Community Health Worker Training Program (CHWTP)

 
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    CFDA#

    93.516     		 

    Funder Type

    Federal Government

    IT Classification

    B - Readily funds technology as part of an award

    Authority

    Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

    Summary

    The Community Health Worker and Health Support Worker Training Program (CHWTP) aims to expand the public health workforce through the training of new community health workers (CHW) and health support workers, as well as, extend the knowledge and skills of current community health/support workers. The goal of CHWTP is to increase access to care, improve public health emergency response, and address the public health needs of underserved communities.  

    Through this program, HRSA plans to train 13,000 new and current CHWs and other health support workers to support essential public health services and to focus on experiential training and employment through registered apprenticeships and job placements. Individuals trained through the program will acquire knowledge, skills, and expertise to respond to public health needs and public health emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, in underserved communities through a network of partnerships.


    The goals of this program include:

    • Expand the public health workforce by training new and existing CHWs and health support workers with specialized training and financial support to offset expenses that would impede success in training. The Program's goal is to provide training so that 75% of participants become newly credentialed CHWs and health support workers.
    • Extend and upskill the public health workforce by developing new or enhancing existing curriculums to increase the skills and competencies of existing CHWs and health support workers.
    • Increase CHW and health support worker employment readiness through field placements and apprenticeships developed in collaboration with a network of partnerships that will enable trainees to respond to and support essential public health services and provide them with employment opportunities.
    • Advance health equity and support for underserved communities by increasing the number of CHWs and health support workers that are employed as integral members of integrated care teams that use their expanded skills to reduce health disparities
     

    History of Funding

    None is available.

    Additional Information

    The objectives of this program are:

    1. Expansion:
      1.  Establish educational training curriculums and recruit, train and enable new CHWs and health support workers candidates to acquire core competencies for CHWs and Public Health certifications that follow state, local, or entity guidelines and support essential public health services.
      2. Reduce barriers to CHW and health support worker program enrollment and retention by providing eligible trainees with participant support (e.g., tuition/fees, stipends, health insurance, and child care).  
    2. Extension/Upskilling:
      1. Provide additional training for current CHWs and health support workers to include the core competencies for Public Health and Essential Public Health Services.
      2. Develop or enhance trainee curriculum around evidence-based core competencies for public health, including but not limited to emergency response education, prevention, treatment, and vaccine hesitancy research.
    3. Employment:
      1. Implement hands-on CHW and health support worker integrated training through community-based partnerships that provide field placements in underserved communities.
      2. Provide job placement services and on-the-job experiential training to new CHWs and health support workers through Department of Labor or state/local registered apprenticeship programs.
    4. Healthy Equity:
      1. Address critical gaps in public health and community needs that can be filled by CHWs health support workers in communities that are disproportionately burdened by COVID-19, health inequities, limited access to technology, and the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH). 
      2. Increase the distribution and diversity of the CHW and health support workers workforce by recruiting, training, or employing, as applicable, individuals who will serve in underserved communities as integral members of integrated care teams.

    Contacts

    Marian Smithey

    Marian Smithey
    Division of Nursing and Public Health
    5600 Fishers Lane
    Rockville, MD 20857
    (301) 443-3831
     

  • Eligibility Details

    Eligible applicants include:

    • Health professions schools, including accredited schools or programs of public health, health administration, preventive medicine, or dental public health or schools providing health management programs;
    • Academic health centers; 
    • State or local governments including state, local and territorial public health departments; or
    • Any other appropriate public or private non-profit entity such as, but not limited to: community colleges, community health centers, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), and community-based organizations, and tribal entities that train public and allied health workers.

    Deadline Details

    Applications are to be submitted by June 14, 2022.

    Award Details

    Approximately $226,500,000 will be available to fund 75 awards. The maximum award amount is $3,000,000 total ($1,000,000 per year) over a 3 year project period. The period of performance begins on September 15, 2022, through September 14, 2025. Cost-sharing is not required.

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