The funding comes as some public and community health workers have faced intense workloads, backlash and burnout during the Covid-19 pandemic and other overlapping health emergencies.
The US government is awarding more than $266 million from the American Rescue Plan to expand the nation’s community and public health work force, officials will announce Friday. The plan’s overall investment in community health, outreach and health education workers – totaling more than $1.1 billion – is one of its “crown jewels,” said Gene Sperling, coordinator of the American Rescue Plan and a senior adviser to President Joe Biden.
“As a community-based organization, we have had challenges to really be able to reach this federal funding for years,” he told CNN. “The big entities like universities or these big players, it’s hard for us to compete with them.” A CNN report earlier this year described how some community health organizations – especially smaller, grassroots groups – struggled to navigate bureaucracy and access funds, even as they provided critical assistance to the US Covid-19 response.
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