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Launched in 2003 by the Mexico Ministries of Health and Foreign Affairs and leveraging the Mexican consular infrastructure in the U.S, Ventanillas de Salud (VDS/Health Windows) is a strategy to address these issues. In the waiting rooms of Mexican…

The Healthy Neighborhood program’s community connectors—as the program’s community health workers are known—approach their work in ways that differ from more traditional CHW programs. The connectors are empowered to develop community programs based…

The Healthy Neighborhood program’s community connectors—as the program’s community health workers are known—approach their work in ways that differ from more traditional CHW programs. The connectors are empowered to develop community programs based…

The Healthy Neighborhood program’s community connectors—as the program’s community health workers are known—approach their work in ways that differ from more traditional CHW programs. The connectors are empowered to develop community programs based…

Innovation defines the City of San Antonio’s Healthy Neighborhoods program and its approach to deploying its community health workers (CHWs). Launched in 2012 to improve health at the neighborhood level, the program believes that all families deserve…

Community health workers played crucial roles during the pandemic, deployed to educate their communities about how to prevent COVID-19; to support COVID-19 vaccination and food distribution events; and to help to save lives in vulnerable communities.…

Sulema Mendoza works in the Denver Heights community in San Antonio.

The Healthy Neighborhood program’s community connectors—as the program’s community health workers are known—approach their work in ways that differ from more traditional CHW…

Elder Raymond Bryant, Presiding Elder of the San Antonio District AME Churches, on the far right, joins with community members and Healthy Neighborhoods staff to celebrate the new community garden at Emmanual AME Church. Claude A. Jacob, San Antonio…

Asset-based community development (ABCD), a Northwestern University program, starts with discovering the assets present in the community.
Through a resident engagement/mapping process that includes surveys, interviews and engagement activities,…

Launched in 2003 by the Mexico Ministries of Health and Foreign Affairs and leveraging the Mexican consular infrastructure in the U.S, Ventanillas de Salud (VDS/Health Windows) is a strategy to address these issues. In the waiting rooms of Mexican…