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October 17, 2012 | News Release
RWJF honors Ifeanyi Anne Nwabukwu, RN, BSN, with a 2012 Community Health Leaders Award.
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Farmworkers Trained as Health Promoters Sow the Seeds of Better Health Care
January 29, 2002 | Program Result
Community Health Care in Bridgeton, N.J., developed a program to train farmworkers in Cumberland County to become lay health promoters.
Focus Group is First Phase in Coalition's Promotion of Breastfeeding in Black Communities
January 1, 2004 | Program Result
The Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition conducted eight focus groups to assess community health workers' knowledge of breastfeeding and lactation management and to learn how they perceived the value of using technology in their work.
Alabama Program Teaches Cosmetologists and College Students to Conduct Community-Based Health Outreach
October 1, 2004 | Program Result
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.
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...
African-American Hairstylists Enlisted as Lay Health Promoters in Eight Michigan Cities
June 22, 2007 | Program Result
The National Kidney Foundation of Michigan expanded a project to train hair stylists in African-American neighborhoods as lay health promoters to educate their clients about diabetes, high blood pressure and kidney disease.
Locally Recruited Lay Advisors Contribute to Community Health
October 1, 2006 | Program Result
In 1998, Freedom from Hunger, a California-based organization that addresses issues of hunger and poor nutrition, began the replication and institutionalization of a program to train lay health advisors in several Southern states.
Outreach Program Adapted to Improve Health Care for Asian People in Philadelphia
December 1, 2006 | Program Result
Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals and New York University Downtown Hospital worked together to develop and implement the Chinese Community Partnership for Health, designed to improve the health of Asian populations in Philadelphia.
Community Service Project Evaluates Adding a Health and Safety Component
November 1, 1998 | Program Result
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation carried out a planning project to incorporate a specific focus on health into the National School and Community Corps program funded by AmeriCorps.
Helping People Learn to Take Care of Themselves
February 19, 2007 | Story
How can the residents of a poor neighborhood, plagued by poor health, be mobilized to help reduce isolation; improve safety; promote physical, mental and spiritual well-being-and ultimately to achieve overall wellness?