In November 2024, the Office of Community Outreach and Engagement welcomed community health workers to Huntsman Cancer institute to introduce them to cancer-related training and other Huntsman Cancer ...

The saying “not all heroes wear capes” is certainly true with community health workers. A community health worker (CHW) is a frontline public health worker with lived experience and local knowledge, ...

In places like rural El Paso, Texas, community health workers (CHWs) help thousands of underserved individuals obtain the food, housing and medical services they need to survive. They speak the same ...

At Cedars-Sinai Health System, community health workers are addressing patients' social drivers of health and impacting key metrics such as readmissions. Cedars-Sinai Health System is generating ...

Cape Fear Community College is preparing individuals to be certified Community Health Workers by offering a North Carolina ...

A community health worker intervention helped to limit interdialytic weight gain and improve adherence for Latino patients ...

NEW YORK - Montefiore Health System in the Bronx has a program that looks beyond medicine to help people. Montefiore screened 200,000 people for social detriments of health, and found at least 20% ...

Manti, Utah — Garrett Clark estimates he has spent about six years in the Sanpete County Jail, a plain concrete building perched on a dusty hill just outside this small, rural town where he grew up.

The Lupus Foundation of America works to improve the quality of life for all people affected by lupus through programs of research, education, support and advocacy ...

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, ...