Community health worker training program - the rising cost of health care continues to plague the united states

National health expenditure grew 9.7% to $4.1 trillion in 2020 and accounted for 19.7% of gross domestic product (GDP) up from $3.6 trillion and 17.7% GDP in 2018. IT is projected to grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 percent for 2019-28 and to reach $6.2 trillion by 2028. I the "evidence-based community health worker program addresses unmet social needs and generates positive return on investment" research found that through education, wellness and preventative care, the unique workforce of community health workers (CHW) has the ability to improve health outcomes as well as demonstrate that every dollar invested in the CHW intervention would return $2.47 to an average medicaid payer within the fiscal year.II the "advancing the CHW workforce in wisconsin" proposal will both strengthen the existing CHW workforce and expand IT throughout wisconsin through a partnership between: - united way of wisconsin - two pathways community hub organizations: great rivers hub& unitewi, - wisconsin association for free and charitable clinics (wafcc) and - the wisconsin community health worker network. This statewide collaboration has the connections, capacity and capability to significantly increase the numbers and influence of trained chws to improve the quality of healthcare in wisconsin. The "advancing the CHW workforce in wisconsin" proposal will train a total of 190 chws over 3 years. This the "advancing the CHW workforce in wisconsin" proposal will also develop a CHW apprenticeship model for WI, develop a CHW career tracker to support continuing education and professional development for the CHW workforce, provide CHW supervision support and employer CHW toolkit as well as develop and connect the CHW workforce to the wisconsin information and referral exchange (a statewide CIE) in order to collect data from various CHW efforts throughout wisconsin. Of the 190 trained chws, at least 45 new chws will participate in a newly developed CHW apprenticeship track which includes a standardized CHW curriculum over the period of the grant. Community health worker training partners include great rivers hub and unitewi. These CHW training providers will leverage, wafcc's network, current employer partners and engage new employer partners, to better support currently trained chws and employ newly trained chws to support the patient population of community health centers, fqhcs and the other health systems.