Lake County, IN  [ top of page]

Lake County Healthy Homes
HealthVisions Midwest
Lead:  Sr. Annemarie Kampwerth
Goal:  To educate families of Lake County about the health risks they face at home and how to prevent them. Special emphasis will be on the dangers of lead, mold, and pesticides and how to decrease the exposure to allergens and irritants associated with asthma. This is a collaborative project with city and county health departments, EPA, IDEM, Step Ahead Environmental Justice –IUN, Head Start and many other social and health agencies.

View the Healthy Homes Presentation PDF. Click on the link to view a PowerPoint presentation about Healthy Homes. Click the icon in the lower right corner of the screen to activate the presentation. Use the right mouse button to advance the presentation. The Esc key will discontinue the presentation.

Community Health Worker Program
HealthVisions Midwest
Lead:  Sr. Annemarie Kampwerth
Goal:  To increase the capacity of Lake County, Indiana to reduce health disparities, by developing and implementing a Community Health Worker education program and setting up practicum experiences for students and providing job opportunities for graduates. This is a collaborative venture with Ivy Tech Community College and St. Catherine’s Hospital.
View the Community Health worker Brochurer.pdf
View the Community Health Workers. Click on this link to view a PowerPoint presentation about community health workers. Click the icon in the lower right corner of the screen to activate the presentation. Use the right mouse button to advance the presentation. The Esc key will discontinue the presentation.

Maternal Child Health Network of Lake County
HealthVisions Midwest
Lead:  Clementine DuBose
Goal:  A coordinated effort has been spearheaded to bring all stakeholders, who interact with pregnant clients into a network. Four care coordination teams are in the forefront of this effort, Great Beginnings, NATALE, Gary HHS/MCH (formerly known as Project Pre-cint), and Healthy Start. Each team is working within their target area to recruit and provide care coordination of services. Everyone is working to ensure services to clients are not duplicated within the Network. Partnerships are being formulated with other area entities as well.
Go to our Maternal Child Health Network of Lake County Section
Promotores flyer - English
Promotores flyer- Spanish

Health and Nutrition from the Garden
HealthVisions Midwest
Lead:  Don Barnes
Goal:  HealthVisions Midwest in collaboration with Purdue University Extension Service and the Junior Master Gardner National Program will sponsor a number of pilot "Health and Nutrition from the Garden" programs. This project is part of HealthVision's Kids Health Initiative aimed at improving the health status of minority and low-income youth in communities we are currently serving.
The program goal is to:
      1. Increase physical activity among youth.
      2. Increase consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables.
      3. Raise self-esteem among minority and low-income youth
PowerPoint Presentation - Junior Master Gardener - Health and Nutrition from the Garden.

4Community Health Implementation Project
HealthVisions Midwest
Lead:  Sr. Annemarie Kampwerth
Goal:  The Lake Area United Way, United Way of Porter County, United Way of LaPorte County, and HealthVisions Midwest, Inc. have joined together to wage a battle against the growing problem of obesity in the three counties. Assisted by a matching grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc., the three United Ways will provide grants to organizations that:

Improve the health status of residents of the three counties, by increasing their life spans, and elevating their overall quality of life, by lowering the rate of obesity.

Reduce health disparities among residents.

Increase access to obesity preventive services.

Increase nutritional knowledge.

HealthVisions Midwest is manager of the entire grant project
Check out our Article in the Times!! Programs helping NWI drop weight
Download the 12 Month Summary  4Community - 12 Month Summary.pdf

Download the 12 Month Summary Year 2  4Community - 12 Month Summary Year 2.pdf


Allen County, IN  [ top of page]

Parish Health/Faith-in-Action program
HealthVisions of Fort Wayne
Lead:  Renetta Williams/Peggy Hayes
Goal:  Parish Health/Faith in Action program provides supportive services to the frail, elderly, and chronically ill population in the Central and Southeast Fort Wayne. Volunteers from interfaith churches and parishes are trained to improve the quality of life for their fellow members and community members who are suffering from chronic diseases.

Health Disparity Coalition of Color
HealthVisions of Fort Wayne
Lead:  Renetta Williams
Goal:  A multicultural action plan to achieve health parity in communities of color. Develop an Allen County Health Model to provide quality health care for all.

Lifetime Fitness Program
HealthVisions of Fort Wayne
Lead:  Renetta H. Williams
Goal:  The Lifetime of Fitness, a program of HealthVisions of Fort Wayne partnered with area neighborhood organizations to provide access to healthier lifestyle choices. This program helps organizations set up low or no cost exercise sites and/or nutrition and health education to adults, children, and youth in the Central and Southeast communities of Fort Wayne to combat the ever increasing epidemic of obesity and concurrent chronic diseases. We have over 100 people attending weekly at all sites. A $20,000 grant was submitted to the City of Fort Wayne to combine the fitness, gardening, and the Down Home Healthy Living (DHHL) program to address strategies for disease prevention and early detection.
Management FWAACA:  This is a group under the management of HealthVisions Fort Wayne. The FWAACA has organized a Prevention Clinic in collaboration with the Allen County Health Disparity Coalition, Lafayette Medical Center, and the Area Health Education Center to provide free and low cost screening, education, case management and follow-up for cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure checks, cholesterol, HIV/AIDS, depression, visions, lead poisoning and sickle cell. The initial start up date was Wednesday, January 18, 2006. The Clinic will be open every 3rd Wednesday 5:00 P.M to 7:00 P.M. at 2700 Lafayette Street –Suite 100.


Starke County, IN  [ top of page]

Living for Life
HealthVisions Midwest
Lead:  Kathy Robb
Goal:  To reduce health disparities among the rural poor population of Starke County, Indiana by providing a program focusing on "living a healthy lifestyle. The program will be approximately 10 weeks long and will include weekly educational sessions. Each session will include a 30-minute lecture topic (guest speakers from various community agencies will be doing the lectures), the nutrition tip of the week, a weekly healthy recipe and an exercise tip of the week. We will also offer weekly "weigh in" and track the amount of weight lost be different organizations and/or groups as well as the community. Starke County Memorial Hospital, United Way, the local radio station and other local agencies are partners in this project.


LaPorte County, IN  [ top of page]

Healthy Communities of LaPorte County
Goal:  As a partner of Healthy Communities of LaPorte County we collaborate with other organizations in LaPorte County in finding solutions to issues that impact the emotional, physical and spiritual health and overall quality of life of the citizens of that county.We are specifically involved in the Health Council and establishing and implementing a child maternal health network for the county with specific programs for pregnant women.


St. Joseph, Elkhart, Marshal Counties, IN  [ top of page]

Medical Mobile Unit
Goal:   The Mobile Medical Unit is Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center’s 40-foot-long clinic on wheels. The Mobile Medical Unit (MMU) brings unique healthcare to the communities served by SJRMC, expanding access in both urban and rural areas, while helping to meet the needs of at-risk individuals who lack transportation or adequate access to medical offices or clinics. HealthVisions Midwest is collaborating with St. Joseph by helping to fund this unit at sites in Plymouth, especially for the Spanish speaking population and some underserved areas of Mishawka.

The state-of-the-art Mobile Medical Unit houses a medical an exam area, a mammography unit, plus an area for intake, information, and health education. The MMU will also be used in partnership with area cancer programs, women’s health services, community programs, and corporate wellness programs.



East St. Louis, IL  [ top of page]

Faith in Action to Serve and Transform (FAST)
HealthVisions East St. Louis
Lead:  Paula Wills
Goal:  Inspired by the compassion of Christ, FAST provides interfaith, volunteer based non-medical support and care giving services to individuals who are homebound, frail, elderly, disabled or afflicted with chronic illnesses in the Greater East St. Louis community. FAST seeks to ease loneliness and isolation.
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