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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 16, 2020   Home Tips to Keep Families Healthy As families enter their fourth month home with children, the DC Healthy Housing Collaborative (DCHHC) knows one of parents’ top concerns is how to keep homes clean and pest-free. For parents of children with asthma, this GO! >

IPHI and the Prince George’s County Food Equity Council host Focus Groups to Address Food and Beverage Marketing   *NEW DATES ADDED* The Institute for Public Health Innovation (IPHI) and the Prince George’s County Food Equity Council (FEC) are working in partnership with the National GO! >

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 20, 2019 Contact: Kady Pecorella 202-350-4120 kpecorella@institutephi.org IPHI HOSTS FIRST REGIONAL CONFERENCE TO BRING TOGETHER DC, VA, AND MD COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS TO SHARE BEST PRACTICES, EXPAND SKILL SET Almost 300 Participants Gather from all over GO! >

ELEVATE: 2019 Regional Outreach Workers’ Conference   On August 1-2, 2019 IPHI hosted ELEVATE, the 2019 Regional Outreach Workers’ Conference, with support from partners DC Health, DC Department of Behavioral Health, the Effi Barry Training Institute, HealthHIV, the Virginia CHW GO! >

America’s Public Health Crisis: Declining Life Expectancy & its Systemic Causes On February 25, 2019, the Institute for Public Health Innovation hosted a webinar examining declining life expectancy trends in the U.S. In 2018 the CDC released data revealing that U.S. life expectancy GO! >

IPHI Partners with Local Foundation to Complete its 2018 Community Needs Assessment   IPHI partnered with the Cameron Foundation in Petersburg, VA to update its periodic Community Needs Assessment for 2018. The assessment provides a comprehensive review of demographic, socioeconomic, GO! >

Southern Maryland Partnership Receives Major Federal Funding to Create Integrated Regional System of Chronic Disease Prevention and Care.   The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently awarded the Prince George’s County Health Department and a broad group of partners a $12 GO! >

IPHI Celebrates 19 Graduates of the CHW Core Skills Training IPHI is excited to congratulate 19 graduates of the Community Health Workers Core Skills Training facilitated from July – August in Richmond this summer. On August 29, 2018, Community Health Workers from across Virginia GO! >

D.C. Outreach Workers’ Conference 2018   On July 24 and 25, 2018, IPHI co-hosted the 1st Annual DC Outreach Workers’ Conference with DCPCA, DC Health, and La Clinica del Pueblo. The 2-day event brought together CHWs, outreach workers, and stakeholders to participate in workshops and GO! >

CHW Certification and Workforce Development – Spring 2018 Update  Maryland Great news concerning CHW certification comes out of Maryland! Together with chapters of the Maryland CHW Network and other partners, IPHI was highly involved in the CHW certification legislation introduced during GO! >