Interactive webinar where experts answer pressing questions on effective strategies and best practices for leveraging social media.

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This NASHP brief presents lessons learned for states to build, sustain, or expand partnerships with CHWs.

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A map and chart created by the National Academy for State Health Policy outline state approaches for Medicaid reimbursement of CHW services and provide details about other ways states are supporting a CHW workforce.

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ASTHO Connects presentation featuring perspectives and resources from the Center for Community Health Alignment (CCHA) and the Maryland Department of Health.

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This document provides an example of using NACHW’s CHW Document Resource Center to investigate the topic of setting standards for statewide core training for community health workers. Case examples from six states illustrate different approaches to statewide training standards for the workforce and related infrastructure.

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Learn more about the CHW Common Indicators Project, which aims to contribute to the integrity, sustainability, and viability of CHW programs through the collaborative development of common process and outcome constructs and indicators.

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Article that describes how Project leaders were able to enhance the engagement of CHWs and achieve project objectives during the first year of CDC funding and in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic through a series of activities that were based in popular education methodology.

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Strategies for building relationships, acknowledging concerns and insights, acknowledging research challenges, and being transparent in communications.

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An outline of four priority focus areas and related actions to accelerate progress toward reducing COVID-19 disparities, improving outcomes, and achieving health equity.

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NACHW report summarizing approaches to financing programs engaging and supporting CHWs, which have been proposed by organizations and research studies from 2001 to the present.

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National Association of Community Health Workers policy guidance and resource recommendations to advance CHW leadership and integration during the pandemic and beyond.

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From ASTHO and NACHW, a summary of studies demonstrating CHW effectiveness across settings and health issues. This range of examples allows CHW champions to demonstrate existing research or highlight evidence that resonates with their audience.

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This toolkit includes case studies describing issues that participating teams hoped to address, why each organization chose their approach, how the collaboration functioned/what it accomplished, challenges and opportunities from the experience, and future goals.

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The Community Health Worker Core Consensus Project (C3 project) team offers a framework for assessing skills proficiency and fostering professional development for CHWs.

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National Council of La Raza toolkit covering the importance of peer support, advocacy, personal stories, communicating with legislators, and using social media to strengthen CHW advocacy efforts.

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A chapter from the CHW Reference Guide produced under the Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program, the U.S. Agency for International Development Bureau for Global Health’s flagship maternal, neonatal and child health project.

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Chapter three in the National Community Health Advisor Study’s final report, which examines core roles within communities and the health care system, as well as core competencies for effectiveness.

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American Association of Community Health Workers (AACHW) toolkit designed to help organizations develop and adopt a code of ethics specific to their area, or adopt the national code of ethics.

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