{"id":34152,"date":"2021-10-22T19:09:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T19:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalcommunities.org\/?post_type=country&p=34152"},"modified":"2024-10-28T22:17:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T22:17:47","slug":"united-states","status":"publish","type":"country","link":"https:\/\/globalcommunities.org\/country\/united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"United States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t

Global Communities was founded in 1952 as the Cooperative Housing Foundation, a U.S. organization that helped build houses for people in need based on the cooperative model. From the very beginning, we focused on working with communities to meet their needs, and over three decades, built 60,000 houses in 35 U.S. states.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Though our name has changed and our impact has grown to reach over 30 countries, our commitment to partnering with communities in the U.S. to bring about sustainable, positive change remains the same. In 2020, Global Communities merged with Project Concern International (PCI), a global development organization with roots working in health on the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n

Today, Global Communities provides multi-cultural health education, outreach and related social services in the U.S.-Mexico border region and is known nationally as a leader in the design and implementation of high impact, low-cost, innovative programming that is culturally tailored, person-centered and improves access to quality care. We understand that a high quality, culturally congruent workforce is critical to achieving health equity.<\/p>\n\t

Convening stakeholders and strengthening the capacity of partner networks to achieve collective goals is a core strength of Global Communities’ U.S. programming. Our U.S. team is recognized as a trusted partner, thought leader and convener of coalitions across sectors and health and social issue areas, including birth equity and maternal health, human trafficking prevention, disease prevention and response, water and sanitation and migrant and binational health care. <\/p>\n

Global Communities’ U.S. team is highly experienced managing multi-sector collaborations, including the Healthy Start Community Action Network, an alliance of over 60 agencies and programs in San Diego, California aligned around common collective impact goals to increase healthy pregnancies, safe labor and delivery, and nurturing parenting for all of San Diego’s families. In addition, we help lead the San Diego Trafficking Prevention Collective, an initiative to bring human trafficking awareness and prevention education to every school district across the county and the Employers Ending Exploitation Alliance, a newly formed coalition to leverage the collective power of the local business community to diminish human trafficking in San Diego.<\/p>\n

\n\t\tEliminating Disparities in Maternal & Child Health\n\t<\/h2>\n\tGlobal Communities wants every child to have a strong start in life. Funded by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration, Global Communities’ Healthy Start programs are taking a person-centered approach to reducing infant mortality and improving family health. Healthy Start provides free prenatal and childbirth education, postpartum and breastfeeding support, with a focus on Black families and immigrants in San Diego and San Bernardino Counties. The projects seek to improve birth outcomes and support early child development through healthy and nurturing parent-child interactions. Enrolled participants have access to midwifery and doula services and other resources. Health educators, known as perinatal navigators, provide home-based visits for families from the time they are pregnant until their child is 18 months old. To achieve maximum sustainability and culturally competent services, Healthy Start also engages in perinatal workforce development, training women from underserved populations to become childbirth educators, doulas and lactation educators. Learn more:
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