Success Stories by Topic: Limited English proficiency

• Hispanic Health Outreach Project
  July 2009
  The Hispanic Health Outreach Project provided outreach, education, and case management services to Hispanic residents in Portage and Waupaca counties.
• Valley Health Exchange Network
  July 2009
  The main goal of this project was to help create a community-based health care system that was better equipped to meet the health care needs of a more racially, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse population in rural Virginia.
• Cherokee Health Systems Rural Outreach Project
  July 2009
  Cherokee Health Systems proposed a collaborative health outreach project to address issues like language barriers, lack of trust in the health care system, and, in many cases, more pressing human needs—such as social services, food, and clothing in this predominately rural Appalachian region.
• Language Links for Healthier Families
  July 2009
  Language Links for Healthier Families was created to increase access to health care for Latino families in south central Georgia through health education and outreach by eliminating language and cultural barriers to quality care.
• Toombs Teen Health Collaborative
  July 2009
  Organizations throughout the region joined forces to create the Toombs Teen Health Collaborative in an attempt to reduce teen pregnancy, reduce repeat births by teens,and to implement a system to improve community-based health care services to teenagers.
• Southwest Georgia Multicultural Health Initiative
  May 2009
  The Southwest Georgia Multicultural Health Initiative was created to ensure that translation and interpretation assistance was available to individuals with limited English proficiency seeking care at local hospitals and health departments, to improve providers’ understanding of cultural diversity issues related to the people they serve, and to ensure that people with limited English proficiency have access to routine health education and screening services.
• Southeast Georgia Communities Health Links Project
  May 2009
  The primary purpose of the Health Links project was to address linguistic and cultural barriers to health care experienced by migrant and seasonal farmworkers in a four-county region in southeast Georgia by providing interpretation services, health education, case management, and improved access to primary health care services.
• Western Yuma County Rural Health Outreach Project
  May 2009
  The Western Yuma County Rural Health Outreach Project was designed to increase access to health care services for the growing Hispanic population in Yuma County.
• Kokua Program
  July 2005
  The primary objectives of this consortium of six area health service providers, agencies, and universities were to reach and educate local women on breast and cervical cancer, and provide health screenings using culturally appropriate methods that reduce fear and anxiety.
• Rural Health Outreach Grant Program (West Wendover, Nevada)
  July 2005
  Four consortium members created this program to provide local access to mental health services and to provide a school-based program teaching resiliency and social skills to school-aged children and their parents.