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Liana Petruzzi1, Julie Smithwick, Lily Lee
1Author Affiliations: Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas (Drs Petruzzi, Valdez, and Jones); Center for Community Health Alignment, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina (Mss Smithwick and Fox); Knowledge Transfer Exchange Strategies, LLC, Corona, California (Dr Lee); Center for Innovation in Social Work Health, Boston University School of Social Work, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr Delva and Mr Wilkinson); Steve Hicks School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas (Drs Vohra-Gupta, Valdez, and Jones); Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (Dr Aranda).
Abstract:
Community health worker (CHW) and social worker (SW) collaboration is crucial to illness prevention and intervention, yet systems often engage the 2 workforces in silos and miss opportunities for cross-sector alignment. In 2021, a national workgroup of over 2 dozen CHWs, SWs, and public health experts convened to improve CHW/SW collaboration and integration across the United States. The workgroup developed a conceptual framework that describes structural, systemic, and organizational factors that influence CHW/SW collaboration. Best practices include standardized training, delineated roles and scopes of practice, clear workflows, regular communication, a shared system for documentation, and ongoing support or supervision.
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