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Training Community Health Workers

CBM continues to strengthen its organization with committed individuals such as Community Health Workers. These well-trained individuals are an important link between CBM and people with disabilities, providing primary care and support at the local level. They are vital to CBM’s health work.

What Community Health Workers Do

Community Health Workers are essential to promoting healthy communities and preventing disease that can lead to disability. These workers are part of a community who are chosen by its community members to provide basic health and medical care to their area. In many developing countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, there are critical shortages of professional health workers. Community Health Workers are given a limited amount of training to provide essential, safe, and highly effective primary health care services to the population. They perform preventative medical services, monitor the community’s health, identify people at particular risk, act as liaisons between the community and the health system, interpret the social climate, as well as provide basic curative services.

Community Health Workers are a vital link between people with disabilities and specialist medical care. Many people who are treated by a CBM-supported surgeon are referred by a Community Health Worker and are provided follow-up care by this same worker.

How CBM Helps

CBM provides training to Community Health Workers so that they understand both the rights of people with disabilities to have access to general health care services, and are able to detect and refer people with disabilities who need specialized medical attention.

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