City Heights CDC, along with our partners, Vecinos de City Heights and Mo Human, began its training with a new cohort of Promotoras in City Heights.
Read More“I’m a stay at home mom, but I’m much more with this work in the community. I feel so proud of what we’re doing,” Lucero shared.
Read More“For me, I got my first glimpse of promotora work watching my auntie. After a long hard day of work, she would take the time to connect with neighbors and friends and check in on them. She often found ways to connect people with the resources or contacts they needed at that time.”
Read MoreThis is Esperanza, a pillar of our community and one of the promotora healthcare community advocates we're supporting in the battle against COVID-19.
Read MoreNearly 40 years ago, our founders mobilized around a shared belief in the power of community.
Too often when a community or neighborhood faces a problem, the community isn’t seen as the key to solving that problem. It happened at our founding, when non locals began carving up streets and making decisions about our community without our consent, and it still happens today.
Read MoreFriends, this is why we’re working in partnership with the San Diego Latino Health Coalition and amazing promotoras like Miriam! Resources are out there. Education is out there. A healthy reopening of our economy is possible, but we must work in partnership and focus on more equitable services if we’re going to get there!
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