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STORIES FROM THE FIELD
Aaron E. Henry Community Health Services Center Social Drivers of Health Efforts
Mahalia Jackson, a dedicated community member at the Aaron E. Henry Community Health Services Center, has made significant strides in promoting civic engagement and voter registration. Her efforts have been instrumental in empowering individuals and fostering a sense...
Sea Mar Community Health Centers: Cultivating Health Through Food Security
Sea Mar Community Health Centers (CHCs) is located in Washington State and was founded on principles of social justice. Sea Mar has worked to improve the health of underserved communities, especially Latino/a, immigrant, uninsured, and low-income populations. Sea Mar...
Stigler Health & Wellness Center Building Community and Supportive Services in Rural Oklahoma
Stigler Health & Wellness Center (HWC) is a large rural CHC serving 34,000+ patients across 7 locations. It offers integrated healthcare (medical, dental, mental health, substance abuse treatment) and has expanded to include 20 Head Start facilities. HWC uses...
Design Sprint: Rural Health Group, Grandville Vance Public Health, & Halifax County Public Health System
In North Carolina, three organizations (Rural Health Group, Grandville Vance Public Health, & Halifax County Public Health System) shared a commitment to serving underserved communities but were unsure how to leverage each other’s strengths to empower those...
Innovative Dental Clinic Addresses Social Drivers of Health to Improve Patient Care
Opened in 2017, the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Dental & Wellness Clinic in Oakland's Chinatown is California's first community dental clinic to integrate mental health services with specialties in endodontics, periodontics, oral surgery, and pediatric dentistry...
Creating Urban Food Security and Building the Community’s Trust
Urban Health Plan works with community partners such as food banks to support patient food security and has come up with innovative ways such as Instagram recipe challenges and on-site cooking classes to encourage and teach healthy eating and nutritious cooking...
Forming Farmers Market Familiarity and Fortifying Food Access
ACCESS recognized a need for healthy food access due to the lack of grocery stores and partnered with local organizations to create a Farmers Market so that community members could access fruits and vegetables and even created a cookbook to help with preparing healthy...
Mary’s Center: Social Drivers for Social Change – Forming Partnerships for Lifelong Learning
Mary's Center was founded by a group of health advocates seeking to help immigrant women fleeing Central America. Through helping these women, they realized there were many more needs they could help with, including education. To support these needs, Mary's Center...
Waikiki Health’s Use of Social Drivers of Health Data for Youth Outreach (YO!)
Waikiki Health, through collecting SDOH data, recognized that their community needed support for housing and formed partnerships within their community, expanded programs, and focused on at-risk youth to address this need. Waikiki Health continues to evaluate SDOH...
The Valley-Wide Ride
Valley-Wide Health Systems, Inc. (Valley-Wide) a Community/Migrant Health Center (C/MHC) launched a transportation service Valley-Wide Ride and they are breaking ground with this initiative. Valley-Wide uses social needs data from the PRAPARE® tool to understand...
Sun River Health & Feeding Westchester
2021 Sun River Health collaborated with Feeding Westchester to address the high-volume of people experiencing food insecurity within the communities surrounding Sun River’s Westchester sites. The team comprised of a nutritionist, program manager, clinical and...
CrescentCare to Become the Gulf Coast’s First Resilience Hub
2023 With a grant from Direct Relief, CrescentCare Community Health Center is able to fund solar microgrids and backup battery systems to be able to remain resilient during power outages caused by climate-driven events. This effort goes in hand with the Community...
