Community Health Worker Association/Network Contacts

National CHW Associations
American Association of Community Health Workers: Durrell Fox dfoxnehec@aol.com and Pam
Chapman pam.chapman@spectrum-health.org, Co-chairs.
American Public Health Association CHW Section: Lisa Renee Holderby, Chair, (617) 275-2813,
lrholderby@communitycatalyst.org; http://www.apha.org/membergroups/sections/aphasections/chw/)
Carl Rush, Community Resources, LLC, (210) 745-0560, carl@chrllc.net
National Hispanic CHW Association: Zeida Estrada, zestrada@gatewaytocare.org, 281-222-9643
National Association Community Health Representatives: Cindy Norris, President, PO Box 1064,
Sells, AZ (502) 471-3487 norrisc@todhs.com; http://www.nachr.net/
State/Regional CHW Organizations
ARIZONA: Arizona Community Health Outreach Workers Network (AzCHOW), Of, By, and For
Community Health Outreach Workers; http://www.publichealth.arizona.edu/azchow/ Flor Redondo,
Chair; redondos1271@aol.com
Community Health Worker Association/Network Contacts!
Mariposa Community Health Center (CHW Leadership Institute); www.mariposachc.net ; Rosie Piper,
Health Promotion Manager, rpiper@mariposachc.net
CALIFORNIA: The Community Health Worker/Promotoras Network, Maria Lemus, Executive
Director, Vision Y Compromiso, 2536 Edwards Ave., El Cerrito, CA 94530; (510) 232-7869; (510) 231-
9954 fax; e-mail: chwpromotoras@aol.com, or Maria at mholl67174@aol.com
Orange County CAA (Certified Application Assistor) Task Force:!non-profit professional association
for Care Coordinators, Health Advocates, Promotoras etc. They meet once a month for program
updates, training and to share best practices as well as to network. Contact:"Maria Wahab, Chair, (714)
516-4334; Fax: (714) 532-8785; mwahab@choc.org
City College of San Francisco – Health Education Department (CHW certificate program), (415)239-
3220 – referred from Community Health Works of San Francisco, (415) 338-9094.
FLORIDA: REACH-Workers – the Community Health Workers of Tampa Bay. Please contact Michelle
Dublin, chairperson of the network, at (727)588-4018 or Michelle_Dublin@doh.state.fl.us
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GEORGIA: Georgia Community Health Advisor Network, Gail McCray, Department of CH/PM
Morehouse School of Medicine, 720 Westview Drive, Atlanta, GA 30310-1495
Ph: (404) 752-1645, gmccray@msm.edu
HAWAII: In process of forming CHW organization. Leimomi Shearer, CHW
leimomi@huimalamahawaii.com 69-A Railroad Ave, Hilo, Hawaii 96720
ILLINOIS: Chicago CHW Local Network. Contact Laura Bahena. 1436 W. Randolph St. 4th
Floor,Chicago, IL. 60607. Telephone 312.243.4772 ext. 225. Fax 312.243.4792. Email
chicagochwlocalnetwork@gmail.com
MARYLAND: Community Outreach Workers Association of Maryland, INC. (COWAM), 259 North
Lanvale Street, Baltimore, Md. 21217, (410) 209-6557, Carol Payne, Co-founder of COWAM and Field
Office Director for Housing and Urban Development, carol.b.payne@hud.gov
MASSACHUSETTS: Massachusetts Department of Public Health – Office of Community Health
Workers, Gail Hirsch, (617) 624-6016, gail.hirsch@state.ma.us
Massachusetts Association of Community Health Workers (MACHW), Cindy Marti, Policy Director,
cmarti@mphaweb.org, 434 Jamaicaway, Jamaica Plain MA, 02130, (617) 524.6696 x108; Lisa
Renee Holderby, Executive Director, holderbylr@aol.com, (617)524-6696 x102; www.machw.org.
MINNESOTA: Minnesota Community Health Worker Alliance; Joan Cleary, Interim Director;
joanlcleary@gmail.com; 612-250-0902; http://www.mnchwalliance.org
MISSISSIPPI: University of Southern Mississippi Center for Sustainable Health Outreach, Susan
Mayfield-Johnson, susan.johnson@usm.edu, (601) 266-6266
NEW JERSEY: No CHW organization but the NJ CHW Institute is supporting the development of
CHW groups. Contact person Yvette Murry, Community Health Worker Institute, NJ AHEC/ UMDNJ-
SOM, murryyv@umdnj.edu; 42 Laurel Road E., STE. 3200 Stratford, NJ 08084; (856) 566-6724.
NEW MEXICO:"New Mexico Department of Health ! Office of Community Health Workers,
Stephanie Clayton, MPH, CDC Prevention Specialist and Program Development Coordinator, (505) 841-
6454, Stephanie.clayton@state.nm.us
New Mexico Community Health Workers Association (NMCHWA), P.O. Box 81433, Albuquerque, New
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Mexico 87198, nmchwa@yahoo.com, www.nmchwa.com (505) 255-1227
NEW YORK: "New York City -Community Health Worker Network of NYC; 425 E. 25 Street; New
York, NY 10010; (212) 304-6415 Sergio Matos, Executive Director Sergio@chwnetwork.org or Romy
Rodriguez, Chair, Romelia@chwnetwork.org; Web site: http://chwnetwork.org/
Rochester - Rochester Outreach Workers Association (ROWA), Latisha Williams, Chair, (585) 274-
8490, Lwilliams@monroecounty.gov
OHIO: Ohio Community Health Worker Association, Jewel L. Bell C.CHW, President, P.O. Box 15484,
Columbus, OH, 43215, (513) 425-7856, (513) 206-0771, jewel.bell@att.net
http://www.med.wright.edu/CHC/programs/ochwa.html
OREGON:"Oregon Community Health Workers Association, 9000 N. Lombard Street--2nd Floor,
Portland, OR 97203, (503) 988-3366, ext 28686, Teresa Ríos, teresa.c.rios@co.multnomah.or.us, or
Veronica Lopez Ericksen, xiomara.t.lopez@co.multnomah.or.us
RHODE ISLAND: Community Health Worker Association of Rhode Island: Beth Lamarre,
Coordinator, (401) 270-0101, ext 149; chwassociationri@gmail.com; 1210 Pontiac Avenue, Cranston, RI
02920.
www.chwassociationri.org
TEXAS: South Texas Promotora Association, Weslaco, Texas; Ramona Casas (956) 783-9293
Community Health Worker Texas; East Texas Area Health Education Center, University of Texas
Medical Branch, 301 University Rt. 1056, Galveston, TX 77555-1056; Amanda Scarbrough, PhD,
MHSA, Project Manager; 409-772-7884, aewalter@utmb.edu
Promotora/CHW Training and Certification Program, chw@dshs.state.tx.us, (512) 458-7111 x2208 or
x3860, Program Coordinators: Beatrice Smith and Anna Garcia, Team Lead: Beverly MacCarty,
http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/mch/chw.shtm
WASHINGTON: Washington Community Health Worker Network, Lilia Gomez - (360) 786-9722 (ext
230) - lgomez@wacmhc.org, Seth Doyle - (206) 783-3004 (ext 16) - sdoyle@nwrpca.org
www.nwrpca.org/community-health-worker-networks.hmtl
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Resources:
American Public Health Association, http://www.apha.org/membergroups/sections/aphasections/chw/Resources/
Camden Area Health Resource Center,
http://www.camdenahec.org/ahecservices/communityhealthworkerinstitute.html
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