Authors: Sergio Matos, Sally Findley, April Hicks, Yasmine Legendre, Licy Do Canto
The New York State Community Health Worker Initiative has researched the role of community health workers (CHWs) and identified how to advance this workforce through state-level recommendations on employment and practice, training and certification, and financing. In order for CHWs to be better integrated into the health care and social service systems, the Initiative recognizes that a fundamental infrastructure must be established or created in order to build and sustain this vital workforce. To this end, the Initiative has developed recommendations for statewide standards around a scope of practice, training, certification and financing mechanisms.
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Resource Topic: CHW Role, Community Health Workers/Volunteers, Policy, Scale-up, Sustainability
Resource Type: Research
Year: 2011
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Country: United States of America
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