03/02
2017

Community Dinner: Cultural Exchange with Community Health Workers

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Maine Access Immigrant Network (MAIN) Office
Off Campus

Open to UNE graduate and professional students

Featuring Global Cuisine from Locally-Owned Businesses!

What is a CHW?
A person who, with or without compensation, is a liaison and provides cultural mediation between health care and social services and the community. A community health worker is a trusted member, and has a close understanding of, the ethnicity, language, socio-economic status, and life experiences of the community served. A community health worker assists people to gain access to needed services and builds individual, community, and system capacity by increasing health knowledge and self-sufficiency through a range of activities such as outreach, patient navigation and follow-up, community health education and information, informal counseling, social support, advocacy, and participation in clinical research.
http://www.dshs.texas.gov/mch/chw.shtm
 
 

Address

Maine Access Immigrant Network (MAIN) Office
273 Oxford Street
273 Oxford Street, Suite 25A
Portland, ME 04101
United States

Contact

Richard Anderson-Martinez
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