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Locally Recruited Lay Advisors Contribute to Community Health

October 1, 2006 | Program Result Report

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.

Alabama Program Teaches Cosmetologists and College Students to Conduct Community-Based Health Outreach

October 1, 2004 | Program Result Report

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 Report

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...

Taking it to the Streets: Community Health Workers Improve Access for Low-Income Residents

January 28, 2002 | Program Result Report

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.

Farmworkers Trained as Health Promoters Sow the Seeds of Better Health Care

January 29, 2002 | Program Result Report

Community Health Care in Bridgeton, N.J., developed a program to train farmworkers in Cumberland County to become lay health promoters.

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