What is a community outreach worker?

Question

specifically one that deals with career development and social service support. What do they do

Answer 1

I think a community outreach worker is one that goes out to the community and talks to people at their homes or at community learning centers to teach people about educational opportunities or about the federal governement about how laws are going to affect them. These types of people are out going and friendly. These people care about the welfare of others. They in a way are like social workers but not really.

Answer 2

Many times, community outreach workers are social workers, but you don't always have to be a social worker to be a comunity outreach worker.  It's a very broad term, so it's hard to tell you all about it.  Simply put, an outreach worker is one who goes out to work with people.  They will go to churches, community centers, homes, grocery stores, shelters, wherever their clients would be.  Some outreach workers go under bridges to work with people who live under them!  They usually help people sign up for and receive services, like food, medical or stuff like that.  Some workers have specific goals, like the ones who hand out condoms or do needle and "works" exchanges to help keep the new aids cases down in IV drug users or prostitutes, or the ones who hand out food to people on the streets.  Some have religious goals.  I guess the point of an outreach worker is that they go to the people they work with instead of those people having to go to them.