A Bridge to Community
Strategic, Health-focused Community EngagementDUO: A bridge to community building. DUO equips and empowers communities for, “true success” using sustainable, health-focused, outreach programs and activities that contribute to improved community health outcomes – Mind, Body, Spirit, and Socially!
Do Unto Others:
OUR VISION & MISSION
Community n. ~ a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.
DUO introduces peer-to-peer, health outreach programming to urban communities in partnership with Faith Groups and Key Community Stakeholders. The idea is to forge sustainable relationships that promote and equip partners to promote community-building solutions for addressing chronic, lifestyle diseases and health disparities in your community.
Organizing Adventists, Faith Groups, and Key Community Stakeholders for Sustainable, High-Impact Health Outreach Programs & Activities
Community Health Mapping
Assist in conducting research to assess health risks, especially for under-served populations in targeted Community Engagement Zones (CEZ). A suite of programs and activities are recommended to address gaps in prevention and health education services. Potential Stakeholder Partnerships are identified and pursued.
Stakeholder Partnerships
Governments, Agencies, Media, Philanthropies, Civic Organizations, Healthcare, Faith Groups, Media, and Businesses vested in improving community health are identified. DUO Affiliates source stakeholders with a vested interest in Prevention and Health Advocacy/Equity to forge partnerships that help achieve health improvement goals and objectives.
Project Management
Working closely with Affiliates and Community Stakeholders, DUO guides a process to grow local capacity to launch research-driven, health education and prevention initiatives. Data capture, program assessment and evaluation tools are tracked and monitored to ensure short-/long-term success as we ally to increase residents’ Health IQs.
YOUTH & YOUNG ADULT ENGAGEMENT & EMPOWERMENT
CHOSEN: NOT WORDS, BUT DEEDS
CHOSEN, in partnership with Key Community Stakeholders, provides safe, nurturing spaces for aspirational Youth and Young Adults to play important roles in improving health outcomes for peers… and their neighbors.
Health, in all its domains, is essential for preparing/fortifying young people to take leadership roles in their communities!
MORE THAN A CENTURY OF HEALTH EDUCATION:
A HISTORY OF COMMUNITY HEALTH
With over 175 years of lifestyle-health education and research leadership, Seventh-day Adventists have set the pace in nutrition and health innovation in North America… and globally. Adventists are known for innovation in the manufacture of breakfast and health foods (i. e., Kelloggs Corn Flakes (1894) and Post Cereals Postum & Toasties, 1897) and have served as stewards of preventative lifestyle practices ever since.
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Do you have a love for community? So do we. Let’s talk.