Our Goal
The COVID-19 Needs Assessment data identified not only direct needs around the pandemic but also a broader context of historical mistrust, generational trauma, ongoing systemic racism and a need for more health care professionals from the African Heritage Community. Getting medical information from trusted community sources was a key recommendation that came from the COVID Needs Assessment data. The collaborative aims for this website to become a place where the Northland African Heritage Community can seek trusted information from trusted community African Heritage healthcare professionals, both during the pandemic and going forward, to facilitate partnerships among community-based organizations and healthcare systems to address longstanding health-care inequities.
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Our Mission
Our Mission is to create, develop, and build health equity through policies, practices, procedures and community lead programs that positively impact the health and well-being of everyone. We aim to achieve this through community-based social impact strategies.
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Our vision
Our vision is that Health Equity Northland manages and implements strategies and solutions within the social determinants of health to improve life expectancies for everyone with attention to communities of color.
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Our Values
Our values are based in the belief that “A community will survive and prosper as a whole when we are all walking on even ground.”
Community Recognition
