Webinar: Bright spotting best practices in COVID Contact Tracing and Community Health Response

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Webinar: Bright spotting best practices in COVID Contact Tracing and Community Health Response
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
2:00pm ET / 11:00am PT

Join the Community-Based Workforce Alliance (CBWA) for the first in a series of live learning opportunities that seeks to elevate the successes and learnings of local contact tracing efforts from across the country. This inaugural webinar will be co-hosted by the Rockefeller Foundation.

The CBWA is a new group that includes the National Association for CHWs, Health Leads, HealthBegins, the Community Health Acceleration Partnership (CHAP), IHI, Penn Center for CHWs, Partners in Health, FamiliesUSA, Last Mile Health, Center for Community Health Alignment and others focused on ensuring that pandemic response and rebuild efforts are equitable, effective and involve, fund, strengthen, and elevate trusted community-based workers.

Attendees will learn key principles necessary for ensuring equity and impact within contact tracing and hear from the following presenters on the efforts they are helping to lead in each of their communities:
1. Baltimore Health Corps, Jennifer ([link removed][UNIQID]) Martin ([link removed][UNIQID]) , JD, MA ([link removed][UNIQID])
2. Siloam Health's partnership with the Metro Public Health Department (Nashville/Davidson County), Amy ([link removed][UNIQID]) Richardson, MPH ([link removed][UNIQID])
3. San Diego State University’s partnership with the County of San Diego Health & Human Services Agency, Hala Madanot ([link removed][UNIQID]) , PhD, MS ([link removed][UNIQID]) and Corinne ([link removed][UNIQID]) McDaniels ([link removed][UNIQID]) -Davidson ([link removed][UNIQID]) , PhD, MPH ([link removed][UNIQID])

Facilitators
1. Marina Pravdic ([link removed][UNIQID]) & Emilia Carrera ([link removed][UNIQID]) , Rockefeller Foundation,
2. Rishi Manchanda ([link removed][UNIQID]) , HealthBegins
3. Alexandra Quinn ([link removed][UNIQID]) , Health Leads

Panelists and attendees will have the opportunity to discuss how connecting COVID-19 efforts with existing community-based workforces (CBW) is essential for both responding to the pandemic and addressing chronic health and social inequities.

By the end of the webinar, attendees will be able to:
* Describe the six CBW Principles for Pandemic Response and Resiliency ([link removed][UNIQID])
* Describe at least two bright spots in the U.S. - i.e. places that are advancing CBW Principles to ensure more effective and equitable response efforts
* Identify challenges and potential solutions to advancing the Principles

Recommended Resources:
1. Prevent, detect, respond: How community health workers can help in the fight against covid-19 ([link removed][UNIQID])
2. Community Health Workers (CHWs) and the coronavirus ([link removed][UNIQID])
3. COVID-19 Resources: Tools and perspectives to help you respond and rebuild ([link removed][UNIQID])

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