Community Health Workers and Community Voices: Promoting Good Health Reaching out into homes and into the community to promote healing and wellness as an integral part of practice is as old as health care. But this practice is threatened. This policy brief tells the comprehensive story of the community health worker and hopes to move many to action: to the use of community health workers, and to the work of educating policymakers about the integral role that these frontline workers can and must play in making our health care system whole and fiscally stable. [Order Free Hardcopy]
Unity 2005 Conference: "Community Health Workers: Responding to Challenging Times" On March 30 and April 1, 2005, The Center for Sustainable Health Outreach held a conference to educate and exchange information on the challenges faced by community health workers as they strive to meet the demands of a changing health care system and increasingly diverse population.
First Health Community Health Workers Overview Fact sheet on Community Health Worker program in the Carolinas.