Health Confianza, a health literacy project, is using part of a $3 million grant to train community health workers across South Texas.
The group aims to train 275 people across 38 South Texas rural counties from Brownsville to Laredo to become promotores and help rebuild trust in socioeconomically disadvantaged communities within three years.
The YWCA will offer paid training, educational coaching and case management for local women to become community health workers. Form Communities will also train community health workers, focused on helping people in the community navigate their mental health challenges. Arriaga’s own personal experiences stirred her passion for wanting to help people navigate the health care system. Her daughter underwent a liver transplant in 1998 and again in 2018, and recently, her mother-in-law’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis made her feel confused and lost in the hospital system.
When the program concludes, she and her peers will be trained to connect people in their community to preventive, curative and recovery services for COVID-19, mental health and chronic diseases such as diabetes.community health workers are essential to lowering the rate of hospital readmissions, and for helping people maintain and reduce their risk factors for chronic diseases like diabetes and obesity.
With that in mind, the first goal of promotores is to build relationships, according to author of the study and UT Health San Antonio assistant professor Carolina Gonzalez Schlenker. That takes understanding.
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