About us—The Greater Humboldt Park Community of Wellness is a broad coalition of organizations and individuals dedicated to improving our community's health.
Our work is focused around eight health priorities in Humboldt Park: Asthma, Active Lifestyles, Behavioral Health, Diabetes, Health Careers, HIV/AIDS, Oral Health, and School Health.
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News—The Helping Her Live/Apoyandola a Vivir program provides free interactive presentations in Spanish or English for anyone in the Humboldt Park or North Lawndale communities interested in learning about breast health. The program helps link uninsured women with free and low cost mammograms and provides resources for navigating the health care system. The goal of the program is to ensure that women in Humboldt Park and North Lawndale do not die unnecessarily from breast cancer.
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Reports and articles related to our health priorities in Humboldt Park
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News—By Ed Finkel, LISC-Chicago
"Community-level wellness programs fueled by public-health research and organizing bring great benefits to low- to moderate-income communities like Humboldt Park. But federal reform efforts are likely to produce limited gains, according to panelists who appeared Oct. 23 at a daylong forum at Association House, sponsored by the Greater Humboldt Park Community of Wellness.
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About us—We are grateful to all our present and past funders, including:
Advocate Bethany Hospital Community Health Fund
AIDS Foundation of Chicago
Chicago Community Trust
CLOCC
Field Foundation
Illinois Department of Public Health
LISC/New Communities Program
Northwestern University- Community Based Participatory Research Program
Norwegian American Hospital
Otho S. A. Sprague Memorial Institute
Polk Brothers Foundation
REI
Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust
University of Chicago, Dept. of Psychology
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