Celebrating Community Health Worker Voices

Community health workers (CHWs) are public health workers and trusted members of the communities they serve, where they have often had their own lived experience.
They build trusting relationships with the individuals they serve, address barriers to health, and improve community and health outcomes. A CHW also builds individual and community capacity by increasing health knowledge and self-sufficiency through a range of activities, such as outreach, community education, social support, and advocacy.
MCD Global Health offers various training and other opportunities in building the CHW workforce, including:
• CHW Core Competency Training for individuals who desire to become a CHW for their community;
• Online health-related training designed and intended for CHWs and other individuals who assist clients in the prevention, management, and self-management of chronic conditions; and
• A multi-year CHW training program, through a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant, that will provide core competency training, enhanced upskill training, and opportunities to participate in a Maine Department of Labor-certified CHW apprenticeship program.
In addition, the Maine Community Health Worker (MECHW) initiative, a partner program of MCD, develops a sustainable and competent community health workforce by delivering professional development training, providing peer-support opportunities, and advocating for systemic change that more fully integrates and financially supports the CHW profession.
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