Manhattanville

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the Wellness Center in Manhattanville
is going to be providing a very critical service to the community. At the Jerome
Green Science Center, I will be running with a stellar team a community health
worker training institute so we are going to be recruiting community members from churches, from community-based

organizations, senior centers housing projects, anyone who is really committed to the issue of
health and advocacy and we are going to be empowering these individuals to not
only be advocates for health in their communities but also to be able to
deliver very basic what I call primordial health care services within
the community

we call it the community health worker
stroke prevention program. It's based on the community health worker model whichis using people who live in a community as health workers to actually go out and
assist people in getting in for medical care Well, I've learned a couple of
things, how to take high blood pressure and also how to measure for diabetes and I think those things are important

because our community is
disproportionately affected with these two diseases and instead of having to
wait on doctors and professionals folks to come in to do this for the community we
will be able to do it ourselves I do feel that this has been a great
experience because you learn so much more than the motivation and the
compassion and just knowing what

different illnesses are that inflict on
people every day we're suffering so much from high blood pressure, from diabetes,
from cancer, from not having the proper health insurance so all of these
different pieces of information we're learning so that we can bring it to the
congregation and present it so that they can become healthier yeah the church
that I attend and serve, the congregation

is predominantly Hispanic and one of the
things that I was talking to my pastor about was about like health. So we will
teach and empower these individuals with the skills of motivational interview,
interviewing, that they can take into their communities and we will also
empower them with technical know-how to screen individuals at least blood
pressure screening, cholesterol screening,

diabetes screening, I can give you a pill
for high blood pressure but I can't address all the things in society that
makes it hard to lower that high blood pressure. Our communities and our society is what we need to fix that problem. We are involving people who help us guide people on how to navigate the health insurance field to get where they need
to get to get in to see a doctor, we are

providing referrals, we are linking to a
community center where people can walk in and sit down and have their blood
pressure checked. So it has been an inspiration to me so
it's gonna give me the wherewithal to go out and do more than what I'm doing now
so it's been a pleasure meeting and working with the people here and I want
to come in a commend Colombia for

bringing this kind of program into this
community So the Wellness Center is going to be providing a very critical service to the community and it's going to become very quickly one of the the
pearls of the Columbia system