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Current-future state draft

EffortCurrent stateTransition (June 2024-July 2025Future State (July 2025-onward
CHW approved training

Organizations offer Health Navigation (HN) Training Programs.

 

Current organizations offering HN Training Programs transition curriculum to meet Community Health Worker (CHW) Standards.

Organizations offer Health Navigation (HN) Training Programs.

Current organizations offering HN Training Programs transition curriculum to meet Community Health Worker (CHW) Standards.
 

CHW Training Programs prepare students for the new certification and assessment process starting in July 2025 or sooner.
CHW assessment

Students who complete HN Training Programs take HN assessment.

HN assessment will be made available for 15 offerings between now and June 2025.
 

CAPE is transitioning to a written assessment to assess the CHW Standards and validating assessment by June/July 2025.

If a student is going through a new approved CHW Training Program, they can either take the current HN assessment through June 2025 (advised) or wait for the new CHW assessment in June/July 2025.
 

After June/July 2025, the new CHW assessment will be available to those who have completed an approved CHW Training Program OR meet the alternative pathway requirements to take the assessment.

Assessment will be available in Spanish and compatible with screen readers.

Applicants will create a Certemy account in order to take the assessment. In the account, they will submit their training or alternative pathway requirements prior to taking the assessment. CDPHE will approve.
 

CHW registryStudents who pass the HN assessment are added to the CDPHE Registry.

Those currently on the Registry 
will remain on the Registry as a CHW. Anyone who passed the current HN assessment since January 2024 will not be placed on the registry until the new platform is up and running (expected January 2025).

All current individuals on the Registry will need to create a Certemy account and update their information.

After January 2025, those passing the new CHW assessment will see this information reflected on their Certemy account. Once CDPHE verifies, that individual will be placed on the new Registry.

Individuals will have an account to download their CHW certificate and manage their information, name changes, etc.

No continued education or re-certification requirements. As of now, for Medicaid, individuals will need to re-enroll every 5 years in which their original CHW credential certificate will be accepted.