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Envision and the Center for Community Health Alignment (CCHA)—a national team of CHWs and allies—are building new tools and supports to strengthen CHW programs nationwide. If your organization employs, partners with, or plans to support CHWs, take a few minutes to share your perspective. Your feedback will help shape future training, tools, and learning opportunities:

Community Health Worker (CHW) Capacity Building Assistance - Interest Survey Thanks to funding from the CDC, we at Envision and the Center for Community Health Alignment (CCHA) are developing new capacity building assistance offerings (e.g., tools, webinars, learning collaboratives) to support organizations and programs nationwide that employ, contract with, or support the C...

California’s healthcare landscape is evolving, staying informed is key to navigating what’s next. Join California Health Care Foundation’s Amplifying Impact Initiative on Thursday, May 28th for their webinar CHW/P/Rs in California: Updates, Opportunities, and What’s Ahead to learn:
🔹 What recent renewals and policy shifts means for providers, CHWs, and communities
🔹 How to maximize the new CHW/P/R Resource Center to streamline your workflow
🔹 Practical frameworks to strengthen community-centered care and workforce support
Plus, we’re sharing exclusive updates on the next phase of the initiative! You don’t want to miss this - Register here: https://bit.ly/4vFRIk5

Calling all Chicago-area community-based orgs: join a free, 1-hour info session on Project Resolve, a new initiative exploring the co-creation and ownership of tech and data systems that actually work for your community. Project participants receive funding to support your time, proof points for funders, a national peer network and expert AI trainings. Register here: https://healthleadsusa-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/-BhPBN2QT7isJFqrT4xlgg #/registration

Our friends at the The Wellbeing Project, Center for Healthy Minds, and Humin, have launched The State of Changemaker Wellbeing Survey. For the first time, there’s a global effort to understand how people driving social change are really doing. Open to all changemakers worldwide, the survey is available in 12 languages, fully anonymous, and designed to build evidence the field has long needed. Take the survey today:https://bit.ly/3QGI5BH

Community health workers, promotores and community health representatives (CHW/P/R) strengthen community-based organizations by expanding their reach, bridging gaps between systems and underserved populations. In partnership with the California HealthCare Foundation, Amplifying Impact Initiative is designed to support and enhance CHW/P/R Medi-Cal providers. See their latest newsletter here:

Spring 2026 Amplifying Impact Newsletter Back in March 2025, the California Health Care Foundation and its partners — Cedars-Sinai, Health Leads, and Bright Research Group — launched the Amplifying Impact Initiative to help expand, integrate, and sustain the Community Health Worker, Promotor(a), and Community Health Representative (CHW...

Our recent webinar, Where Are We With AI? What Health Equity Champions Need to Know, was more than a deep-dive into the technologies currently reshaping our sector, it was a captivating discussion that brought together over 400 leaders from 49 states spanning technology, health care, public health and community engagement sectors. Access all webinar materials here including the recording and the full chat transcript here:

Where Are We With AI? What Health Equity Champions Need to Know | Health Leads From ethical red flags to health equity risks, there’s a lot to be wary of when it comes to AI. Health Leads hosted an open and honest dialogue with health leaders and tech experts to differentiate reality from the truth.

Every parent deserves support through pregnancy, birth, and beyond. As we mark , we're reminded of just how far we still have to go.

Doulas are one of the most evidence-backed tools we have to make that possible. Yet for many families, especially Black, low-income, and Medicaid-covered birthing people, this care is often out of reach.

This year, we're focused on changing the system through two main pillars:
🤱🏾 Building Doula-friendly Clinical Environments
🤱🏾 Strengthening the Doula Workforce

We'll keep sharing updates as we learn, iterate, and push for a future where every birthing person has the support they need. Want to get involved?
→ Learn more about our Maternal Health Initiatives: https://healthleadsusa.org/initiatives/maternal-and-child-care/
→ Consider making a gift to fuel this work: https://healthleadsusa.org/donate/

📬 Our new quarterly newsletter is now out! Click the link below to see the latest thoughts from our team, events to register for, as well as some equity essentials. To get our new newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, subscribe on the top left corner: https://bit.ly/4mdv8e0

Our Program Director Stephanie Campbell was recently interviewed by Hannah Reale of NPR affiliate WGBH for a feature on Massachusetts’ efforts to support the doula workforce. The state Department of Public Health has brought us in to run a doula community of practice to inform key policy and implementation decisions ahead. Read the full article:

Doulas aren’t covered under most private insurers. That could soon change in Mass. A new certification process is part of Massachusetts’ goal to enable health insurance plans to cover and improve health outcomes for birth parents in the delivery room.

🚨 Registration is open! 🚨The Massachusetts Doula Community of Practice is now enrolling doulas across the state.

Developed in partnership with the MA Department of Public Health and the MA Community Birth and Doula Initiative, this doula‑led space brings doulas together to connect, share experiences, and support one another. Open to doulas at all stages, sessions focus on real‑world topics like billing, hospital partnerships, and sustaining your practice.

Join to connect with fellow doulas, share challenges, and strengthen maternal health equity across Massachusetts.

📅 Session dates:
• April 22, 2026 | 11:00–12:30 ET
• May 6, 2026 | 11:00–12:30 ET
• June 3, 2026 | 11:00–12:30 ET
🔗 Register here: https://bit.ly/47zkSqF