This brief report is a helpful resource for organizations that aim to implement breastfeeding programs using the Community Health Worker (CHW) model. It includes information from two successful CHW-led breastfeeding programs implemented by MHP Salud.

This job description may be used as a template to help your interdisciplinary team learn more about the specific job responsibilities and skill requirements that a Community Health Worker position requires.

This document outlines a set of questions Health Centers can utilize with community members to evaluate the effectiveness of its Promotor(a) de Salud program(s). The questions may be asked by the Health Center’s Promotores(as) de Salud or other staff. Health Centers may feel free to adapt the questions in a way that works best for their unique program and circumstances.

This form offers organizations a guided process to generate “buy-in,” or organizational support for a Community Health Worker, Camp Health Aide or Promotora de Salud program. It was developed to help organizational staff quickly understand the benefits of such a program.

This resource for CHW Program Managers and Administrators,  explains the positive impact that CHW-led diabetes interventions can have on individual patients, organizations, and communities. It contains links to external resources, as well as MHP Salud’s own programmatic approaches to addressing diabetes.

MHP Salud surveyed 90 breastfeeding moms, and they said that the baby’s father was the most important person who supported them. This informational flyer has been developed as a breastfeeding resource specifically with dads in mind.

This guide that contains information and suggestions are useful to Community Health Workers (known as Promotores/as de Salud in the Spanish-speaking communities), or program directors looking to implement a support program for sexual assault survivors.

This guide that contains information and suggestions are useful to Community Health Workers (known as Promotores/as de Salud in the Spanish-speaking communities), or program directors looking to implement a support program for sexual assault survivors.

Esta guía gratuita contiene información y sugerencias útiles para los Trabajadores de  Salud de la Comunidad (conocidos como Promotores(as) de Salud en la comunidad de habla hispana) o los directores de programas que buscan implementar un programa de apoyo para sobrevivientes de agresión sexual.

The FHN is committed to supporting the development of leadership within Community and Migrant Health Centers and increasing access to care for the farmworker population. This document is a series of resources collected from FHN partners.

The FHN is committed to supporting the development of leadership within Community and Migrant Health Centers and increasing access to care for the farmworker population. This document is a series of resources collected from FHN partners.

Este recurso, que está disponible con una membresía gratuita, se puede imprimir y distribuir a las personas para que puedan comprender mejor sus opciones y otros términos y condiciones básicos relacionados con el seguro de salud.

This tip sheet focuses on how outreach workers can support three of the basic emergency management expectations for health centers, including: Emergency Management Planning, Linkages and Collaboration and Communications and Information Sharing.

This educational tool is intended to assist Health Centers and other organizations on how to incorporate Promotores(as) de Salud, the Spanish term for Community Health Workers, into each stage of the community health assessment. It provides guidelines on including Promotores(as) in the assessment process, but it is not intended to be a comprehensive plan.

The 42-page English-language Infórmate Program Manual offers teen Peer Advocates an overview of how to effectively serve as such. Peer Advocates provide leadership, peer education, support and resources to promote community empowerment.

El Manual del Programa de Infórmate ofrece a los Defensores de pares adolescentes una visión general de cómo servir eficazmente como tal.

This guide is designed to provide concrete tips, ideas, and examples for incorporating CHWs into the Health Disparities Collaboratives. The guide is laid out in two sections. The first is organized by Collaborative Topics and the second by components of the Chronic Care Model. You can read through the entire document or skip to the section that is most relevant to your work.

This video provides background on the benefits of clinically integrating CHWs and outlines the free and low-cost tools MHP Salud offers to assist your clinic throughout the process.

Este recurso bilingüe, disponible de forma gratuita para los miembros de nuestro portafolio de recursos, fue desarrollado para responder a las preguntas más comunes que las madres en espera de su bebé o madres recientes puedan tener sobre la lactancia materna.

This 52-page resource features tips and information for new and expectant mothers.

Orientar a las futuras madres, especialmente aquellas que son madres primerizas, puede ayudar a reducir las complicaciones médicas y emocionales y aumentar los resultados saludables para la madre y el niño.

The activities in this guide inform participants about their current level of physical activity, provide recommendations for physical activity and strategies to develop a more active lifestyle, and aid in developing a family physical activity action plan.

This tool offers an overview of best practices for supervising CHWs and includes a list of fast facts that supervisors can use as a resource.

Este manual ofrece una visión general de los problemas básicos de salud. Nos hemos centrado en la prevención, la detección temprana y las referencias.

Please join MHP Salud for an overview of its updated resources to assist health centers in improving the implementation of new and existing Promotor(a) de Salud/Community Health Worker programs.

The Training and Supporting Certified Application Counselor’s educational tool is intended to help CAC supervisors support their CACs through the initial training and beyond. It presents and explains strategies, tools, and activities that can be used to further reinforce the material presented in the CMS training, to supplement the material from the training sessions, and to continue to support CACs after the conclusion of the training period.

This bilingual resource, available for free to our resource portfolio members, was developed to answer the most common questions expecting or recent mothers may have about breastfeeding.

This brief report describes two successful CHW-led breastfeeding programs and can be used as a resource for any organization looking to apply the CHWs to their own breastfeeding programs.

This video tutorial provides guidance on how to develop culturally and linguistically appropriate texts.

In this video, participants will be able to identify the different stages of evaluation, able to utilize at least one new method to complete both a process and outcome evaluation and will learn at least one new strategy for sharing data.

This webinar, originally recorded on March 2, 2017, provides an overview of MHP Salud’s updated resources to assist health centers in improving the implementation of new and existing Promotor(a) de Salud/Community Health Worker programs.