, Sabor y Salud
Originally developed by the National Latino Children’s Institute (NLCI), Visión y Compromiso uses culturally and linguistically relevant tools to help Latino families with children understand the role of diet, nutrition, portion control, and physical activity on family health. Interactive teaching strategies help families define health, nutrition and physical activity in meaningful ways. - Your Heart, Your Health
The Your Heart, Your Life Project is an evidence based health promotion program designed for adult Latinos by the National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute. Cardiovascular illnesses are the primary cause of death among North Americans, including Latinos. One in every four Latinos dies due to a heart illness. It is possible to prevent these illnesses with information, realistic behavior changes and regular medical exams. As a result, Vision y Compromiso provides training for community leaders who will in turn bring awareness about this issue to other community residents.
The program is an 11-session series. Topics include:
- Risks for heart disease
- Heart attack signs
- Physical activity
- Blood Pressure
- Cholesterol
- Healthy Weight
- Diabetes
- Caring for our heart
- When time or money is tight
- Living Smoke Free
- Review and graduation
- Reproductive Justice in the Latino Community
This 4-session curriculum (each session is 2 hours and can stand alone or be presented as a series) provides tools, resources and materials to transform how promotores think about race, rights, gender, sexuality and reproduction. - safeTALK—Suicide Prevention
Developed by LivingWorks, safeTALK is a half-day alertness training that prepares anyone over the age of 15, regardless of prior experience or training, to become a suicide-alert helper. Most people with thoughts of suicide don’t truly want to die, but are struggling with the pain in their lives. Through their words and actions, they invite help to stay alive. safeTALK-trained helpers can recognize these invitations and take action by connecting them with life-saving intervention resources, such as caregivers trained in ASIST.
Since its development in 2006, safeTALK has been used in over 20 countries around the world, and more than 200 selectable video vignettes have been produced to tailor the program’s audio-visual component for diverse audiences. safeTALK-trained helpers are an important part of suicide-safer communities, working alongside intervention resources to identify and avert suicide risks.
Training features:
- Presentations and guidance from a LivingWorks registered trainer—Vision y Compromiso has a trainer!
- Access to support from a local community resource person
- Powerful audiovisual learning aids
- The simple yet effective TALK steps: Tell, Ask, Listen, and KeepSafe
- Hands-on skills practice and development
If you would like more information please contact:
Alma Esquivel, Director of Training and Education
alma@visionycompromiso.org
Gerry Balcazar, Training Coordinator
gerry@visionycompromiso.org
REPORT Key Workforce Priorities for the Community Transformation Model ( 2017, 32 pages)
The Worker Education and Resource Center (WERC)
CHW Apprenticeship "Earn as you learn" Model
An apprenticeship model that tailors prospective CHW/P's education to the needs of employers
Contact: Amber Roth Executive Director
1545 Wilshire Blvd 5th floor Ste 500
Los Angeles, CA 90017
213-639-2220
Our goal is to transform lives through a long-term career in public service.
The Worker Education and Resource Center (WERC) is a non-profit organization that for 20 years has provided quality workforce development programs in partnership with public service and safety net employers in Los Angeles County.
WERC is a labor-management partnership with the Service Employees International Union Local 721, committed to high road programs that address equity, excellent public service, and career paths to stable permanent employment.
WERC conducts research and planning, develops curriculum, and provides dynamic, cutting-edge training programs and intensive case management.
Assistant Case Manager Training
LA County’s Housing for Health contracts with community organizations to deliver Intensive Case Management Services (ICMS) to every client. Services are provided by on site staff such as Intensive Case Managers and Assistant Case Managers (ACMs). ACMs provide intensive case management services to clients classified as low acuity. These positions serve individuals and families residing in interim and permanent housing by supporting and providing services in the areas of assessment; care planning; coaching and social support; connections to direct services; care coordination and system navigation; education about the health and social service system; outreach and engagement, and capacity building for individuals who were experiencing homelessness and are now mostly housed.
- Equity in Apprentice WERC Case study 2018
- DHCS / WERC Report: CHW Best Practices and cost effectiveness information: Safety Net Systems and Medicaid
reach out
CHW Apprentice "Earn as you learn" Model
Reach Out: Strengthening Communities
CHW/Promotores Training Program
Inland Health Professions Consortium (IHPC ) is a division of Reach Out providing hands-on learning opportunities for students and community members in health career pathways. The team works with industry partners, educators, and community stakeholders to address the need for a highly skilled and culturally competent health workforce in the Greater Inland Empire region. Reach Out’s Mission is to solve our region’s toughest issues: breaking barriers to educational achievement, expanding economic opportunities, and creating safe, healthy and innovative communities.
Contact:
Diana Fox, Executive Director;
Alyse Michaelis, Assistant Director for IHPC
(909) 982-8641
valley high school
Health Tech Academy
Valley High School Health Tech Academy
Contact:
Rodney Black
Health Teacher, Health TECH Academy Coordinator
6300 Ehrhardt Ave., Sacramento, CA 95823
(916) 689-6500
The VHS Health TECH Academy is the first high school in the country with a Community Health Worker training program!
What is a Community Health Worker?
Community Health Workers (CHW)/Promotores assist in providing education, recruiting, and offering outreach for specified clinic and community programs. The CHW also serves as a health systems navigator, identifying appropriate levels of health care intervention. CHWs are employed by community nonprofits, clinics, local health departments, and state agencies.
What does Health TECH provide?
The Health TECH Academy staff and supporters have obtained a CHW-Basic certification for Health TECH students. We firmly believe that the Academy prepares students to be excellent CHWs. Certification will require completion of academy courses, CHW exams, and field work.
What's been done so far?
- Health TECH won a grant that creates the South Sacramento Healthcare Pipeline (SSHP) that will allow us to develop a strong CHW program. SSHP runs from grade 7-14.
- Elk Grove Adult and Community Education (EGACE) will provide CHW-Basic certification for students.
- Health TECH staff formed a working committee to seek state-wide certification for CHWs.
- Health TECH staff are working on a committee with Sierra Health Foundation for a grant that would help Academy students gain CHW experience.
Vista del Lago's
HEALTH ACADEMY PROGRAM
Vista del Lago's Health Academy program is a 4 year program funded by California Partnership Academy. This innovative program is designed to give the students an overview of the human body, its functions, health care, career options and a capstone course in one of four areas that prepare the student to work in health care.
This pathway prepares students to go into careers which will enhance, sustain or improve the physical wellness of the community in a variety of healthcare settings and focuses on careers in patient care, public or mental health.
Contact: Cindi Dolan
Health Academy Director & Teacher
Phone: 571-4880
Moreno Valley Unified School District
Vista del Lago High School
15150 Lasselle Street, Moreno Valley, CA 92551
Community Health Center Network (East Bay)
Community Health Worker Training
Community Health Center Network (East Bay)
Contact:
(510) 297-0200
101 CALLAN AVENUE, SUITE 300,
SAN LEANDRO, CA 94577
Trains CHW/Promotores for Complex Care Neighborhoods
CHCN’s Care Neighborhood approach has demonstrated positive returns on investments including: decreased hospital re-admission rates, improved use of integrated behavioral health, decreased ER use, improved Hgb A1c and more. With support from our health plan partners, we had 12 Community Health Workers in our 8 health centers by the end of 2017, building our capacity to support more than 800 medically complex patients annually. Care Neighborhood successfully continued to demonstrate total cost of care savings per member per month and received additional support from our health plan partners in 2018 to grow gradually from 12 to 20 Community Health Workers.
- WEST OAKLAND HEALTH
- TIBURCIO VASQUEZ HEALTH CENTER
- NATIVE AMERICAN HEALTH CENTER
- LIFELONG MEDICAL CARE
- LA CLINICA
- BAY AREA COMMUNITY HEALTH
- AXIS COMMUNITY HEALTH
- ASIAN HEALTH SERVICES
