The Amplifying Impact Initiative

Community Health Workers, Promotores, and Representatives (CHW/P/Rs) provide trusted, culturally responsive support and improve access to care and services across California. The organizations that employ this crucial workforce need direct investment, support and resources to enable CHW/P/Rs to do what they do best - applying their local knowledge and expertise to address the most pressing health issues in their communities. 

The Amplifying Impact Initiative helps expand and sustain the CHW/P/R workforce by ensuring they and the organizations that train, employ, and support them have the resources, respect, and infrastructure needed to advance health equity and respond to emerging community needs.  

Funded by the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) and led in partnership with Health Leads, a national health equity non-profit, this cycle of the Amplifying Impact Initiative supports community-based organizations and other community-connected entities efforts to strengthen their organizational capacity to sustain and grow CHW/P/R programs, improve Medi-Cal billing infrastructure, and support and expand their CHW/P/R workforce.

Amplifying Impact is part of the CHW/P/R Initiative, a statewide effort to strengthen California’s community health workforce. These efforts are guided by community and advisory input and build upon the California Health Care Foundation’s Amplifying Impact model.