A new agreement between Fresno County and the Fresno County Economic Development Corp. will continue and expand efforts to connect public assistance recipients with jobs and job training through the N ...

Access Community Action Agency will lay off some employees, including senior management, by January 2026. The agency is shutting down its residential and community health worker programs due to ...

The city of Chelsea hired its first municipal social worker in October, 2025 in a 2-year pilot program meant to offer support for residents’ needs. In a little over a year, social worker Emilee ...

Addis Ababa, December 21, 2025 (ENA) — Patrick Okumu Abok, Team Leader for Emergency Preparedness and Response at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Ethiopia, commended the country’s ongoing ...

The US government’s new global health strategy calls for shifting 270,000 frontline health-care workers from US-funded NGO programs to recipient government payrolls. But this could cause an exodus ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A partnership between the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Institute for Community Health Innovation and the Arkansas Office of Skills Development Training Grant Program ...

This woman picking grapes in a California vineyard is one of roughly a million farmworkers working in U.S. agriculture. Lack of health insurance, historically unequal labor laws and now the closure of ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - Cape Fear Community College (CFCC) is offering a new NC-Certified Community Health Worker course. According to CFCC, the course is designed to address critical health and ...

Drive through any town in northern New Hampshire and you’ll see older adults everywhere — opening shops each morning, volunteering at church fairs and food banks, checking in on neighbors, or caring ...

Background Community health workers (CHWs) have been instrumental in the delivery of primary healthcare (PHC) services in Rwanda since 1995, with their responsibilities expanding from basic health ...

bInstitute for Life Course Health Research, Department of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa cCentre for Health and Sustainability ...