Website Search Results for: community health workers
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Added: Sep 14, 2022
With funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health, Doña County Health and Human and Human Services delivers bilingual health literacy education to expand knowledge of COVID-19 information and services among rural Mexican American communities.
...health literacy challenges and create a sustained collaboration to address health literacy. To support this project and build departmental capacity, Doña Ana County hires and trains promotoras de salud, or community health workers...
Added: Jun 14, 2024
Describes Access East and its mission to improve the community of Eastern North Carolina through four programs that are committed to empowering a healthy population.
...health through access to patient-centered, quality care. Access East offers multiple programs that serve the 27 eastern North Carolina counties. Program staff include community health workers...
Added: Sep 14, 2022
Cornerstone Care is a network of community health centers using prevention initiatives in childhood and care management to promote health literacy and reduce diabetes and other chronic diseases.
...health literacy and health outcomes through reduced emergency room usage. Models represented by this program: School-Based Interventions to Improve Health Literacy Community Health Workers...
Reviewed: Sep 23, 2020
Important strategies for achieving sustainability of diabetes programs.
...community partners to provide the National Diabetes Prevention Program (NDPP) to community members. Organization(s): National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Community Health Workers...
Reviewed: Nov 23, 2020
Examples of current 330A Outreach Authority grantees and other promising rural communities that developed a substance use prevention or treatment program.
...community are provided below. Substance use disorder program model information is available in Module 2 . Affiliated Service Providers of Indiana Network Project: Indiana Integrated Care Community Health Worker...
Added: Jun 14, 2024
Learn about staffing, training, technology, equipment, and other resource considerations for rural chronic disease management programs.
...community and have first-hand experience with chronic disease management. Staff who represent communities served can help build trust between providers, program staff, and patients. Some programs have trained community members as community health workers...
Added: Mar 6, 2020
Describes resource considerations for rural programs addressing the social determinants of health.
...Community health workers (CHWs), patient navigators, and other healthcare providers are essential in connecting people...
Added: Jun 14, 2024
Describes the health and wellness resources offered by the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine Center for Rural and Community Health (WVSOM CRCH) to the community of Lewisburg with special attention to chronic disease management.
...Community Health Education Resource Person (CHERP), Prescription Opioid & Heroin Awareness Toolkits , the HIS & HER Health Literacy Campaign , and WV State Opioid Response Professional Development . The CHERP program trains community health workers...
Reviewed: Feb 29, 2024
Learn about key health issues faced by rural communities that can be addressed through community health programs.
...community health programs on one or more specific topics. Examples of topics for rural community health programs include: Aging in place Care coordination Chronic Disease Management Toolkit Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Toolkit Community health workers...
Reviewed: Dec 26, 2018
Explore the how health educators provide care coordination.
...health promotion. Health educators often provide services to address the needs of populations with low health literacy. The BLS also describes the differences between health educators and community health workers...