Promotoras Voice Their Challenges in Fulfilling Their Role as Community Health Workers.

(Spanish for female community health workers) are integral to efforts to enhance the health and well-being of Latinx individuals, families, and communities. The purpose of this study was to describe the challenges that promotoras face and the proposed solutions from the perspective of the promotoras themselves. Five promotoras who worked for a year as volunteers in a community-based participatory research study, , participated in two group interviews.

Lazos Hispanos: Promising Strategies and Lessons Learned in the Development of a Multisystem, Community-Based Promotoras Program.

U.S. Latinos face multiple inter-related barriers to access health and social services.

A multistakeholder evaluation of Lazos Hispanos: An application of a community-based participatory research conceptual model.

The goal of Lazos Hispanos is to enhance the health and well-being of the Latinx community through promotoras, who connect community members with service providers for multiple health and social needs. A community-based participatory research conceptual model framed the multimethod evaluation of promotoras, service providers, and community participants at baseline and at the 1-year follow up. The promotoras increased their self-efficacy and knowledge, felt a strong sense of commitment to the community, viewed themselves as a bridge between participants and providers, and felt empowered by their new role.

Overcoming Barriers: Practical Strategies to Assess Latinos Living in Low-Income Communities.

The value of community assessments depends on the researchers' ability to reach a diverse and representative sample of participants. This process is particularly challenging when assessing the health and well-being of vulnerable populations that are reticent to participate in research because of demographic and sociopolitical factors. One such group is Latinxs (the gender-neutral version of Latinos or Latinas) of mixed immigration status who live in low-income, socially and geographically isolated enclaves in the Southeast.