Trinita Ashford knows about balance. The mother of seven has served as executive director of ConnectionHealth, a community-based organization that has recruited, trained, employed, and deployed community health workers (CHWs) since 2021. CHW is just a fancy term for what people do naturally, said Ashford: “A lot of people are CHWs, and they don’t even […]
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Birmingham, AL—The Birmingham-based, 501c3 nonprofit organization, ConnectionHealth, hosted a Kickoff meeting to establish a statewide Community Health Worker (CHW) Coalition designed to promote and support the CHW workforce in the state of Alabama using a multi-faceted approach. The Alabama CHW Coalition Kickoff meeting provided in-person and virtual options for attendees. The in-person option was held
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Birmingham, AL—The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Community Health Worker Training Program awarded over $2.9 million in grant funds to ConnectionHealth, a Birmingham-based, 501c3 nonprofit organization to expand its services to recruit, train, upskill, and apprentice Community Health Workers (CHWs) in the community. Project