Wellshare International

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“The mission of wellshare international is to advance sustainable community health around the world. Wellshare international focuses its resources where it can have the greatest impact on the health of underserved and vulnerable populations. This includes refugees and immigrants in minnesota, where its headquarter office is located, as well as individuals living in under-resourced countries. Wellshare international works in close partnership with communities and health care providers to ensure that their joint efforts are defined by local needs and are sustainable. Because of its extensive overseas community health experience, including over 40 years of work in east africa, as well as significant experience in southeast asia and central america,wellshare is uniquely positioned to work both domestically in minnesota and the u.s. With the immigrant, refugee, and other under-served communities,as well as internationally. Over the past 20 years in minnesota, wellshare has worked on public health initiatives with somali, oromo, hmong, and karen (burmese) immigrants and refugees, and has extended its community-based health work to reach additional vulnerable and underserved communities, including the african-american, latino, and american indian communities. Below are some highlights.”

“Domestic programming evidence-based early childhood family home visiting: wellshare will reach 36 somali, oromo and hispanic families with children prenatal to 5 years with two years using the family spirit model: -helping parents understand child development and improving parenting skills. -identifying developmental delays early. -providing community building and knowledge of resources. -improving children's school readiness. The goal of the fhv program is to expand and scale-up services to somali, oromo and hispanic families transitioning from an evidence-based family home visiting program so that more somali and oromo children in the twin cities grow up in a safe environment, are healthy, and are prepared to learn when they enroll in school. East african smoke-free program: established in 2013, wellshare's tobacco-free communities east african smoke-free program, funded by the minnesota department of human services (dhs), aims to reduce the harm caused by tobacco and secondhand smoke among somali and east african children, youth, and young adults. Highlights from the 2024 project year includes our smoke-free business and commercial tobacco-free event policies: community outreach and education to 3,255 individuals through presentations, partnership-building with a wide range of stakeholders, and completion of an evaluation of cessation practices in clinics serving somali/east african residents in public housing. After-school programming for east african and hispanic youth - 'the young achievers': this wellshare program is for after-school program for east african and hispanic youth, offers a constructive environment for youth to learn, be creative, interact with positive adults, learn skills to prepare them for employment & higher education by working for their community on public health issues. This program is conducted in partnership with schools, libraries, and community centers. In 2024, approximately 178 youth participated in the 9-month leadership, academic, and physical development support program. Sexual and reproductive health services: wellshare's sexual and reproductive health services program is designed to serve both youth and adults by addressing often stigmatized topics in culturally relevant and accessible ways. Recognizing the significant barriers many communities face in accessing accurate information and resources, the program covers essential topics such as contraception, sexually transmitted infections, healthy relationships, communication skills, pregnancy health, mental wellness, and the benefits of child spacing. Our community health workers, who reflect the populations they serve, deliver education through community outreach events, small group sessions, and one-on-one engagement. In partnership with community programs, wellshare also offers staff training, helps assess participant needs, and collaborates on co-created initiatives, ensuring support is both responsive and rooted in the community's unique context. Healthplan plan partnerships: wellshare partners with the major health plans in minnesota. Helping people navigate complex social and health systems for effective use of preventive health services and the full range of their service benefits. We partner with clinic systems, health plans, social service providers and government agencies to reduce access barriers and drive transformative changes for gap closure in social drivers of health and use of clinical services. Mental health promotion/covid-19 response programming: wellshare has established partnerships to deliver culturally and linguistically appropriate mental health promotion sessions and respond to other community needs. At wellshare, we continue to train chws in delivering learning to breathe, training focused on mindfulness, attention and emotional regulation. Wellshare completed 33 mental health promotion cohorts. A total of 5,380 individuals were reached through outreach and small group engagement efforts aimed to provide awarene”

“International programming tanzania, bariadi district: 'survive and thrive groups- and 'together for health' projects our "together for health" program uses video technology on ipads to deliver health education messages through health workers (from hospital/clinics) and community health workers (who work at the village level) to improve health knowledge, access to care, and quality of services. Recognizing the importance of financial stability for achieving optimal health, our survive and thrive village community banking groups provide health education, small business skills training and technical support to implement a village community banking model. In 2024, 101,549 service contacts, 887 survive and thrive group participants and 1,613 vicoba participants receiving technical training in business development.”

“Consultants - domestic 263,356 164,605 6,073 consultants - international 2,637 0 0 staff devel. & recognition 15,684 679 468 total 281,677 165,284 6,541”