Community Health Worker Program
Bridging the Gap: A Community Health Worker Workforce Pipeline and Digital Credentialing Model for Diverse Californians – an initiative designed to strengthen and expand the CHW workforce pipeline from a community college-based public health training program in Long Beach, while introducing a digital credentialing infrastructure that documents student skills in a portable, employer-facing format.
Bridging The Gap
HUMANDREAM Foundation has developed Bridging the Gap — a community-based workforce initiative designed to expand California’s Community Health Worker pipeline, introduce portable digital credentialing, and advance health equity in the communities that need it most.
The need is documented and urgent. California authorized $281 million in 2022 to train 25,000 new CHWs, then eliminated the certification program and rolled back the funding — leaving the workforce infrastructure fragmented at precisely the moment Medi-Cal’s expanded CHW benefit and growing community need demand the opposite. Bridging the Gap is built to fill that structural gap, starting from a community college-based training program in Long Beach whose student body reflects the communities it serves. The initiative is fully designed and partnership-ready. We are seeking founding funders to launch operations.
HUMANDREAM Foundation, a minority- and woman-founded California 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is stepping into that gap.
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