Immigrant Honored for Fighting to Protect Workers’ Health and Safety
October 17, 2012 | News Release
RWJF honors Marlom Portillo with a 2012 Community Health Leaders Award.
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Californian Works to Keep Older Adults Safe Whether at Home or in Nursing Homes
October 17, 2012 | News Release
RWJF honors Kathi Toepel with a 2012 Community Health Leaders Award.
Voices for Change
January 4, 2011 | Report
Knowledge Asset: Voices for Change engages participants through Photovoice (photography and prose), providing opportunities for individual and group data gathering, reflection, dialogue and social action regarding neighborhood assets and issues.
Grieving Father Helps Families of Children With Cancer Navigate Health System
November 8, 2011 | Story
2011 Community Health Leader provides transportation and other services to pediatric cancer patients and their families in San Diego.
RWJF Community Health Leader Takes Reins at San Francisco Department of Public Health
February 23, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
Barbara A. Garcia, M.P.A., a RWJF Community Health Leader (1993), began her duties as director of the San Francisco Department of Public Health in January. Garcia had been the Department’s deputy since 1999. “Becoming the director is a really exciti ...
Community Health Promoters Reach Medically Underserved
January 1, 2003 | Program Result
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...
California Action Coalition Shares Secrets of Success
March 7, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Mary Foley, RN, PhD, the nursing co-lead for our Action Coalition, welcomed the enthusiastic crowd and introduced Linda Burnes Bolton, DrPH, FN, FAAN, a trustee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and vice president of nursing at Cedars Sin ...
Bringing the Table to the Community
December 7, 2011 | Story
The San Francisco partnership created the first-ever plan to improve community-based aging services. A coordinating council reporting to the mayor guided implementation, including bringing aging services into public housing and influencing policy.
Dana Harvey Revitalizes Low-Income Community with Urban Health Food Store
August 23, 2010 | Story
2010 Community Health Leader winner expands access to healthy food and provides job training and small-business ownership opportunities in low-income urban neighborhood.
Shira Shavit Honored for Creating a 'Medical Home' for Former Prison Inmates
August 23, 2010 | Story
San Francisco physician receives 2010 RWJF Community Health Leader Award for work with ex-offenders and their families.