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Community Health Worker Initiative
Advancing the professional development of Georgia's CHW workforce.
Georgia Community Health Worker Network
ARCHI's Community Health Worker Initiative aims to strengthen and expand the CHW workforce as a vital part of the health system. Through leadership of the Georgia CHW Network, ARCHI provides project management, evaluation, technical support, and partner onboarding while working to enhance referral processes and improve network efficiency.
ARCHI’s investment in CHWs is also demonstrated through integrated models like the Community Resource Hubs, which showcase the essential role CHWs play in improving access, reducing disparities, and transforming systems of care.
As frontline navigators and trusted messengers, CHWs are central to ARCHI’s vision of a coordinated, person-centered system—ensuring individuals don’t face fragmented services alone.
Our Mission
To unify the voices of community health workers in Georgia by strengthening the profession’s capacity to promote health equity and healthy communities through leadership, research, education, and policy development.
Our Vision
Community health workers in Georgia are united — serving as change agents, building capacity, providing resources, and partnering with communities to achieve health equity.
Georgia Community Health Worker Impact Stories
On any given day, a community health worker is the bridge between a blood pressure cuff and a bag of groceries, or an unanswered question and a ride to the clinic. That is why ARCHI provides the Georgia CHW Network with comprehensive backbone support such as technical assistance, strategic communications, and data collection and analysis.
Krischele Brown describes the infrastructure behind the work. “ARCHI staff are our thought partners, supporters, and mentors. Together, we have provided trainings and resources to CHWs and are working to finalize a career ladder for Georgia."
CHWs are often called upon for a diversity of tasks including lining up food or shelter, managing referrals, and coordinating transportation for people managing high blood pressure or HIV. It is targeted, logistics-heavy problem-solving like gas in the tank for a three-hour trip to Augusta or a medical van organized so specialists come to town. Brown emphasizes that tackling such social determinants of health will help people access the care they need.
"A person may be living with diabetes, or kidney failure," Brown says, "but that is not what they are thinking about. They may need a place to live or child care or food, and those are the things they are thinking about first.”
The aim for all CHWs is to onnect people to care and the community supports that make optimal health possible. ARCHI is giving CHWs the tools and knowledge they need so that they can supply valuable resources to Georgia communities.
CHW Impact in Georgia
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66
Trainings provided to community health workers
76,770
Referrals to resources provided*
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3.6M
Education and messaging efforts reached*
*Community Health Worker Initiative Chronic Disease Prevention Section Georgia Department of Public Health Final Closeout Report
