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Strengthen your community health worker (CHW) resume in eight weeks or less with CHW training
About the Advanced Community Health Worker training
MSU Denver’s Advanced Community Health Worker course will help students develop the skills necessary to perform community health work and implement program improvement. Students will learn the social and emotional aspects of receiving a health diagnosis. The Community Health Worker training will also address how to navigate a patient through the research process of finding resources related to their health-related social needs and conditions. Additionally, CHW training program students will practice evaluating resources and creating community health referral networks, exploring health improvement programs, and practicing using the tools that community health workers use within community-based organizations and in the community.
Self-paced, flexible online modality
Advanced Community Health Worker training is online and self-paced, allowing you to balance your personal life while continuing your CHW education.
Convert course into college credit
Whether you’re looking for continuing education in public health or want to pivot into a new career as a community health worker, noncredit courses can be stacked into credit toward an MSU Denver degree or credential.
Future outlook of community health
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Why take this CHW training course?
Flexible learning schedule
The advanced community health worker self-paced online course can be completed in 4-8 weeks.
Career advisement
Receive a personal advising session with an expert community health leader.
Earn a digital badge & certificate of completion
Students will receive a digital badge embedded with competencies learned, which can be included on a resume, LinkedIn profile, portfolio, or shared with an employer. Students will also receive a certificate of completion showcasing their successful completion of the course.
What students are saying about Career Launchpad
The majority of students who completed a post-course survey in spring 2025 report:
✓ Increased knowledge, skills, and understanding of the subject matter.
✓ We’re highly satisfied with the overall experience of the course.
✓ Agreed that the subject matter was organized and presented effectively.
Career pathways in community health
Evaluate the return on investment for advanced community health workers
After completing the Advanced Community Health Worker training course, students can immediately enter the workforce or continue to upskill with additional education to increase their earning potential.
Pathway 1: Complete the Advanced Community Health Worker training course and immediately enter the CHW workforce with in-demand knowledge and skills.
- The median salary is $35,000 per year.
Pathway 2: Convert your noncredit advanced Community Health Worker course to credit, and take and pass four additional classes. This makes you eligible to sit for the Colorado state assessment (launching in 2025). After passing, you can apply for positions like Access Representative, Admissions Coordinator, Case Manager, Medicaid Service Coordinator, Patient Access Coordinator, Patient Access Specialist, Patient Advocate, Patient Navigator, Patient Resource Worker, and Patient Service Representative.
- The median salary is $48,000 per year.
Pathway 3: Continue your CHW academic journey to get a degree in health, such as a diploma in public health, which will allow you to increase your earning potential far beyond an average community health worker’s salary.
- The median salary is $60,000 per year.
Cost | Schedule | Outcomes
The course is $450 with a $35 transaction fee per payment. There are no books to purchase.
- Advanced Community Health Worker runs from September 2 – November 2, 2025.
- Students must register by September 9, 2025.
- The eight-week course is entirely online and self-paced. You can complete the CHW training course anytime within the eight weeks the course is available.
- Demonstrate the impact of individual health beliefs and behavior on health care decisions.
- Integrate knowledge of the social and emotional aspects of health into patient/client, caregiver and family interactions and support.
- Implement knowledge of health promotion, disease prevention, medicine, and common disease care continuums as a CHW worker.
- Apply an understanding of the health care system from your CHW program to improve culturally informed patient/client care.
- Examine how to improve systems of care for patients/clients through the identification of systemic barriers and challenges to develop an individualized patient resource guide.
- Design patient/client navigator programs, including continuous improvement and evaluation plans.
Are you interested in taking the Community Health Worker state exam?
The MSU Denver Community Health Worker Certificate will provide students with the knowledge and skills needed to fulfill established Colorado Community Health Worker Core/Professional Competencies in the field and practice of Community Health Workers.
Meet your expert instructor
Advanced Community Health Worker instructor
Allison Draayer, LCSW, is an MSU Denver faculty member with over 10 years of healthcare experience. She is originally from the Chicago area but moved to Denver in 2008. She has a degree in Communications from Calvin College in Michigan and received a master’s in social work from the University of Denver in 2014. Allison currently works as the Director of Community Care at a health center in Colorado. She is passionate about serving others and improving health care for the underserved.
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