Citation

Bowen DJ, Bhosrekar SG, Rorie JA, Goodman R, Thomas G, Maxwell NI, Smith E. Fam. Community Health 2015; 38(2): 141-148.

Affiliation

Community Committee for Health Promotion (Ms Smith), Boston University School of Public Health (Drs Bowen, Rorie, and Maxwell and Ms Bhosrekar), Boston, Massachusetts; Boston Housing Authority, Boston, Massachusetts (Ms Goodman); and Boston Public Health Commission, Boston, Massachusetts (Ms Thomas).

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/FCH.0000000000000068

PMID

25739061

PMCID

PMC4354934

Abstract

Translation of research to practice often needs intermediaries to help the process occur. Our Prevention Research Center has identified a total of 89 residents of public housing in the last 11 years who have been working in the Resident Health Advocate (RHA) program to engage residents in improving their own and other residents' health status by becoming trained in skills needed by community health workers. Future directions include training for teens to become Teen RHAs and further integration of our RHA program with changes in the health care system and in the roles of community health workers in general.

Language: en