Clarence and Stan chat with Angela Fields, Kristin Godfrey Walters, and Nasadir Mohamed about the scope and importance of Community Health Workers. Angela Fields - Associate Executive Director of Minnesota Community Health Worker Alliance - has a career in working throughout the community to expand community health relations. Similarly, Kristin Godfrey Walters - Community Health Worker Training Program and Community Engagement Director for the Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Division of the Minnesota Department of Health - plans, implements, evaluates, disseminates information, and recommends policies and practices to support the enhancement of the Community Health Worker workforce in Minnesota. Lastly, Nasadir Mohamed - Community Health Worker Training Program Data Coordinator - directs data coordination and program management by developing, implementing, analyzing, interpreting, and reporting on assessment and evaluation activities for the training program.These three folks bring an array of knowledge and experiences to community health work. More about the Minnesota Community Health Worker Alliance can be found here: https://mnchwalliance.org/More about the Community Health Worker Training Program can be found here: https://mnchwalliance.org/community-health-worker-training-program/Join the conversation at healthchatterpodcast.comBrought to you in support of Hue-MAN, who is Creating Healthy Communities through Innovative Partnerships. More about their work can be found at http://huemanpartnership.org/
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. Today's episode is on community health workers. And boy, we have a great group of guests today. Actually, this is the first show where we've had multiple guests. So this is going to be a first, but it will be really good. So stay tuned. We'll introduce everybody in a second.
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He and I are having a lot of fun doing this. We chat a lot, whether it be on the show or off the show. You guys have no clue how many times we might talk to each other, at least during the week, about various things. So he's a Really one of my dearest of dears as far as colleagues. And he's a great friend as well. So thank you, Clarence, as always. It's great, great, great, great.
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By the way, you can look up our website at healthchatterpodcast.org. So thank you to everybody. So today we're doing a show on community health workers. For our listening audience, many of you might not even know what a community health worker is or how to utilize their talents. And believe it or not, the United States has kind of slow on the uptake.
Community health workers are very, very common in other parts of the world, which we'll talk about for sure. So what I'd like to do is have each of our guests, we have one, two, three, four guests with us, five guests with us today. So I'd like to have each of them introduce themselves. So Rachel, you go first.
Hi there, my name is Rachel Stahl and I am a community health worker. I currently work as the program manager for the HRSA program, the community health worker training program funded by HRSA for the Minnesota Community Health Worker Alliance. I also work for the Minnesota community, the Winona Community Hub in Winona, Minnesota, which is also a program that utilizes community health workers.
Wonderful having you. Kristen.
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