Community Health Worker Training: Insurance & Finances 101
August 27, 2026
8am PT | 10am CT | 11am ET
Duration: 4.5 hours
Course Level: Beginner
This is a free training for community health workers (CHW), promotores, patient navigators, and other front line public health workers. The training provides an introduction to choosing and using health insurance, workplace rights to take time off to access health care, disability insurance, and strategies for managing medical bills.
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This event has passed. Please visit the Community Health Worker Training page to register for our October training.
Accreditation Information
During this live and interactive training, Community Health Workers in attendance will learn about choosing and using health insurance, workplace rights to take time off work to access health care, disability insurance, and strategies for managing medical bills.
This training will provide CHW’s with a foundation to help patients make decisions about health & disability insurance, work, and medical bills. All attendees will have the opportunity to ask the speakers questions in real-time via a Q&A box.
If you would like a general certificate of attendance, you must indicate that when completing the Community Health Worker Training evaluation form. You must attend the entire event.
Evaluation forms are emailed after the training and are required for a certificate. You will also receive a post-test, which is not mandatory, but strongly encouraged. Certificates of attendance can be submitted to accrediting agencies.
Introduction to Triaging Health
Choosing & Using Health Insurance
Break
Decisions About Work
- Attendees will be able to outline how community health workers can engage in various types of advocacy and encourage their community members to be advocates
- Attendees will be able to outline the various health insurance options and consumer protections available to community members
- Attendees will be able to Outline how the ADA and FMLA can be useful to employees dealing with a serious medical condition, or acting as a caregiver for a loved one
In order to receive a certificate of attendance, attendees must register individually. Participants who “listen in” on another participant’s phone/computer will not be eligible for credit. Participants must attend the entire training. No partial credit will be given.
Post-test & Evaluation
Participants will be emailed a link to the online evaluation and post-test one DAY after the completion of the training and will have one week to complete both.
The relevant certificates will be emailed to eligible attendees within 4 weeks of the event.
Questions about Triage Cancer’s accreditation can be made by phone at424.456.4628 or via email at CE@TriageCancer.org. Complaints may be filed via fax (424) 258-7064, email CE@TriageCancer.org or by mail to 6348N. Milwaukee Ave. #136, Chicago, IL 60646.
While this educational program has received commercial support from the previously listed sponsors the content of the program has no relation to the commercial interest of the organization’s products or services.
Triage Cancer will use the Zoom platform to host this training. Please see Zoom’s system requirements for more information.
An email will be sent to you after you register with additional login information.
Experts
Presenting the Community Health Worker Training are Triage Cancer CEO, Joanna Doran, Esq., and Staff Attorneys, Laura Beilke, Esq., and Sofia Fernandez, Esq.
Joanna Fawzy Doran, Esq.
Chief Executive Officer
Laura Beilke, Esq.
Staff Attorney
Sofia Fernandez, Esq.
Staff Attorney
Presenting Sponsors
Supporting Sponsors
