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 Martin, JD, MA

2. Siloam Health's partnership with the Metro Public Health Department (Nashville/Davidson County), Amy Richardson, MPH

3. San Diego State University’s partnership with the County of San Diego Health & Human Services Agency, Hala Madanot, PhD, MS and Corinne McDaniels-Davidson, PhD, MPH

Facilitators 

1. Marina Pravdic & Emilia Carrera, Rockefeller Foundation, 

2. Rishi Manchanda, HealthBegins

3. Alexandra Quinn, 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

• 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

2. Community Health Workers (CHWs) and the coronavirus

3. COVID-19 Resources: Tools and perspectives to help you respond and rebuild

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