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The Value of a Community Based Workforce
Community Health Worker Awareness Week is here! From August 25-29, 2025, we’re joining communities nationwide to celebrate the people who
Community Health Worker Awareness Week: The Moments That Make a Difference
For many people, Community Health Workers are the difference between getting lost in the system and finding the support they need. Their commitment turns barriers into bridges and challenges into opportunities for health and hope. In the stories that follow, you’ll hear directly from CHWs about the moments that matter most.
A Week of Honoring Community Health Workers
Community Health Worker Awareness Week is here! From August 25-29, 2025, we’re joining communities nationwide to celebrate the people who make health care more accessible, equitable, and human.
Sunsetting Programming: HRSA-funded CHW Training & Apprenticeship Program
In 2022, Better Health Together (BHT) was selected to receive a highly competitive Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) Community Health Worker training grant to support the expansion of the Community Health Worker (CHW) workforce in Adams, Ferry, Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Spokane, and Stevens Counties. While the program is sunsetting, the commitment to the community based workforce will continue.
Reflections from the Northwest Community Health Worker Forum
Read on for some key themes and reflections that our team shared from their experience at the forum!
Funding Opportunity: Grant Writing Stipends for Community-based Organizations
BHT is offering $5,000 grant-writing stipends for Community-based organizations currently applying for regional, state, or federal funding. Learn more and apply!
Three Years of Impact for the Behavioral Health Forum
The BHT Behavioral Health Forum is a group of behavioral health provider organizations and educational institutions that has met regularly since 2021 to collaborate on solutions to behavioral health workforce challenges. In 2022, the group became a self-governing body and began using participatory decision-making practices to allocate $1.2M to initiatives that support the behavioral health workforce. As of November 2024, all funds have been allocated and we are celebrating the group’s successes by highlighting the impact the group has had in our region!
How Community Linkages Funding Supported Nine Organizations Across Eastern Washington
In 2023, BHT had the honor of awarding $3.6 million to nine organizations across eastern Washington with our Community Linkages funding.
Celebrating 7 years of Impact with the Spokane Collaborative
This week we had our final meeting of the Spokane Collaborative, as the program’s funding has been discontinued in 2025. Though there is some sadness in change and endings, we took some time this week to celebrate the milestones and success with both past and present collaborative members.