As part of the Education Community Health Advocate (ECHA) program, members of the HLC Community Health Worker/Community Health Advocate team are working with local students and school staff to identify and address barriers to school attendance. Building on their trusted relationship with those students, they learned a lot this year about those barriers and summarized […]

This past weekend marked the Junteenth celebration at Clark College and the Rose Village CHW team took part in the annual event.  Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. This year’s theme was “Together We Rise.” The Rose Village team hosted a table at the event and […]

As we wrap up four years of 1422 grant work, we want to reflect on the incredible successes of the grant and our cross-sector partners. This was our largest grant to date and it allowed us to practice what we preach by bringing our community together to support policy and systems change. Plus, it helped support the fantastic […]

  February 23rd was a very big day for 26 graduates who had undergone 8 weeks of serious training with the Multnomah County Capacitation Team to become Community Health Workers. Words of encouragement were given by Lisa Miller who had emigrated from Haiti at the age of 7 and learned to advocate for herself in the […]