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COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER GLOBAL INITIATIVE
Health systems can only function with health workers; improving health service coverage and realizing the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is dependent on their availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality.
Community Health Workers are health educators, health coaches, health advocates, prevention specialists, and health care service providers. Community Health Workers are:
health care providers and frontline public health workers that extend health care services to vulnerable populations, including implementing programs that promote, maintain, and improve individual and overall community life, health, wellness, prevention, and recovery; and, serve as advocates, liaisons, researchers, and mediators between health/social services and the community in order to facilitate access to health services and improve the quality and cultural competence of health service delivery.
All community health worker training provided by the College of Clinical Care is trauma-focused.
