Community health workers' perspectives on integrating into school settings to support student health

N Yao, M Kowalczyk, LT Gregory, J Cheatham… - Frontiers in Public …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction While schools represent key venues for supporting health, they continue to
experience gaps in health resources. The integration of community health workers (CHWs) …

Online high school community health worker curriculum: key strategies of transforming, engagement, and implementation

J Zheng, A Williams-Livingston, ND Danavall… - Frontiers in Public …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: Ample research evidence has demonstrated that Community Health Worker
(CHW) programs are a cost-effective, culturally integrated, and impactful way to improve …

Is theory guiding our work? A scoping review on the use of implementation theories, frameworks, and models to bring community health workers into health care …

CG Allen, C Barbero, S Shantharam… - Journal of Public Health …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Community health workers (CHWs) are becoming a well-recognized workforce to help
reduce health disparities and improve health equity. Although evidence demonstrates the …

Community health workers in schools: a systematic review

MD Harries, N Xu, MS Bertenthal, V Luna, MJ Akel… - Academic pediatrics, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Community health workers (CHWs) are trusted community members
who provide health education and care. However, no consensus exists regarding whether …

A model of community health worker integration into schools: Community-based participatory research in action

S Vaughen, M Kowalczyk, T DeClemente… - … in Community Health …, 2024 - muse.jhu.edu
Background: Schools are rich sites for collaborations between health and educational
sectors. Objectives: To identify lessons learned from formation of a community–academic …

A Review of Community Health Worker Integration in Health Departments

S Ignoffo, S Gu, A Ellyin, MR Benjamins - Journal of Community Health, 2024 - Springer
Community health workers (CHWs) are frontline public health workers who bridge the gap
between historically marginalized communities, healthcare, and social services …

Lessons learned from a community–academic initiative: The development of a core competency–based training for community–academic initiative community health …

Y Ruiz, S Matos, S Kapadia, N Islam… - … journal of public …, 2012 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. Despite the importance of community health workers (CHWs) in strategies to
reduce health disparities and the call to enhance their roles in research, little information …

Community health workers leading the charge on workforce development: lessons from New Orleans

A Wennerstrom, L Johnson, K Gibson, SE Batta… - Journal of Community …, 2014 - Springer
Academic institutions and community organizations engaged community health workers
(CHWs) in creating a community-appropriate CHW workforce capacity-building program in …

Community health workers: connecting communities and supporting school nurses

A Boldt, M Nguyen, S King… - NASN School …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
For over a century, community health workers (CHWs) have acted as agents of social justice,
health care promotion, and change for the underresourced communities they serve and …

community health workers practice from recruitment to integration

JA St. John, DJ Fox, EL Rosenthal, LK Lee - Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 - frontiersin.org
At no time like the present has the role of Community Health Workers (CHWs) received so
much attention given their direct capacity to address community-centered health. The COVID …