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CCHC Health Equity

 

Purpose & Goal

Our program goals include building a sustainable health equity network, implementing health equity strategies in clinics, and [...] supporting communities in achieving health, equity, and social justice, through our CHW programming.

CCHC Health Equity Programs

Clinic Learning collaborative:

Health Equity Team Meeting
CCHC’s long-term health equity work includes facilitating bi-monthly equity training for our clinic members. As a coalition we work together to provide care that is responsive to the language and cultural needs of community members.
We know the sustained work and relationship-building it will take to advance health equity at the clinic level. As such, the learning collaborative grounds its work in these goals:

  • Share health equity learnings
  • Implement health equity strategies in clinics
  • Build a sustainable health equity network

CCHC Community Health Workers (CHWs)

Keara Rodela, MPH, CHW
Health Equity & Community Partnership Manager

Ski-TerSki-Ter Say, CHW
Health Navigator and Enrollment Specialist

TannonTannon Tom, CHW
Referral & Enrollment Specialist

DenishaDenisha Brown, CHW
Supportive Housing Community Health Worker

Our CHW team is here to help by:

  • Receiving referrals from clinic partners and community members.
  • Supporting/coordinating care with health systems providers.
  • Providing culturally centered education and system navigation.
  • Supporting navigation and advocacy for various essential social services and resources (e.g., access to food, housing support)
  • Providing additional support/education for individuals/families with chronic conditions

You can get help finding resources from our CHWs.
To make a referral to our CHW team please click the referral button below and our community health workers staff will get back to you within 2 business days.

Referral  Referral

You can contact our Community Health Workers for help at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 503-546-4991

​Tobacco-free Education & Outreach Program​

LilianaLiliana ​Heurta, CHW
Community Health Worker Coordinator
(Outreach, Health Fair, Equity Training & Tobacco Prevention)

AdelineAdeline Paguirigan
Program Intern (Outreach, Health Fair)

Our tobacco prevention program activities focus on the root causes of health inequities while being explicit about how dominant practices continue to perpetuate inequities and trauma among BIPOC communities. We do this through equity-based education and training, as well as policy and advocacy work.

Tobacco Prevention Resources

Culturally Specific Tobacco Training

 

CCHC has worked diligently to deliver a culturally specific Tobacco training to community members! Our training in partnership with Oregon Public Health Institute called, The Impact of Racism, Stress, and Trauma on the African Diaspora, is a culturally specific training focusing on African, Black, and African American experience with systemic racism and its impact on the health of our community.

Participants learn of the history of systemic racism and its connection to the Tobacco consumption and targeted advertisement in the African diaspora, over decades. Throughout the training Black resistance and Black Joy within the African diaspora is uplifted and celebrated as well.

By the end of the training, participants have a deeper understanding of how systemic racism, stress and trauma impact health and how community members can implement this knowledge for change.

Partners

Resources