Health & Wellness Outreach

The Health & Wellness Outreach Program is designed to enhance the health of individuals in need by integrating outreach supports with essential health care services. Recognizing the heightened barriers individuals face—such as mistrust, discrimination, and transportation difficulties—which hinder access to health care, the program seeks to mitigate these through personalized support at appointments and facilitating transportation. By combining efforts with health care providers, the program not only aims to improve immediate access to necessary medical care and medications but also to foster better management of chronic illnesses, leading to improved overall health outcomes.

This collaborative approach addresses the fundamental needs of those who often place health care lower on their list of priorities due to daily survival challenges.

• Aims to improve the health of those in need by combining outreach supports with health care services.
• Individuals who encounter barriers to health care despite having greater needs for care.
• Barriers such as mistrust of the health care system, experiences of discrimination from providers and transportation creates challenges accessing health care.
• These barriers lead to missed appointments, delayed care, and missed or delayed medication use.
• These consequences may lead to poorer management of chronic illness which results in poorer health outcomes.
• Personalized supports at appointments and transportation are basic but necessary steps for ongoing health care and medication access.
• Individuals who are homeless encounter daily struggles for the essentials of life, accessing health care is a lower priority.
• By collaborating health care providers and outreach services, it facilitates the continuity of care, and increases overall health outcomes.