Envision Community Health Worker Training and Technical Assistance
2021 Initial Funding From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
In 2021, the Center for Community Health Alignment (CCHA) began partnering with envision, a national community health worker (CHW) training and technical assistance center, to further foster the growth of the CHW workforce nationally. envision, initially funded by the CDC’s Community Health Workers for COVID Response and Resilient Communities (CCR) program, serves CHW organizations in over 69 states, localities, territories, tribes, tribal organizations, and urban Indian health organizations.
envision is a collaboration of expert CHWs and CHW allies whose mission is to support CHW programs and networks in expanding and maximizing CHW leadership and the potential of the CHW workforce. This is accomplished by providing training and technical assistance (TA) and facilitating peer to peer connections. envision delivers interrelated services through webinars, small group training, and communities of practice that help CHW programs enhance their skills, improve their outcomes, and learn from one another.
2024 Cooperative Agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded $1 million to the envision-CCHA team at the Arnold School’s Center for Community Health Alignment (CCHA). CCHA will use the grant, which is renewable at $200,000 annually for five years, to strengthen the CHW workforce nationwide and the ability of other entities to partner with CHWs. With this new funding, CCHA’s work now extends beyond the initial Category B funding to also include Category A and Category C funding from the CDC.
envision uses a collective approach to building a workforce while supporting a strategy of CHW leadership and sustainability.
The envision team is a multi-state partnership of long term CHWs and allies guided by the principle of ‘nothing about us without us’.
envision is deeply invested in supporting CHWs and CHW programs in the work they do and has decades of collective experience and skills in all aspects of CHW work and support.
envision believes that health happens on the front porch, at the clinic, and everywhere in between – by meeting people where they are. envision is the communities they serve.
Learn more about envision at www.envisionequity.org
To further the mission of elevating and sustaining the CHW workforce envision has recently launched a community platform – myenvision – a space for CHWs to use for peer-to-peer sharing, collaboration, and networking. You can learn more about myenvision by clicking on this link.