Community Health Workers Coalition

Mental Health: CHWCMR developed a training manual and curriculum that focuses on perinatal depression for our Walking Together Program run by CHWs due to the unmet need of mental services in our communities since 2021. The curriculum consists of a series of 8 workshop modules, each module was developed by a multidisciplinary group of professionals, specialists in clinical psychologist, perinatal depression, maternal-child health, pediatric and CHWs. Each theory-based workshop is followed by a support group meeting with community navigation. Ten CHWs have received extensive training in group peer support, home visits, and perinatal depression. They are using a peer-to-peer model to facilitate the workshops and support groups with a total of 50 participants from 33 cities in Washington State. The community navigation focuses on connecting our participants to local social and health services. CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O

COVID-19: The COVID-19 project was developed covering 3 important topics: (1) Direct attention to 460 participants exposed to COVID-19, (2) Support and access to the COVID-19 vaccine with 186 beneficiaries and (3) Prevention and education with 303 participants, mainly children and youth. Additionally, 11 educational videos and 4 animated videos were created. We also delivered 30,000 face masks and 10,000 products such as hand sanitizer, soap, wipes, and disinfectants.

Environmental project: The pesticide project focuses on reducing human exposure to pesticides in WA, for which CHWCMR developed 10 workshops in 27 cities in WA training a total of 100 participants. The goal of the Recycling and Composting program is to help the public with litter control, waste reduction, recycling, and composting.To achieve this, CHWCMR developed a Curriculum that was evaluated in a focus group by 20 CHWs from 13 cities in the state of WA. Additionally, we developed 5 educational videos with 10 CHWs.