Mission and Goals

Mission

The mission of the Community Health Worker Capacity Building Collaborative is to support and strengthen the workforce dedicated to empowering vulnerable populations to improve the health of the community. 

Goals

Expand the public health workforce

• Train new and existing Community Health Workers (CHWs) and health support workers with specialized training and financial support.
• Recruit and train a minimum of 240 trainees over three years.

Enhance, expand and adapt existing training programs and courses

• Promote health equity and increase the skills of existing CHWs/HSWs and trainees to respond to public health needs and emergencies with an emphasis on the 10 roles of a CHW from the CHW Core Consensus Project.

Increase employment readiness

• Partner with the CHWCBC to provide field placements and apprenticeship programs that will allow CHWS to support the needs of the populations they represent
• Provide CHWs with employment opportunities that offer competitive salaries and benefits.