Community health workers are public health workers. Their goal is to connect communities with their health care systems and state health departments. Community health worker (CHW) is an umbrella term ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — One local college is doing its part to fill the growing need for healthcare workers. Kettering College is welcoming students from underserved communities to become Community ...

The West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine has launched an online platform to train community health workers. Part of WVSOM’s Center for Rural and Community Health, the Community Health ...

This program aims to train individuals to become community health workers to reduce health disparities that negatively impact communities. "It is to train community health workers to fill in the gap ...

Ohio University is offering a Community Health Worker Training Program at its Lancaster campus, starting Jan. 12 and running through May 2. The program, hosted by the Alliance for Population Health, ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Grand Rapids Community College has been awarded a $2.9 million grant over three years from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The grant will be used to help ...

Western Nevada College Continuing Education is launching an eight-week Community Health Worker training program beginning Oct. 1. The program provides a low-barrier entry point into the healthcare ...

President Joe Biden directed funding to increase the community health worker force, but its numbers did not grow by 150,000 during his presidency. Community health workers often labor in underserved ...

Want to make a difference in your community? Consider becoming a Traditional Health Worker (THW). Free THW training opportunities are happening now! Learn more about Southwestern Oregon Workforce ...

In 2006, Tina Brown sat next to a Black colleague at a work meeting who shared she had just been diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer. Triple-negative is a highly aggressive form of breast ...

Community Health Workers (CHWs) are frontline public health workers who are trusted members of and/or have an unusually close understanding of the community they ...