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Outreach and Health Promotion

• Navigators steer patients to hope Charlotte Observer, October 2011
• A simple idea promoting health care catches on in Hispanic community
• Supervision Manual for Promator(a) de Salud Programs
• Addressing Chronic Disease through Community Health Workers: A Policy & Systems-Level Approach
• Community Health Workers: Part of the Solution
• Professionalization and the Experience-Based Expert: Strengthening Partnerships Between Health Educators and Community Health Workers
• Support for Community Health Workers to Increase Health Access and to Reduce Health Inequities
• Outreach Reference Manual Health Outreach Partners
• Community Health Workers: Bridging the Gap Between Patients and Healthcare Systems
• Building Peer Support Programs to Manage Chronic Disease: Seven Models for Success
• Developing a Community Health Worker Program in Washington DC
• Spanish Language Mental Health Manual for Health Promotors Developed by the California-Mexico Bi-national Health Initiative
• Outreach to Migrant Farmworkers through a Pesticide Safety Initiative Abstract describing the history, background, objectives, strategies and results of a student led project which teamed up with their local migrant education program on a pesticide safety project in California.
• "Promotoras": Health Angels  A visual presentation about "Promotoras" or Lay Health Workers in Texas. Trusted "Promotoras" recruited from the target population act as liaisons between residents and providers of health and social services.
• Program Assistance Document for the  Community Health Worker Field Provides a broad overview of the Community Health Worker (CHW) field and the issues involved with contemporary program implementation.
• National Community Health Advisory (Annie E. Casey Foundation) Study Identifies steps to strengthen outreach services of community health advisors across the country
• Amigos en Salud (Friends in Health) Offers materials designed to assist in conducting an outreach and patient education program for people with type 2 diabetes based on a strategy that combines peer education, behavior modification and diabetes self-management.

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• Farmworker Health Services Inc. Training and resources related to Health Outreach, Education and Enabling Services, Data and Outcome Measures
• Migrant Health Promotion Focused on the training and development of lay health workers or “promotoras”
• Center For Sustainable Health Outreach A partnership between the University of Southern Mississippi and Georgetown University which supports the role of the community health worker as an essential component of sustainable community wellness.
• National Healthcare for the Homeless Council Provides technical assistance and support for homeless health centers nationwide
• California Journal of Health Promotion Volume 1 Issue 2 Academic articles on a wide variety of health outreach and promotion topics.
• Links to Health Promotion Programs Nationwide

Resources

• Promotora List Serve Topics include recruitment, retention and training of farmworkers as promotor/as (community health workers), evaluation tools, and program successes and challenges.