To address issues of vaccine education and outreach in Delaware and Pennsylvania, the Delaware Academy of Medicine/Delaware Public Health Association and the Public Health Management Corporation are implementing a comprehensive and integrated approach designed to target, engage, and connect individuals to COVID-19 vaccines and information. The central component to this model is community health workers (CHWs). These public health and social service professionals support the members of their community by helping them to adopt healthy behaviors including staying up to date on all vaccinations. The model identifies, engages, trains, and supports CHWs from communities across the two states to help effectively reach as many underserved communities as possible. Applications are being solicited from community-based organizations who would like to subcontract for funding to hire or assign existing staff to become a CHW. Using training and toolkits, these CHWs will go out into their community, provide outreach and education, and report all outcomes on their efforts for a one-year project period.
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