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Alachua County commissioners direct restructure of community health worker program, ask fire rescue to lead expansion plan
Summary
The Alachua County Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously on Jan. 28 to continue the Community Health Worker pilot through Sept. 30, 2025 and to direct staff to produce a plan to integrate geographically assigned CHWs with Fire Rescue’s Mobile Integrated Health unit for the FY2026 budget process.
The Alachua County Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously on Jan. 28 to continue the Community Health Worker (CHW) pilot through Sept. 30, 2025, and to direct staff to return during the budget cycle with a plan to integrate geographically assigned CHWs with Alachua County Fire Rescue’s Mobile Integrated Health (MIH) program.
The vote followed a presentation by Charice Britton, CHW program administrator, who outlined three options for sustaining the pilot: continuing CHWs under the Florida Department of Health in collaboration with County Community Support Services (Option 1); housing the program fully in Community Support Services (Option 2); or sunsetting the county CHW program while MIH absorbed two peer specialists and used MIH funds to train and pay peers (Option 3). Britton said Options 1…
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