Community health workers

 Community Health Workers work under many job titles depending on the mission of their employer or the project they are part of as well as the funding source and RFP/MOU agreements. The list of job titles that follows have been collected from research papers on community health workers, CHW surveys to  employers as well as CHW themselves.  Where in doubt the job description is compared with that of the core skills and competencies of CHW as well as salary which is usually volunteer/ unpaid or entry level positions. 

Abuse Counselor

Access Worker

Accompagnateurs  ( Partners in Health Haiti)

Acompañantes  (Mexico)

Adult Case Manager

Addiction Treatment Specialist

Assistor Case Coordinator

Asthma Outreach Worker

Asthma Educator

Asthma Family Support Worker

Asthma Peer Educator 

Aunties ( Hawaii)

Bilingual Community Advocate

Bilingual Family Outreach Specialist

Bilingual Family Advocate

Birth Assistant (Doula)

Birth Attendant

Birthing Family Support Worker

Case  Management Technician

Care Coordinator

Care Transitions Coordinator

Caregiver (All ages and stages of life)

Career Coach

Case Worker

Case Managers (SNAP)

Certified Application Assistant (CAA)

Certified Recovery Specialist

Community Activist

Community  Advocate

Community Aide

Community Care Specialist (PHI- COVID)

Community Care Worker (CCW)

Community Coordinator

Community Connection Resource Specialists (ACES Aware) 

Community Connector Specialist ( CCS) ( Kaiser, Molina)

Community Dental Health Coordinators (CDHC)

Community Health Associate

Community Follow-Up Worker

Community Health Adviser (1998 study)

Community Health Advocate

Community Health Aide

Community Health Coach

Community Health Coordinator

Community Health Educator (CHE)

Community Health Navigators

Community Health Outreach Worker (CHOW)

Community  Health Partners

Community Health Promotion and Awareness Interns

Community Health Representative (CHR)

Community Health Specialist

Community Health Worker ( CHW) (BLS SOC 21-1094 

Community Liaison

Community-Clinical Linkage Specialist (CCL)

Community Mental Health Worker

Community Navigator

Community Organizer

Community Outreach Manager

Community Outreach Navigator

Community Outreach Worker

Community Social Worker

Cooperative Extension Professionals

Counselor

Cultural Case Manager

Cultural Counselor

Cultural Interpreter

Cultural Mediator

Diabetes Community Outreach Coordinator

Diabetes Education Associate

Diabetes Education Mentor

Diabetes Self-Management Support Associate

Diabetes Self-Management Support Mentor

Diabetes Educator

Diabetes Family Support Worker

Diabetes Navigator

Direct Care Worker

Discharge Planner

Doula -Greek- “Women Who Serves” ( Birth Assistant)

Educator

Eligibility Worker

Enrollment Worker

Family Advocate

Family Education Coordinator

Family Planning Counselor

Family Support Worker

Family Advocate

Family Health Advocate

Family Health Promoter

Family Leadership Specialist

Family Outreach Worker (FOW)

Family Support Specialist

Family Support Worker

Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHV) Nepal

Financial Counselor

Frontline Health Worker

Head Start Teacher Assistant

Health Advisor

Health Advocate

Health Agent

Health Ambassadors

Health Assistant

Health Broker

Health Communicator

Health Educator

Health Extension Workers

Health Facilitator

Health/Nutrition Support Worker

Health Information Specialist

Health Insurance Counselor

Health Promoter

Health Liaison

Health Specialist

Health Workers

HIV/AIDS Educator

HIV/AIDS Family Support Worker

HIV Peer Advocate

HIV Prevention Coordinator

HIV Risk Assessment/Disclosure Counselor

HIV Service Coordinator

HIV/STD Prevention Counselor

Home Care Worker

Home Visitor

Home-Based Clinician Intake Specialist

Homeless Advocate

In Home Support Specialist (IHSS)

Independent Living Services Manager

Informal Counselor

Intake Coordinator

Intake Assistant

Interpreter

La Leche Peer Counselor (Breastfeeding support)

Lay Health Advisor (LHA)

Lady Health Worker (LHW)

Lay Health Advocate

Lay Health Worker (LHW)

Líderes para Cambio

Maternal and Child Health Case Manager

Medical Concierge

Medical Interpreter

Medical Representative

Mental Health First Aid Responder

Mental Health Worker

Men’s Health Specialist

Men’s Health Worker

Multicultural Health Brokers

Natural Researcher

Navigator

Neighborhood Health Advocate

New Professionals

Non Clinicians

Nutrition Adviser

Nutrition Assistant

Nutrition Educator

Nutrition Support Worker Mental Health Aide

Outreach Advocate

Outreach Case Manager

Outreach Coordinator

Outreach Educator

Outreach Specialist

Outreach Worker

Parent Aide

Parent Liaison

Part Time Project Associates

Participant Advocate

Patient Experts

Patient Navigator

Patient Services Representative

Peer  Advocate

Peer Counselor

Peer Educator

Peer Health Advisor

Peer Health Educator

Peer Leader

Peer Support Specialist (PSS) (SB 803)

Peer Wellness Specialist (PWS) 

Personal Health Navigator (PHN) Oregon

Physical  Activity Specialist

Preconception Peer Educator (Department of Minority Health)

Pre-Perinatal Health Specialists

Prevention Specialist

Program Coordinator

Promotor(a)

Promotor(a) de Salud

Promotores

Public Health Advisor

Public Health Aide

Public  Service Aide

Roving Listener

Self-Management Diabetes Coordinator

SDOH Specialist

Social Determinants of Health Specialists

Social Worker Assistant

Street Outreach Worker

Team Advocate, Level I

Team Captains (Peer support diabetes II and BP self management)

Trabajadores Comunitarios

Trained Health Extension Workers

Village Health Workers (Malawi)

Volunteers

Volunteer Health Worker

Voluntary Health Worker

Wellness  Ambassadors

Wellness Guide

Women’s Health Specialist

Youth Development Specialist

Youth Worker-Program Assistant

Youth  Peer Counselor

Youth Worker