Community health workers are public health workers. Their goal is to connect communities with their health care systems and state health departments. Community health worker (CHW) is an umbrella term ...

Bucking the norm, New York City-based Montefiore has opted to directly employ and embed community health workers within its clinical teams to connect patients with social services as part of broader ...

The Biden administration is directing $226.5 million in American Rescue Plan funding toward a new multiyear training program for community health workers and health support workers, the U.S.

The UAB Department of Family and Community Medicine, in partnership with Live HealthSmart Alabama, has established a new elective course to improve community health curriculum for first- and second- ...

To become a Certified Health Education Specialist, you need to earn a bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in health education, public health or a related field and then pass the CHES® certification exam ...

What is Maternal and Child Health (MCH)? Maternal and child health (MCH) is a broad field of public health that began by focusing on the health of women, infants, and children. MCH has expanded over ...

Local nonprofit ConnectionHealth was recently awarded a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to expand their ...

The Wright Center for Community Health completed a unique program to improve mental health treatment across the region with a $300,000 grant from the Moses Taylor Foundation.

Rockwall County launches a program to train volunteers in health, nutrition, and food safety for community education.

Community Health Workers (CHWs) are frontline public health workers who are trusted members of and/or have an unusually close understanding of the community they ...