Our Mission
To promote equity and address health disparities for Hispanics, Latinos, and other vulnerable communities through research, advocacy, and culturally resonant services.
Hispanic Health Council Centers
The Community Nutrition Center offers programs and services designed to improve healthy lifestyles including nutrition and physical activities across the life course in socioeconomically vulnerable communities.
The Compassion Center’s primary goal is to improve the mental health and wellbeing of the community we serve by providing culturally appropriate behavioral health services using a holistic approach for treatment in a welcoming and trusting environment.
The Family Wellness Center serves as a supportive entry point for local families seeking community. With a health equity focus and through trauma-informed care, we address eight principal areas of health: physical, intellectual, occupational, spiritual, social, emotional, financial, and environmental.
The Health Protection & Education Center provides culturally sensitive community-based services to protect the health of individuals and communities focusing on the prevention and mitigation of infectious, chronic diseases and violence. We also provide supportive employment and case management services to improve the well-being of clients with a history of addiction or mental health conditions.
The Maternal Health Center provides culturally sensitive integrated services for women before, during and after pregnancy. Services are delivered by community health workers, at hospitals, homes, virtually, by telephone or any other comfortable setting.
The Migrant Health Clinic, in partnership with the University of Connecticut, provides culturally appropriate general primary care services, specialized services, and ancillary services at local farms, plants, the community, and our primary care clinic.
The Welcome Center serves as a supportive entry point for immigrants, refugees, and persons new to our community from Puerto Rico. In collaboration with multiple partnering agencies, we provide community orientation sessions, ESL classes, legal support, socialization/peer-to-peer opportunities, a resource lab, and access to community resources.
Youth Services
We provide a continuum of services to support and guide families collaboratively through childhood and adolescence. Programing includes academic support, cultural activities, youth leadership development, and parenting support. Some of the programs we offer:
- Family Resource Center at Maria Sanchez School
- Hispanic Health Council Extended Learning Program at Maria Sanchez School
- Bridge to Succes
Research & Advocacy
Community-based Research has been a core pillar of the Hispanic Health Council’s pursuit of its mission since its inception. The Hispanic Health Council conducts research and evaluation projects to improve systems, policies, and large-scale programs through an equity lens. The goal is to identify health-related needs and design programmatic and policy/system changes to address them.
The Hispanic Health Council is also actively engaged in System and Policy Advocacy, conducted to impact the many barriers to health experienced by diverse communities at the causal level.
