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Core Health is honored to support outstanding organizations, doing important work...Here are a few examples of how we have helped.
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Teens Lead Adolescent Wellness Forum
Core Health was retained by the DC Primary Care Association to produce and create a venue for a dialogue on adolescent health. The result was the first annual District of Columbia Adolescent Wellness Forum. Core Health trained teens to master a challenging health education and social justice curriculum and put them in charge of producing and hosting all aspects of the Forum. During this Forum over 200 city officials, health care professionals, teachers, safety net providers and teens came together to spend a day learning from adolescents: the economic impact of health and health choices, legal factors in health, nutrition/fitness, adolescent friendly clinics, adolescent development and pregnancy prevention/STD prevention and making healthy choices.
Partnership to create a Indy-DC Compact
Core Health works closely with the leadership of the Community Health Network a large hospital system in Indianapolis to create sustainable models including a redevelopment project in Windsor Village as well as the replication of the model Town Hall Education, Arts and Recreation Campus of DC (THEARC) thus creating a national model of community reinvestment and reengineering.
Core Health has been retained to support both the national parent board of the OK program and its Indianapolis affiliate in:
• Board Support
• Organization alignment
• Mission-centric Strategic planning with progressive deliverables
• Building strategic relationships
• Fundraising support
Battling Childhood Obesity with Frederick County DOH
After receiving the competitive Community Access to Child Health (CATCH) grant from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Fredrick County Health Department and its local coalition of providers selected Core Health to assist in identifying and filling gaps in services to prevent and treat childhood obesity and overweight, including:
• Asset Mapping
• Needs Assessment
• Focus Groups
• Retreat Facilitation
Training Future Peer Health Educators
Core Health was retained by the DC Primary Care Association to develop, operate and sustain the DC Adolescent Wellness Institute. Core Health developed a model for a year round training institute designed to teach teens ages 13-23y.o. topics in health, wellness and social justice under the Core Health Well Community Curriculum. Teens spend ten weeks in training before graduating to become peer educators throughout local schools, churches and health care facilities. Teens entering this program represent culturally, ethnically and economically diverse parts of our community. AWI graduates are now teaching their peers in the Washington DC, MD and VA.
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