The Community Health Worker Pilot is a multi-pronged initiative that trains community health workers (CHWs) to engage and educate local neighborhoods on gambling-related harms, resources, and community services available to them.

CHWs are “frontline agents of change.” They often reside in the communities where they work, so they can reach community residents in the places they work, play, worship, and live (site). CHWs directly address inequities in health and access to prevention and care by building bridges among marginalized communities and systems of care.

The key components of this project include:

• Engage with local neighborhoods to provide community members with education and resources and to gather and share their concerns.
• Establish multi-sector partnerships to support practice and/or policy change that ensures inclusion of community members.
• Evaluate policy and practice change to mitigate the harms of problem gambling.