PROMOTORES DE SALUD OFFICE OPENS OCT. 20
The UNT Health Science Center’s School of Public Health announces the grand opening of its Promotores de Salud office near downtown Fort Worth on Oct. 20 beginning at 2 p.m. The ceremony will take place at Hunter Plaza, 200 Burnett Street. The ceremony will include a demonstration of the Promotores de Salud model, as well as programs by the promotoras.
The Promotores de Salud program is a community outreach model. Promotoras are trained volunteers who provide health education to local Latinos in homes, churches, and community centers throughout Fort Worth and Dallas. These lay educators first learn how to teach others within their community the ways to prevent and control heart disease. Their intensive training allows promotoras to demonstrate healthy ways of cooking, life-saving heart-health information to their neighbors, friends and others in the community. The program began in December 2001.
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