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.