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Staff Spotlight: Mike Young, Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion for the Center for Community Health Alignment and PASOs
Mike Young is an expert on culture. He has studied it and lived it for his entire life. As a teenager from rural El Salvador, Young’s mother waited at the Mexico-U.S. border for two weeks before immigrating to California with a sixth-grade education. She learned...
COVID Vaccine Discussion
Keeping it real about COVID19 Vaccine- a recorded session on vaccine hesitancy with BirthMatters. Dr. Jane Kelly talks with CHW Takia Daniels talks about her vaccine journey in a discussion moderated by BirthMatters Executive Director Molly Chappell-Mcphail. Read More
Researchers to help LGBTQIA+ populations navigate barriers to health information
Despite growing up in a small town in Costa Rica before the internet era, Kathia Valverde still had somewhere to turn for information when she began questioning her sexuality — her librarian, Carmen. Today, Valverde helps others get information — not as a librarian,...
Center for Community Health Alignment wins Community Health Care Leadership Award
The South Carolina Primary Health Care Association recognized the Arnold School’s Center for Community Health Alignment (CCHA) with its Community Health Care Leadership Award during their virtual State Policy & Issue Forum in January. Designed to acknowledge an...
COVID-19 Statistics and Vaccination Information
COVID-19 vaccines are now available in South Carolina to help prevent this infectious disease. The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) is encouraging everyone to continue wearing masks, staying physically distant, avoiding crowds – and...
Build Trust in Vaccines by Investing in Community Workers
When the workers at a pistachio packing plant in California’s Central Valley started falling ill last spring, they turned to Veronica Perez with questions. Ms. Perez is not a doctor or public health official — she’s a trained outreach volunteer from the nonprofit...
Resources for Community Health Workers, Community Health Representatives, and Promotores de la Salud
Community health workers (CHWs)—also known as community health representatives and promotores de la salud—provide critical services to communities disproportionately impacted by public health threats including COVID-19. This site provides CHWs with resources to...
PASOs to Join CCHA
We are excited to announce that PASOs is now a part of the Center for Community Health Alignment! PASOs will bring its experience in advancing population health through the work of Community Health Workers/Promotores and join CCHA in working to advance health equity....