The Center for Healthy Communities

The Center for Healthy Communities is an integral part of PromoSalud; it is the service delivery vehicle for our organization.

Our Programs

The CHC has partnered with the communities it serves to assess needs and to create programs that:

  • Reach people outside of traditional health settings such as schools, work sites, health care facilities, and within communities
  • Integrate PromoSalud’s Community Health Workers (CHWs) into community-based efforts to prevent chronic disease
  • Focus on priorities for healthier living with strategies that focus on tobacco-free living, active living, healthy eating, and high-impact
  • Provide free, confidential individual counseling and educational community information on accessing and using health insurance through outreach, enrollment, and education
  • Leverage health information technology to support patient, family, and community engagement through a variety of technology solutions

Our Values

The Center for Healthy Communities is committed to its values that foster collaboration, community-based approaches, long-term systems change, and improve access to underserved and vulnerable populations. The CHC is guided by the following principles:

  • Commitment to the underserved and to reducing health disparities
  • A broad definition of health that emphasizes the many factors that improve can help communities find healthier places to live, learn, work, and play
  • Building on community strengths and assets
  • Prevention, early intervention, and health promotion, as well as equal access to care
  • Evidence-based and culturally appropriate initiatives
  • Mutual learning, where the CHC and communities listen to, collaborate with and learn from each other
  • Community-based participatory research evaluation