Sisters of Color United for Education/Hermanas de Color Unidas para Educacion
Sisters of Color United for Education/Hermanas de Color Unidas para Educacion
Health and Human Services
Yes

Contact Info

Sisters of Color United for Education/Hermanas de Color Unidas Para la Educacion
2895 W. 8th Avenue
Denver
Colorado
80204
USA
303-446-8800
303-446-8799
www.socue.org

Additional Information

31-1554794
Sisters of Color United for Education/Hermanas de Color Unidas para la Educacion believes that indigenous communities have the inherent ability to achieve health equity through education, community mobilization, and systems change.
Sisters of Color United for Education is a 20-year old community based, non-profit organization which provides a broad range of youth & adult healthcare education-based services "free of charge";all services are offered in Spanish and English.

Sisters primary educational service is the Promotora Program which is a 52-hour training program for men, women and youth to become trusted health messengers/advocates in their community regarding *life-threatening health issues such as:

*HIV/AIDS
*Heart (Cardio) Health
*Diabetes
*Domestic Violence
*Suicide Prevention Amongst Latina Youth
*Alcohol & Drug(Substance)Abuse
*Depression
*Teen Pregnancy
*Sexual Assault

In 2010, Sisters vision is the construction of a wheelchair ramp in June to better serve its participants, to become a "green" organization to provide an eco-friendly environment, to build a "Community Heart Health Teaching Kitchen" for community members to learn how to prepare healthy, quality/affordable meals and to sustain/expand its educational services and programs.

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