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Community Health Worker Programs

As part of the Environmental Health Capacity and Literacy Project, the Center issued two year subcontracts for community health worker (CHW) employment to a number of community-based organizations (CBO) and federally qualified health centers (FQHC) in Louisiana, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi (see below).  Read about some succeesses and lessons learned from implementing this CHW program here.

Organization Name	State	Parish/County	Type of Organization
Boat People SOS - Biloxi	MS	Harrison	CBO
Boat People SOS - Bayou La Batre	AL	Mobile	CBO
Escambia Community Clinics	FL	Escambia & Santa Rosa	FQHC
Franklin Primary Health Center	AL	Mobile & Baldwin	FQHC
Friends of Lafitte Greenway	LA	Orleans	CBO
Gulf Coast Health Educators	MS	Jackson, Hancock & Harrison	CBO
Jefferson Community Health Care Centers	LA	Jefferson	FQHC
Mercy Housing and Human Development	MS	Jackson, Hancock & Harrison	CBO
Mobile County Health Department	AL	Mobile	FQHC
NOELA Community Health Center	LA	Orleans	FQHC
New Orleans Musician's Clinic & Assistance Foundation	LA	Orleans	CBO
PanCare of Florida	FL	Walton & Bay	FQHC
Plaquemines Community CARE Centers Foundation	LA	Plaquemines	CBO
Pneuma Winds of Hope  - Starfish Cafe	MS	Hancock	CBO
Teche Action Clinic	LA	Terrebonne & Lafourche	FQHC
United Houma Nation	LA	Terrebonne	CBO
Vietnamese Intiatives in Economic Training (VIET)	LA	Orleans	CBO

CHWs were actively involved as part of the Center's community-academic initiative to work with women of reproductive age living in disaster affected parishes in Southeast Louisiana. The CHWs had an intimate understanding of the communities they served and were successful in forging trusting relationships that enabled them to act as an intermediary between health systems, social services, and the community to facilitate access and improve the quality and cultural competence of service delivery.  All of the CHWs were trained by the Center in care coordination and patient navigation using a curriculum specifically tailored to disaster-prone communities in the Gulf Coast.