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CHW National Reports

• Health Resources and Services Administration, CHW National Workforce Study, May 23, 2007.
• Family Strengthening Policy Center, Community Health Workers: Closing the Gap on Families' Health Resources, March 2006.
• James Madison University, Final Report on the Status, Impact, and Utilization of Community Health Workers, January 2006.
• Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Community Health Workers: Essential To Improving Health in Massachusetts, March 2005.
• Advancing Community Health Worker Practice and Utilization: The Focus on Financing

National CHW Networks and Organizations

• 1) The Community Health Worker Special Primary Interest Group The American Public Health Association 800 I Street Washington, DC 20001 (202) 777 2742 http://www.apha.org
• 2) The Center for Sustainable Health Outreach
  • a) The University of Southern Mississippi 118 College Drive, # 10015 Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001 Phone: (601) 266-5903 Fax: (601) 266-6262 e-mail: csho@usm.edu
  • b) Harrison Institute for Public Law Georgetown University Law Center 50 F Street NW, Suite 8300 Washington, DC 20001 Phone: (202) 662-4229 Fax: (202) 662-4231 Note: new National CHW Association's steering committee c/o of CSHO at Georgetown http://www.usm.edu/csho/
• 3) The Community Health Workers National Network Western Arizona Area Health Education Center System Yuma, Arizona (877) 743-1500 chwnetwork@WAHEC.com
• 4) National Association of Community Health Representatives http://chrtriennial.com/index.htm Cynthia Norris - President of NACHR Board 520.383.6200 cynthia.norris@tonation-nsn.gov

State CHW Networks and Organizations

• Arizona Community Health Outreach Workers Network (AzCHOW) Louis Fernandez, co-chair; Flor Redondo, co-chair; Belen Feather, secretary. http://www.publichealth.arizona.edu/azchow/
• California The Community Health Worker/Promotoras Network. 2536 Edwards Ave., El Cerrito, CA 94530; (510) 232-7869; (510) 231-9954 fax. Maria Lemus, Executive Director. chwpromotoras@aol.com
• Florida REACH-Workers - the Community Health Workers of Tampa Bay (727)588-4018 Michelle Dublin, chairperson of the network Michelle_Dublin@doh.state.fl.us
• Hawaii Community Health Worker Training Program, Hawai'i Primary Care Association P.O. Box 264, Pu'unene, HI 96784 Napualani Spock, Coordinator napuas@aloha.net
• Maryland Community Outreach Workers Association of Maryland, Inc. (COWAM). 259 North Lanvale Street Baltimore, Md. 21217
• MassachusettsAssociation of Community Health Workers (MACHW) Lisa Renee Siciliano, Executive Director c/o UMass Office of Community Programs, Chang Building 222 Maple Ave. Shrewsbury, MA 01545 (508) 856-4852 http://www.mphaweb.org/MACHW.htm
• Michigan Community Advocate Association (MICAA) (616) 356-6205 or (616) 827-2094 or (616) 366-2759 President-Roshawnda S. Thompson RoshawndaT@cssgr.org
• Minnesota Minnesota CHW Peer Network out of the Minnesota International Health Volunteers. 122 W. Franklin Ave. #522, Minneapolis, MN 55404. LuAnn Werner (612) 230-3255 lwerner@mihv.org www.mihv.org
• New Mexico Community Health Workers Association (NMCHWA) P.O. Box 81433 Albuquerque, New Mexico 87198 (505) 272-4741 BJ Ciesielski nmchwa@correocaliente.com
• New York Community Health Worker Network of NYC 425 E. 25 Street New York, NY 10010 (212) 481-7667 Sergio Matos, Elena Schwolsky, Rita Taylor, and Romy Rodriguez http://chwnetwork.org/
• New York Rochester Outreach Workers Association (ROWA) New York (585) 274-8490 Latisha Williams, Chair Lwilliams@monroecounty.gov
• Oregon Community Health Workers Association 9000 N. Lombard Street--2nd Floor, Portland, OR 97203 (503) 988-3366 xt 28686 Teresa Ríos,Veronica Lopez Erickse teresa.c.rios@co.multnomah.or.us

Other Sites of Interest

• NIH National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities http://ncmhd.nih.gov/
• Center for Health Options and Community Empowerment http://www.projectchoice.org
• Human Services Research Institute-Community Supports Skills Standards (http://www.hsri.org/ddworkforce/csss/aboutcsss.html)
• Latino Health Access http://www.latinohealthaccess.org/,
• De Madres a Madres http://www.demadresamadres.8m.com/, Migrant Health Promotion Mhp.org
• Minnesota Blue Cross on CHWs
• Migrant Health Promotion http://migranthealth.org/
• NJ Community Health Worker Institute http://www.camden-ahec.org/ahecservices.html
• Brookings Greater Washington Research Program, Leaders Among Us:Developing a Community Health Worker Program in Washington, DC By Martha Ross and Kathy Patrick. A Policy Brief for the Medical Homes DC Area Health Education Center

CHW References

• US Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Community Health Worker National Workforce Study: An Annotated Bibliography; March 2007
• DC Primary Care Reformer, Community Health Workers: The Bridge to Complete Care; Newsletter Volume 2, Number 1, May 31, 2007
• Andrews et al. 2004; Brownstein et al. 2005; Health Resources and Services Administration 2003; Health Resources and Services Administration unpublished draft, 2002; Lewin et al. 2005; National Fund for Medical Education 2006; Nemcek et al. 2003; Norris et al. 2006; Persily 2003; Swider 2002
• Andrews JO, Felton G, Wewers ME et al. Use of community health workers in research with ethnic minority women. Journal of Nursing Scholarship 2004; 36 (4):358-65.
• Brownstein JN, Bone LR, Dennison CR et al. Community health workers as interventionists in the prevention and control of heart disease and stroke. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2005; 29 (5 Suppl 1):128-33.
• Health Resources and Services Administration. The Alaska Community Health Aide Program: an Integrative Literature Review and Visions for Future Research. Office of Rural Health Policy, March 2003.
• Health Resources and Services Administration. A literature review and discussion of research studies and evaluations of the roles and responsibilities of community health workers (CHWs)Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, July 5, 2002.
• Lewin SA, Dick J, Pond P et al. Lay health workers in primary and community health care. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
• National Fund for Medical Education. Advancing Community Health Worker Practice and Utilization: The Focus on Financing. San Francisco: National Fund for Medical Education, Center for the Health Professions, University of California at San Francisco, October 2006 [in press].
• Nemcek MA, Sabatier R. State of evaluation: community health workers. Public Health Nursing 2003; 20 (4):260-70.
• Norris SL, Chowdhury FM, Van Le K et al. Effectiveness of community health workers in the care of persons with diabetes. Diabetic Medicine 2006; 23 (5):544-56.
• Persily CA. Lay home visiting may improve pregnancy outcomes. Holistic Nursing Practice 2003; 17 (5):231-8.
• Swider SM. Outcome effectiveness of community health workers: an integrative literature review. Public Health Nurs 2002; 19 (1):11-20.
• Fedder DO, Chang RJ, Curry S, & Nichols G. (2003). The effectiveness of a community health worker outreach program on healthcare utilization of west Baltimore City Medicaid patients with diabetes, with or without hypertension. Ethnicity and Disease, Winter;13(1):146.
• Jackson E, & Parker E. (1997). Recruitment and training issues from selected lay health advisor training program among African Americans: A Twenty-year perspective. Health Education and Behavioral Quarterly, 24: 418-431.
• Ro MJ, Treadwell HM, & Northridge, M. (2003). Community health workers and community voices: Promoting good health. Retrieved September 2004 from www.communityvoices.org/Uploads/CHW_FINAL_00108_00042.pdf.
• Robinson, JG. (2001). Recognition and support for community health workers contributions to meeting our national health care needs. Resolution presented at the Annual American Association of Public Health Conference, Atlanta, GA.
• Rosenthal EL, Wiggins N, Brownstein JN, Johnson S, Borbon IA, Rael R, Guernsey de Zapien J, Ingram M, Meister JS, McClelland J, Williams L, Lacey Y, & Blondet L. (1998). The final report of the national community health advisor study: Weaving the future. Tucson, AZ: Rural Health Office.
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• Witmer A, Seifer SD, Finocchio L, Leslie J, & O'Neil EH. (1995). Community health workers: Integral members of the health care work force. American Journal of Public Health, 85(8 Pt 1): 1055-1058.
• World Health Organization (1996). The Community Health Worker: Working Guide, Guidelines for Training, Guidelines for Adaptation. (Booklet) Geneva: World Health Organization.
• Barnes DM and Fairbanks J, Problem-Based Strategies Promoting Community Transformation: Implications for the Community Health Worker Model, Fam Community Health. 2 1(1): pp. 54-65, 1997.
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• Community Partnership Project of the University of Texas at El Paso, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and The County of El Paso, Texas, supported as a WK Kellogg Foundation Initiative in Health Professions Education. Communif;y Health Education for Community Health Worker and Jblunfeer Health Advocates, A curriculum publication. Note: This cwriculum is public property and a good overall source document for community health advisor education programs: El Paso, TX, 1996.
• Eng E and Young R, Lay Health Advisors as Community Change Agents, Family and Community .~ .. Health, pp. 24-40, April1992.
• Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development, National health care skill .. standards project, Far West Laboratory, San Francisco, CA, 1995.
• Gatz M, Barbarin OA, Tyler FB, Mitchell RE, Moran JA, Wirzbicki PJ, Crawford J, and Engelman .. A, Enhancement of Individual and Community Competence: The Older Adult as Community Worker, American Journal of Community Psychology, 10(3): pp. 291-303,1982.
• Giblin PT, Effective utilization and evaluation of indigenous health care workers, Public Health Reports, 104(4): pp. 361-368, 1989.
• Harlan C, Perez-Michael M., Cardona C., et. al., Lay health advisors as community change agents or . peer educators: distinctions and definitions, Am Pub Health Assoc Annual Meeting, 1994.
• Homan MS, Promoting Community Change, Making it Happen in the Real World, Second Edition, Brookes/Cole Publishing Co., 1999
• Homan, MS, Rules of the game: Lessons from the field of community change, Pacific Grove, California, Brooks/Cole, 1999.
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• Koch E, Keegan P, and Johnson S, Community Health Workers: Meeting the Needs of People in a Changing Health Care System, A Publication of Opening Doors: Reducing Sociocultural Barriers to Health Care, Washington, D.C., September 1997.
• Koch E, Summary of the National Community Health Advisor Study, Harrison Institute for Public . Law, Georgetown University Law Center: 111 F. St. NW - Suite 102, Washington, D.c. 20001, 1998.
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• LaceyY, Always Reaching: Community Voices, In Lightsey, D and Gwinner, The Healthy Start . Initiative, Community Outreach, Vol. IV;National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, Arlington, VA, 1996.
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• Love MB, Gardner K and Legion V; Community Health Workers: Who They Are and What They Do: A Regional Labor Market Study Survey of Eight Counties in the San Francisco Bay Area, San , Francisco State University, Department of Health Education and City College of San Francisco, Health Sciences Department, 1996.
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• Meister JS, Warrick LH, DeZapien JG and Wood AH, Using Lay Health Workers: Case Study of a , Community-based Prenatal Intervention, J Community Health, 17: pp. 37-51, February 1992.
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• Proulx, D. and contributors, A Core Curriculum Guidebook for a Community Health Worker Basic Certificate Program, University of Arizona, Arizona Health Sciences Center, Arizona AHEC Program, Project Jump Start. January 2002
• Rosenthal EL and Advisory Council of the National Community Health Advisor Study, The Final .. Report of the National Community Health Advisory Study, A policy research project of The University of Arizona funded by The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Baltimore, MD, June 1998.
• Standards of Practice Manual for Community Health Workers and the Community Health .. Occupations, Community Health Works of San Francisco, A Partnership of San Francisco State University and City College of San Francisco, June 2000 .
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• World Health Organization (WHO), The community health worka Working guide. Guidelines for training. Guidelines for adaptation, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland, 1996.

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