This session will empower attendees to understand the role and scope of work that community health workers play in the healthcare setting. In addition, attendees will experience brainstorming sessions around the role they can play in your mobile healthcare program facilitated through targeted discussion points and questions. Participants will then look at the feasibility of assimilating and funding community health worker deployment and develop a sustainability plan around their vision. Learning Objectives Understand Community Health Worker’s Role and Scope of Work Identify how CHWs could benefit your Mobile Health Program Develop a plan for assimilating CHWs into your Mobile Health Program

Teresa Wagner, DrPH, CPH, RDN/LD, CPPS, FNAP, CHWI, DipACLM, CHWC, Associate Professor, UNTHSC School of Public Health; Director, UNTHSC CHW/CHWI Training Center, University of North Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health; Bobbie Bratton, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, CPPS, CHWI, Assistant Professor, College of Nursing, Clinical Executive, SaferCare Texas, Assistant Professor, Department of Lifestyle Health Sciences, School of Health Professions, Nurse Practitioner Center for Older Adults HSC, University of North Texas Health Science Center