WORK GROUP MEMBERS

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Work Group Members

Founding Members

WORK GROUP MEMBERS

The CJ Health Promoter Work Group presently includes

Jan Wolfe (Rural Health Outreach Program/Blue Ridge Medical Center)

Nila Saliba (UVA Cancer Center)

Aaron Miller (Sexual Assault Resource Agency)

Maritza Gomez (Trained Health Promoter)

Olga Castillo (Trained Health Promoter)

Martha Trujillo (United Way)

Dilcia Colindres (Shelter for Help in Emergency)

and Megan Orwig (Women’s Health Virginia) .

Previous work group members included Linda Hemby (Albemarle Social Services), Lindsey Holcomb (Sexual Assault Resource Agency), Dr. Ivonne López (Rural Health Outreach Program), Katie Burke (Planned Parenthood), Peggy Parvior (Virginia Department of Health), Dela Alexander (UVA School of Medicine), Laura Young (Charlottesville Free Clinic), Toine Wyckoff and Susan Intintoli (concerned citizen-community volunteers), and Michael Intintoli and Allison Garrison, student interns at the Rural Health Outreach Program.

FOUNDING MEMBERS

In May 2007, several Creciendo Juntos (CJ) members decided to come together to explore developing a community health promoter project. For its first six months, membership in the work group was closed to founding members to facilitate decision-making about an initial action plan amongst a small group of professionals with experience in the health promoter model. They included

Jan Wolfe, nurse, and Ivonne Lopez, Colombian doctor, both from the Rural Health Outreach Program (RHOP) which Jan directs. RHOP, a program of the Blue Ridge Medical Center, serves Nelson and surrounding counties. To learn more about RHOP and other Latino oriented initiatives of BRMC, visit http://www.brmedical.org/LHCS.htm and http://www.brmedical.org/RHOP.htm Dr. Lopez left the group in 2009.

Lindsey Holcomb, outreach advocate for the Sexual Assault Resource Agency (SARA), who, as a public health professional and from living and traveling in Latin America, has an interest in the “promoter” model and in helping SARA to use it to enhance outreach to victims of sexual violence. Lindsey Holcomb led the group from November 2007 to December 2008, when she left to have her first child and later moved out of State.

Dilcia Colindres, a Honduran social worker, was trained by RHOP as a health promoter before she began working for CHIP and at her present job with the Shelter for Help in Emergencies.

Martha Trujillo, from Mexico, provides information and referral services to Latinos for United Way. She was also trained by RHOP as a health promoter.

Linda Hemby, sociologist with dual nationality (US/El Salvador) and a member of CJ’s Executive Committee, worked with Salvadoran non-profits using “promotores” in health, education, legal and environmental outreach. She organized the CJ Health Promoter Work Group and through October 2007, led its meetings and organized the Southwood Help Fair (September 2008) and the Health Promoter Model Forum (October 2008). She also designed and coordinated the Latino Health Survey through February 2008. http://www.cj-network.org/cjinitiatives/HealthSurvey.doc

This photo was taken at the July 2008 CJHPWG planning meeting. Left to right: Michael Intintoli, Dela Alexander, Jan Wolfe, Martha Trujillo, Katie Burke, Nila Saliba, Lindsey Holcomb, Toine Wyckoff, and Amanda Martinez.