Milagrosa Seguinot is the Community Health Worker Project Coordinator at Southwestern Area Health Education Center and an instructor in the agency’s CHW core-competency training program. As a CHW, she works with the Bridgeport community, specifically with mothers of children under 2 years of age, to identify medical homes for children whose vaccines are not up to date. She also enrolls children who were born outside the state in the Connecticut Immunization Registry and Tracking System. In the recent past, she has served as a Key Navigator for Access Health CT, providing outreach and support to help enroll Connecticut residents in insurance plans as required by the Affordable Care Act. Ms. Seguinot is also the president and a founding member of the Community Health Workers Association of Connecticut.
