Case Studies
Claremont Village is a New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) public housing development in the South Bronx and home to over 13,000 residents. Claremont Village and its surrounding neighborhood suffer from immense poverty, obesity, diabetes, low access to healthy foods, poor sanitation, crime and…
North Country HealthCare is a federally qualified health center serving fourteen communities in northern Arizona. In 2010, North Country received a grant from the Kresge Foundation to create a program called Hermosa Vida that works upstream to improve the community's health outcomes. Hermosa Vida…
Codman Square Health Center in downtown Dorchester, MA exemplifies how a health center can build and advocate for a healthy community. Established in 1979 by William J. Walczak and a local civic organization, the health center began with two physicians in the basement of an old library and a goal…
The Coachella Valley is a region in Southern California with an incredibly high rate of HIV. Based on the knowledge that increasing the number of people being tested for HIV can lead to decreased transmission, a campaign to increase testing called “Get Tested Coachella Valley” was…
Demand for Brockton Neighborhood Health Center (BNHC) accelerated after it started in 1994 as a mobile medical van in a church parking lot. BNHC is a nonprofit, multicultural, federally qualified community health center. BNHC is also designated as a Qualified Low-Income Community Business (as…
What is it?Planting Healthy Seeds (PHS) is a nutrition and physical activity curriculum developed by Parkview Health’s Community Health Improvement Program and Healthy Living Team in partnership with Ball State University and local educators. The 18-week curriculum is designed with nine nutrition…
What is it?Greene County Medical Center Public Health, a hospital-based agency, offered “drive-through flu clinics” for the first time in 2015. In this new, convenient clinic format, anyone who needed a flu shot could drive up, fill out the necessary paperwork and get their shot – all without…
What is it?HEAL (Healthy Eating Active Living) is a jointly funded collaborative effort by Parkview Health and the St. Joseph Community Health Foundation to create awareness of and linkage to opportunities for healthy eating in low-income, food-desert areas. HEAL uses a multipronged approach to…
What is it?The VIDA! project focuses on the Hispanic/Latino neighborhood in the immediate vicinity of MetroHealth's main campus designated as a food desert by the USDA. Through engagement with local residents and institutions (schools, non-profit organizations, churches, restaurants and other…
What is it?The Move More Eat Healthy Campaign is designed to implement policy, system and environment changes that will reduce obesity in low-income communities of North Orange County, California.