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Learn How to Help Your Community Manage its Health

How does this ECHO work?

Get expert community health worker (CHW) knowledge in a virtual learning network with CHW specialists throughout the state. Learn about best practices and evidence-based care in such areas as:

  • Working with diverse populations
  • Knowledge of community-based services and resources
  • Patient navigation
  • Building strong rapport with clients
  • Communicating effectively with clients and health care providers

ECHO uses videoconferencing to connect interdisciplinary teams of subject matter experts. These ECHO hopes to assist CHW’s with providing a safe, nurturing environment for exchanging knowledge and sharing experiences to strengthen and support the families and communities they serve. Community Health Worker ECHO sessions will be held from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of the month.

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What does this ECHO offer?

  • NO COST to participating sites or individuals
  • Collaboration, support and ongoing learning with experts and other health-care providers
  • Integration of community health with primary care
  • The opportunity to present a case and get feedback from other CHWs around the state
  • Networking with other CHWs around the state

Topics for Learning and Discussion:

  • Medicaid update
  • CHW credentials and requirements
  • Mandated reporting
  • The importance of home visits
  • Social determinates of health 101
  • Housing resources
  • Transportation
  • Self-care and burn-out
  • Sex trafficking

Meet the Hub Team

 

Suzanne Smith, CHW-C

Executive Director

Lafayette County Enterprises

 

Melanie Calhoun, RN

Health Care Home Director

Betty Jean Kerr People’s Health Center

 

Bryan Carcamo, CHW

Care Coordination Supervisor

KC Care Health Center

 

Jill Lucht, MS

Health Equity & Health Literacy

University of Missouri

 

Lorna Miles, CHW, MBA, BS, AA

Community Health Worker Trainer

Randolph County Caring Community Partnership

 

Stacey Robertson, CHW

Community Health Worker/Behavioral Health

Randolph County Caring Community Partnership

 

Payree Short, MSEd, RN, BSN, CHW

Ozarks Technical Community College

 

Ted Solomon, MS, LPC

Community Behavioral Health Liaison

Compass Health Network, Inc.

 

Amy Summers, LPN, CHW

Northeast Missouri Health Council

Submit a Case

Are you unsure or concerned about something at your practice? Do you wish you could consult someone about something happening with a particular patient?

Please consider submitting any potential cases! It does not have to be anything exceptionally noteworthy or outstanding. ANYTHING is worth discussing as we learn and grow together. Submit now!

Submit A Case

Upon request participants of the CHW ECHO can receive a letter verifying their attendance. It includes a brief description of the ECHO, the list of the hub team members and the dates and topics of the sessions attended.

The Missouri Credentialing Board (MCB) will accept continuing education hours from CHWs who attend the CHW ECHO sessions and wish to use said hours for renewal purposes. The CHW ECHO is a MCB approved continuing education provider.

Please contact Mary Beth Schneider at schneiderm@health.missouri.edu if you are interested in receiving a verification letter.