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Understanding California’s community health worker/promotor workforce. CHW/P training programs
Understanding California’s community health worker/promotor workforce. CHW/P training programs
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Alternate Title(s):
- CHW/P training programs
- Author(s):
- Miller, Jacqueline, (Of Healthforce Center at UCSF), author
Quan, Amy, author
Chapman, Susan Anita, author - Contributor(s):
- California HealthCare Foundation, issuing body.
- Publication:
- [Oakland, CA] : California Health Care Foundation, February 2023
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Community Health Services
Community Health Workers
Education, Continuing
Health Equity
Health Workforce
California - Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- In California, one of the most culturally diverse states in the country, health care must bridge cultural and linguistic divides to serve all communities equitably. As trusted community members with lived experience, community health workers and promotores (CHW/Ps) have a long history of connecting those not well served by the traditional health care system with culturally competent health and social services. There is increasing recognition in California that CHW/Ps are a critical part of the health care workforce. In 2019, the California Future Health Workforce Commission recommended scaling the CHW/P workforce to broaden access to preventive and social support services as well as team-based, integrated primary and behavioral health care. Currently, there are no standardized training curricula or requirements for CHW/Ps in California, and little is known about the number and scope of the training programs that are offered in the state. The purpose of this report is to describe CHW/P education and training programs in California, including details about program location(s), delivery mode, length and more. Healthforce Center at UCSF identified programs through established connections from previous projects and by searching the web. All identified programs were asked the same set of questions; some provided information via email, and others provided it via Zoom. See Methodology for more details. While this report captures a majority of the CHW/P education and training programs in California, it is not a comprehensive description of all programs in the state. Some programs may have been missed, and some programs did not respond to our requests for program information. Additionally, some programs were unable to provide responses for all requested information, limiting conclusions that can be drawn across all programs. Missing data were particularly apparent in the following fields: program completion rates, job placement rates, and student demographic information. There may be additional training programs that are not identified in this report, particularly given the number of community-based, grassroots organizations that deploy CHW/Ps in their communities. If you would like your program’s information to be included in report updates, contact Carlina Hansen, senior program officer at the California Health Care Foundation.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (53 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918645975206676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918645975206676