Community Health Worker (CHW) Apprenticeship Program Supervisor Information
How it Works
If you currently have:
- New Community Health Workers
- Experienced Community Health Workers that seek to expand skills
- Cross-training staff that can add more community health worker roles and responsibilities to their current position
- Or have interest in adding a Community Health Worker to your team
your organization is an ideal partner with the ISU CHW Training Academy to become an apprenticeship site.
Apprenticeship sites provide a full- or part-time, paid apprenticeship position to a Community Health Worker. Each apprentice must be assigned a supervisor who will support their growth and track their monthly progress.
Financial and training support are available and provided by ISU and Idaho Department of Labor:
please have them apply here, and select your organization as their placement preference.
To learn more about becoming an apprenticeship site, please call or email Sarah Hibbert Johnson, Project Manager at sarahhibbert@isu.edu.
Reach out today about adding a Community Health Worker to your workforce!
Each apprenticeship site is eligible to receive $1000 of supportive funds from Idaho State University for each apprentice placed, and sites can request additional reimbursement from the Idaho Department of Labor.
A customized Supervisor/Support Staff Training through ISU CHW Training Academy is required to place an apprentice. Apprentices should have completed or can concurrently complete the ISU CHW Core and Advanced Trainings during their experience. Quarterly mini-learning collaboratives are also offered at no cost for both apprentices and their on-site mentors.
The registered apprenticeship requires participants to complete 2,000 hours. Upon completion, participants will receive a national health credential from the U.S. Department of Labor, as well as a certificate of completion.
Add Value to Your Team
Adding CHWs to healthcare teams reduces needs for emergency and specialty services and increases community members’ follow through on health recommendations. Examples include greater vaccination rates and physical activity. (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Health Professions. (2007). Community Health Worker National Workforce Study.)
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