Module 3: Program Clearinghouse

The Federal Office of Rural Health Policy funded rural communities to implement community health worker (CHW) programs as part of the Section 330A Outreach Authority program. This program focuses on reducing healthcare disparities and expanding healthcare services in rural areas.

Examples of Section 330A Outreach Authority grantees that developed a CHW program in a rural community are available below, along with other types of rural CHW programs. CHW program model information is available in Module 2.

• Ben Archer Health Center
  Project Title: Health Without Borders
  Synopsis: Reduce health disparities related to chronic diseases through health education
• Migrant Health Center, Western Region, Inc.
  Project Title: Health Education for Farmworkers in Puerto Rico
  Synopsis: Prevention of diabetes, HIV/AIDS, domestic violence; work toward program sustainability
• MHP Salud
  Project title: Futuros Saludables (Health Futures)
  Synopsis: Improve access to primary and mental health services, and nutrition and physical fitness education, for uninsured and medically disenfranchised Latino populations
• Delta Health Alliance
  Project title: The Delta Community Health Worker Program
  Synopsis: Improve health outcomes for patients diagnosed with diabetes, cardiovascular disease, or hypertension
• Clemson University
  Project title: Health Coaches for Hypertension Control
  Synopsis: Train health coaches to provide services to patients referred by a family physician practice
• Family Health Centers
  Project title: Rural Health Care Services Outreach Grant Program
  Synopsis: Provide comprehensive health services and culturally and linguistically appropriate health information to migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families
• University of Kentucky Center of Excellence in Rural Health
  Project title: Kentucky Homeplace
  Synopsis: Provide access to healthcare for underserved populations in rural Kentucky
• Kodiak Island Health Care Foundation (Kodiak CHC)
  Synopsis: Increase access to healthcare for underserved populations