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Community Health Workers Toolkit


Description

The Community Health Workers Toolkit is designed to help rural communities evaluate opportunities for developing a community health worker program, and to provide resources and best practices developed by successful community health worker programs. Through eight modules, the toolkit offers tools and resources to develop and implement programs for using community health workers in local programs.

Topics include:
  • Introduction to community health workers
  • Program models
  • Training approaches
  • Program implementation
  • Planning for sustainability
  • Measuring program impacts
  • Disseminating best practices
  • Program clearinghouse
Links to the Tool:
This tool is available at: http://www.raconline.org/communityhealth/chw/

Developer

Rural Assistance Center

Funding Sources

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Rural Health Policy


QualityTool Topic

Quality improvement strategies


History

  • Original Summary: 08/2012
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Last updated: September 12, 2012.