Category: Immunization Program

The Academy/DPHA, in partnership with the Public Health Management Corporation, is pleased to announce the availability of funds for Community Health Workers in Delaware. See a video from Executive Director, Tim Gibbs, here. To address vaccine confidence and deploy outreach in Delaware and Pennsylvania, PHMC is implementing a comprehensive and integrated approach designed to target, engage, and connect individuals to COVID-19 vaccines and education. The central component to this model is community health workers (CHWs). These public health and social service professionals support the members of their community by helping them to adopt healthy behaviors including staying up to date on all vaccinations.

Our model identifies, engages, trains, and supports CHWs from communities across the two states to help effectively reach as many underserved communities as possible. We will solicit applications from community-based organizations that would like to subcontract for funding to hire or assign existing staff to become a CHW. Using training and toolkits provided by PHMC, these CHWs will go out into their community, provide outreach and education, and report all outcomes on their efforts for a one-year project period.

We are seeking local stakeholders and organizations who want to get involved in bringing this opportunity to their community. Apply today here. To find out more information, reach out to Stephanie Shell at sshell@phmc.org. In Delaware, the Academy/DPHA will be the State of Delaware’s coordinating body for this initiative.