Community Health Aide Program Certification Board

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The Community Health Aide Program Certification Board (CHAPCB) is federally authorized by Alaska Area Native Health Service and administered by Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. The CHAPCB was created in 1998 by the federal government and charged with formalizing the process for maintaining community health aides/practitioners, dental health aides and behavioral health aides/practitioners training and practice standards and policies.

As the governing Board of the Community Health Aide, Dental Health Aide and Behavioral Health Aide programs, its function is to certify training centers and individual health aides at all levels of training.

The “Community Health Aide Program Certification Board Standards and Procedures” serve as the guiding program and certification document.

Community Health Aide Program Certification Board contact information:

Phone:  907-729-3624
Email:  chapcb@anthc.org
Web:  https://akchap.org/chapcb/

Future CHAP Certification Board meetings are scheduled for the following dates:

 

January 9-10, 2024

  • Deadline for accepting applications is January 2, 2024

 

June 4-5, 2024

  • Deadline for accepting applications is May 28, 2024

 

October 15-16, 2024

  • Deadline for accepting applications is October 8, 2024

 

 

Important links and notices


CHAPCB Application Fee Increase 2023-10

Please see attached letter from our current Community Health Aide Program Certification Board (CHAPCB) Chair regarding the upcoming CHAPCB Application Fee Increase effective December 1, 2023 for all CHA/P, BHA/P, and DHA certifications.  The fee will be increased from $500.00 per application to $750.00.  This application fee has not been adjusted since 2012.

 

CHAPCB Standards and Procedures as amended

 

The Alaska CHAP Certification Board has respectfully requested a pause in sharing any CHAP-related documents, references, and tools, including any one-on-one consultation, until this new system is up and running.  See letter:  Sharing Documents 2022-10-18  

 

RE: Important Notice for CHAP Program Supervisors Regarding Standard Changes to CHAPCB Standards and Procedures Section 2.50.200(a)(4) Requirements for Renewal.

Re-Entry and Biennial Skills

Note: Community health aide practitioner preceptorships completed in 2021-2022 are grandfathered and meet the Biennial Skills requirements for certification renewal in 2023.

The Community Health Aide Program Certification Board believes that clinical competency is vital to providing high quality healthcare in remote Alaska.  Periodically, the Board reviews CHAPCB Standards & Procedures to ensure that they align with the goals and best practices of the program.  Recently, the CHAPCB determined, after extensive consideration of Community Health Aide Program stakeholder input from the CHAP Academic Review Committee, CHAP Training Center Coordinators, and Alaska Association of CHAP Directors, that a change was needed to CHAPCB Section 2.50.200 to ensure that all Community Health Aides, regardless of certification level, complete a standardized biennial competency evaluation.

 

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