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Fresh Ideas: Improving the Health of Immigrant and Refugee Communities

June 27, 2011 | Program Result

Fresh Ideas was a targeted solicitation for proposals that aimed to give immigrants and refugees the tools and support they need to improve and maintain their own health.

Literacy Is the Key to Change for Addicted Mothers

April 1, 2000 | Program Result

Economic Opportunity Family Health Center, Inc. (EOFHC), of Miami, Fla., hired three consultants to assess its comprehensive residential program for crack-addicted mothers and their children. EOFHC has offered its program, which links primary health care with treatment for drug abuse, since 1987.

Immigrant and Citizenship Status Affect Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Health Care Services

December 1, 2006 | Program Result

A team of researchers at the UCLA School of Public Health conducted a series of studies on the effects of immigrant and citizenship status on health insurance coverage and access to health care services.

Florida Hospice Uses Grant to Improve Outreach, Service to Hispanics

August 1, 2006 | Program Result

Staff at the not-for-profit Hospice By The Sea in Boca Raton, Fla., undertook an initiative in early 2002 to increase the number of Hispanic families they serve.

Program to Address Sociocultural Barriers to Health Care in Hispanic Communities

July 1, 1999 | Program Result

The program developed and implemented community-based interventions that would address sociocultural barriers to health care for Hispanic Americans.

Proyecto HEAL Project Helps Colorado Agency Reach Latino Families With Health Information

July 1, 1999 | Program Result

The Latin American Research and Service Agency, located in Denver, implemented community-based interventions to address sociocultural barriers to health care for Hispanic Americans.

El Paso's Hispanic Health Needs Assessed in First Phase of National Program to Reduce Sociocultural Barriers to Care

July 1, 1999 | Program Result

Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe participated in the Hispanic Health Needs Assessment during the first year of the program.

Watsonville, Calif., Proyecto HEAL Provides Health Education to Underserved Youth and Families

July 1, 1999 | Program Result

Salud Para la Gente conducted a project to: address overall community health status, address diseases/causes of death that had particularly high rates in the community, and provide health education.

Proyecto HEAL Helps East Los Angeles Multicultural Center Reach Families and Women With Health Services, Education

July 1, 1999 | Program Result

The Multicultural Area Health Education Center was established in 1985 through a US Department of Health and Human Services grant to promote and improve family-oriented primary health care and prevention services in an East Los Angeles community.

Dade County, Fla., Proyecto HEAL Project Teams Seniors With Youths for Health Education

July 1, 1999 | Program Result

The Little Havana Activities & Nutrition Center of Dade County implemented a program that teamed older adults with preadolescents for activities designed to promote a general awareness of health issues and to bring youth and seniors closer together.

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