Resources

The Center for Community Health Alignment has compiled relevant articles, videos, and case studies that provide more information on the community health worker model and the role of community health workers and other community change agents in advancing health equity and closing health disparities. The resources below are used by our team and our CHWs as part of our ongoing education on best practices, and will be helpful for everyone to understand how to drive community health with an equity lens and how to effectively address the impact of social determinants on health. If you don’t find the resources you need below, contact us and we will be happy to provide additional resources.

Community Health Workers: The Basics

Community Health Workers: The Evidence

Community Engagement, Social Determinants of Health, and Health Equity

Antonia 1

Antonia: In this photo I was with a nurse this morning talking about a patient that needed a referral to MUSC...[community health workers] work with nurses, with doctors. Like, for example, here in the clinic, [we work] with the nutritionist, with the counselor, with...

Candice 1

Candice: [This picture] is about hope because I hope that with the work that I do in my community, I hope that I bring hope to my clients and to the people in my community to know that things might be hard right now, but there's a way to get out of it and we'll figure...

Leonor 1

Leonor: Well, this, in this photo I was performing a child development evaluation. This family in particular I remember that the mother didn’t speak Spanish, and the father only a little. They spoke an indigenous language from Guatemala, so, well the barriers are even...

FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces American Rescue Plan’s Historic Investments in Community Health Workforce

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is awarding $225 million in American Rescue Plan funds to train over 13,000 Community Health Workers (CHWs). In response to the acute need to expand the healthcare workforce and address pandemic-related burnout, the American...

Staff Spotlight: Mike Young, Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion for the Center for Community Health Alignment and PASOs

Mike Young is an expert on culture. He has studied it and lived it for his entire life. As a teenager from rural El Salvador, Young’s mother waited at the Mexico-U.S. border for two weeks before immigrating to California with a sixth-grade education. She learned...

Atrium Health launches new mobile medicine unit thanks to a $1.2 million donation from The Tepper Foundation

The unit funded will provide primary care/screenings in the South Market. CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Atrium Health dispatched the first of four mobile medicine units designed to provide high-quality, equitable healthcare in underprivileged communities in the region....