H5979

	2019 -- H 5979
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	STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
	IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
	JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2019
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	H O U S E R E S O L U T I O N
	PROCLAIMING THE MONTH OF APRIL, 2019, TO BE "COMMUNITY HEALTH
	WORKERS MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

	Introduced By: Representatives Diaz, Slater, Tobon, Maldonado, and Vella-Wilkinson
	Date Introduced: April 10, 2019
	Referred To: House read and passed
1	WHEREAS, Community Health Workers (CHWs) are professional non-clinicians who
2	seek to promote the community's voice within the health care system. They provide a forum to
3	share resources and strategies and advocate for underserved populations while making health
4	services more culturally and linguistically appropriate; and
5	WHEREAS, Community Health Worker professionals work to improve access to health
6	care and advance health equity and self-sufficiency through a range of activities including
7	outreach, community education, counseling, and social support with an overall goal of
8	eliminating health disparities based on race, ethnicity, gender, and class; and
9	WHEREAS, Community Health Worker professionals improve workforce diversity, a
10	critical step in achieving health equity; and
11	WHEREAS, The Community Health Worker workforce is an apprenticeable profession
12	according to the Rhode Island State Department of Labor and Training and the Rhode Island
13	Department of Health; now, therefore be it
14	RESOLVED, That this House of Representatives of the State of Rhode Island and
15	Providence Plantations hereby proclaims April, 2019, to be "Community Health Workers Month"
16	in the State of Rhode Island. We furthermore thank them for the significant and important
17	contributions they make towards improving the quality of life for the citizens of our state; and be
18	it further
19	RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to

1	transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to Dianne (Dannie) Catherine Ritchie, MD, MPH,
2	Brown University Center for Primary Care and Prevention.
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