CHR Summit V

Community Health Representatives Summit (V)
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF COMMUNITY HEALTH REPRESENTATIVES SERVICE TO ARIZONA’S TRIBAL COMMUNITIES!

On August 22-23, 2019, the Community Health Representatives (CHR) Policy Summit V was held at the Casino del Sol on the Pascua Yaqui Reservation. The CHR Summit V brought together CHRs, tribal leaders, tribal health advocates, Indian health officials and other stakeholders to provide the latest CHR information and to further discuss policy opportunities to strengthen the CHR workforce in Arizona.

The CHR Summit accomplished the following:

1) Provided updates on state and federal policy being considered for the CHR workforce.
2) Promoted and shared CHR experiences.
 3) Continued to Build the CHR Coalition.
4) Provided targeted health trainings for CHRs.

Certification of the CHR Workforce – This Summit continued to address the key state policies that are expected to provide a statewide Arizona Community Health Worker (CHW) Voluntary Certification Process, by which CHRs and CHWs alike will become certified. Overwhelmingly CHRs support voluntary certification and expressed their desire to be a part of the advocacy process including providing continued input to the CHW bill that has now passed. Of the approximately 1000 CHWs in Arizona, 30% are CHRs working on Tribal reservations. 

An extensive, 30 page report, outlining the entire summit is expected to be released in the following months. Please refer to this news story link for updates of that PDF file.

https://acoihc.az.gov/sites/default/files/CHR%20Summit%20IV%20Report_August%202017.pdf