CHW State Certification

Certification for community health workers in Pennsylvania is regulated by the Pennsylvania Certification Board. The board sets minimum requirements that must be met in order for someone to apply as a state-certified community health worker. 

These requirements are:

• 75 hours of training by a state-accredited provider within the last 5 years

• 1 year full-time or 2000 hours part-time experience as a paid or volunteer community health worker at any organization(The state does not have a list of accepted organizations or characteristics of an acceptable organization- any CHW role is acceptable). 60 or more of these hours must feature on-the-job supervision

• A job description of your current CHW role, signed by you and your current supervisor.

The requirements for a CHW position to be considered are laid out in the Certified Community Health Worker Content Outline.

The state of Delaware is actively working to establish a standard for community health worker state certification, with Pennsylvania's model as a starting point. They do have a list of accredited training providers, of which the CHW CORE Training Program is one.

CHW CORE bases its Delaware training and experiential program off of our current understanding of what state certification will look like in the state.