Good Morning

Good Morning, Paris Thomas - Equal Hope

Glenn Van Cura - Catholic Charities Diocese of Joliet

Good Morning, Mark Adams - Mercy Housing Lakefront

Good morning! Weslie Bay - Casa Central

Good morning All. Sue Vega from Alivio Medical Center.

Good Morning, from Alivio Medical Center

Good Morning Everyone, Anna Padron Sikora Pillars Community Health

Fabiola Zavala, Loyola Medicine

Sue Christoph - Community Memorial Foundation

Good Morning Shelley Bromberek-Lambert, YWCA Metropolitan Chicago

Good morning! Edith Avila, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

Good morning - this is Maureen Pike from Loyola Medicine

Shannon Goold, BEDS Plus

Good morning! Jackie Rodriguez, Healthy Communities Foundation

Margaret Miller - Cultivating Health Ministries/Harvard Community Senior Center

Lee Rusch - West Side Heroin/Opioid Task Force (Chicago). westsidetaskforce@yahoo.com

Happy to be here with all of you! Claudia Baier, VNA Foundation

Good morning all. Alecx Hernandez from Taller de Jose @ the Quinn Center

Amen to that

Claire Thatcher - Health & Medicine Policy Research Group. Tweeting along at @HMPRG

if you have questions please put those in the chat- we'll do our best to get to them.

Is the learning collaborative open to other agencies?

I may have missed this but I'm curious what towns the CHWs are working in.

Can you pls speak to CHW interactions with social workers and how lines are drawn around scope of practice with social work, if you've dealt with that?

for now the learning collaborative is just these five organizations. we'll hope to connect with other organizations at a later time

When will the RFP be opened for organizations to join this wonderful and very needed project?

Cathy, it's the west suburban communities that are served by both CMF and HCF

What are some of the methods you had to develop during the pandemic that you would keep even when the need for distancing is lessened?

That's what I assumed but just wanted to confirm. Thanks for confirming.

I am a fan of the CHW model (prior to coming to the Fry Foundation, we utilized the CHW role in a federal Healthy Start program). Are any of the members of the pilot connected to electronic resource referral systems (NowPow, etc.)? If so, how does that impact the work of the CHWs in the pilot?

Itedal, the pilot enters its final year in 2021, and we'll be evaluating lessons learned so that we can explore opportunities beyond the pilot

Brian, the CHWs use Aunt Bertha's The HUB resource referral system

Thank you Nan!!!

Brian, the CHWs use Aunt Bertha's The HUB resource referral system

thanks

any specific tips for communication and outreach during Covid when it comes to communities and clients that do not have virtual resources? How do we make sure we are providing needed help to all while still respecting quarantine/social distancing to protect us all?

We are collecting the longer questions for the Q & A. We'll answer the shorter ones in the chat as we move along

Pillars Community Health has received a COVID Contact Tracing Support Department of Public Health and is working with 6 partner organizations to disseminate CCDPH information on contact tracing, build awareness and trust in contact tracing, access to testing and other resources through May 31, 2021. If you want more information or to connect your CHWs with this effort, please contact Anna Padron Sikora, our VP of Community Engagement, who is leading this project. apadronsikora@pchcares.org

congratulations Pillars- this is such important work!

Angela, health funders are exploring with CCDPH how to best expedite the public health workforce re; contact tracing and testing - including utilizing CHWs. We'll contact Anna, thanks.

what are the CHW have identified as services that we lacking in the west suburbs

Congratulations is amazing this partnership

Venoncia, feel free to post details re the upcoming 40 hour CHW training in this chat!

Shout out to Claudia Baier and the VNA Foundation!

Dear all,

If you have anyone interested in a 40 CHW Certificate Enhanced training combining SUHI's Traditional Certificate with JourneyCare enhancements on post acute, hospice, palliative care, advance directives, grief and loss. Please have candidates send me their resume or bio. We do have a few slots remaining. The training is Dec. 14-18 9-12:30 for the virtual portion, followed by self study time. Dr. Venoncia M. Baté-AmbrusFounding DirectorWorkforce DevelopmentJourneyCareCell: 224-221-8349Vbate-ambrus@journeycare.org

Amen Leticia. Not every situation needs a doctor, nurse or social worker.

important to think about how CHWs can work on care teams within MCOs

Thank you Venoncia

Please continue to put your questions in the chat!

Please be advised that JourneyCare is covering the cost of the CHW training. There is no charge to agencies or individuals.

What are the top three actions allies / advocates can do in support of this great work beyond increasing awareness of these capabilities?

Thank you!

Leticia Boughton Price, CHW, MSW, Illinois CHW Association, ilchwa2018@gmail.com, 312-889-7820(Call/text)

JourneyCare is meeting next week with both NOWPOW and Aunt Bertha's to ascertain which platform to use. I am glad to hear that the CMF CHW pilot is using Aunt Bertha's. Coleman Palliative Care Education I believe also uses Aunt Bertha's.

For the future, can the curriculums be translated in other languages?

If you are interested in exploring the HUB, go to www.healthconnectionhub.org. The HUB is a free online tool, powered by Aunt Bertha, to connect individuals and families to free and reduced-cost social programs and services within a broad network of local agencies. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me at lmurphy@hcfdn.org

We at SUHI CROWD do also offer the same core skills curriculum in Spanish.

Thanks Lunda, is the HUB in association with Drs. Sarah and Mark Redding do you know?

Sorry for the typo, I meant Lynda!

Can the curriculums be shared early so that if we want to translate in Arabic we can get a head start. We received a COVID grant with the State and have translated the curriculum into Arabic for our students! We have 50 in the class

The HUB is funded and supported by Community Memorial Foundation, the Community Mental Health Board of Oak Park Township, Healthy Communities Foundation and River Forest Township

Lynda, thanks much. I know that there is another HUB model prevalent in OH but used nationally that was developed by the Reddings for hospitals, human service providers and CHWs. I appreciate the clarification.

Thank you, Leticia!

At Alivio we have found during the current pandemic a new appreciation for our CHWs from our clinical staff and senior leadership.

Thank you Leticia

Great session!

thank you all for such a vibrant and exciting program. we look forward to the coming year with you all

Thank you all for great information and the wonderful services you all provide!

Thank you all for joining us this morning.

let's hear it for CMF and HCF

Thank you all for sharing- you're making great progress!

Wonderful information! Thank you for this event.

+1 Margie

Thanks everyone!

Thank you!

Thank you all for your commitment to the CHW workforce and the communities they serve. You rock!!!!!

Thank you!

Thank You!

Thank you for all the information!

Hello, I serve DuPage county. I would love to be a part of these discussions. We are also offering free flu vaccines to our uninsured residents. Please help us share this information. accessdupage.org/flu My contact is nhernandez@accessdupage.org.

Thank you!!

Thank you!

thank you!

gracias por todo su esfuerzo y apoyo