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Community Healthcare Worker Funding Available

​The South Dakota Department of Health has received a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) grant to fund the development Community Healthcare Workers throughout South Dakota. A Community Health Worker (CHW) is a frontline public health worker who is a trusted member of and/or has an unusually close understanding of the community served. The state is looking to fund projects that hire a new CHWs or to cross train an existing healthcare professional.

To learn more about this grant opportunity, please click here.

The Community Health Worker Collaborative of South Dakota has many great resources on training and tool kits that can be found here.

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