As part of the Advancing Health Literacy to Reduce Health Disparities & Achieve Health Equity Initiative (AHL&AHE), DC Health will focus initially on engaging Community Based Organizations (CBO) as partners in a new collaborative model to increase health literacy and expand access and use of critical health information in the District. Our CBO Partners include:
Central American Resource Center (CARC)
The Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) is a community-based organization that seeks to foster the comprehensive development of the Latino community in the Washington metropolitan region. CARECEN was founded in 1981 to protect the rights of refugees arriving from conflict in Central America and to help ease their transition by providing legal services. Today their programs provide direct services in immigration, housing, and citizenship while also promoting empowerment, civil rights advocacy, and civic training for Latinos.
Far Southeast Family Strengthening Collaborative (FSFSC)
Far Southeast Family Strengthening Collaborative (FSFSC) was established in April 1996 through a Neighborhood Collaborative Capacity Grant through the Family Preservation and Support Act and has evolved into a partnership of residents, agencies, government bodies, and institutions either located or doing business in the southeast community. FSFSC aims to build healthier communities and act as a catalyst for healthy socioeconomic environments where youth and their families can thrive through a delivery system that is both neighborhood-based and family-driven.
Residents and their families in southeast DC have access to quality-focused programs provided by FSFSC such as school-based, family rehousing stabilization, community-impact centers, violence intervention, resilient communities DC, and other direct initiatives.
Inner City Collaborative (ICC)
Inner City Collaborative (ICC) is committed to serving Washington DC as a prime resource for youth and families. Inner City CDC's counseling services help people in a positive way when there has been some dysfunction in family relations or dynamics, utilizing spiritual counseling and an interfaith approach.
Latin American Youth Center (LAYC)
Latin American Youth Center (LAYC) was founded in the late 1960’s and has grown and evolved from a small grassroots recreation center into a nationally recognized agency that serves all low-income youth. Each year, LAYC serves approximately 4,000 youth and families in the District of Columbia, Prince George’s, Maryland, and Montgomery Counties as the Maryland Multicultural Youth Centers (MMYC).
LAYC helps facilitate a successful transition from youth to adulthood through multi-cultural, comprehensive, and innovative programs that address social, academic, and career needs by offering services in academics, arts and recreation, job readiness, safe housing, and health and wellness.
Leadership Council for Healthy Community (LCHC)
Leadership Council for Healthier Communities (LCHC) serves as a pioneer and catalyst for the faith community to implement programs and services that reduce barriers and stigmas, particularly among the African American community and their families. LCHC believes and implements a holistic approach to wellness, clinical care, and preventative services for the mind, body, and spirit through community engagement, care coordination, resource referral, and health ministry network. Initiatives throughout the community include – but are not limited to – Faith-Based Leadership and HIV Mainstreaming, LCHC and Health Insurance Enrollment, Respiratory Wellness Program.
United Planning Organization (UPO)
Since 1962, the United Planning Organization (UPO) has focused on changing lives — supporting and inspiring Washington, DC’s low-income residents on their journey to self-sufficiency and success.
UPO offers more than 30 programs and services in areas such as early childhood education, youth development, job training and placement, health and wellness, housing, and volunteering.