Pandemic Health Navigator Program

OVERVIEW

The IPHA-IPHCA COVID-19 Pandemic Health Navigator Program will create a model that integrates community health centers, community-based organizations, and our public health partners to coordinate resources for our most vulnerable populations impacted by COVID-19.

This model will create a well-trained, expanded workforce of pandemic health navigators and community partners that will assist the state of Illinois in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, and future pandemics, with a coordinated response.

Four Major Objectives of the PHNP

1. Address unmet community needs in coordination with local, regional, state partners
2. Provide COVID-19 education and outreach to communities and impacted populations
3. Ease the navigation of care resource coordination for regional COVID-impacted residents
4. Assist with contact tracing support to the Illinois Contact Tracing Collaborative, as requested by LHDs

REGIONS

Regions (Counties) Awarded

• Region 2: Bureau, Fulton, Henderson, Henry, Knox, LaSalle, Livingston, Marshall, McDonough, McLean, Mercer, Peoria, Putnam, Rock Island, Stark, Tazewell, Warren, Woodford, Kendall, Grundy
• Region 3: Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian, Greene, Hancock, Jersey, Logan, Macoupin, Mason, Menard, Montgomery, Morgan, Pike, Sangamon, Schuyler, Scott
• Region 4: Bond, Clinton, Madison, Monroe, Randolph, St. Clair, Washington
• Region 5: Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Marion, Massac, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, Saline, Union, Wabash, Wayne, White, Williamson
• Region 6: Champaign, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, De Witt, Douglas, Edgar, Effingham, Fayette, Ford, Iroquois, Jasper, Lawrence, Macon, Moultrie, Piatt, Richland, Shelby, Vermilion
• Region 7: Kankakee, Will
• Region 8: DuPage, Kane
• Region 9: Lake, McHenry

TARGET POPULATIONS TO BE SERVED

• Racial and ethnic minorities
• Foreign-born individuals or people with limited English proficiency
• Undocumented immigrants
• People living close or below the federal poverty line
• People experiencing homelessness
• Older adults with limited income
• Disconnected youth and LGBTQ+ populations
• People living in rural areas
• People with disabilities

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Link to Press Release