The following resources provide additional information, facts, and support for promotores and parents of children with special health care needs.

Health Care Services and Resources Administration’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau is a government website dedicated to reducing health disparities among families in America. The website includes a variety of resources in English and Spanish for parents, children, and providers.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website offers evidence-based resources, publications, and information about children with special health care needs related to disaster preparedness, behavioral conduct, and mental disorders.

Understood website provides resources for children with special health care needs, parents, teachers, and health care professionals. Additionally, Understood provides guides, activities, and offline printable offline resources.

Promotores/Community Health Worker Program Resources
KDH Research & Communication created the Todo Promotores Clearinghouse (TPC) to provide comprehensive promotores program formulation, implementation, and evaluation resources for community-based organizations. TPC offers materials to help organizations set goals, hire and train promotores, build partnerships, manage resources, promote their services, and more.

Dientes Fuertes, Vida Sana (Strong Teeth, Healthy Life; DFVS), was created by KDH Research & Communication to prepare promotores de salud to conduct tooth decay prevention outreach in their communities. DFVS builds promotores’ knowledge and skills to improve Latino parents’ dental health literacy and dental health system navigation skills so parents can prevent childhood tooth decay and establish positive, lifelong dental habits.

KDH Research & Communication created Latinas con Lupus, Promotores con Información (LLPI) an online professional development course that prepares promotores to conduct outreach to raise lupus awareness and support a person with suspected or diagnosed lupus. Latinas con Lupus, Promotores con Información aims to improve promotores’ skills and knowledge to support clients in advocating for themselves and obtaining adequate medical attention.

Families USA published a brief with research on how to fund promotores programs. The brief includes research about the financial benefits of promotores programs, how organizations can use Medicaid to fund their programs, and how to integrate programs into health systems.

The Community Health Worker Core Consensus (C3) Project developed core roles, skills, and qualities for promotores and community health workers. To find this page, type “CHW C3” into Google.