{"id":1630,"date":"2020-01-09T15:41:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T22:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/center-health-equity-research\/?page_id=1630"},"modified":"2026-03-27T18:48:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T18:48:04","slug":"community-health-workers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/community-health-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Health Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nau-block nau-block-left-nav-top-bound\">\n    \t<button id=\"left-nav-toggle-btn\" onclick=\"toggleNav();\">\n\t\tON THIS PAGE \n\t\t<i id=\"chevron-icon\" class=\"fas fa-solid fa-chevron-down\"><\/i>\n\t<\/button>\n\t<div id=\"left-nav-menu-track\">\n\t\t<div id=\"left-nav-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"rfi-above-anchor-tags\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ri-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/nau.edu\/admissions\/request-information\/\" id=\"request-info\" class=\"btn bg-true-blue 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same ethnicity, language, and life experiences as the communities they serve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CHWs are known by many titles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><em>Promotores de salud (promotores)<\/em> who represent and serve Latino\/a communities<\/li><li>Community Health Representatives (CHRs) who represent and serve primarily American Indian and Alaskan Native communities<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Institute of Medicine and the Community Preventive Services Task Force conclude that CHWs are effective and contribute to patient and community-centered coordination between social supports and primary care through community outreach, wellness education, and disease management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CHWs\u2019 core competencies of social support, capacity building, and advocacy also improve the social determinants of health, such as housing, food security and social connectedness, which are predictive of enhanced quality of life and health outcomes for all people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By utilizing their unique position within the community, coupled with skills and training, CHWs build health equity\u2014vital to our mission at the Center for Community Health and Engaged Research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:52px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<!-- removed margin utility classes pt-0 mb-0 mb-md-70 mb-lg-100 -->\n<section class=\"nau-block headline-image-wysiwyg  color-scheme-blue \">\n    <header class=\"hiw-head-and-hero-wrapper\">\n\n        <h2 class=\"h2\">New CHR Integration Toolkit Available!<\/h2>\n        <picture>\n            <source media=\"(min-width: 1100px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/Toolkits-mockup-3-2000x1125.png\">\n            <source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/Toolkits-mockup-3-1200x900.png\">\n            <img src=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/Toolkits-mockup-3-800x600.png\" alt=\"A decorative 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Integration Toolkit Series                                <\/a>\n                            <\/div>\n                                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"community\">What is a community health representative (CHR)?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Community health representatives (CHRs) are tribally employed, and function as the oldest and only federally funded CHW workforce in the country. Learn about their work and a new project called the Community Health Representative Workforce Integration in Tribal Health Systems to Address COVID-19\u2014CHR WITH uS!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/community-health-representatives\/\">Who are CHRs?<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/azprc.arizona.edu\/community-health-workers\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more about the Arizona Community Health Worker Coalition<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What is a CHR?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8AC0-dC0Qsw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section id=\"advocacy and policy\"        class=\"nau-block full-width-image-with-text-box secondary grid grid-md-12 -grid-fullwidth no-padding span-md-12  mobile-image-yes tablet-image- desktop-imageheight-  textbox-registration-bottomright  textbox-xl-width-2-3 textbox-background-true-blue  bg-true-blue-95 content-type-wysiwyg_linkbank  \">\n\n    <div class=\"full-width-image-with-text-box-picturediv\">\n\n            <picture class=\"left-nav-top-bound main\">\n            <source media=\"(min-width: 1650px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/Sabo20171005_358A3767-2000x1125.jpg\">\n            <source media=\"(min-width: 1100px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/Sabo20171005_358A3767-2000x800.jpg\">\n            <source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/Sabo20171005_358A3767-1200x675.jpg\">\n            <img src=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/Sabo20171005_358A3767-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Samantha Sabo talking to a student in a classroom.\">\n        <\/picture>\n    \n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"fwi-text-box  bg-true-blue-95 \">\n\n    <h2>\n    \n    Advocacy and policy\n    <\/h2>\n\n\n    <p>Center for Community Health and Engaged Research (CHER) researchers are dedicated to advancing and sustaining the CHW workforce locally and nationally through research, advocacy and policy. To do so, we engage in several collaborative efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <\/section>\n\n<section class=\"nau-block left-nav-section grid-md-12\">\n        <div class=\"page-content\">\n        \n\n<h2>Board Membership, Arizona Community Health Worker Association (AzCHOW)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azchow.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AzCHOW<\/a> is a statewide organization of community-based advocates. AzCHOW provides an opportunity for community health workers (CHWs) to speak with a collective voice, and has been advocating for the work of CHWs in Arizona since 2001. We lead through resource sharing, partnership development, education, outreach, health promotion, and disease prevention strategies to improve the health of Arizona residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Board Membership, Community Health Representative Coalition (CHRC)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/aacihc.az.gov\/initiatives\/community-health-representatives\" target=\"_blank\">CHR Coalition<\/a>&nbsp;is a long-standing collaborative with a five-year history of partnered efforts to understand, strengthen, and sustain the CHR workforce and improve American Indian health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Partners possess professional training, organizational missions, and stakeholder networks within academia, service delivery, assessment, and policy, inclusive of health department leadership of 22 Arizona Tribes and 19 CHR programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2015, and in response to state and national CHW workforce policy trends towards standardization and certification, coalition members collaborate to plan and implement annual CHR Policy Summits and Workforce Conferences. Policy Summits create the space for CHRs and CHR stakeholders in research, healthcare, policy, and payers to dialogue and plan for the unique issues and opportunities facing CHR workforce sustainability and advancement, including federal shifts to eliminate the program entirely. Policy summit planning has resulted in the formation of the Arizona CHR Workforce Coalition, which meets monthly to plan and advocate for inclusion of CHRs in state and national level dialogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Board Membership, Arizona Community Health Worker Coalition<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azprc.arizona.edu\/community-health-workers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arizona Community Health Worker Workforce Coalition<\/a>&nbsp;is a network of organizations collaborating with the Arizona Community Health Worker Outreach Network (AzCHOW) to support the sustainability of the Arizona CHW workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coalition is comprised of CHWs, including Promotores de Salud, community health representatives, community health advisors, other related titles, University of Arizona, Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University, state and local health departments, community health centers, community colleges, not for profit organizations, and area health education centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Samantha Sabo is a founding and active member of the coalitions and serves as the AzCHOW secretary.<\/p>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section id=\"research and evaluation\"        class=\"nau-block full-width-image-with-text-box secondary grid grid-md-12 -grid-fullwidth no-padding span-md-12  mobile-image-yes tablet-image- desktop-imageheight-  textbox-registration-bottomright  textbox-xl-width-2-3 textbox-background-gold  bg-gold-95 content-type-wysiwyg_linkbank  \">\n\n    <div class=\"full-width-image-with-text-box-picturediv\">\n\n            <picture class=\"left-nav-top-bound main\">\n            <source media=\"(min-width: 1650px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/0N2A9937-Enhanced-NR-2000x1125.jpg\">\n            <source media=\"(min-width: 1100px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/0N2A9937-Enhanced-NR-2000x800.jpg\">\n            <source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/0N2A9937-Enhanced-NR-1200x675.jpg\">\n            <img src=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/0N2A9937-Enhanced-NR-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"CHRs play a game of CHR Bingo\">\n        <\/picture>\n    \n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"fwi-text-box  bg-gold-95 \">\n\n    <h2>\n    \n    Research and evaluation\n    <\/h2>\n\n\n    <p>In response to shifts supporting the integration of the community health worker (CHW) workforce into public health and health care systems, the Center for Community Health and Engaged Research at Northern Arizona University interviewed leadership of all Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) contracted health plans to assess innovations in CHW workforce integration and financing. Read the finding <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/Community-Health-2019-Representatives-workforce-assessment-phase-1.pdf\">Community Health Worker Workforce: Assessment of the Integration and Financing of Community Health Workers within Arizona Medicaid Health Plans<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <\/section>\n\n<section class=\"nau-block left-nav-section grid-md-12\">\n        <div class=\"page-content\">\n        \n\n<h2><strong>Community Health Representative Workforce<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>2019 Community Health Representative Workforce Assessment (Phase I)<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2015, community and academic partners of the Northern Arizona University Center for Community Health and Engaged Research (NAU CHER), the Arizona Advisory Council on Indian Health Care (AACIHC), the Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona Tribal Epidemiology Center (ITCA TEC), the Phoenix Area Indian Health Service (PAIHS), and over 20 Tribal health department and CHR programs have come together to produce seminal CHR workforce studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/Community-Health-2019-Representatives-workforce-assessment-phase-1.pdf\">2019 CHR Workforce Assessment (Phase 1)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/Community-Health-Representative-Program-Evaluation-Assessment-2019_ADA-Final.pdf\">CHR evaluation<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>2019 Community Health Representative Workforce Assessment (Phase II)<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In phase II of the CHR Workforce Assessment, NAU-CHER consultants again collaborated with the AACIHC to develop and conduct interviews with CHR managers in Arizona, focusing on CHR program organization,<br>structure, financing, health system integration, and evaluation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/Community-Health-Representative-Workforce-Assessment-Phase-II_ADA-Final.pdf\">2020 CHR Workforce Assessment (Phase II)<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:23px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<section id=\"health\"        class=\"nau-article-block-simple-color-text-photo bg-twilight-xxx-light \">\n            <figure>\n            <picture>\n                <source srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/4616_eldc_class_20230522-1200x900.jpg\" media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/4616_eldc_class_20230522-1200x900.jpg\" media=\"(min-width: 1100px)\" \/><img src=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/4616_eldc_class_20230522-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Child playing with cars on a track and laying on the floor.\"  \/>            <\/picture>\n                    <\/figure>\n    \n        <hr role=\"none\" class=\"hr-clearspace-20 d-none-md\">\n\n        <h3>Health Start Program evaluation<\/h3>                <p>Researchers at CHER are evaluating Arizona\u2019s Health Start Program, a statewide CHW maternal and child health home visiting program. The purpose of the evaluation is to assess the impact of the Health Start Program on maternal and child health outcomes (e.g., birth outcomes, prenatal care, early childhood vaccinations). The team hopes the results will contribute to the designation of Health Start as an evidence-based program. Learn more about the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/evaluating-arizonas-health-start\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Health Start Program Evaluation<\/a> and review the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azdhs.gov\/documents\/prevention\/womens-childrens-health\/reports-fact-sheets\/health-start\/health-start-final-impact-report-2021-12-02.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Impact report<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n    \n\n<\/section>\n\n\n<h2 id=\"media\">In the media <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/blog\/oncology-focus-training\/\">Oncology Focus: 3-Day Training for Cancer Patient Care Navigation <\/a>(March 28, 2026)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/blog\/now-is-the-time-integrating-and-reimbursing-chr-services-within-tribal-health-and-social-systems\/\">Now is the Time: Integrating and Reimbursing CHR Services within Tribal Health and Social Systems<\/a> (July 23, 2024)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/blog\/tools-promote-community-health\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/blog\/tools-promote-community-health\/\">New Tools Created to Promote Community Health Representative Integration in Emergency Preparedness and Vaccine Deployment<\/a> (Nov. 15, 2023)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/blog\/community-health-worker-cdc-award\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/blog\/community-health-worker-cdc-award\/\">CDC Awards $6 million to Arizona Tribal Community Health Representative Program<\/a> (May 8, 2023)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/blog\/supporting-community-health-workers\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/blog\/supporting-community-health-workers\/\">Supporting CHWs with resources and training<\/a> (May 8, 2023)<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/azdailysun.com\/news\/local\/education\/nau-team-part-of-grant-to-support-community-health-representatives\/article_808542dc-e38a-11ed-b1f8-af2d30999a08.html\" target=\"_blank\">NAU team part of grant to support community health representatives<\/a> (Apr. 29, 2023, AZ Daily Sun)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/blog\/arizona-community-health-workers-medicaid\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"6780\">Arizona moves toward reimbursing community health workers through Medicaid<\/a> (Nov. 10, 2022)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.nau.edu\/community-health-workers\/\">Arizona researchers find community health workers improve health for mothers and babies<\/a> (March 7, 2022, NAU Review)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/blog\/community-health-workers-workshop\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"5875\">Workshop explores the power and promise of community health workers<\/a> (May 19, 2022)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/blog\/covid-report-community-health-workers\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4007\">Report highlights ID-19 experiences of community health workers<\/a> (July 20, 2021)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.nau.edu\/cher-health-start-study\/\">Community health workers improve birthweight of newborns through the Arizona Health Start Program, researchers find<\/a> (June 24, 2022 NAU Review)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/blog\/community-health-workers-healthstart-study\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3892\">Community health workers improve birthweight of newborns through Arizona Health Start Program, researchers find<\/a> (June 22, 2021)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.nau.edu\/chr-report-sabo\/\">NAU report finds community health reps, who provide critical services to Native Americans, need more support<\/a> (Dec. 15, 2020 NAU Review)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"publications\">Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/2024-Arizona-CHR-Workforce-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arizona Community Health Representatives: 2024 Workforce Assessment Report<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/234\/Final_2023-CHR-Workforce-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arizona Community Health Representatives: 2023 Workforce Assessment Report<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bmjopen.bmj.com\/content\/11\/6\/e045014\" target=\"_blank\">Addressing maternal and child health equity through a community health worker home visiting intervention to reduce low birth weight: retrospective quasi-experimental study of the Arizona Health Start Programme<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/public-health\/articles\/10.3389\/fpubh.2021.601908\/full\" target=\"_blank\">Organizational Readiness for Community Health Worker Workforce Integration Among Medicaid Contracted Health Plans and Provider Networks: An Arizona Case Study<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10900-017-0370-3\" target=\"_blank\">Community Health Workers Promote Civic Engagement and Organizational Capacity to Impact Policy<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bmjopen.bmj.com\/content\/9\/12\/e031780\" target=\"_blank\">Evaluation protocol to assess maternal and child health outcomes using administrative data: a community health worker home visiting programme<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/public-health\/articles\/10.3389\/fpubh.2021.667926\/full\" target=\"_blank\">Community Health Representative Workforce: Meeting the Moment in American Indian Health Equity<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/1660-4601\/20\/5\/4391\/review_report\" target=\"_blank\">Community Health Representatives as Trusted Sources for Increasing Representation of American Indian Communities in Clinical Research<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/public-health\/articles\/10.3389\/fpubh.2023.1072808\/full\" target=\"_blank\">Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities: Academic-community partnership to support workforce capacity building among Arizona community health workers<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10995-022-03506-2\" target=\"_blank\">Impact of a Community Health Worker (CHW) Home Visiting Intervention on Any and Adequate Prenatal Care Among Ethno-Racially Diverse Pregnant Women of the US Southwest<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s12889-022-14239-w\" target=\"_blank\">Community health worker intervention improves early childhood vaccination rates: results from a propensity-score matching evaluation<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/public-health\/articles\/10.3389\/fpubh.2023.1047152\/full\" target=\"_blank\">Community Health Representative Workforce: Integration across systems and teams to address the social determinants of indigenous health and wellbeing<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/formative.jmir.org\/2021\/5\/e25577\/\" target=\"_blank\">Using a Multisectoral Approach to Advance Health Equity in Rural Arizona: Community-Engaged Survey Development and Implementation Study<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/1660-4601\/20\/1\/31\" target=\"_blank\">Building Trust and Awareness to Increase AZ Native Nation Participation in COVID-19 Vaccines<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"webinars\">Webinars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0kUeL1YirVc&amp;t=1s\" target=\"_blank\">CHR Workforce Assessment webinar &#8211; June 24, 2020<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"resources\">Resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/community-health-workers\/community-health-workers-emergency-response-toolkit\/\">CHR Integration: Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Toolkit no. 1<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/community-health-workers\/community-health-representative-vaccine-deployment-toolkit\/\" data-type=\"page\">CHR Integration: Vaccine Deployment Toolkit no. 2<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/center-community-health-engaged-research\/community-health-workers\/chr-integration-toolkit-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">CHR Integration: Building Teams Together Toolkit no. 3<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Samantha-Sabo-2\" target=\"_blank\">CHW workforce collaborative publications<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Note: This page contains PDF documents that are currently in the process of being made fully accessible for all users. 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