Grantee Name
Make the Road New York
Funding Area
Expanding Health Care Coverage
Publication Date
August 2009
Grant Amount
$104,593
Grant Date:
January 2008–December 2008
DOWNLOAD FULL REPORTLack of health insurance among immigrant populations in New York State continues to be a critical issue.
This grant to Make the Road New York funded a training program to teach community members to be “promotoras,” which promote health in their own communities by providing leadership, peer education, links to services, and resources to support the empowerment and engagement of community residents to improve health care systems. The program also trained health advocates—paid staff of community-based organizations—to help immigrant populations navigate the health care system. These programs were designed to help the community’s hardest-to-serve populations find and access health insurance and health care.