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| 2022 -- H 8087 Enacted 04/05/2022 |
| H O U S E R E S O L U T I O N |
| PROCLAIMING THE MONTH OF APRIL, 2022, TO BE "COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS MONTH" IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND |
Introduced By: Representatives Diaz, Shekarchi, Blazejewski, Slater, Vella-Wilkinson, Perez, Williams, Morales, Amore, and Henries |
| Date Introduced: April 05, 2022 |
| WHEREAS, Community Health Workers (CHWs) are professional non-clinicians who |
| seek to promote the community's voice within the health care system. They provide a forum to |
| share resources and strategies and advocate for underserved populations while making health |
| services more culturally and linguistically appropriate; and |
| WHEREAS, Community Health Worker professionals work to improve access to health |
| care and advance health equity and self-sufficiency through a range of activities including |
| outreach, community education, counseling, and social support with an overall goal of |
| eliminating health disparities based on race, ethnicity, gender, and class; and |
| WHEREAS, Community Health Worker professionals improve workforce diversity, a |
| critical step in achieving health equity; and |
| WHEREAS, The Community Health Worker workforce is an apprenticeable profession |
| according to the Rhode Island State Department of Labor and Training and the Rhode Island |
| Department of Health; now, therefore be it |
| RESOLVED, That this House of Representatives of the State of Rhode Island hereby |
| proclaims April, 2022, to be "Community Health Workers Month" in the State of Rhode Island. |
| We furthermore thank them for the significant and important contributions they make towards |
| improving the quality of life for the citizens of our state; and be it further |
| RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to |
| transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to Dianne (Dannie) Catherine Ritchie, MD, MPH, |
| Brown University Center for Primary Care and Prevention. |
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