About:
The Leadership Institute is a strength-based leadership program with the intent to build and develop a cadre of CHW leaders for the state of Minnesota. The Leadership Institute was created to:
- Serve a diverse cohort of CHWs for training
- Provide leadership training for current CHWs
- Provide leadership knowledge, skill, and capacity building for CHWs.
- Engage CHWs in learning and skill building activities.
- Assist and support CHWs to practice and advance into leadership positions
- Connect CHWs across multiple sectors and work sites
Cost: This program is free of charge to CHWs
Goals of the Training:
- Building personal and professional resources for continued leadership development.
- Enhancing skills to increase effectiveness to empower individual and community capacity for better health.
- Increasing leadership skills for individual CHWs.
- Equipping CHWs to become leaders in their spheres of influence.
“I enjoyed making the professional connections and lifelong friendships. The leadership program is essential. I feel all CHWs should participate.”
2025 Statewide Leadership Institute Details
Dates:
- April 8th 2025: In person at the MNCHWA office in St. Paul
- April 22nd: Virtual
- May 13th: Virtual
- May 27th: Virtual
- June 10th: Virtual
- June 24th: Virtual
- July 22nd: Virtual
- August 12th: Virtual
- August 26th: Virtual
- Sept 9th: In person, at the MNCHWA office in St. Paul
How to Apply:
The application period for the 2025 Leadership Institute is now closed. Please sign up for our newsletter for information about future cohorts.
History
The Minnesota Community Health Worker Alliance has hosted Leadership Institutes in 2016, and 2018-2020. Each Leadership Institute cohort has had different core focus areas but all cohorts have come away with a strengthened sense of their role as a leader in their context as a community health worker.
Leadership Cohort Outcomes & Achievements:
- Recognized their individual leadership abilities and learned new tools to aid in their work.
- Understood the roles of various partners in their work; CHWs, funders, state agencies, legislators, media, etc.
- Developed new resources, contacts, and partners to move their priorities and those of their communities forward.
- Learned processes to engage in high-level change through work with state agencies and policy makers.
- Took on more leadership roles within their employers and communities.
- Developed individual Leadership Plans.
“Having the opportunity to learn how valuable CHWs can be in our organizations and how we integrate across the continuum of care was really eye-opening.”
CHW takeaways from Leadership Institute Training
- I am a Leader
- If I don’t take action, who will?
- I have great ideas
- What I think matters
For additional information, contact: Rachel Stoll (Rachel@mnchwalliance.org)