Community Health Worker Program
Supporting Improved Health and well-being
Community Health Workers (CHWs) are trained public health workers who help keep community members connected with the health resources they need. Healthy Petaluma launched our CHW Program in 2021 using grant funding from Sonoma County. The program initially focused on lessening the disproportionate impact the COVID-19 pandemic had on underserved populations in southern Sonoma County. Our work has since expanded to address the needs of those at greater risk for poor health outcomes through health education, messaging, and resource navigation.
“The introduction of this program in southern Sonoma County is a critical response to the many forms of environmental, equity and pandemic-related trauma our community has weathered.”
- Ramona Faith, CEO Healthy Petaluma
“The introduction of this program in southern Sonoma County is a critical response to the many forms of environmental and pandemic-related trauma our community has weathered.”
- Ramona Faith, CEO Healthy Petaluma
Lexi - Petaluma Resident
Your Trusted Messengers
Healthy Petaluma’s CHW’s work in the community providing blood pressure checks, offering COVID-19 supplies such as KN95 masks, rapid antigen testing kits, resource navigation lists, and free diapers and pull-ups. Healthy Petaluma is committed to deploying the CHWs as trusted messengers in the community and working with health centers, nonprofits, and school systems to promote health, wellness, and resilience.
If you are in need of resources such as food assistance, mental health services, or financial aid, please reach out to our CHWs Jasmine Gonzalez at (707) 364 9119 or email jgonzalez@healthypetaluma.org and Johanna Duran at (707) 971 3383 or email
jduran@healthypetaluma.org. They can work with our community partners to point you in the right directions.