CHW Voices Posts

CHWs and Wellness: Your Care Matters Too!

If you’re a CHW, at some point in life, you may have learned how to care for others’ needs before your own. Our lived experiences make us experts on being in service of other people. But, sometimes we become so focused on caring for our community that …

Proudly a Community Health Assistant supervising CHVs

Neema Nyambura, Community Health Assistant in Kenya, Kiambu County, Juja Sub-County. Historically, and across professions, supervision has been an endeavor of task oversight and punitive, critical corrective actions. Supportive supervision is considere …

Community Health Work is a Calling: CHWs from Kiambu and San Bernardino Connect

I woke up at 5:30 am on a mid-September Sunday morning, anxiously awaiting my 6am talk with Mark Mwenda, my fellow CHW Ambassador colleague. I sat up in bed, reached in thin dark air towards my nightstand, and blindly searched for my journal. I was exc …

Community Health Roundtable Discussions: Episode 2

https://chwcentral.org/wp-content/uploads/Trevino-Podcast-Final.mp3 We are excited to share the next installment of the Community Health Roundtable Discussions, hosted by Dan Palazuelos. The most recent episode features Tiffany Treviño, currently worki …

CHW Voices – Kofi

My name is Ringwald Obah Kofi. I am from Duadaso No.2 in the Jaman North District in the Bono Region of Ghana in West Africa. I am 29 years old. I was a community health worker (CHW) under the Ghana Youth and Employment Agencies from 2016 to 2018. My c …