The Biden administration is directing $226.5 million in American Rescue Plan funding toward a new multiyear training program for community health workers and health support workers, the U.S.

Community health workers are public health workers. Their goal is to connect communities with their health care systems and state health departments. Community health worker (CHW) is an umbrella term ...

Community health workers are seeing an influx of visibility and support through federal, state and local funding. The federal Health Resources and Services Administration recently announced $226 ...

Bucking the norm, New York City-based Montefiore has opted to directly employ and embed community health workers within its clinical teams to connect patients with social services as part of broader ...

Local nonprofit ConnectionHealth was recently awarded a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to expand their ...

Creating and funding sectorwide labor-management training partnerships would benefit workers, business, and the larger economy. High-quality workforce training can help workers get good jobs, improve ...