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December 20, 2012 | Program Result
Staff at the College of Allied Health and Nursing of Minnesota State University at Mankato created a curriculum and certification process for community health workers and advanced their role in the state's health care system.
January 26, 2010 | Program Result
From 2006 to 2009, staff members at the Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, worked to raise the profile and influence of community health workers in the health care system and among policy-makers.
January 27, 2009 | Program Result
Guided by the director of Columbia Access Television, a registered dietitian and their teacher at West Boulevard Elementary School, the fifth-grade students' experience culminated in the production of healthy eating video messages.
January 29, 2002 | Program Result
Community Health Care in Bridgeton, N.J., developed a program to train farmworkers in Cumberland County to become lay health promoters.
June 1, 2005 | Program Result
In December 1994, 105 U.S. cities and rural areas received designations under the Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community (EZ/EC) Initiative, a 10-year federal effort to revitalize areas of concentrated, persistent poverty.
January 1, 2004 | Program Result
The Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition conducted eight focus groups to assess community health workers' knowledge of breastfeeding and lactation management and to learn how they perceived the value of using technology in their work.
August 1, 2004 | Program Result
The Partnership for Children developed a campaign to mobilize community support for children and youth in Greater Kansas City.
October 1, 2004 | Program Result
Faculty in the Department of Nursing at Oakwood College in Huntsville, Ala., trained cosmetologists and others to deliver community-based health education and screening services.
January 1, 2003 | Program Result
From late 1997 to the end of 2000, the Esperanza Community Housing Corporation provided internships for bilingual residents of a low-income neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles who had been trained as professional community health promoters. Esperanza developed the health-promoter training program to increase access to health and health care information, and...
June 1, 2003 | Program Result
The Camden Development Collaborative developed a community health worker project in Camden, N.J., in conjunction with local health care providers, to improve health outcomes and create jobs.