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Last updated on March 26th, 2025 at 12:42 pm

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If you work in rural America, then you encounter agricultural communities daily. AgriSafe’s mission is to build the competency of healthcare professionals to provide exceptional care to agricultural communities. 

Community Health Workers (CHWs) and Promotores de Salud are skilled frontline public health professionals with a deep connection to the communities they serve. Through shared language, culture, or personal experiences, CHWs build trust and strong relationships within their communities.

Our speakers are multidisciplinary and teach best practices in agricultural occupational health and safety. 

Training topics

  • Mental Health in Agricultural Communities
  • Suicide Prevention
  • Vaccinations
  • Personal Protective Equipment (Coming soon)
  • Heat-related illnesses (Coming soon)
  • Zoonotic Disease (Coming soon)
  • Sleep (Coming soon)

Our vast library of webinars means that you can get continuing education credits when it is convenient for you. If you enjoy interacting with a speaker, then follow our training calendar for our live webinar sessions. AgriSafe maintains a supportive resource library to complement your learning with free handouts and resources to share with your colleagues and use with the communities you serve. 


CHW and CHW-I CEUs are available through the University of Texas at Tyler Health Science Center, Center for Community & Rural Health Education. See individual courses for additional information.  


This program is made possible by the generous support of:

Network of the National Library of Medicine® Funded by Region 3

This work was supported by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Cooperative Agreement number UG4LM012345. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.


If you have any questions or are interested in partnering with us on our Community Health Worker initiatives, please contact our Total Farmer Health Director, Tara Haskins, at thaskins@agrisafe.org.


Benefits

  • Improve the health of agricultural communities.

  • Helps to forge connections where people live, work, worship, and heal.

  • Inclusion of agricultural safety and health content reaches a unique population.

  • Provides education on topics not typically covered in CHW training programs.

  • Provides continuing ed to a variety of fields.