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Community Health Workers

Connecticut's front line in addressing the social determinants of health to improve health equity.

Information for Community Health Workers and CHW Workforce

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Who are Community Health Workers?

CHWs are public health outreach professionals with an in-depth understanding of a community’s experience, language, culture, and socioeconomic needs. Among other things, they (1) serve as liaisons between community members and health care and social service providers and (2) provide a range of services, including outreach, advocacy, and care coordination.

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Certification

We are proud to announce that starting January 2020, you can apply for voluntary Community Health Worker Certification in Connecticut.

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Training

Learn the skills to launch your career. Many of these trainings provide a pathway to your professional growth.

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Success Stories

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“Having worked in my community for 15 years as a “Community Messenger” and “Health Promoter”, I feel that having certification as a Community Health Worker would be appropriate recognition of the serious and important work that I have done. This certification would provide me, and other CHWs, with a recognized place in the CHW workforce and in the healthcare community. Since it is, and it has been demonstrated that we offer a link and the much-needed bridge in the control, maintenance, treatment and rehabilitation that leads to stability in the health of our community members, we should be recognized for such. It is through the few community members who are also Community Health Workers that clients who are community members as well, can have good, consistent, trusted and reliable communication and relationships to support them to follow their treatment plans and achieve complete recovery. It is important to acknowledge those who have achieved a level of respect for their reliability, work, education, and experience by giving them certification as a Community Health Worker.” Nilda Paris, Community Messenger.

September 13, 2019

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“God always takes care of me and places people in my path that have helped me. If Alba, the CHW, hadn’t gotten involved in my health I would have never found out about the tumor. I was very sad when they diagnosed me with cancer, but days after my surgery, on my birthday I was very happy because I have received the best gift: the gift of life. –patient of CHW Alba Wong, CHW

September 12, 2019

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The project described was supported by Grant Number 1G1CMS331630-02-00 from the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The contents of this publication are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, or any of its agencies. The research presented here was conducted by the awardee. Findings might or might not be consistent with or confirmed by the findings of the independent federal evaluation contractor.