 Many of the community's health workers, students and others alike will be at the rural Minnesota Community Health Worker Conference in Bemidji. It's Northwest Technical College's second annual conference to help publicize the role of community health workers. It can work in hospitals or clinics and help patients or clients that have barriers when receiving proper health care. During the conference, community health workers who've gone through the program in NTC and are now in the workforce will also attend. We really want to create an awareness in the community. Beltrami County is the lowest ranked in the state as far as health and I think employing community health workers is a really great way to help bridge the gap and help make up for some of our shortage of health care professionals. The conference is on Friday, October 20th at the Bemidji Eagles Club beginning at 9 a.m. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.