Leadership for Healthy People and Communities

Conducts neighborhood outreach activities, including partnering with community members and neighborhood leaders, to target vulnerable, underserved minority populations.

Provides culturally and linguistically appropriate health and developmental educational information to target populations.

Serves as a central resource on behalf of TLCHD to build relationships in identified “at risk” communities in order to identify, refer and develop resources that remove consumer barriers to accessing needed health and other social services.

Attends appropriate community or networking meetings to facilitate activities and gathers information necessary to increase consumer access to healthcare information and services.

Enrolls eligible women and their families in the OEI and Healthy Start program, connects them to medical care, and makes appropriate referrals.

Builds individual and community capacity by increasing health knowledge and self-sufficiency through a range of activities such as outreach, community education, informal counseling, social support and advocacy.

Works effectively with individuals from diverse backgrounds in reducing cultural and socio-economic barriers between clients and available institutional resources.

Connects the client to social and health services as required; assists in the completion of paperwork.

Works with specific populations to improve health outcomes by bridging access to health care services and addressing social determinants of health.

Assists with the development of community outreach events aiming to reduce and eliminate health disparities

Assists with the collection, development and dissemination of data affecting minority populations within our community.