Welcome to the Community Health Worker Resource Hub, an initiative of the NYU CHW Research & Resource Center and NYU Langone Health's Community Service Plan. On this site you can explore our library of resources from 26 CHW projects across NYU Langone, representing a wide range of populations, topics, and settings.

The Smoker Cessation Navigator Program is a direct service, bidirectional program to help Chinese speaking smokers quit smoking, by using navigators to promote cessation services.

RADx 2.0 consists of: 1) Engaging New York City (NYC) public housing residents and project stakeholders in a series of virtual focus groups to explore and identify acceptable COVID-19 testing options; and 2) A cluster randomized controlled trial that uses teams of CHWs, youth resident navigators (RNs), and CBO staff to provide COVID-19 rapid antigen at-home test kits to residents of an expanded list of NYC housing developments in the same neighborhoods as RADx 1.0.

The Health + Housing Project was a CHW program located in subsidized housing in New York City, which aimed to address the residents’ self-identified health-related needs, including social and economic risk factors. The goal of the project was to expand CHW models by designating subsidized housing as the recruitment and intervention site, inviting all adult residents to participate.

The Prostate Cancer Screening Program is a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a CHW-led, decision coaching program to facilitate shared decision making for prostate cancer screening decisions by Black men at a federally qualified health center in New York City (NYC).

The Chinese American Research and Education (CARE) project examines the feasibility, acceptability, and potential efficacy of a social-media based intervention on glycemic control in Chinese Americans with type 2 diabetes. Intervention participants receive culturally and linguistically tailored diabetes self-management videos for 12 weeks, as well as biweekly phone calls from a community health worker related to diabetes self-management and goal achievement barriers.

Stamp Out Cancer Brooklyn (SOCB) is a community-based initiative that focuses on cancer prevention and reducing gaps in receiving cancer care in Brooklyn. The project aims to reduce cancer-related disparities and the overall burden of cancer.

Healthy Families Sunset Park Program is an evidence-based, voluntary, and free of charge home visiting model designed to provide services to families located in 9 zip codes in south Brooklyn, starting prenatally or at birth, and continuing through age 5. The program matches every family with a home visitor who provides information and supportive services during pregnancy and early childhood. The program uses an infant mental health/relational development approach that promotes parent-child attachment to achieve the mission of preventing child abuse, neglect, and other adverse childhood outcomes.

The Smoker Navigator Program

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Access DREAM Atlanta intervention paper

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