Our Objectives

How does IHCD generate activities and consistent participation through health and social change to influence social justice?

By increasing self-awareness for prevention, intervention, social understanding and neighborhood involvement through educational training programs, community activities, and services, while providing leadership seminars by involving the target population, planning, implementing and evaluating activities and services throughout many projects. By involving in creating the program instead of merely offering a menu of staff, creating services, laying the valuable cornerstone of leadership responsibility to self and others and community pride so important to youngsters.

• Our health program and social service program response to health, and HIV/AIDS STD, alcohol, drug, substance abuses, violence. Those social conditions threaten the stability of many families and children into the communities. The program help by empowering young women and young men, building positive lives, reduce promiscuity, promoting abstinence and monogamy while helping them to ensure healthy environment and better future for the community. The program social service provides them access to rapid medical check up and resolve testing, reducing unsafe sex, alcohol and substance abuse practice, while giving them access to health care with partnership alliance with a hospital and a clinic in Haiti to ensure adequate short term and long treatment.



• The children and youths that are participating in the nutrition and health program are fortified as the services preventing and reducing many sickness and death causes among them. The program includes stress release and anger management, which are taught to help them cope with personal obstacles, family problems and social distress.



• Our after school and scholarships program have been giving tremendous access to many children and young adults who could not read and write as the program reducing youth delinquency and helping dysfunctional family to cope with social issues.



• Our pre-employment and vocational training programs help participants to gain some economic independence and motivating in joining the mainstream society are an intensive two years job readiness training which offers internship jobs with educational and computer instructions in technical English. We create volunteer and follow up activities for graduates to help participants to cope with real life and increase social mobility by bringing health, hope, some economic security.



• Our multiple seminars sessions, weekly session and quarterly forum, offer many different skills to participants in the two communities and surrounding that are so desperately in needs and facing tremendous life challenges that threaten to tear them apart. IHCD is a timely and creative response for social health, poverty relief and economic condition improvement.



• Our mini-program participants on economic development for women and men (families) stimulate critical thinking and raise hope as they learn how to develop economics and social opportunity at home rather than risk their lives to scare the harsh reality of poverty at home



• Our young adults’ participants to our ongoing to the cultural and academic exchange in collaboration with other institutions have learned academic and technical skills necessary for them to become self-sufficient and brake the cycle of poverty. They overcome prejudice, learning about team work, while incorporating social competency and cultural sensitivity to issues of sexual and gender identity, linguistic and developmental appropriateness into all program activities on prevention messages to overcome social barriers



• Getting the program participants to practice in many sports and cultural activities guaranteeing a balance in their lives and reduce risky behavioral activities that may lead to juvenile delinquency.

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