History
This landmark healthcare act included CHWs as core components of its prevention and health equity aims.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
This is when the officers are elected.
What is the first board meeting after the Annual Meeting?
This is what you receive for serving on the NACHW Board.
What is gratitude or fulfillment?
This campaign was started by NACHW to uplift the visibility of CHWs nationally.
What is CHW Awareness week?
Discussion Question 1
What is something CHWs do that you are most proud of or most appreciate?
Year or place of the first Unity Conference!
What is 1999 or Mississippi?
The min and max number of board members allowed.
What is 15 and 21?
Committees required by the bylaws.
What are the Executive and Nominating Committee?
This is the name of the group working to develop "a single set of CHW roles and competencies."
What is the C3 Council?
Discussion Question 2 (for CHWs)
Name two qualities you look for in a CHW ally?
The state where the first known state CHW network started.
What is New Mexico (1995)?
This is the term for the date by which members must be in good standing to vote for board members
This is the number of terms each officer can serve consecutively
What is 3?
This is the name of the national CHR network founded in 1978.
What is NACHR?
Discussion Question 3.
What is two of the most important qualities for CHWs to have?
The decade the CHR program was established by Congress.
What is 1960's? (1968)
*Also accept 1980's: CHR program is formally mandated by IHS in 1983
In order to start the Annual Meeting, this must be met.
What is quorum? 10% of members in good standing by the record date.
This is the rule for Quorum to conduct Board business.
This is the agency that puts out the "standard occupational classification" or SOC for CHWs.
What is the DOL or Bureau of Labor Statistics?
Discussion Question 4
Name two qualities you think are most important for Board members of the National Association of CHWs?
This IOM report discussed the importance of CHWs in addressing health dispartities.
What is unequal treatment?
This is the number of articles in the bylaws
What is 6?
How we track new policies passed by board motions.
What is the motions tracking spreadsheet?
The definition of CHW used by NACHW comes from here.
What is the APHA CHW Section/SPIG?
This definition was first developed by the CHW Section and codified through APHA policy in 2009.
A community health worker is a frontline public health worker who is a trusted member of and/or has an unusually close understanding of the community served. This trusting relationship enables the worker to serve as a liaison/link/intermediary between health/social services and the community to facilitate access to services and improve the quality and cultural competence of service delivery.
Discussion Question 5.
What is something the Board accomplished last year you are most proud of?