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Graduation Class of Winter, 2013

Graduate Class of Summer, 2012

BASICS

Community Health Worker Certification Training

160 Hours In-Class Training (Optional Internship)

Tuition: $600.00 

Length of training is based on schedule, but is approximately 4 months.

For more details, call 817.735.0526 

OVERVIEW

The Texas Public Health Training Center (TPHTC) at the University of North Texas - Health Science Center obtained state certification to become a community health worker (CHW) training site on November 9th, 2007.

The Texas Public Health Training Center provides training and continuing education for CHWs in collaboration with certified CHW trainers, the Texas Schools of Public Health (UNT Health Science Center, UT Houston, Texas A&M) and other partners, including: area hospitals, other academic institutions, local health departments, and community and county organizations.

Community health workers are lay members of communities who work in association with local health care systems, academic institutions, health departments and community based organizations. They typically share the ethnicity, language, socioeconomic status and life experiences of the community members they serve. Their primary function is to serve as liaisons between the community and the health care system and/or resources within the community.

The TPHTC desires to provide relevant and innovative CHW training to adequately prepare CHWs to serve in diverse public health and clinical health care arenas in the community. Many have begun to recognize the value of CHWs both in cost effectiveness and cost benefit, as well as the potential benefit of the linkages created by CHWs between the health care system and the community. We believe that CHWs are an integral part of our health care system and should be trained and compensated as such. In our fragmented system the role CHWs is becoming increasingly more valuable.

To learn more about Texas state certification for Community Health Workers, click here.