A healthy community creates opportunities for each resident to meet his/her potential physically, mentally, socially, emotionally and spiritually, building on the strengths of its people and systems to improve the quality of life and creating a sense of hope.

Our Healthy Communities Initiatives seek a holistic approach to addressing the body, mind and spirit in creating a healthy community.

We focus on:

• Enhancing the quality of life of the community by addressing the broader issues of health
• Offering neighborhood leadership & empowerment training
• Leading community development
• Advocating for healthcare access

MALDEF - Parent / School Partnership Program
This project enhances Latino parent involvement in their children's education through education and skill development. It empowers Latino parents and provides technical support to create English Learner Groups within their schools. Long-term systemic change from this increased involvement of Latino parents in their children's education might include: increased sucess of Latino children in school; higher graduation rates for Latino high school students; more Latino's attending and graduating from college; enhanced cohesiveness of the Latino community and increased Latino civic participation in the Napa Valley Community leading to achievement of positions of public and political influence. 

Bi-National Health Week
In 2000 the Mexican Government through its Ministries of Foreign Affairs and of Health joined efforts with the Health Initiative of the Americas (a program of the University of California) to institute Bi-national Health Week (BHW). This annual weeklong series of health-promotion and health-education activities has since become one of the largest mobilization efforts in the Americas to improve the well being of underserved immigrants and migrants of Latin American origin. In 2005 under the guidance of George Ortiz, a member of the Health Iniative of the Americas Advisory Board and representative of the Institute of Mexicans Abroad, the Napa County Bi-National Health Week Task Force was formed by Catalina Chávez-Tapia, Bilingual Community Services Coordinator for Queen of the Valley Medical Center. The goal of the Bi-National Health Week Task Force is to improve the quality of life of Latinos in Napa County by providing opportunities to access resources in a culturally sensitive environment. More information is available at http://www.ucop.edu/hia

The Outreach Network (TON)
The Outreach Network (TON) is an opportunity to bring all the outreach workers and interested individuals together to share information about the agencies they represent, enhance the referral process, improve communication between organizations and most importantly increase the awareness of how best to deliver services. The Outreach Network also provides a forum for discussion of issues concerning the community and personal and professional enhancement training.

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