A community health worker (CHW), or promotor/a de salud, is a trusted member of your community trained to help you find and use healthcare — often free, often in your language. Below are real organizations with CHW programs. Contact them directly.
Real nonprofits and health centers across the US. Not sure where to start? Call the one nearest you and ask for their community health worker or patient navigator.
Ask for the Community Health Worker program when you call.
Serving Native and non-Native patients. Sliding-scale care available.
Community Health Navigators available Mon–Fri, 8am–5pm.
FQHC with a CHW team. Refugee & immigrant health specialization.
FQHC serving Travis County. Sliding-scale, no patient turned away.
Promotoras de salud model — community educators who are also patients.
Large FQHC in Southern California. CHW referrals through the main line.
Promotoras address housing conditions that cause asthma and lead exposure.
Community Health Workers embedded in primary care teams.
FQHC with a dedicated CHW workforce. Serving the South Bronx since 1974.
Street outreach CHWs meet patients where they are.
One of the largest public-hospital CHW programs in the Southeast.
Large FQHC network in Illinois. CHWs speak 15+ languages across sites.
Search free and sliding-scale clinics near you — no account, no insurance required.
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