Toolkit: Effectively Implementing Community Health Worker Programs Using Health Department and CBO Partnerships
Toolkit: Effectively Implementing Community Health Worker Programs Using Health Department and CBO Partnerships
National Association of Community Health Workers (NACHW), Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO)
Toolkit offers guidance for developing partnerships between health departments, community-based organizations (CBOs), and community health workers/promotores (CHWs) to increase trust in marginalized communities. The majority of CHWs are employed by CBOs, which have relationships and experience working in communities. Public health departments can leverage these trusted relationships by partnering and contracting with CBOs to hire CHWs to implement programs. This toolkit titled, "Public Health Departments Contracting with Community-based Organizations to Implement Community Health Worker Programs" has an associated pre-recorded companion webinar (28:55) that discusses the purpose of the toolkit and best practices for using it.
