Community support worker

This program is in partnership with Interior Health. Desert Sun provides one CSW to each of the communities of Oliver and Osoyoos to work in local family practices to provide socio-emotional support to patients as part of the new Team-Based Care Primary Network. The CSW provides outreach-based support (help with following treatment plans, psychosocial support, stabilizing vulnerable patients), helps with the completion of government forms, assists patients and their families with life skills support, and maintains health continuity to support family physicians. Community Support Workers are the connection between patients in need and the services they need in the community.