Community Health Workers partner with local public health agencies and primary care and specialty care providers to address social determinants of health among community members. They also assess and evaluate community services and systems in order to identify gaps in, and serve as a resource for, healthcare services in both urban and rural, medically under-served communities.

CHW Certificate Program

The CHW program runs for a total of 13-weeks and consist of 48-hours of online and synchronous (only 3 sessions) learning.

There are two sessions being offered in Spring 2023

• Session 1: 1/5/23 - 4/6/23 (with 3 synchronous virtual sessions on Thursdays)
• Session 2: 2/22/23 - 5/24/23 (with 3 synchronous virtual sessions on Wednesdays)

Curriculum includes key concepts of public health, outreach, advocacy, community and individual assessments, social determinants of health, health education, navigating insurance, stages of behavior change, service coordination and more

Application Deadline, December 12th, 2022!

Idaho State University (ISU) College of Pharmacy will be providing 8 scholarships to support participation in the CHW course.

If selected for this scholarship, you/your pharmacy will receive $960 reimbursement to cover your time (48 hours of time at $20/hour)

To learn more see the ISU CHW Flyer or contact Elaine Nguyen at elainenguyen@isu.edu