The Public Health Training Academy at Fresno will honor 19 students May 22 who will become community health workers for the delivery of preventive programs to underserved population in Fresno and Tulare counties. The event will be at 1 p.m. at the Workforce Connection facility at 3302 N. Blackstone in Fresno.
The certificate program is offered through the university’s Department of Public Health in the College of Health and Human Services in partnership with the Workforce Investment Board of Tulare County, College of the Sequoias, the West Fresno Healthcare Coalition and the Fresno Regional Workforce Investment Board. Professor Miguel Perez, program director, said community health workers represent an unbreakable link in the chain between health care providers and patients” and play an integral role in the delivery of preventive programs to underserved populations.
“Many health promotion and disease prevention program utilize them to reach monolingual, new immigrant and other disenfranchised groups,” Perez said. “Among the most important role played by community health workers, also known as promotora(s), is empowering community members to identify their problems, helping develop innovative solutions and implementing these solutions to practice.”
INFO: Perez at 559.278.4014.
