The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has applied for the HRSA Community-Based Workforce for COVID-19 Vaccine Outreach cooperative agreement opportunity. This multi-state project will include Arkansas, where we propose to mobilize a temporary community outreach workforce across the state, leveraging existing community outreach workers while also recruiting educators, faculty, and undergraduate students to be trained to provide community outreach in COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy. We wish to reinforce mobile vaccine clinic events held by UAMS, Arkansas Department of Health, Arkansas Rural Health Partnership, and others with boots-on-the-ground community outreach before and during vaccination events to maximize the number of medically underserved and vulnerable residents receiving the COVID-19 vaccination. To complement this outreach, community doctors and nurses in Arkansas will be offered training and compensation to attend and answer questions at vaccine events. Because this proposal originates from the Institute for Digital Health, we will offer digital health training and support to all community outreach workers.
This is where you come in – we need community outreach workers that can reach deep into our medically underserved communities and vulnerable populations to try to eradicate vaccine hesitation and maximize vaccine acceptance and accessibility. We’re hoping you may be able to help. If so, please complete the survey below to express your interest.
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