Center for the Community Health Workforce

IPHI is a Regional Center for Advancing Community Health Worker Practice, Research and Policy

Leveraging growing opportunities for peer-based workforce strategies, we launched the Center for the Community Health Workforce (CCHW) in 2013. CCHW is a broad-based regional “center for excellence” that fosters multi-sector collaboration to grow and support the community-based health workforce with a particular focus on community health workers (CHWs).

The CCHW has the following priorities:

• Support the development of regional standards and scopes of practice for CHWs;
• Further develop a teaching program for the training and continuing education of CHWs;
• Support the development of CHW networks across DC, MD, and VA;
• Provide consultation and technical assistance to organizations that request help in planning, operating, or evaluating CHW programs;
• Support the effective integration of CHWs into clinical and community-based teams and the design of policies and programs that facilitate retention of CHWs;
• Engage in research and innovation relating to CHW models;
• Serve as a clearinghouse for regional, national, and international CHW best practices; and
• Support policy development to finance and sustain CHW service models across the region.

To learn more about the work of the Center for the Community Health Workforce, please email us at CCHW@institutephi.org.