NNEDLearn 2013 Participant: Asian Pacific Family Center Description: The Health WISE program is an innovative community program that offers recovery-oriented, strength-based, and family-focused integrated care to Chinese immigrant consumers with mental illness and physical concerns and/ or substance abuse issues. A multidisciplinary team of counselors, primary care physicians, psychiatrists, case managers, health navigators and educators […]
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Getting Ready for the Health Insurance Marketplace Toolkit
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has released a training resource toolkit, developed through the Enrollment Coalitions Initiative, entitled “Getting Ready for the Health Insurance Marketplace.” This toolkit will assist organizations with outreach, education and enrollment of individuals in the Health Insurance Marketplace. It is composed of three sections: A description of the […]
Mobile Health Clinics Bring Quality Care to Hard-to-Reach Communities: Health Hut & The Family Van
The Mobile Health Map is a project of Harvard Medical School and the Mobile Health Clinics Association, a San Francisco-based national membership organization with more than 600 members. With support from the HHS Office of Minority Health, the Mobile Health Map documents the spread and contributions of mobile health clinics as a successful model for […]
The Hispanic and Latino LGBTTQ Community and its Behavioral Health Service Needs
There is a higher rate of tobacco, alcohol, and substance use in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual and questioning (LGBTTQ) people, compared with heterosexuals; often associated with high levels of stress that comes from social prejudice and oppression, stigmatization, marginalization, and violence, and because of discrimination in employment, housing, relationship lack of recognition and health care. Stress that comes from daily […]
Systematically Targeting AIDS Reduction and Treatment
NNEDLearn 2013 Participant: International Black Women’s Congress Description: The program’s goal is to provide HIV prevention and education to the underserved and hard-to-reach African American community. The agency is located in the oldest, low-income Black community in Norfolk; surrounded by three public housing developments. The agency is staffed by multigenerational, community-based persons who mirror the target […]
AIDS Care: A Call to Women of Color Social Gathering
NNEDLearn 2013 Participant: AIDS Care Description: A Call to Women of Color Social Gathering is a HIV/STD group level prevention intervention targeting women of color primarily African American and Latino women. The intervention curricula focuses on skill building related to sexual behavior, substance use, and health care seeking behaviors. The program addresses the unique influencing […]