Southwest Washington Community Health Advocate and Peer Support Network, known as SW CHAPS or CHAPS, is a grassroots network of community-based community health advocates and certified peers serving communities across Southwest Washington. We sat down with CHAPS coordinating committee members Sara Angelo, a community health advocate, and Ren Autrey, a certified peer counselor. They shared […]

HLC partners and SWACH recently teamed up to highlight Vancouver’s “Culture of Health” with an essay and video for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Culture of Health Prize. Over 180 communities applied. We were among just 38 invited to participate in phase two! As part of the effort, we created a short video with CHWs Brandi Williams and Dominique […]