Goal surpassed: NRHA trains community health workers this week
The National Rural Health Association (NRHA) is committed to developing a National Rural Community Health Worker Training Network to help recruit and retain community health workers to rural and underserved areas along the U.S.-Mexico border. As part of a Clinton Global Initiative-America (CGI) Commitment to Action, NRHA is training 47 community health workers from Texas and New Mexico in El Paso, Texas, this week. The two-day workshop is conducted entirely in Spanish. “The National Rural Health Association is both humbled and excited to be able to offer this opportunity to participants who may not otherwise have this experience,” said Alan Morgan, NRHA CEO. Originally, NRHA set a goal to train at least 60 community health workers at three training events this year, but the association quickly surpassed its goal by only the second training. The first training was provided to workers from Arizona in April. The targeted trainings cover topics such as leadership, coordination and pressing health concerns along the border, and through the community health workers, will support the growing needs within the rural and underserved areas of this region. NRHA secured funding to provide travel scholarships for community health workers, support for facilitators and support for completing evaluations of these trainings to assess outcomes. The third training event will take place in San Diego in August. For more information on NRHA’s CGI Commitment to Action, click here. And for more information on CGI, click here.