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To date, Texas has had over 4 million cases of infections and more than 74,000 deaths from the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) (Texas Department of State Health Services, 2021). The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed frontline healthcare workers to unprecedented situations thereby causing them to experience psychological distress and burnout (Gupta & Sahoo, 2020). The ever-increasing number of confirmed and suspected cases, overwhelming workload, understaffed personnel, risk of exposure to the infection, as well as feelings of isolation due to social distancing measures are contributing to high rates of depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, and insomnia to frontline healthcare workers (Gupta & Sahoo, 2020; Pappa et al., 2020). Much of the research and the literature we found about the mental health of frontline healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic were focused on nurses, physicians, and first responders. Research involving other frontline healthcare workers such as CHWs is largely absent. Although a growing body of literature exists, the need to better understand the mental health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic as a whole on frontline healthcare workers, including CHWs, is indicated. Doing so could result in the development of effective programs that can deliver mental health support to all frontline healthcare workers, including CHWs.