The Center for Healthy Communities is committed to its values that foster collaboration, community-based approaches, long-term systems change, and improve access to underserved and vulnerable populations.
The CHC is guided by the following principles:
Commitment to the underserved and to reducing health disparities
A broad definition of health that emphasizes the many factors that can be improved can help communities become healthier places to live, learn, work, and play
Building on community strengths and assets
Prevention, early intervention, and health promotion, as well as equal access to care
Evidence-based and culturally appropriate initiatives
Mutual learning where the CHC and communities listen to, collaborate with, and learn from each other
Community-based participatory research evaluation
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The CHC has partnered with the communities it serves to assess needs and to create programs that:
Reach people outside of traditional health settings, such as schools, work sites, health care facilities, and within communities
Integrate the PromoSalud’s Community Health Workers (CHWs) into community-based efforts to prevent chronic disease
Focus on priorities for healthier living with strategies that focus on tobacco-free living, active living, and healthy eating, and high-impact
Provide free, confidential individual counselling and educational community information on accessing and using health insurance through outreach, enrollment, and education
Leverage health information technology to support patient, family, and community engagement through a variety of technology solutions