Community health work

Community health workers can also function as role models by promoting, encouraging, and supporting positive and healthy self-care and self-management behaviors among community members.
As advocates, they can help ensure that underserved community members get the services and follow-up care they need.

About 8,000 openings for community health workers are projected each year, on average, over the decade.
Many of those openings are expected to result from the need to replace workers who transfer to different occupations or exit the labor force, such as:

To attain competency, they typically complete a brief period of on-the-job training, and some states require certification.
The median annual wage for community health workers was $46,190 in May 2022.