AUGUST 24–28, 2026

National Community Health Worker Awareness Week

Celebrating the people who connect, educate, advocate, empower, and strengthen our communities.

Community Health Workers make a difference every day.

This week, Umemba Health is celebrating YOU with free resources, professional development, practical tools, education, recognition, and a few special surprises.

Come back each day because we're unlocking something new all week long.

SEE TODAY'S GIFT

A new CHW gift unlocks each day.

From the team at Umemba Health

5 Days. 5 Ways to Celebrate CHWs.

We're celebrating National CHW Awareness Week all week long. Each day, we'll unlock something new created to celebrate, support, and invest in Community Health Workers.

Come back every day to discover what's next.

DAY 1 • NOW UNLOCKED

Monday • August 24

🎉 Celebrate a CHW

Get Your FREE CHW Celebration Pack

We're starting National Community Health Worker Awareness Week with something designed to help all of us celebrate the people behind the profession.

The FREE CHW Celebration Pack gives CHWs, supervisors, organizations, instructors, coworkers, and community partners ready-to-use resources for recognizing Community Health Workers.

What's inside the pack

I Love Community Health Workers Social Graphic
A CHW Made a Difference Appreciation Card
CHW Certificate of Appreciation
CHW Awareness Week Virtual Background
Community Health Workers Make Communities Stronger Banner

Many of the resources include editable Canva templates so organizations and individuals can personalize them for the CHWs they want to recognize.

GET THE FREE CELEBRATION PACK

Free • Ready to Use • Editable Templates Included

Make it personal.

Choose a CHW. Say their name. Tell them why their work matters.

DAY 2 • NOW UNLOCKED

Tuesday • August 25

🎉 Free CHW Resources & Tools

Explore Our Full Resource Library

Today's CHW Awareness Week gift is access to our collection of FREE CHW resources and tools.

From practical tools and worksheets to resources that support CHW training and workforce development, there's something waiting for you. And, of course, they're FREE.

Resources created for

Community Health Workers
CHW Instructors and Trainers
CHW Programs and Organizations
CHW Students and Emerging Professionals

ACCESS THE RESOURCES

Free • Tools, Worksheets & Training Support

Tools that make the work lighter.

Browse the full library and grab what you need.

DAY 3 • NOW UNLOCKED

Wednesday • August 26

🎉 The CHW CE Series Course, FREE!

Catch Up on the 2026 CHW CE Webinar Series

All year long, Umemba Health has been providing monthly continuing education webinars created specifically for Community Health Workers.

If you missed one, or several, we've got you covered.

For National CHW Awareness Week, we're bringing the first eight months of the 2026 CHW CE Webinar Series together in one course and giving you access for FREE. 🎉

Your free course includes training on

Introduction to the CHW Profession
Professional Skills and Conduct
Introduction to Public Health
Introduction to U.S. Healthcare
Social Determinants of Health
Health Literacy Skills
Social Justice and Racial Equity
Cultural Competency

Watch. Learn. Grow. For FREE.

ACCESS THE FREE COURSE

Free • 8 CE Webinars in One Course

Keep growing.

Earn your continuing education hours while you celebrate CHW Awareness Week.

DAY 4 • NOW UNLOCKED

Thursday • August 27

🎉 FREE Train Your AI Mini-Course

Get Better, More Personalized Results from AI

For Day 4 of National CHW Awareness Week, we're giving you FREE access to our Train Your AI Mini-Course. This mini-course will show you how to get better, more personalized results from AI by teaching it what it needs to know about you, your work, and how you communicate. No technical background required. No complicated language. Just practical strategies you can start using right away.

Most importantly, you'll learn that using AI isn't about replacing the human connection at the heart of CHW work. It's about learning how to use technology while keeping people at the center. It's time for you to teach your AI what it needs to know, then put it to work.

By the end of this mini-course, you will be able to

Train AI to sound more like you — set up any AI tool to create content that better reflects your voice, style, and brand.
Give AI better context — provide the information AI needs to deliver more relevant, personalized results from the very first prompt.
Build your Master Context Prompt — create a reusable prompt that saves time and improves your results in future AI conversations.
Write better prompts — give AI clear, specific instructions that help you consistently get the output you actually want.

Use code CHWWeek at checkout to get the mini-course for FREE. No technical background required. No complicated language. Just practical strategies you can start using right away.

GET THE FREE TRAIN YOUR AI MINI-COURSE

Free with code CHWWeek • Practical Strategies You Can Use Right Away

Keep people at the center.

Using AI isn't about replacing the human connection at the heart of CHW work. It's about using technology while keeping people at the center.

DAY 5 • NOW UNLOCKED

Friday • August 28

🎓 TODAY'S GIFT: 50% OFF CHW & CHWI Certification

Your Final CHW Awareness Week Gift

Maybe you've been thinking about becoming a Community Health Worker. Maybe you're already a CHW, and you're ready to take the next step and become a Community Health Worker Instructor. Or maybe you know someone who has been waiting for the right opportunity to get started.

This is it.

For our final National CHW Awareness Week gift, we're offering 50% off CHW and CHW Instructor Certification at Umemba Health Academy.

We're offering

50% off CHW Certification
50% off CHW Instructor (CHWI) Certification

Use code THANKYOU at checkout to receive 50% off your course.

ENROLL IN THE CHW CERTIFICATION COURSE

50% off with code THANKYOU

ENROLL IN CHW INSTRUCTOR CERTIFICATION COURSE

🎁 Your discount is good through September 25, 2026.

Unlike our other daily gifts, we're giving you a little more time to take advantage of this one.

This Week Is About You.

Community Health Workers spend every day making sure other people are seen, heard, connected, educated, and supported.

This week, we want to make sure CHWs feel seen too.

Whether you work in a health department, hospital, clinic, nonprofit, school, community organization, faith community, or directly in the neighborhoods you serve, your work matters.

Thank you for the relationships you build.
Thank you for the trust you earn.
Thank you for the barriers you help remove.
Thank you for advocating for your communities.

Thank you for being a Community Health Worker.

We're Just Getting Started.

A new CHW Awareness Week gift will be unlocked every day through Friday. Bookmark this page and come back tomorrow to see what's next.

COME BACK TOMORROW