CBWA

4 Areas of Focus

ADVOCACY

• Support legislative and regulatory advocacy
• Increase media and public awareness
• Grow alliance membership and council of advisors

 COMMUNICATIONS

• Elevate bright spots
• Share members' resources
• Disseminate members' events
• Coordinate strategic communications

MONITORING

• Collect state and local health department data related to community-based workforces
• Share timely assessments and reports

SUPPORT & TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

• Secure funds to build members' capacity and support state and local allies
• Targeted technical assistance for cities, counties, and states

Advancing CHW Engagement in COVID-19 Response Strategies: 

 A Playbook for Local Health Department Strategies in the United States 

 ( January 14 2021, 19 pages)

 Advancing CHW Engagement in COVID-19 Response Strategies:  A Playbook for Local Health Department Strategies in the United States  ( January 14 2021, 19 pages) 

 " The Playbook" 

The COVID-19 Pandemic has highlighted the persistent inequities in healthcare access,

quality and cost throughout American society. Local Health Departments (LHDs) must

advance health equity in all facets of their response and rebuilt efforts. Community Health

Workers (CHWs), as trusted members of the community and experts in community health,

are critical for this advancement. CHWs should be engaged as necessary partners throughout

several key activities of the local COVID-19 response strategy, including but not limited to

contact tracing and healthcare coordination, community-based testing, vaccine readiness

education, and the navigation of social resources.

 9 key areas of engagement: 

1.  Role Definition
2.  Recruitment
3.  Training and Professional Development 
4.  Safety and Supplies 
5.  Supervision
6.  Compensation 
7.  Multisector Integration 
8.  Career Investment 
9.  Program Evaluation 

Four levels of an engagement continuum: 

1. Limited or Harmful Engagement 
2. Moderate Engagement
3. Mature Engagement
4. Robust Engagement

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 Talance, Inc., provides curriculum development and technology tools to organizations that want to create workers who transform health in America’s communities. Talance, Inc., lends its clients straight-forward strategies that determine what their staff needs to know, how best to reach them and how to spur ongoing learning. 

Train your Team

CHWTraining delivers health-specific online courses in a single annual subscription. Your team members can take interactive courses and download useful resources at their own pace.

• Core Skills
• Chronic Illness
• Healthy Living

Contact:  

 (888) 810-9109 

On the job training and continuing education

 IMPaCT (Penn Center for Community Health Workers, available to employers nationally) 

Contact: Vera Jahnle, Administrative Assistant. 

 Vera.Jahnle@PennMedicine.upenn.edu

215-662-8624

 The Penn Center for Community Health Workers is a national center of excellence with the mission to advance health equity through effective, sustainable community health worker programs. 

• We developed IMPaCT, a standardized, scalable program that leverages community health workers –trusted laypeople from local communities– to improve health. 
• IMPaCT has been tested in three randomized controlled trials and improves chronic disease control, mental health and quality of care while reducing total hospital days by 65%. 
• IMPaCT has a $2:1 annual return on investment to payers and has been delivered to over 10,000 high-risk patients in the Philadelphia region. 
• In the last three years, IMPaCT has become the most widely disseminated community health worker program in the United States; it is being replicated by organizations across 18 different states including Veterans Health Administration, state Medicaid programs and integrated healthcare organizations 

Training & Certification

Looking to continually improve your CHW program with best-in-class training, tools and methods? Our Training & Certification membership gives you access to continually updated, best-practice resources developed over nearly a decade of research and program delivery. Each CHW, supervisor and director in your program receives annual, in-person trainings; unlimited access to our growing interactive online learning library; and IMPaCT certification when they successfully complete the program. This package also provides the most recent editions of four in-depth IMPaCT manuals, with over 250 pages of today’s best practices for CHW programs, including hiring and retention tools to reduce workforce turnover

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

 Established by Executive Order in response to the mandate of the federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA) of 1998 (Public Law 105-220), the Board assists the Governor in setting and guiding policy in the area of workforce development.

The California Workforce Development Board (CWDB) is responsible for assisting the Governor in performing the duties and responsibilities required by the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014. (WIOA)

All members of the Board are appointed by the Governor and represent the many facets of workforce development – business, labor, public education, higher education, economic development, youth activities, employment and training, as well as the Legislature.

The Board meets on a regular basis and the public is encouraged to attend the meetings. Decisions are reached through a collaborative process.

•  Community Health Worker/Promotores Action Plan (Draft)  (5 pages)

CHW Partnership Community Colleges

Network of University based Research

Literature review and state level survey of CHW/Promotores

CPAC

Vision Y Compromiso  (VYC)

Health Initiative of the Americas (HIA)

California’s Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD)  

California Health Workforce Development Council (CHWDC)

California Association of Health Plans (CAHP)

CAWIB

UCSF Center for Health Professions

HHS DOE (Department of Education)

Latino Health Alliance (LHA)

Contact:  

Tim Rainey Executive Director BIO

 ( 916) 657-1440

 800 Capitol Mall, suite 1022 Sacramento, CA 95814