Free health check-ups including diabetes, hypertension, and HIV/AIDS education, counseling and testing in collaboration with the local Health Department are offered at Centro Latino de Salud. No appointments are necessary, and house calls are available. Centro Latino provides referrals to the following agencies and health care providers: Family Health Center, FHC Dental Clinic, Columbia/Boone County Health Department, National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Boone Hospital Convenience Clinic, Dr. Mack’s Walk-in-Clinic, Dr. Russell Harrison DDS, Dr. Jim Elliot, DDS and others.
Centro Latino de Salud provides medical interpreting services to health care providers.
Presently Centro Latino de Salud has signed a contract with the Family Health Center Dental Clinic to provide medical interpreting as needed.
Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
WIC is a nutrition program provided through the Columbia/Boone County Health Department. Services provided include: nutrition education and counseling, health screening and risk assessment, breastfeeding promotion and support, and referrals to other services. Pregnant women, new mothers, infants and children up to five years of age are eligible for WIC services. Centro Latino de Salud makes referrals for newcomers to our community to the program.
Latino Link
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The program connects the Latino community to health and human resources. Latino Link is a health care outreach initiative sponsored by the Columbia/Boone County Health Department in collaboration with the Family Health Center and Centro Latino de Salud, Educación y Cultura. With the goal of ensuring access to affordable medical care for Latinos, the program was established in 2001 through a grant from the Federal Office of Minority Health and Senior Services. The grant placed a community health outreach worker at Centro Latino de Salud, who provided screenings for HIV/AIDS, diabetes, and hypertension, while also providing health education information and referrals. In addition the grant provided Centro Latino, the Family Health Center and the Columbia/Boone County Health Department each with a bilingual social worker. The funding for this program ended in 2004. Presently Centro Latino's community health outreach worker is covered by the Health Coordinator as a volunteer basis.
Funding
In December 2007, the Missouri Foundation for Health awarded Centro Latino de Salud a Capacity Building grant for $7,190 to implement Centro Latino’s Health Care Worker program for Latinos called Promotores de Salud Program in Spanish.
From 2004 to 2007 Centro Latino partnered with the School of Social Work in a research grant to Improve Family Planning Services for Latino Families in Boone County. The partnership provided $10,000 a year for three years for Centro Latino’s services in organizing focus groups and translating written materials. Centro Latino de Salud provides information about Family Planning resources to its clients through a flyer designed by the project.
From 2001 to 2004 Centro Latino de Salud Health program was funded by the Federal Office of Minority Health with a grant for $27,000 a year for three years.
From 2000 to 2001 the State of Missouri Office of Minority Health assisted Centro Latino de Salud Health program with $5,000 a year for one year to establish a community outreach program for Latinos in Mid-Missouri.
Basic Community Health and Social Services for Latino Families and Individuals living in Mid-Missouri.
In December 2007, the Missouri Foundation for Health awarded Centro Latino de Salud a Capacity Building grant for $7,190 to implement Centro Latino’s Health Care Worker program for Latinos called Promotores de Salud Program in Spanish.
From 2004 to 2007 Centro Latino partnered with the School of Social Work in a research grant to Improve Family Planning Services for Latino Families in Boone County. The partnership provided $10,000 a year for three years for Centro Latino’s services in organizing focus groups and translating written materials. Centro Latino de Salud provides information about Family Planning resources to its clients through a flyer designed by the project.
From 2001 to 2004 Centro Latino de Salud Health program was funded by the Federal Office of Minority Health with a grant for $27,000 a year for three years.
From 2000 to 2001 the State of Missouri Office of Minority Health assisted Centro Latino de Salud Health program with $5,000 a year for one year to establish a community outreach program for Latinos in Mid-Missouri.
- Assistance with language barier and lack of understanding on how to use the health care system of the United States.
- Offering interpreting services to clients and assistance making appointments with health care providers.
- Helping find the most affordable and fast primary care services in the area.
- 8AM call to Family Health Center Dental Clinic to ask if there are any cancellations to help our working class client receive emergency dental care services. The cases are extreme and the intervention usually results in a tooth extraction.
- Assistance in buying pain medication and antibiotics at the pharmacies after the tooth extraction or doctor’s visit.
- HIV education, prevention, testing, and positive assistance. Referrals to RAIN for positive management. Distribution of free condoms provided by the local Health Department.
- Diabetes prevention. Check blood sugar levels by appointment and provide education in Spanish to clients. Glucometer, lancets, and gloves are provided by the Health Department. Referrals to Family Health center for diabetes management and Insulin treatment..
- Family Planning referrals and provision of written information in Spanish.
- Abstinence and its benefits literature is available in Spanish at Centro Latino de Salud.
- Obesity Prevention Program. Healthy snacks program in our After School Program. 50 children are exposed to fruits and vegetables at least twice a week at Centro Latino. The fruits and vegetables are provided by the local Food Bank.
- Help with basic housing and utilities connections. Usually phone interpreting between clients and realtors and city employees as needed.
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