4172.0 Community Health Workers: Agents of Change

Tuesday, October 28, 2008: 12:30 PM
Roundtable
During this roundtable you will have the opportunity to hear and ask questions to 10 different models, each focused around the role of the Community Health Worker and the difference they make for organizations, communities and families.
Session Objectives: 1. Discover the role of a CHW and the difference they can make. 2. Learn about 10 innovative models in which CHWs foster leadership, motivate individuals to take charge of their health. 3. Learn how CHWs mobilize communities.
Moderator:
Susan Mayfield-Johnson, PhD,MPH,CHES

Table 1
Voices combine: Women use advocacy to improve the health of their communities
Melissa C. Lovell, MPH, Stacey C. Cunningham, MS and Jeanette Magnus, MD, PhD
Table 2
Arizona Community Health Workers Advocate for Community Change: How can the CHW work environment foster leadership in advocating for community-wide change
Samantha Sabo, MPH, Maia Ingram, MPH, Ashley Wienerstrom, MPH and Jill De Zapien
Table 3
“Promotora-Doulas: Community health workers providing support to women throughout pregnancy, during labor and delivery, and postpartum”
Jessica Ann Hill, MPH
Table 4
New and emerging roles for community health workers
Kimberly Conner, CHW
Table 5
Increased Quality of Life: An unkown benefit to Community Health Workers
Irene Christine Tedjasukmana, MPH, CHES
Table 6
Moving toward Barrios Saludables:Lessons Learned from Promotora Interventions in Latino Neighborhoods
Aurelia M. Moore, RN, Nancy Newton, MPH, Sonia Mora, MPH and Gianina Hasbun, MA
Table 7
"Cruzando fronteras" (Crossing borders): Promotora and advanced practice registered nurses meet prenatal needs of underserved Latinas in New Orleans
Rosa Bustamante-Forest, APRN, MPH and Collying Salinas, Health Promotor
Table 8
CHW trainings help Community Health Workers assist Miami's diverse immigrant communities in accessing health care
Denise Saldana and Joan Morgan
Table 9
Perspectives and experiences of Cape Verdean women health promoters on institutional barriers and strategies to promoting women's health
Maria De Jesus, PhD
Table 10
Promotoras role in community mobilization and awareness of immigration and human rights for farmworkers and their families at the US-Mexico border
Floribella Redondo, Georgina Garcia, Lorena Madrigal, Kathryn Rodriguez, Deborah Jean McClelland, MLS, Cecilia Rosales, MD, MS, Maia Ingram, MPH, Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith, JD, MA, Jill Guernsey De Zapien, Anna O'Leary, PhD and Scott Carvajal, PhD,MPH

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Community Health Workers SPIG
Endorsed by: Community-Based Public Health Caucus, Latino Caucus, Public Health Education and Health Promotion, Socialist Caucus, Women's Caucus

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