We work with our immigrant and refugee neighbors, helping them navigate traditional American systems for medicine, supporting physical, social, and mental health. Our nutrition programs, wellness checks, and health fairs help thousands of families each year.
Achievements:
- Provided hundreds of boxes of PPE and At-home Covid tests to local families.
- Helped over 200 community members get vaccinated against Covid-19
- Distributing over diapers 30,000 diapers at our Food Hub annually.
- Provided ongoing basic needs for hundreds of local children
- Established partnerships with Valley Medical,Harborview, and Peer Kent to inform our communities on topics such as administering Naloxone, preventing homelessness, and becoming a peer supporter.
- Certified 45 lay community members as Mental Health & Well Being Navigators.
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LWK Change Model
- To achieve our health equity vision, we use SDoH framework knowledge for guidance.
- We believe the underlying causes of health inequities include disparities in education, income, housing, built environment, economic stability, and social and community context and community connectedness.
- These social determinants of health, and addressing them in cultural context is necessary to achieve toward health equity.
- Creating health equity is our guiding principle. By health equity, we mean everyone has the opportunity to attain their highest level of health and well-being.
- Sustained, widespread collaboration around a shared vision for healthier community.
- Address barriers preventing individuals in our communities from accessing these conditions and reaching their full potential.
- Advancing Health Equity: Identify community priorities that address gaps in access to healthy and healthcare needs.
- Provide data & evidence to help key decision makers understand challenges and opportunities for improvement
- Engage in targeted advocacy to help support decisions/policies that support our community goals
- Build capacity to implement health equity — help local organizations (from all sectors) to adopt and implement community-led solution for healthy equity, policies and practices
- Demonstrate impact of healthy community (show with numbers, data visualization and stories)