§ 1616. Community Health Representative Program
(a)
Under the authority of section
13 of this title, the Secretary shall maintain a Community Health Representative Program under which the Service—
(b)
The Secretary, acting through the Community Health Representative Program of the Service, shall—
(1)
provide a high standard of training for paraprofessionals to Community Health Representatives to ensure that the Community Health Representatives provide quality health care, health promotion, and disease prevention services to the Indian communities served by such Program,
(2)
in order to provide such training, develop and maintain a curriculum that—
(3)
maintain a system which identifies the needs of Community Health Representatives for continuing education in health care, health promotion, and disease prevention and maintain programs that meet the needs for such continuing education,