Resource Details

Effectively Partnering to Sustain CHWs in CHCs

Year Developed: 2024

Resource Type: Archived webinar.

Primary Audience: C-Suite (CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, CMOs, COOs, etc.); Administrative Staff
Secondary Audience: Board of Directors

Language(s): English

Developed by: National Association of Community Health Centers (See other resources developed by this organization).

Resource Summary: This session highlights effective partnerships and approaches to sustain CHWs in Community Health Centers (CHCs) and surrounding communities. Learn how partnerships were formed, how they have been sustained, and lessons learned for sustaining the work of CHWs in Community Health Centers for the future.

Resource Details: In the National Academies 2003 report entitled Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, community health workers (CHWs) were cited as an intervention strategy to better address health inequities in underserved communities where they provide services. A recently published study in the International Journal for Equity in Health on CHWs and health equity further concluded that “in order to optimize the equity impacts of CHW programs, we need to move beyond seeing CHWs as a temporary sticking plaster, and instead build meaningful partnerships . . . and address the underlying structures of inequity.”

Resource Topic: Workforce

Resource Subtopic: Team-Based Care, —Health Equity.

Keywords: Community Health Workers.