Community health workers are citizens who work for pay or as volunteers to support the local health care system. Learn more about what health care workers do and how they can help the healthcare ...

The Community Health Worker Institute was also built as a professional pipeline for CHWs. At its most basic, it’s a place to get free training and college credit towards an associate degree and ...

Collaborating with community health workers is key to the CTSI’s goal of advancing research discoveries to improve health for ...

A patient who recently received a liver transplant was struggling to find transportation to his twice-weekly checkups with Jefferson Health doctors in Center City. He lived two and a half hours away ...

As health policy, research and practice are becoming increasingly focused on improving the health of populations and addressing social determinants of health, Community Health Workers (CHWs) may ...

Community Health Workers made a median salary of $48,200 in 2023. The best-paid 25% made $60,740 that year, while the lowest-paid 25% made $40,490. Salary Outlook. X is Year and Y is Mean Salary.

The University of Wyoming’s Community Health Worker Training Program is an online, asynchronous training program that will give you the skills you need to become a fully-trained Community Health ...

Community Health Worker. Community Health Workers serve as a bridge between the community and the health care, government and social service systems. Summary. Community Health Workers (CHWs) are ...

There are 59,000 community health workers in the United States — one for every 5,500 Americans — but not nearly enough for the growing role we need them to play in disadvantaged communities in ...

According to a survey from the National Association of Community Health Workers in 2021, 31.7% of community health workers identified as African American/Black, 37.7% identified as Hispanic and 11 ...