Learn How to Help Your Community Manage its Health

Get expert Community Health Worker (CHW) knowledge in a virtual learning network with University of Missouri and Community Health Worker leaders and specialists throughout the state.

Project ECHO is a guided practice model that increases workforce capacity to provide specialty care and reduce health disparities. Community Health Workers work in a variety of areas of practice to meet the needs of the communities they serve.

Topics for Evidence-Based Care Include:

Health Literacy
Trauma Awareness and Mental Health
Sex Trafficking
Social Determinates of Health
Assessing, Interviewing & Mental Health
Documentation
Patient Education/Assessing materials
Medication Adherence
Quality Improvement
Care Coordination
Cultural Responsiveness
Universal Resources
Substance Use Disorder
Chronic Disease Management
Safety, Self-awareness, Home Visits
CHW Self-care
Building Patient Relationships/How to Collaborate (home visits)
Communicating w/Clients & Healthcare Professionals
Re-entry from Prison System
Ethics

What Does Community Health Worker 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

Meet Our Team

Dennis Dunmyer, JD, LCSW, CHW, Program Expert, Kansas City CARE Clinic

Payree Short, M.S.Ed, BSN, RN, CHW, CHW Educator, Ozark Technical Community College

Suzanne Smith, BS, Community Resource Specialist, Health Care Collaborative of Rural Missouri

Jill Taylor, PhD, LCSW, CHW, Supervisor/Behavioral Health Specialist, Family Care Health Centers

Rosalind Hardy, CHW, Community Health Worker, Kansas City CARE Clinic

Melanie Calhoun, RN, Nurse Case Manager, People’s Health Center

Nick Butler, MSM, Health Literacy Expert, University of Missouri

Becky Hogan, RN, Case Manager, Access Family Care