The National Association of Community Health Workers (NACHW) builds individual and organizational leadership capacity to advance strategies, policies, and programs that center community voice, advance community health worker (CHW) professional values and roles, and drive health system innovation and sustainable change. NACHW provides technical assistance and collaborative opportunities among state and regional CHW networks and associations, state health departments, offices of minority health, and national health disparity and equity partners. NACHW is also a national clearinghouse for CHW policy and conducts and disseminates workforce assessments and research, represents the workforce in policy development and advocacy, convenes conferences, and provides training.

This grant supported NACHW to understand the needs and approaches of national public health organizations for recruiting, training, and integrating CHW staff; offer best practice tools and policies that respect, protect, and partner with authentic community health workers and CHW-led organizations; and facilitate partnerships with states and CHW-led organizations in response to American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding opportunities.