Community Health Workers (CHWs) is an umbrella term for positions whose role is to empower communities, address health disparities, and enhance health outcomes. Learn more about Community Health Workers (and similar positions) by exploring the resources below.
Resource Title & Link | Resource Type | Resource Description |
Preserving a Transformative Community Health Worker/Promotor Workforce: El Sol’s CHW/P Training Center Approach (El Sol Neighborhood Education Center, n.d.) | Report | The report explains how a community-based CHW/P training center applied popular education throughout the CHW/P capacity-building process in order to advance and maintain the roots of the CHW/P movement. By describing the interrelated components of El Sol CHW/P TC theory of change and explaining the application of this guiding principle, this case study generates implications for organizations that aim to integrate CHWs/Ps into their operations. |
Together Leaning Toward the Sky (Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, 2018) | Report | This report offers a review of findings from the Community Health Worker Core Consensus (C3) Project for work carried out from 2014-2018 in two phases. The C3 Project’s reports and graphics are intended to support Community Health Workers (CHWs) and other stakeholders working to foster the growth and development of CHW practice and related policies, ultimately increasing the capacity of CHWs to promote health equity and access to systems of care. |
Community Health Worker Resources (Envision Equity, n.d.) | Webpage | Envision Equity's resource library is continually updated with CHW-curated content to support programs, CHWs, allies, and partners. Resource categories include advocacy, chronic health conditions, COVID-19, community building, and program implementation. |
Mental Health and Self Care (NACHW, n.d.) | Webpage | Self-care recources for CHWs through series of webinars on self-compassion, self-care strategies, learning collaboratives, and suicide prevention. |
CHW Roles and Competencies Checklist (Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, n.d.) | Toolkit/Guide | The toolkit provides a checklist to assess how CHW role and skills linked to CHW trainings, practice, and/or policies align with the Community Health Worker Core Consensus Project. |
Advancing California's CHW & Promotor Workforce in Medi-Cal (Center for Health Care Strategies, 2021) | Toolkit/Guide | This Resource Guide is designed to support Medi-Cal Managed Care Plans in effectively integrating this valuable workforce into their programs. This Resource Guide can also inform organizations that employ Community health workers and Promotores such as Federally Qualified Health Centers, community-based organizations, and other health and social service organizations. |
Training Approaches for CHW & Promotores to Support Medi-Cal Members (Center for Health Care Strategies, n.d.) | Toolkit/Guide | This guide covers the roles of Community Health Workers / Promotores in depth and presents approaches to trainings, infrustructure barriers and solutions to integrating the new workforce. |
Advocacy Tool Kit for Peer Support (UnidosUS, 2015) | Toolkit/Guide | This tool kit was designed to help promotores de salud, community health workers, lay health advisors, and other peer supporters to harness their individual and collective voices to educate decision-makers about the successes they have had in helping Americans become healthier. |
Community Health Workers: Evidence of Their Effectiveness (ASTHO, NACHW, n.d.) | Factsheet | This document summarizes research studies that demonstrate the effectiveness of CHWs across multiple settings and health issues. |