What We Do and How
IFPHA is a door-to-door, real-help-in-real-time approach.
So, individualized, timely, on your turf.
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Wellness Outreach
We make personal connections through monthly community engagements with attention to routine blood pressure and glucose checks. We facilitate independent living assessments as well as health screenings to detect health issues early. We encourage and support individualized weight management, fitness routines, beneficial stress relief, healthy eating, and maintaining a clean and safe living environment.
Health Education
Education takes into consideration residents’ time, knowledge, and experiences. It focuses on conditions and ailments being experienced with emphasis on understanding them and effectively managing them. It is done individually or in small groups at community centers, such as our Lunch & Learns. Timely information is also distributed with monthly food bags. Topics range from healthy eating and diabetes management to quitting tobacco and substance use disorders. We help clients with cognitive issues manage medications and basic life skills and help assess their need for higher levels of care.
Healthy Food Outreach
We deliver monthly supplemental food bags with an emphasis on fresh, immunity-building items, as well as on personal and cultural preferences and dietary needs based on health issues.
COVID-19 Response
IFPHA continues helping residents with their ongoing COVID concerns and precautionary needs, especially those who are older or have compromised immune systems. As the pandemic has become endemic, we provide timely, accurate information to help keep everyone safe and well, address concerns and questions, and provide needed personal protective supplies. We also connect people to vaccination clinics and, when needed, get people to them, and we deliver free self-test kits.
Advocacy
We view healthcare and wellness with a social determinants of health lens, an equity/inclusion lens, with the key goal of building awareness and understanding among the populations impacted and supporting them in advocating for changes and remedies.
Conditions in the places where people live, learn, work, play, and worship affect a wide range of health risks and outcomes, such as chronic heart disease, infant mortality, decreased life expectancy. These conditions—the long-standing systemic and social inequities—have put many people from racial and ethnic and low-wealth groups at disproportionally increased risk for years, with getting sick or dying from COVID-19 as just the latest disparity on the list.
Providing scaffolding for people in meeting daily needs, gaining educational and income opportunities, accessing healthful foods and services, and reducing exposure to crime, violence, and social disorder, such as the presence of trash or toxins, can go far in helping improve overall health and well-being for everyone.
