Mobilizing the Community for Better Health - What the Rest of America Can Learn from North Manhattan

What the Rest of America Can Learn from North Manhattan

By: Allan Formicola (Editor), Lourdes Hernandez-Cordero (Editor)

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From 1999 to 2009, The Northern Manhattan Community Voices Collaborative put Columbia University and its Medical Center in touch with surrounding community organizations and churches to facilitate access to primary care, nutritional improvement, and smoking cessation, and to broker innovative ways to access healthcare and other social services. This unlikely partnership and the relationships it forged reaffirms the wisdom of joining "town and gown" to improve a community's well-being.

Staff members of participating organizations have coauthored this volume, which shares the successes, failures, and obstacles of implementing a vast community health program. A representative of Alianza Dominicana, for example, one of the country's largest groups settling new immigrants, speaks to the value of community-based organizations in ridding a neighborhood of crime, facilitating access to health insurance, and navigating the healthcare system. The editors outline the beginnings and infrastructure of the collaboration and the relationship between leaders that fueled positive outcomes. Their portrait demonstrates how grassroots solutions can create productive dialogues that help resolve difficult issues.

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"An excellent read about an enormous and highlycommendable public health effort in a poor, multi-cultural, and beleagueredcommunity." -- Toba Schwaber Kerson, DSW, PhD, Bryn Mawr College this is an excellent read about an enormous and highly commendable public health effort in a poor, multi-cultural, and beleaguered community. -- Toba Schwaber Kerson Social Work in Health Care

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List of Figures	p. xi
List of Tables	p. xiii
Foreword	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Beginnings	p. 1
Introduction: The Northern Manhattan Community Voices Collaborative	p. 3
Creating the Collaborative Foundation	p. 14
The Collaborative Structure and the Challenges We Faced	p. 25
Promoting Health and Primary Care	p. 37
Community Health Workers: A Successful Strategy for Restoring the Health of a Community	p. 39
Asthma Basics for Children (ABC): Building an Asthma Support System from the Ground Up	p. 62
Start Right Coalition: Building on Community Initiatives for Childhood Immunization Promotion	p. 85
The Legacy Smoking-Cessation Project	p. 106
Strengthening the Safety Net	p. 125
Salud a Su Alcance (SASA): Health Within Your Reach	p. 127
Health Information Tool for Empowerment (HITE): Making Health Care Resources a Mouse Click Away	p. 142
HealthGap and the NMCVC's Effort to Cover the Uninsured	p. 155
Healthy Choices: Mobilizing Community Assets to Combat the Twin Epidemic of Obesity and Diabetes	p. 169
Providing Dental and Mental Health Care	p. 187
Columbia Community DentCare Program	p. 189
Mental Health Policy Paper: Giving Voice to a Neglected Epidemic	p. 203
The Thelma C. Davidson Adair Medical/Dental Center	p. 222
Summing Up and Scaling Up	p. 239
Summing Up	p. 241
Scaling Up	p. 258
Epilogue	p. 271
Acronyms Used in the Book	p. 277
List of Contributors	p. 279
Index	p. 287
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