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The Virginia Community Health Worker Association
The Virginia Community Health Worker Association is a nonprofit organization led by passionate public health professionals and community advocates. Founded in 2014, our mission is to serve, develop, and build stronger communities by promoting education, equity, and access in public health.
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Lisa N. Brown, SCD, CCHW, PA is a Virginia State Certified Doula, community health worker, and maternal health advocate based in Charlottesville. She brings 30 years of interdisciplinary roles and leadership working with families, including eight years of community-based birth work. She is the founder of Motherwit Birth Services and co-founded Birth Sisters of Charlottesville, where she helped support more than 400 families. Lisa served on Virginia's first Doula Taskforce at the assignment of the Virginia State Health Commissioner, and she played a key role in Virginia becoming the fourth state to implement Medicaid doula coverage. She serves as Policy & Legislative Advisor for the Doula Association of Virginia.#DAVA #thedoulaassociationofvirginia #vachwa #vachwaconference
Marco Thomas, MNS, CCHW, is the Executive Director of Nonprofit 4 CHWs and a Community Health Worker leader, mentor, trainer, and workforce cultivator committed to advancing the Community Health Worker field. His work spans training, mentorship, supervision, advocacy, and systems-level conversations across Virginia, multiple U.S. states, and internationally.With a background in sociology and nonprofit studies, Marco brings together systems thinking, lived experience, and Asset-Based Community Development to examine how people, organizations, communities, and systems interact. His approach focuses on recognizing the strengths, knowledge, relationships, and assets that already exist within people and communities while examining the conditions that support—or interfere with—their ability to flourish.#dava #thedoulaassociationofvirginia #vachwa #vachwaconference
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