Community Public Health Teams-Community Health Workers with Strength United. 

Dr. Jodi Brown is our faculty affiliate on this project. In alignment with the Institute for Community Health and Wellbeing’s (ICHWB) aim, to match community needs with faculty expertise we are currently contracted with Strength United (SU) on a grant to train and support community health workers (CHWs). SU received a grant through the Los Angeles Department of Public Health to serve as the Lead Agency for one of the ten community public health teams (CPHT) going door-to-door doing community needs assessments and connecting the most vulnerable communities in Los Angeles to resources. Dr. Jodi Brown from the Social Work Department, in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, has been fundamental to this project as she supports CHWs to conduct home visits in Service Planning Area (SPA) 2. Community members are invited to participate in in-person household assessments with a Community Health Worker. After the assessment, the CHW offers to connect the community member with services. With the support of Dr. Brown, CHWs are learning best practices for connecting with community members who reside in surrounding, low-income and immigrant communities.