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History in the U.S.o With the HIV/AIDS epidemic came the creation of new public healthintervention programso Local health departments and community-based organizations (CHCsand others) began to hire CHWs to conduct outreach, provide clientcenterededucation, community education, facilitate support groups,make home and hospital visits…influenced the development of theCHW field in the U.S.o 1990s saw job creation with Welfare Reform…CHWs now getting jobsin what they had been doing as neighborhood volunteers.o 1990s and 2000s witnessed more people learning about the serviceof CHWs; workforce studies, professional articles, and reports aboutCHWs became common; local, state, and national networks andconferences, and trainings began to bring CHWs together (Rosenthal,2009). Particularly the APHA SPIG for CHWs.o Through 1990s researchers conducted regional and national studies