Community health workers (CHWs) are trusted frontline public health workers who often function as liaisons or intermediaries between health and social services and the community. Their activities can ...

Kayla Fogle and Lysaih Rice, community health workers with the Jefferson County General Health District, have been fully ...

Regina Gully knows what it’s like to need help and not know where to turn. Now, as a community health worker with Trinity Health, she spends her days making sure others don’t have to feel that way.

Shanon Seymore had given up. Diagnosed with a rare bleeding disorder called von Willebrand disease, she was in constant pain, unable to work, and on the verge of eviction from her Pontiac home.

Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health is improving patient experience and reducing the burden on providers with a new program that recruits and trains reskilled workers. Jefferson’s Community Health ...

Nolga Valadez knows that her work for Three Square, which provides food to those in need, consists of more than offering sustenance. After a course in bilingual community health worker training, ...

Walae Hayek of the Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association, Lissette Blondet of the Massachusetts Association of Community Health Workers, and Suzanne Curry of Health Care For All testified on ...

SEN. Robinhood Padilla has filed Senate Bill (SB) 1615, proposed legislation seeking to establish a Magna Carta for Barangay ...

Mental health is a top community health need nationwide. In this conversation, John Muir Health's Jesse Tamplen, vice ...