The Community Health Worker Association’s Vision is a recognized, integrated, and unified community health worker profession that improves community wellness in Nevada.
Meet the Team
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Cody Wagner
Interim Program Director
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Lisa Godenick
Operations Manager
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Glahnnia Rates
Training Coordinator
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Jenny Claypool
Association Support
Meet the Trainers and Mentors
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Octavio Posada
Bilingual CHW Instructor
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Luis Aceves
Bilingual CHW Instructor, REACH Las Vegas
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Karla Dominguez
CHW Instructor
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Monique Lumpkin
CHW Instructor, PALs LLC
Mission
The Nevada Community Health Worker Association’s mission is to unify, strengthen, and grow the presence of a diverse, collaborative network of Community Health Workers and Community Health Worker employers in Nevada by providing advocacy, promotion, education, support, and professional development opportunities focused on increasing access to health care and social services and improving community wellness.
Healthy Communities Coalition
Nonprofit Administrators and Board of Directors
The Healthy Communities Coalition of Lyon and Storey Counties is a grassroots-based partnership whose vision is to mobilize, share, and collaborate for healthy communities where all have opportunities to grow, live, and learn. Our mission is to strive to promote and support sustainable, culturally inclusive prevention services, community initiatives, and capacity-building systems that address all factions of a healthy community for all members.
Contact NVCHWA
info@nvchwa.org
Call or text: (775) 538-2855
PO Box 517, Dayton, Nevada 89403
Partners and Sponsors
The NvCHWA would like to thank all of our partners and sponsors for their generous support of the organization and projects supporting CHWs in Nevada.
The University of Nevada, Reno – School of Community Health Sciences
College of Southern Nevada – Division of Workforce and Economic Development
University of Nevada Reno – Center for the Application of Substance Abuse Technologies (CASAT)
Truckee Meadows Community College – Workforce Development and Continuing Education
Turning Point, Inc
The Rural Nevada Health Network