Prepared to provide specific and detailed information that can be utilized by persons involved in setting up and/or already involved in the process of providing training for community health workers, the guide is divided into seven sections: (1) Philosophy and Description of Community Health Worker Role; (2) A Community Health Worker Looks at the Role; (3) Community Health Worker Behavioral Objectives; (4) Planning and Implementing Training Programs (Community Development, Curriculum Development, Working with an Educational Institution, and Working with a California Community College); (5) Human Services Core Curriculum (includes three course outlines: Communication for the Human Services, Community Agencies and Resources, and Human Growth and Development); (6) Health Skills Classes (teaching approaches, course outlines, and example assignments for six courses: Health Concepts, Community Family Health, Community Health Clinic Skills, Childbearing and Child Spacing, Child Health, and First Aid); and (7) Supervision of Community Health Workers. Appended are materials collected in compiling the manual (program descriptions, career ladder and salary scales, job descriptions, workshop materials; texts and references, etc.). (WL)