An article from the Journal of Community Practice. Discusses the idea that the way CHW are trained influences the roles they play, using the combined training method at the Community Capacitation Center in OR as an example. Maintains that efforts to integrate CHW into health and social service systems may be less effective if they fail to support the role of CHW as agents of social change.
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Integrating Community Health Workers into a Reformed Health Care System
A report by The Urban Institute. Highlights the roles CHW play and the services they offer, documents CHW achievements and success, describes the obstacles and challenges to hiring CHW, discusses the increased opportunities for CHW under health care reform, and offers next steps for training and growing the CHW workforce.
Best Practice Guidelines for Implementing and Evaluating Community Health Worker Programs in Health Care Settings
A report published by Sinai Urban Health Institute. Summarizes CHW professional literature and national and local surveys, successes, lessons learned, and case studies from the field. Aims to address the gaps in knowledge about how to effectively implement the CHW model. Targets health care organizations interested in implementing the CHW model in their system or improving upon their current system. Intended to offer guidance in decision-making and solutions to common program implementation challenges. Topics include: approaches to CHW hiring, training, and performance evaluation; supervision challenges and strategies for success; providing a positive organizational climate to facilitate CHW integration; other effective elements of program design; and program evaluation, including standardized CHW process and outcome measures.
Your Heart, Your Life, A Community Health Worker’s Manual for the Hispanic Community
A manual published by the National Institutes of Health. A heart health manual created specifically for Latino communities for use in training CHW, educating members of Latino communities, and other community activities. Consists of 12 sessions with step-by-step instructions on how to teach 11 educational sessions on preventing heart disease to community residents or patients.
A Community Health Worker Training Resource for Preventing Heart Disease and Stroke
A user-friendly curriculum that CHW can use in their training and also as a resource. Offers plain-language basic information and activities to increase skills in preventing heart disease and stroke. Also covers lifestyle-related issues and risk factors for stroke, heart attack, heart failure, atrial fibrillation, and diabetes.
Best Practices for Integrating Peer Navigators into HIV Models of Care
A report by AIDS United. Presents lessons learned from three AIDS United peer navigation program initiatives: Positive Charge (2010-2014), Retention in Care (2012-2016), and the Access to Care Social Innovation Fund Initiative (2010-2015). Offers ways to successfully and efficiently integrate peer navigators to reach vulnerable HIV populations in America. Topics include: initial steps to begin/expand a peer navigation program (identify target populations, best practices checklist, protocols and procedures), strategies to implement and monitor the program (communication, training, documentation), and ways to address the sustainability of the program.
Community Health Workers Evidence-Based Models Toolbox
A report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Human Resources and Services Administration, Office of Rural Health Policy. A guide for rural communities of CHW models and strategies that have been proven to work. Topics include: overview of the role of CHW; description of various CHW program models; CHW training approaches; implementation, sustainability, and evaluation of CHW programs; dissemination of CHW resources; and examples of rural CHW programs.
Community Health Workers: A Front Line for Primary Care?
An issue brief from the National Health Policy Forum. Examines CHW roles and duties, how CHW are trained, ways to incorporate CHW into mainstream health care, and the challenges to developing the CHW profession further.
Peer Re-Engagement Project: PREParing Peers for Success Peer Core Competency Training Curriculum for engaging out-of-care or newly diagnosed people living with HIV in care and treatment
Currículo en español
This five-day curriculum provides training materials and instructions train HIV-positive peers to support patients with care and treatment in your community. It was developed as part of the Peer Re-Engagement Project (PREP) evaluating a program that brings HIV-positive peers into the HIV care team to support patients who have fallen out of care or who are newly diagnosed with HIV and at risk of falling out of care.
For an additional toolkit which experienced trainers can use to develop a training program, the following toolkit from the PEER Center project provides a range of modules: Building Blocks to Peer Success: A toolkit for training HIV-positive peers to engage PLWHA
Peer Re-Engagement Project (PREP): PrePARando Pares para el Éxito: Capacitación para Competencias Básicas de los Pares, Un currículo para integrar a las personas con VIH al tratamiento
Curriculum in English
Un currículo de capacitación de pares de cinco días para integrar a las personas con VIH que no reciben tratamiento, o que han sido diagnosticadas recientemente con VIH, al tratamiento. El propósito de este currículo es apoyar la capacitación de pares VIH positivos que trabajan para reintegrar y retener a las personas que viven con VIH/SIDA (PLWHA, por sus siglas en inglés) y que no reciben cuidado médico para el VIH, enlazar a las PLWHA recién diagnosticadas con el cuidado médico del VIH y mejorar la calidad general del cuidado relacionado con la salud de estas personas.