Sunday, May 11, 2025
5/11/2025
Community Health Worker Training Program - Community Health Workers (CHW) are increasingly being recognized as a valuable part of the health care workforce in the nation, because of the significant impact they can have in health services delivery. Through their ability to build therapeutic alliance, foster improved health care utilization and a reduction of health risks among the target population, they improve the quality and effectiveness in community based health care settings. This proposal is submitted through a collaborative partnership between the SON and the LCCHWC, a nurse-led federally qualified health center (FQHC) that is administered by the SON; the School of Medicine (SOM); and the School of Health Professions (SHP) at the TTUHSC, which is located in the southern plains of the State of Texas. Aside from the collaborative partners in the Lubbock site of TTUHSC, we are also partnering with the Woody L.Hunt Dental School of the TTUHSC in El Paso. The goal of this proposal is to enhance the health workforce in West Texas by increasing the numbers of CHWs with skillsets that advance public health, strengthen the public health workforce, reduce health disparities and help underserved populations achieve health equity. In order to achieve that goal, we propose the following objectives: • Maintain our state certificated CHW training program to recruit, train and enable new CHW and develop additional curriculum for the core competencies for public health, including but not limited to emergency response education, prevention, treatment, and vaccine hesitancy research. • Reduce barriers to CHW program enrollment and retention by providing eligible trainees with participant support • Provide additional training for current CHWs to include the core competencies for Public Health and Essential Public Health Services. • Provide job placement services and on-the-job experiential training to new CHWs through Department of Labor or state/local registered apprenticeship programs. • Address critical gaps in public health and community needs that can be filled by CHWs in communities that are disproportionately burdened by COVID-19, health inequities, limited access to technology, and the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH). In order to achieve the goal and objectives of the proposal, we will develop a CHW training program that consists of four tiers of curriculum planning: Tier One (Current)-- Basic 160 CHW Certification Training Tier Two -- Basic CHW Certification Training PLUS Peer Support Training Tier Three --Basic CHW Certification Training PLUS Apprenticeship Tier Four-- Upskilling offered through CHW Continuing Education Offerings We have formed collaborative partnerships with the city of Lubbock and other agencies that are committed to opening up apprenticeship positions with their organizations.
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