Sergio Matos is the Executive Director of the Community Health Worker Network of NYC and President of Health Innovation Associates, LLC. The CHW Network of NYC is an independent professional association of CHWs that works to advance the CHW workforce through education, research and advocacy. The CHW Network is driven by its core principles, including CHW leadership of the practice, preserving the integrity of the CHW identity and a focus on social justice. Health Innovation Associates develops and delivers training for CHWs, clinical/medical staff, office staff, inter-professional health care teams and organizations interested in integrating CHWs into their operations. In particular, Health Innovation Associates helps health care institutions embrace change.Sergio has been a community health worker for over 25 years, working to help communities organize around issues of environmental and social justice; working with families in crisis intervention for suicide, hunger, chronic disease management and housing issues, and helping transform health services to become more effective, efficient and patient-centered.For the past 11 years, Sergio has championed the field of community health workers throughout the US and several Native American nations but with a special focus on the state of the practice in New York. Sergio also currently serves the Community Health Worker Section of the American Public Health Association, where he is a past-chair of the CHW Section and current chair of the Committee for Education y Capacitación. He has developed and delivered training programs in an international effort to build CHW programs in the member nations of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, the Bahamas and the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean. His trainings are based on popular education philosophies and embrace interactive participatory adult learning principles and methods.Specialties: Workforce DevelopmentTraining and Curriculum DevelopmentCommunity OrganizingOrganizational Development and Change Management