Health Equity

The goal of Healthy Androscoggin’s health equity programming is to help local healthcare and wellness providers improve their cultural competency and increase access to care for diverse populations.

Health Equity in Our Community

Health equity means that everyone has a fair opportunity to live a long, productive and healthy life. Conditions in the places where people live, learn, work and play affect a wide range of health risks and outcomes. Healthy Androscoggin works to address these health inequities through our projects and programs.

How We Promote Health Equity

• Cultural Competency and Implicit Bias trainings for professionals working with diverse populations.

• Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) Assessments for organizations to meet National Standards for delivery of culturally competent services.

• Improving collection and analysis of data on healthcare access for diverse populations, in order to assess and optimize programs.

• Production and distribution of culturally and linguistically appropriate health information.

Community Health Education Curriculum

We encourage you to use these resources. Please contact us at info@healthyandroscoggin.org with your information and the number of people who received the education.

• Asthma Triggers-English, French, Somali, Arabic

• Hypertension-English

• Men’s Health-English, French, Somali, Arabic

• Women’s Health-English, French, Somali, Arabic, Portuguese

• Colorectal Cancer-English

Resources

• Accessing health care video (Somali, French, Arabic)

• Cultural Competency for Providers video

• Fowsia’s Story video

• Cultural Competency Toolkit

• Portrait of Health Needs, 2015

To learn more about any of these programs, ask questions, or access resources, please contact Healthy Androscoggin at 795-5990 or info@healthyandroscoggin.org