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Expanding the Community Health Worker / Promotor / Representative Workforce

CHW/P/Rs and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Community health workers, promotores, and community health representatives (CHW/P/Rs) have long played a vital role in promoting health and well-being, particularly in communities historically not well served by the health care system. This workforce played an especially important role during the COVID-19 pandemic.

With Superheroes and Songs, El Sol’s Promotores Help Vaccinate Inland Empire

Workforce, Health Equity

Community health workers have devoted significant energy to disseminating information about the coronavirus and the vaccines that protect people from it.

Disaster Service Workers Step Up in Pandemic

Aisling Carroll

Homelessness & Health Care, Workforce, Behavioral Health

How local agencies expanded their assistance to Santa Clara County’s unhoused population in the COVID-19 era.

Community Health Workers and Peers Are Essential to Counties’ COVID-19 Response

Amanda Clarke, Megan Renfrew, Zoe So

CHWs and peers are making vital contributions to communities that have been disproportionately hurt by the pandemic.

Coronavirus Contact Tracers: Part Detective, Part Social Worker

Xenia Shih Bion

Stories That Caught Our Attention: Public health workers are trying to slow the spread of the virus while addressing critical social needs.

Could Community Health Workers and Promotores de Salud Help California Respond to COVID-19?

Workforce, Medi-Cal

Meet Tia Aida, a veteran community health worker in Chula Vista, California. She says the pandemic caused a surge in requests for her help.

External Resource

Three Workforce Strategies To Help COVID Affected Communities

In this Health Affairs blog, Rishi Manchanda outlines three ways state and federal leaders can ramp up a community-based workforce to protect vulnerable communities and augment the efforts of hospitals and public health leaders in the fight against COVID-19.