Registered Apprenticeships for Community Health Workers and Dually Certified Peer Recovery Specialist-Community Health Workers Brief
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Community health workers (CHWs) and peer recovery specialists (PRSs) can play an important role in meeting the health care needs of people with opioid use disorder. Registered apprenticeship programs, an “earn while you learn” approach, can help build a certified workforce of CHWs and PRSs by providing classroom and on-the-job training. The brief highlights an innovative effort, funded through a National Health Emergency (NHE) Dislocated Worker Demonstration Grant to Address the Opioid Crisis to the state of Rhode Island, to develop registered apprenticeships for CHWs and dually certified PRS–CHWs.
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Staatz, C. (2021). Mathematica. Registered Apprenticeships for Community Health Workers and Dually Certified Peer Recovery Specialist-Community Health Workers. Chief Evaluation Office, U.S. Department of Labor.
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The Department of Labor’s (DOL) Chief Evaluation Office (CEO) sponsors independent evaluations and research, primarily conducted by external, third-party contractors in accordance with the Department of Labor Evaluation Policy and CEO’s research development process.