Cook County Health has been funded to train, deploy, and engage community health workers to work with target populations in Suburban Cook County. The goal of the program is to strengthen community resilience to fight COVID-19 by addressing health disparities in priority populations. Priority populations of focus include: those who are economically disadvantaged, African and Hispanic residents, low-wage precarious worker, undocumented immigrants, people experiencing housing instability and homelessness, older people, people with certain underlying health conditions, and those experiencing food insecurity. The project will leverage relationships with community-based organizations to increase utilization of community and clinical resources through community health worker activities. LI will lead a mixed method evaluation of the 3-year program.
