Improving immigrant health literacy.
2009
The International Rescue Committee
Improving immigrant health literacy.
The International Rescue Committee
2009

Grant Award Amount
$250,000
Partnering with the Neighborhood Health Services Corporation’s Elizabeth Port Community Health Center (E-Port), a provider of refugee health screenings, International Rescue Committee NJ educates and orients newly arrived refugees to the healthcare system in Union County and provides comprehensive health literacy education to refugees and healthcare providers. A full-time health educator leads an intensive, culturally-sensitive health orientation that covers preventive health topics and facilitates healthcare access. Material is covered over a series of ten weekly, two-hour workshops that repeat in four cycles each year.