Strategic Goals and Actions

 

Male health worker smiles while listening to elderly client as they are seated on livingroom sofa

Our Strategic Priorities, Goals, and Strategies

Strategic Priority: Training & Education

Goal: Increase training and education opportunities for community health workers and supervisors.

Strategies
  • Improve accessibility for training and education
  • Improve DOH's CHW Training Program based on recommendations
  • Provide training for supervisors of community health workers

Strategic Priority: Employer Support

Goal: Improve support for community health workers and promote long-term retention.

Strategies
  • Identify a consistent wage scale for the community health worker workforce
  • Identify and promote opportunities for supervisors and employers to invest in community health workers
  • Identify key organizational steps to promote community health worker retention

Strategic Priority: Sustainability & Growth

Goal: Develop systems of support that will promote growth and sustainability for the community health worker workforce.

Strategies
  • Explore community health worker certification or similar competency measures
  • Increase awareness of and benefits of community health worker roles within health and social service systems
  • Explore opportunities for sustainable funding streams

Strategic Priority: Visibility & Infrastructure

Goal: Promote community health workers as a trusted health care profession.

Strategies
  • Connect community health workers across the state by building on existing spaces of connection with local and statewide CHW networks
  • Explore the development of standards and expectations for conducting work as a CHW
  • Increase understanding of CHW impact and capacity with the public, state and local leaders, and potential employers