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Area Agency on Aging, Region One, Inc.
As a private non-profit corporation, it advocates, plans, coordinates,
develops and delivers services for seniors (60 years and older), persons
of any age who are HIV positive, adults (18-59 years) with disabilities
and long-term care needs, and family caregivers of older adults.
- Arizona Association of
Community Health Centers
The Association is the Primary Care Association for the State of Arizona.
It has many programs to assist member community health centers and the
disadvantaged populations they serve. These programs vary from centralizing
financial information and educational opportunities for members to the
recent creation of an association sponsored and HRSA financed health care provider network
for the uninsured in Maricopa County, Arizona.
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Arizona Go Local
Arizona Go Local is a statewide project of the Arizona Health Sciences
Library at the University of Arizona. As a program of the National Library
of Medicine’s Medline Plus, Arizona Go Local is a database that connects you
to health-oriented services and resources throughout the state. Here you
will find contact information, web sites and descriptions for services that
include hospitals and clinics, elder care, wellness, support group, group
and individual caregivers, and a wide-range of other health topics.
- ArizonaHealthInfo.org
AZHealthInfo.org is affiliated with the national Turning Point Initiative.
The national Turning Point Initiative aims to transform and strengthen the
public health system in the United States by making it more community based
and collaborative. The project addresses public health workforce development
needs, information dissemination, disparities in health status, and public
health advocacy and seeks to make the public health system in Arizona more
effective and responsive to community concerns and issues.
- ArizonaNativeNet
ArizonaNativeNet is a virtual university outreach
and distance learning telecommunications center devoted to the higher
educational needs of Native Nations in Arizona, the United States and the world
through the utilization of the worldwide web and the knowledge-based and
technical resources and expertise of the University of Arizona.
- Arizona Rural Health Association
The Association advocates on behalf of the health needs of rural Arizonans
at national, state and local levels. Its multidisciplinary membership
provides a respected and highly effective group of rural health
practitioners and rural community residents.
- Arizona State University - College of Liberal Arts and Sciences -
African American
Studies
African and African American Studies (AAAS) is an interdisciplinary program
focusing on people of African descent throughout the world. Current
concentrations emphasize the diversity of past and present experiences of
African and African-descended peoples in the United States, Africa, the
Caribbean, South America and Central America.
- Asian American Diabetes
Initiative
Joslin Diabetes Center's Asian American
Diabetes Initiative (AADI) Web site is a bilingual (English - Chinese) site
with interactive tools dedicated to improving diabetes awareness and
management in Asian American populations.
- Asian Pacific Community in Action
It is a community-based and non-for-profit organization to provide health
education and referral services to Asian Pacific Islander community in
Maricopa County.
- AZHealthInfo.org
AZHealthInfo.org is affiliated with the national Turning Point Initiative.
Turning Point in Arizona works collaboratively with communities and key
partners to improve the public's health and promote sound public health
policies. The project addresses public health workforce development needs,
information dissemination, disparities in health status, and public health
advocacy and seeks to make the public health system in Arizona more
effective and responsive to community concerns and issues.
- Center for Social and Demographic
Analysis
The Center has increasingly emphasized support for interdisciplinary
population research, especially the analysis of spatial inequalities (paying
attention to processes of urban and regional development and their impacts
on residents) and concerns for vulnerable populations (defined by race and
ethnicity, age, social class, and nativity).
- Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc. (CPLC)
CPLC is a statewide community development corporation (CDC), committed to
building stronger, healthier communities as a lead advocate, coalition
builder and direct service provider.
- Children in Newcomer and
Native Families
The new series of reports on the web will seek to chart the situation of
children in newcomer families, especially families from Latin America and
Asia, and compare it to that of children growing up in native families.
- Chinese Community Health
Resource Center
The Center’s mission is to build a healthy community through culturally and
linguistically competent preventive health, disease management, and research
programs.
- Community Information &
Referral
Community Information & Referral is a vital link between people who need
help and the organizations which provide that help. This organization
offers a free, confidential 24-hour help hotline all day every day,
publishes Directories of Human Services & Self-Help Support Groups and
provides lists and mailing labels from its referral database for a nominal
fee.
- Community Oral
Health Station
Provides a list of model oral health programs throughout the U.S. Lists
educational resources as well as funding opportunities.
- FaithTrust Institute
The Institute works to end sexual and domestic violence by providing
communities with the tools and knowledge they need to address the religious
and cultural issues related to abuse.
- Herald Cancer Care Network
Its mission is to provide emotional support to Chinese cancer patients in
the San Francisco Bay Area, regardless of their religious or socioeconomic
background.
- Hispanic-Serving Health Professions
Schools, Inc.
Its website is an online community center for medical and public health
schools and students that serve the Hispanic community, faculty and
researchers, public health officials, and interested individuals.
- Institute on
Intercultural
Health, Inc.
Navigating health through culture
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International Center for Traditional
Childbearing (ICTC)
This organization focuses on increasing the number of African American
midwives and health professionals, increasing breastfeeding and positive
birth outcomes.
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Johns
Hopkins International - Cultural Competency Program
The Center's mission is to initiate, integrate, and promote culturally
competent services within health care systems and instill a greater
awareness to the varying cultural and linguistic needs in these systems. It
designs and delivers assessments and training services that are practical,
hands-on, and application-based.
- Korean Cultural Center in AZ
Its mission is to increase public awareness and educate the public of the
richness of Korean culture that has spanned more than 5000 years.
- National Association of Hispanic
Nurses Valle del Sol Chapter
Its mission is to To foster development and improvement of all people,
particularly the Hispanic ethnic Groups and Hispanic nurses.
- The
Raul H. Castro Institute
The Raul H. Castro Institute (RCI), named after
the Honorable Raul H. Castro, the first and only Mexican-American Governor
of Arizona (1975-1977), is a collaborative effort of the Office of the
Governor - State of Arizona, Arizona State University - Center for Community
Development & Civil Rights, Maricopa County Community College District, and
Phoenix College. It focuses on issues that affect the Latino community in
Arizona, with emphasis on education, health and human services, leadership
and civic participation.
- Tanner Community Development
Corporation (TCDC)
TCDC serves as the operational link through which the church will deliver
it's outreach ministries to the community improving lives spiritually,
economically and through health and housing.
- University of Arizona - Arizona Health Sciences Center -
Arizona Hispanic Center
of Excellence
Its mission is to advance the health of all Americans by producing the
highest quality scholarship, research and training for the next generation
of diverse and culturally fluent health care providers.
- University of Arizona - Mexican
American Studies and Research Center
The Center is committed to contemporary applied public policy research on
Mexican Americans.
- University of Arizona - The Mel and Enid Zuckerman Arizona College of
Public Health - Center
for Health Equality
The Center is committed to link public health experts and resources across
the University of Arizona to address the health disparity issue among Native
American and Hispanic communities in Arizona.
- The University of Michigan
Health Science Libraries
Nine online tutorials focus on health information and computer literacy
skills and are designed not only to support academic public health
informatics programs and public health outreach training initiatives but
also to help general audiences in finding, evaluating, and using reliable
health information on the Internet.
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Wellness Information Zone
It seeks to address the public's growing need for reliable and
understandable health information and increase access to local health
resources.
- Willie
Colon's Latino Health Links
It provides a variety of web-based resources.
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