San Antonio, TEXAS — Health Confianza and its main partners – South Central Area Health Education Center (AHEC), Southside Collaborative, YWCA San Antonio and WestCare Texas – Ella Austin – celebrated the end of a two-year grant at the Building Confianza: Voices, Lesson and Actions health literacy summit on May 15th at Texas A&M San Antonio. .
The free summit was a community-focused wrap-up of a grant from Bexar County Public Health, which supported workforce training, health webinars, mobile clinics, community health clubs, organizational health literacy, technology and health communications. The event attracted community members, health professionals, nonprofit leaders, public health professionals and more. In all, more than 120 attendees participated in the day’s activities.
Special guests included Claude A. Jacob, DrPH, MPH, director of the City of San Antonio Metro Health, and Andrea Guerrero, PhD, MPH, director of Bexar County Public Health. Matthew Dacso, MD, MSc, FACP, Director of the Charles E. Cheever Jr. Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics served as MC for the interactive event.
Notably, the summit also had its first Confianza Awards, recognizing the many health professionals, nonprofit workers, community health workers and community members who have participated in one or more of our programs in effort to improve our community’s health and well-being.
During the summit, Health Confianza launched its Health Begins with Confianza campaign, a preventive health campaign comprised of free health roadmaps for men, women, babies, children/teen and older adults and other education tools. Health Confianza will host a free train-the-trainer session on the campaign that is open to students, community health workers, nonprofit and health professionals on July 8. The trainees will receive facilitator guides, showing community health workers and others how to share the roadmaps at health fairs, in classrooms, and in one-on-one settings.
To learn more about Health Confianza, visit Health Confianza.org and WellnessCultura.org.
To sign up for Health Begins with Confianza train-the-trainer training, visit: HEALTH BEGINS WITH CONFIANZA FACILITATOR GUIDE TRAINING