PromoSalud Training institution

Promotores are our answer to the nation's growing disparity between the racial and ethnic composition of the healthcare workforce and that of the U.S. population. Promotores are community members who, after certification, get paid and become frontline public health workers who have an unusual close understanding of a particular community, such as Hispanic/Latino communities. They generally share the ethnicity, language, socioeconomic status, and life experiences of the community members they serve. These social attributes enable promotores to serve as liaisons between health and social services and the community to facilitate access to and enrollment in healthcare and wellness services.

In PromoSalud adhere to the World Health Organization's definition of Community Healthcare Workers: “Community health workers (CHWs) – also known as promotoras – are health care providers who live in the community they serve and receive lower levels of formal education and training than professional health care workers such as nurses and doctors. This human resource group has enormous potential to extend health care services to vulnerable populations, such as communities living in remote areas and historically marginalized people, to meet unmet health needs in a culturally appropriate manner, improve access to services, address inequities in health status, and improve health system performance and efficiency.