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California Code, Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC § 18998.1

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

On or before July 1, 2023, the department shall do all of the following:

(a) Develop statewide requirements for community health worker certificate programs in consultation with stakeholders, including, but not limited to, the State Department of Health Care Services, the State Department of Public Health, community health workers, Promotores and Promotores de Salud, or representative organizations. In developing the requirements, the department shall do all of the following:

(1) Consult evidenced-based and community-defined materials.

(2) Determine necessary curriculum to meet certificate program objectives.

(3) Determine criteria for specialty certificate programs and specialized training requirements that build on the lived experience of community health workers.

(4) Determine a structure of statewide oversight that reduces barriers to training.

(5) Determine how past experience as a community health worker may provide a pathway to certification, and how to verify past experience.

(b) Approve statewide requirements for the development of certificate programs for community health workers.

(c) Approve the curriculum required for programs to certify community health workers.

(d) Review, approve, or renew evidence-based curricula and community-defined curricula for core competencies, specialized programs, and training.

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