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Latino Health Initiative reviews 10‑year blueprint, workforce and parent‑education pilots
Summary
The Latino Health Initiative told the County Council its 10‑year blueprint is expiring this year and staff are running a needs assessment to set new priorities; programs include a Welcome Back Center workforce pathway (12 RN graduates expected), climate & health cohorts and a Parents in Action curriculum aimed at elementary schools.
Mariana Sarani, Senior Manager of the Latino Health Initiative, told the council that LHI’s 10‑year Blueprint is set to expire this year and that staff are conducting a needs assessment, community conversations and interviews to determine whether and how the initiative should adjust priorities.
LHI described a 14‑program portfolio grouped into five service areas — outreach and engagement, workforce and training, awareness and education, health and human services, and communications — and highlighted recent additions driven by community need: climate & health cohorts, a parent education program addressing substance use that moved from high‑school to elementary cohorts, and an expanded Welcome Back Center that is training internationally educated health professionals. "About 220,000 residents are Latinos or identify as Latinos," Sarani said when describing the population the initiative serves.
Sarani also noted communications work (a website with roughly 1,000,000 visits per year and an LHI newsletter) and said digital literacy remains a barrier for residents trying to access virtual services. She described targeted, cohort‑based programs and community health worker outreach designed to reach residents across many ZIP codes.
