CHW Voices for Leadership & Advocacy

About us

RI CHW Voices is a CHW-led network that invites CHWs, partners, and allies everywhere to connect, exchange strategies, and grow the movement for community health equity through shared learning and collaboration.

• CHW Voices convenes virtually on the last Monday of the month,  11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
• This drop-in networking builds CHW advocacy for our communities. 
• Please email: RI CHW Voices at: richwvoices@gmail.com for more information

You can get involved by joining several smaller workgroups that meet separately to explore areas of collaboration related to CHW Leadership and Community Coordination.

• The “CHW Role Agency and Leadership” Workgroup. This team supports the volunteers who will develop the 2026 CHW Conference.
  • Click here to share ideas, hopes, and dreams for the conference. 2026 CHW Conference Input Survey
  • Join the first planning meeting on Thursday, February 19, 2026, 4:00 PM-5:00 PM – Virtual link

• The “Community Coordination” Workgroup. This team helps to build connections and coordination across systems that support communities.
  • This informal group meets virtually on the 2^nd Wednesday of the month, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
  • Please contact mcphee@ripin.org to learn more or request a meeting link.

Resources

Slide Decks / Resources from Prior Meetings

• 11/17/25 – Food Access Slide Deck
• 10/25 – Career Closets & Clothing Resources: Slide deck – Zoom Recording – List of Resources
• 9/25 – Looking to 2026
• 8/25 – CHW Awareness Week Gathering
• 7/25 – RI CHW Updates
• 5/25 – Food & Transportation Focus
• 3/25 – Housing Resources
• 2/25 – Storytelling Focus, with Conference & Capitol Hill Planning
• 1/25 – New Year, New Voices

National Tools & Frameworks

• Link to Envision Tools
• Legal Key Digital Digest
• Link to NACHW tools
• Link to C3 Council tools
• Link to Center for Research + Evaluation Common Indicators
• Link to PHERN
• Link to Pathways to Population Health Equity tool

RI Tools & Frameworks

RI Alliance for CHW Employers

RI CHW Roadmap

CHW Networking Groups

RI CHW Strategy Team -Meets quarterly or more to discuss statewide CHW issues. Email James.Day@health.ri.gov with interest.

CHW Partnership Projects

 

RI Common Indicators Project

DULCE Project

Increasing Pediatric IBH Capacity Using Community Health Workers CTC-RI.

CHW Led Advocacy to Increase Food Access. In this NACHW publication, page 5 speaks to the efforts by RI CHW Lina Roman

CHW Medical Assistant Core Asthma Training Program – CTC-RI

CHW Articles + Publications

• NEJM publication:https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2409034
• CHW Emily Bernstein Advocate of the Year Award
• RIDOH CHW Success Stories
• 2025​​ CHW Voices Community Impact Awards
• CTC-RI CHW Highlight: https://ctc-ri.org/04/24/2025/community-health-workers-making-difference-northern-ri-community

aDVOCACY tOOLS

Advocacy Tools

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1on7F20NuuDQhovvq7JyxxLDutmAXQFmt?usp=drive_link

ri Affinty Groups For Advocacy

CHWs need to be involved at every level of advocacy, including legislative. Below is the start of a directory of CHWs who are experts in the following areas:

Older Adults

• Lina Roman, CCHW
• Facilitator “Working with Older Adults,” Community Health Worker Association of RI
• luisarmn14@gmail.com

Autism

• Linda Brunetti, Linda.Brunetti@brownhealth.org

Maternal Health

• Swanette Salazar, CCHW, First Connections Program, FSRI SalazarSw@familyserviceri.org

If you are passionate about amplifying the voices of CHWs in RI, you are welcome to join at any time. Please reach out to Geraldine McPhee, CCHW, mcphee@ripin.org or Swanette Salazar, CCHW salazarsw@familyserviceri.org with any questions.