August 4, 2010
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ISAIAH, a faith-based community organization of 90 congregations, mobilized community activists to promote the links between transportation and access to healthy foods and to bring light-rail stops to low-income neighborhoods in the Twin Cities.
December 17, 2008
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The position of community coordinator is a demanding one that can take an emotional toll, says Michael B. Leonard, D.D.S., associate coordinator of Shreveport-Bossier Community Renewal.
December 17, 2008
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Stacy Davis is a resident of Shreveport's Cedar Grove neighborhood who had - past tense, he makes plain - a rough life on the streets.
December 17, 2008
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The sign reads 'Cedar Grove Garden of Love,' and on this bright spring day 79-year-old Margaret Myles is planting marigolds. "I want this place to be the prettiest place in the community," says Myles as she finishes her work.
October 1, 2004
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Faculty in the Department of Nursing at Oakwood College in Huntsville, Ala., trained cosmetologists and others to deliver community-based health education and screening services.
July 8, 2011
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The Corporation for Supportive Housing created Taking Health Care Home, a national effort from 2002 to 2010 to expand the pipeline of permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless people.
January 1, 2003
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From late 1997 to the end of 2000, the Esperanza Community Housing Corporation provided internships for bilingual residents of a low-income neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles who had been trained as professional community health promoters. Esperanza developed the health-promoter training program to increase access to health and health care information, and...
January 28, 2002
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AD House addressed the special barriers to access to health and social services faced by inner-city pregnant teens.
January 28, 2002
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The New Community Corporation, the largest nonprofit housing corporation in New Jersey, worked with Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere), a worldwide humanitarian organization in health care, to train Community Health Workers.
July 1, 2001
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The US Schweitzer Fellows Programs, which enable medical, nursing, public health and social work students to volunteer their services in impoverished communities, increased the number of student participants and added three volunteer sites.
