Comunidades Unidas “CU”

1. Comunidades Unidas “CU” 2007 Program Description

2. Organizational Chart

3. Leo Gonzalez, Diversity Talent Services Luz Robles, Office of Ethnic Affairs Silvia Norman, Wells Fargo George Eberle, Community Activist Aprille Savarese, American Express Mauricio Agramont, Midvale City Jorge Nandi, Community Activist Jesse Soriano, Office of Ethnic Affairs Yvette Dias, Jones, Waldo & Associates Lois Bloebaum, Utah Department of Health Jennifer Ruiz, Onda R7 CU Board Members

4. Comunidades Unidas Our program is based on a community-centered model of increasing the awareness and knowledge of community members of key health and wellness issues so that they can access the resources they need for themselves and their families. “Comunidades Unidas model views members of the target population as the most important resource for impacting change within the community.”

5. Effective Interventions “Through a combination of on-going community assessment, planning, training and utilization of peer educators, the Comunidades Unidas Program is able to gain access to, inform, educate, and influence the behavior of populations within the Latino community.”

6. Our Focus… • The focus of Comunidades Unidas is on the Latino & new immigrant communities. • Our work is done in geographic areas with high percentages of Latino families, most of whom are recent immigrants to the United States. • The individuals and families that we serve are at high risk for a number of poor health outcomes due to several compounding factors, including: poverty, social isolation, lack of transportation, lack of health insurance, low levels of education, cultural and linguistic barriers, poor diet, a lack of knowledge of risk of substance abuse, breast cancer, HIV/AIDS, diabetes, and birth defects, and a lack of familiarity with and trust of the U.S. health care system.

7. 1. Utah Latino Network 2. Spanish Tobacco Cessation Group 3. Latina Breast Screening & Cultural Awareness Program 4. Amiga Mia 5. Parents Anonymous 6. Diabetes Prevention and Awareness Program 7. Prenatal Care 8. Volunteer Health Outreach 9. Learning Plus Unite 10. Crisis Community Line & Individual Crisis Assistance 11. Community Promise 12. Multicultural Health Network 13. Multicultural Youth Coalition 14. TP3 “Teenage Pregnancy Prevention” 15. Fair Immigration Reform Movement 2007 Programs

8. Utah Latino Network Program: Utah Latino Network Coordinator: Claudia Gonzalez

9. Utah Latino Network Description: • Bring together service providers, advocates and community members to identify and eliminate tobacco related health disparities among Latinos living in Utah. • Maintain a statewide Latino Network to address the areas identified in Working Together to Bridge the Gap: A Strategic Plan to Identify and Eliminate Tobacco-Related Disparities in Utah. • Work on the implementation of the five-year plan for eliminating tobacco-related health disparities among Utah Latinos. • Facilitate the cultural and linguistic competency consulting process among ULN members and TPCP • Effectively communicate implementation action steps and goals of the Utah Latino Network • Improve data collection and determine capacity-building and policy development priorities for continued funding.

10. Program: Spanish Tobacco Cessation Program Coordinator: Maricruz Juarez

11. Spanish Tobacco Cessation Program Description: • To assist individuals to quit smoking by providing them with an opportunity to participate in a weekly culturally and linguistically appropriate support group in a safe and supportive environment. • Program Objectives: • Recruit and maintain a minimum of 10 individuals to participate in a Spanish Smoking Cessation Group • Provide 1 weekly smoking cessation support group • Provide case management on individual and group progress • Provide participants with information and referral to other resources they might need • Provide pre and post evaluation on participants progress • Provide written progress reports and a final report addressing barriers and successes of the program

12. Program: Latina Breast Screening & Cultural Awareness Program Coordinator: Teresa Mora

13. Latina Breast Screening & Cultural Awareness Program Description: • Comunidades Unidas Latina Breast Cancer Prevention and Awareness Breast Screening Program goals and activities include: • Provide in depth case management to 100 Latina women • Provide 12 trainings on how to navigate the healthcare system • Providing transportation to screening sites to the women that need it • Provide 12 trainings on educating parents and their families about how to address financial barriers and handle financial issues, • Identify and develop a Cultural Awareness program with accompanying materials to educate providers on cultural awareness including cultural health beliefs in the Latino community. • Provide 5 Cultural Awareness trainings to educate providers on cultural awareness including cultural health beliefs in the Latino community.

14. Program: Amiga Mia Coordinator: Carmen Rodríguez

15. Amiga Mia Description: Comunidades Unidas Latina Breast Cancer Prevention and Awareness Program capitalizes on this success by providing culturally appropriate breast health education to a target population of Latina women between the ages of 18 to 70 years old. The project goals are: • Attract Latina women to attend educational sessions about breast cancer. • Distribute culturally sensitive educational materials for educational purposes. • Increase the knowledge of Latina women on breast cancer screening. • Educational Materials are utilized and distributed by Latina community-based health educators. Activities include: • Door to door outreach to inform the Latino community about breast cancer screening and prevention • Day long Breast Cancer Information Seminar • Short 2 to 3 hour Breast Cancer presentations • Increase Latino participation in the Race for the Cure event

16. Program: Parent Anonymous Coordinator: Teresa Mora

17. Parent Anonymous Description: A comprehensive child abuse prevention program committed to: • Strengthening Families and Building Strong Communities • Achieving Meaningful Parent Leadership and Shared Leadership • Leading the Field of Child Abuse and Neglect Specifically: • Spanish speaking families meet every week for 1 hour ½ to develop abilities to become better parents. • Parents meet to express themselves freely without fear of criticism or negative judgment.

18. Program: Diabetes Prevention and Awareness Program Coordinator: Ramona Hernandez

19. Diabetes Prevention & Awareness Program Description: • Improve, increase, and/or coordinate efforts in the Midvale Community, and specifically address diabetes awareness and resources available for diabetes related services • Provide organization, planning, supervision, and training for the community outreach program workers and providers. Areas addressed include: determining barriers for accessing information on diabetes awareness, control, screenings, prevention and care in Midvale. • Increase Hispanic Midvale community’s knowledge of the risk factors, symptoms, prevention and control methods related to the development of diabetes by planning a minimum of 100 community contacts by outreach program workers and providers. • Coordinate a community forum to inform Hispanic Midvale individuals and families of the risk factors, symptoms, prevention and control methods for diabetes. In the planning and coordination, seek information on community needs/concerns related to diabetes.

20. Program: Pre-natal Care Coordinator: Carmen Rodriguez

21. Pre-natal Care Description: • Enhance the education and support services for high-risk pregnant women, through the use of the Comunidades Unidas Pre-natal Program. The program was developed using as model the March of Dimes Comenzando Bien Curriculum. • The primary beneficiaries of this project are Hispanic women of child-bearing age who live in Salt Lake County. • The program’s focuses on outreach and education using brochures, informational videos, and the Comunidades Unidas Pre-natal program. • Pregnancy case management is provided to each Hispanic pregnant woman identified through the program. Case management includes referrals to the Spanish Preparation for Birth classes, prenatal care health services such as local health clinics, WIC, and Medicaid. • Pregnancy case management also include follow-through to ensure that each woman attends her prenatal appointments and understands how to enroll for and use WIC and Medicaid.

22. Program: Volunteer Health Outreach Coordinator: Claudia Gonzalez

23. Volunteer Health Outreach Description: • Promote healthy living among Utah’s Hispanic community. Train community members to learn disease prevention, simple assessments of selected health problems, and begin to help their neighbor’s access appropriate health and human resources. • Volunteer Health Outreach Workers meet monthly to review health outreach information and receive guidance from the coordinator. Volunteers make presentations on health, communication, parenting, and other issues related to the well-being of the family. They give talks at schools, churches, private homes, and community centers and serve as resources for their neighbors-if they don't know an answer to a question, they know how to find out.

24. Program: Learning Plus Unite Coordinator: Carmen Rodriguez

25. Program: Crisis Community Line & Individual Crisis Assistance Coordinator: Teresa Mora

26. Program: Community Promise Coordinator: Juan Carlos Avila

27. Community Promise Description: • Community PROMISE as outlined by the Center on Aids and Community Health is an effective, community level HIV/STD prevention intervention that relies on role model stories and peer advocates from the community. • The intervention capitalizes on the type of work Comunidades Unidas and The Greater Salt Lake Area Chapter of the American Red Cross have focused on in the past: • High-risk community identification • Collection and analyses of community data

28. Community Promise Description: • The objective of Community PROMISE is that through active community participation positive change can occur and that by addressing the actual experience of community members the community is empowered to change • Identification of specific HIV/STD high risk behaviors • Identification of specific high risk influencing factors • Identification of specific high risk environments

29. Community Promise Description: • The intervention focuses on interviewing members of the Hispanic population who have made positive HIV/STD behavior changes. Role models stories are then written based upon the experience of each interviewee. The stories are personal accounts about how and why they took steps to practice HIV/STD prevention behaviors and the resulting positive effects on their lives. Peers advocates from the Hispanic population are recruited and trained to distribute the role model stories and prevention materials within their social networks. New role model stories are written based on continuous formative research that reflects behavior change within the Latino/Hispanic population.

30. Program: Multicultural Health Network Coordinator: Isabel Rojas

31. Multicultural Health Network Description: We have identified four specific program goals: • Establish & Build a Statewide MHN. • Recruit and Build Steering Committee to develop, refine, and implement strategic plan. • Form 3 Working Groups to lead out on initiative areas (Cultural and Linguistic Appropriate Services CLAS, Access/Policy, Data) • Facilitate Direct Contacts with Network Members • Coordinate the Health Disparities Summit

32. Program: Multicultural Youth Coalition Coordinator: Paco Rendon

33. Multicultural Youth Coalition Description: • Build a statewide Multicultural Youth Coalition • Coordinate one annual conference focusing on minority youth empowerment • Build minority youth capacity focusing specifically on grass roots advocacy and civic engagement

34. Program: Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Program “TP3” Coordinator: Paco Rendon

35. Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Program“TP3” Description: • Review best practice models in the area of Teenage Pregnancy Prevention among Multicultural High risk youth. • Create a 12 month schedule of activities. • Recruit youth & parents to participate in the program • Organize monthly learning circles, meetings and activities. • Organize 1 Teenage Pregnancy Prevention community forum. • Organize and Complete community door to door outreach.