The Statewide Community Health Worker (CHW) Summit takes place on Wednesday, April 29, 2020 in York NE at the Holthus Conference Event Center, 8:00 am – 5:30 pm.
Registration is only $25.00 per person and includes light breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snacks! Sponsorship and exhibit opportunities are available. Registration is open NOW at the CHW Summit Website: http://dhhs.ne.gov/Pages/Community-Health-Worker-Summit.aspx
Who should attend?
Community Health Workers, stakeholders, advocates, trainers, employers of CHWs, policy makers interested in development of the CHW workforce.
The CHW summit will:
• Offer networking, skills-building, and advocacy opportunities to CHW
• Release recent findings regarding the Nebraska CHW workforce,
• Involve CHW, stakeholders and advocates in statewide development of the CHW workforce, and
• Recognize outstanding CHWs!
Topics:
• Motivational Interviewing - Evidence-based Practice for CHWs;
• Care Coordination and Navigation – Best Practices and New Tools for CHW;
• CHWs Count - Results of an Assessment of the Nebraska CHW Workforce, 2019
• Working Upstream - Financing and Sustainable Business Models for the CHW workforce;
• CHW Workforce Preparation – Growing Consistency around Core Competency Preparation;
• A Forum on CHW Certification – facilitated by CHW;
• Information about the new National Association of Community Health Workers, NACHW
• Networking Activities, Resource Tables; and much more!
The CHW Summit is aligned with the statewide Minority Health Conference taking place in the same location the following day. Conference planners hope interested audiences will attend both events.