CHI成立于2022年，旨在满足社区日益增长的健康需求，特别是行为健康需求。我们的使命是在亚裔美国人，太平洋岛民和其他社区之间提高意识、扩散教育、加强宣传以及提供与行为健康相关的服务。在新冠疫情期间，霍华德县的许多华裔美国青年和家庭经历了种族主义，其中一些经历可能导致种族相关的创伤。在这一困难时期，我们必须提供适应文化和语言的社会情感学习，以支持华裔儿童、青年和家庭。作为霍华德县中文学校（HCCS）、霍华德郡中文文化中心和培英中文学校的合作伙伴，CHI致力于提高对行为健康问题的认识，并分发相关教育材料。
近期活动
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CHI Shines at Dragon Boat Festival at Dancel Y
On Saturday, June 16, the staff and volunteers at Community Health Initiative attended the Dragon Boat Festival at Dancel Y, hosted by CAPA. As a Panda sponsor of this outreach event, we prepared an entertaining spinning wheel trivia game that drew a large crowd. Participants who answered correctly were rewarded with a small gift of…
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How to Identify and Overcome Micro Discrimination and Micro Aggression Towards Immigrants
Everyone has biases that can lead to micro-discrimination and micro-aggression toward people, especially vulnerable and marginalized immigrants. These behaviors, left unchecked, can have a negative impact on individuals, society, performance, productivity, morale, and community relations. The focus of this training is using communication skills to identify micro discrimination and microaggression in the workplace and community.…