Best Practices in Community Health Workshops

Best Practices in Community Health Workshops are a series of quarterly seminars that promote strategies and activities that have demonstrated effectiveness in addressing a public health need. For example, the Lawndale Health Promotion Program (LHPP) was very successful in recruiting barber shop and beauty salon owners to become sources of information on CVD and diabetes for their clients. In addition to providing training for the business owners, LHPP organized cooking and other demonstrations in these community-based venues. The information shared at the Best Practices in Community Health Workshops  was recorded. After being transcribed, it will become the basis for a tool kit that can be disseminated to groups and organizations interested in replicating it.

Best Practices in Community Health  Workshops respond to requests by CEED@Chicago Coalition members as well as recent research finding, opportunities, and themes that present themselves. For example, the first workshop on the LHPP's work in the African American community was inspired by Black History Month and Healthy Heart Month both of which occur in February. 

Suggestions for workshop topics may be addressed to Amparo Castillo amparo@uic.edu .

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