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The National C3 Council defines comprehensive CHW roles, skills, qualities, establishes national consensus on CHW standards, and provides guidance for improving CHW practice and policy
This quarterly C3 Assembly meeting will feature the National C3 Council Accreditation Committee and include time for discussion and Q&A.
We Got the Funding….Now What?
Building a CHW program when the clock is already ticking
Work through the real decisions, competing priorities, and unexpected challenges that come with launching a CHW program.
What You'll Work Through:
Identify the key decisions that need to be made when launching a CHW program
Explore common implementation challenges that can show up when funding timelines are already moving
Work through a realistic CHW program scenario and make decisions as new challenges are introduced
Discuss what can happen at the same time, what should happen first, and what organizations may want to slow down and think through
Leave with practical considerations they can apply to their own CHW program planning
This presentation will share findings from the 2026 Community Health Workers’ Experiences with Suicide Prevention survey. The presentation will provide an overview of CHWs’ experiences, including exposure to suicide within their roles, suicide prevention training received, and attitudes and confidence related to working with clients, patients, and program recipients who may be experiencing suicidal thoughts. The presentation will also highlight key findings and discuss what they may mean for CHW training and support.
Keywords: CHW Colabs, Suicide
At the completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
Describe CHWs’ experiences with suicide and suicide prevention, including exposure to suicide and suicide prevention training.
Summarize key findings related to CHWs’ knowledge, attitudes, and confidence in supporting individuals who may be experiencing suicidal thoughts.
Examine opportunities to strengthen suicide prevention training and support for CHWs
NACHW's Workforce Development Committee is excited to host the first webinar in its quarterly learning series: "Elevating CHW Voices, Building Capacity, Transforming Systems." As part of this learning series, participants will increase knowledge, strengthen skills, and build confidence to apply NACHW’s promising practices within their position, organization, community, and state.
NACHW first released the promising practices in 2025, which seek to improve CHW’s workplace satisfaction, retention and quality of service within organizations. The learning series will explore the promising practices through four levels of impact: the individual CHW, the employer/organization, the community ecosystem, and the systems/policy environment. Each session builds on the previous one so participants understand that successful CHW practice depends on more than individual skills, it also requires supportive organizations, community partnerships, and supportive systems/policies.
Join us for a preview of envision’s newest tool; the Sustainability from the Inside OutCommunity Health Worker (CHW) Organizational Self-Assessment Toolkit. This tool is a practical, CHW-centered resource designed to help public health departments and others assess organizational readiness to support and sustain thriving CHW programs. Grounded in the CHW Common Indicators, this toolkit guides organizations through a process of identifying organizational readiness across four domains:
CHW Wellbeing
CHW Sustainability
CHW Program Integration
CHW Policy Environment
Participants will explore the toolkit and learn more about leading an assessment that honors CHW expertise, protects occupational integrity, and develops actionable pathways towards long-term CHW program sustainability.
Who Should Attend?
Community Health Workers (CHWs)
CHW supervisors, managers, and program directors
State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial (STLT) health department leaders and program coordinators employing or developing CHW programs
Community-based organization leaders employing or developing CHW programs
Triage Health, a program of Triage Cancer, is providing a free training for community health workers (CHW), promotores, patient navigators, and other front line public health workers. This training provides and introduction to choosing and using health insurance, workplace rights to take time off to access health care, disability insurance, and strategies for managing medical bills. Your registration does not guarantee your acceptance. You must respond to the acceptance email in order to receive the Zoom link.
This free training is for community health workers, patient navigators, promotores, and other front line and community public health workers. Get answers to questions people don’t know to ask, but everyone should know!
Topics:
Tips for choosing and using health insurance
Taking time off to access health care
Accessing disability insurance
Ways to manage medical bills
