McCaughtry Nate, Somers Cheryl L
Division of Kinesiology, Health, and Sport Studies, College of Education, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States.
Front Health Serv. 2025 Jun 26;5:1535804. doi: 10.3389/frhs.2025.1535804. eCollection 2025.
As the demand for an expanded Community Health Worker (CHW) workforce accelerates nationwide, the need for training, continuing education, professional development, and experiential field placements (internships and apprenticeships) with quality supervision has expanded dramatically. For example, the US state of Michigan recently received federal approval for the health education and social determinants of health services provided by CHWs to be eligible for Medicaid insurance reimbursement (governmental subsidized healthcare insurance), which has spurred tremendous demand for the CHW workforce by all types of employers. This paper describes a series of events and opportunities that led to the development of the Wayne State University Community Health Worker Academy (CHWA) in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Preliminary evidence suggests that the Academy's model and continuous process improvement strategies are successful. Implications of this model for other organizations involved in expanding and strengthening the CHW workforce development nationally and internationally are discussed, as are implications for career pathway opportunities for CHWs beyond their initial certification
随着全国范围内对扩大社区卫生工作者（CHW）队伍的需求加速增长，对培训、继续教育、专业发展以及在优质监督下的实践现场实习（实习和学徒制）的需求也急剧增加。例如，美国密歇根州最近获得联邦批准，社区卫生工作者提供的健康教育和健康服务的社会决定因素有资格获得医疗补助保险报销（政府补贴的医疗保险），这刺激了各类雇主对社区卫生工作者队伍的巨大需求。本文描述了一系列事件和机遇，这些促成了美国密歇根州底特律韦恩州立大学社区卫生工作者学院（CHWA）的发展。初步证据表明该学院的模式和持续的流程改进策略是成功的。本文讨论了该模式对国内和国际上其他参与扩大和加强社区卫生工作者队伍发展的组织的影响，以及对社区卫生工作者初始认证之外职业发展机会的影响。
