PA AHEC NEWS

There’s still time to register for the First Annual Statewide Community Health Worker (CHW) Conference to be held Sept. 28-30 at the Wyndham Garden-State College, in Boalsburg, PA. The conference features sessions on housing challenges, health equity, rural health, oral health, social determinants of health, self-care, CHW certification, advocacy, a half-day poverty simulation, and a networking dinner. The conference is sponsored by the Eastcentral PA AHEC, Northcentral PA AH

Southeast Pennsylvania AHEC is helping to recruit community health workers (CHWs) in Pennsylvania for a research study on providing oral health support for Black families. The study is evaluating the prototype of GRIN (Guardians Receiving Information through Navigators), a training program for CHWs to conduct oral health outreach with underserved (e.g., limited access to health care providers) and/or low-resource (e.g., low-income) Black parents/guardians of children and adol