The NJ Department of Health (NJDOH) has established the Colette Lamothe-Galette (CLG) Community Health Worker Institute. The goal of the Institute is to create a standardized community health worker training and certification program, resulting in a robust CHW workforce. This will allow the state to educate an emerging and critical component of its workforce – creating a needed infrastructure to support CHWs, and the institutions they serve. Through this work, the NJDOH will create career pipelines for CHWs, enhance CHW skill sets and lead sustainable efforts to support this indispensable workforce.