Community Health Worker

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The Community Health Worker (CHW) Certificate of Achievement provides students with the skills needed to work in public health, healthcare, and social services. CHWs provide services including health education, navigation through healthcare systems and services, health outreach, community health data collection, and health promotion. Graduates will be able to help improve quality of life for clients by identifying the social determinants of health (SDOH) and disparities in communities, increasing access to health care services, promoting health screening, and providing public health education on available health services and recommendations. The certificate is for both entry-level individuals and for providing additional competencies to those employed in various fields. Graduates can work in various settings including healthcare clinics, mental health facilities, substance abuse programs, nursing homes, assisted living, and neighborhood and faith-based organizations.

This 5-course, non-credit Community Health Worker (CHW) Certificate of Completion can be completed in approximately 216 hours. Students can choose between two of the experiential specialties as their capstone course in either aging or co-occurring disorders.  Although four of the courses in this certificate overlap with the credit certificate, this program is built for entry-level work. The 9-course credit certificate has more courses with a broader focus without the specialization, and is a pathway to the Public Health transfer degree whereby students can apply their courses towards the degree and higher education. Skills are related to public health, healthcare, and social services. CHWs provide services including health education, navigation through healthcare systems and services, health outreach, community health data collection, and health promotion. Graduates will be able to help improve quality of life for clients by identifying the social determinants of health (SDOH) and disparities in communities, increasing access to health care services, promoting health screening, and providing public health education on available health services and recommendations. The certificate is for both entry-level individuals and for providing additional competencies to those employed in various fields. Graduates can work in various settings including healthcare clinics, mental health facilities, substance abuse programs, nursing homes, assisted living, and neighborhood and faith-based organizations.