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Community Health Work and Social Work Collaboration: Integration in Health Care and Public Health Settings: A Conceptual Framework. 2024
Liana Petruzzi, and
Julie Smithwick, and
Lily Lee, and
Jorge Delva, and
Lillie Fox, and
Geoff Wilkinson, and
Shetal Vohra-Gupta, and
Maria Aranda, and
Carmen Valdez, and
Barbara Jones, and
Author 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).
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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