Community Health Programs
The Community Health Resource Center is always developing and carrying out exciting community health programs. The current programs are dynamic and collaborative. Nutritional and social work resources within CHRC are paired with outside agencies to bring robust services and exciting new opportunities to the San Francisco Community.
From Garden to Plate
The Community Health Resource Center (CHRC) and The Tule Elk Park Project (TEPP) offer a unique partnership that blends the Resource Center’s nutritional expertise with TEPP’s innovative environmental approach to early childhood education. Together, we developed an integrated curriculum that educates the child experientially. From Garden to Plate, for pre-kindergarten and lower elementary students, will use a garden-based learning approach to address three key components: Obesity Prevention, Ecological Awareness and Sustainable Living. We address these three components together because personal nutrition, the environment, and our ecological stewardship are inextricably linked.
Partnership for Community Health
This unique and dynamic collaboration unites the Community Health Resource Center, California Pacific Medical Center physicians with the San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium to provide much needed medical, case management, transportation and translation services to low income individuals. The Community Health Resource Center orchestrates all appointments by placing reminder calls, organizing translation services, support transportation needs and giving case management support to individuals in need of urgent medical exams. In 2007 well over 500 individuals received healthcare services through this exciting program.
Health Screenings
Prevention and pro-active care are at the core of the CHRC philosophy. To meet the needs of the community and our mission, CHRC provides free or low cost screenings for early detection of series illnesses. Through the generous support of the May and Stanley Smith Charitable Trust, health screenings take place at the YMCA to monitor cholesterol, glucose, blood pressure, and osteoporosis. CHRC is also active in providing early detection of illness to busy professionals by traveling into business offices and giving screenings to employees. We also provide ongoing free health screenings at San Francisco senior living programs, health centers and once a month at our 2100 Webster Street office.