How do they match: Health Education Specialists

  • Community Health Worker

  • Provide and manage health education programs that help individuals, families, and their communities maximize and maintain healthy lifestyles. Use data to identify community needs prior to planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating programs designed to encourage healthy lifestyles, policies, and environments. May link health systems, health providers, insurers, and patients to address individual and population health needs. May serve as resource to assist individuals, other health professionals, or the community, and may administer fiscal resources for health education programs.

  • Collaborate with health specialists and civic groups to determine community health needs and the availability of services and to develop goals for meeting needs.
  • Develop and maintain cooperative working relationships with agencies and organizations interested in public health care.
  • Develop operational plans and policies necessary to achieve health education objectives and services.
  • Develop, prepare, and coordinate grant applications and grant-related activities to obtain funding for health education programs and related work.

  • Advise others on social or educational issues.
  • Assess individual or community needs for educational or social services.
  • Develop working relationships with others to facilitate program activities.
  • Maintain social services program records.
  • Present social services program information to the public.
  • Supervise workers providing client or patient services.
  • Train staff members in social services skills.