When Native Americans for Community Action (NACA) received a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in October 2019, they decided to use part of it to increase breastfeeding awareness in the Flagstaff community—an important yet often overlooked necessity for parents… Read more
For Keri Morrill, working as a community health worker (CHW) at North Country HealthCare for the Arizona Health Start Program in Flagstaff for the past 11 years has been much more than a standard, 40-hour-a-week job… Read more
Through a comprehensive study of the last 10 years, researchers from Northern Arizona University and University of Arizona found that pregnant women and mothers enrolled in Arizona’s Health Start Program, which employs community health workers (CHWs) to conduct home visits, have lower rates of low birthweight and preterm newborns than women who did not participate in Health Start… Read more
