Promoting health equity through advocacy and support of Patient Navigators, Community Health Workers and Promotores de Salud
The Alliance promotes policies, programs, and partnerships that: reduce and eliminate barriers to quality health care both within health systems and the community; reduce disparities in health outcomes; and foster ongoing health equity. The Alliance believes that every Coloradan has an equal opportunity to obtain healthcare that personally addresses their medical, dental, mental, emotional, social determinants, and spiritual health needs.
The Alliance of CHW PN PdS , with support from the Colorado Cancer Coalition will be launching a webinar series for motivational interviewing this coming fall. In this effort we will be specifically dedicated to applying motivational interviewing techniques to connect with difficult to reach populations throughout Colorado to increase cancer screening and prevention.
Happening Now
Incorporation of behavioral health tools into CHW prevention program
The article describes CPC Community Health's process of implementing behavioral health tools, interventions and assessments into an existing cardiovascular disease prevention program. This program works primarily with the Latino populations in the Denver metro area...
Cost Effectiveness of a CHW-led Prevention Program
In 2008, CPC Community Health created a statewide Community Health Worker (CHW)-based cardiovascular disease prevention program called Colorado Heart Healthy Solutions (CHHS). The program uses CHWs and Health Navigators (HNs) who perform health screenings that...
Our Values
Advocate for recognition of appropriate CHWs, PNs and PdS roles with links to both the formal health system and the community through policies and initiatives that support minimum standards for the role and performance.
Enable and support leadership to monitor best practices and share learning across the state in the implementation of CHWs, PNs and PdS.
Work with and through existing local health services and mechanisms to strengthen them; thereby avoiding the creation of parallel services, methods or competitive working practices, while reinforcing the supportive role played by communities.
Advocate for recognition of appropriate CHWs, PNs and PdS roles with links to both the formal health system and the community through policies and initiatives that support minimum standards for the role and performance.
Encourage local, regional and statewide networking opportunities between and among CHWs, PNs and PdS.
Support unified mechanisms for reporting and management of data that promote consistent quality monitoring and accountability to existing health structures and communities, thus reinforcing local use of data for decision making.
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