Resident Health Advocate Program
Public housing residents from throughout the city are part of the Resident Health Advocate program. Participants in the program train on many topics, including: health assessment models, leadership skills, cultural competence, outreach education, navigating the health care system, asthma, first aid, nutrition for life, mental health, depression, stress, and STDs.
Those that graduate from the first phase of the program continue their training in four separate programs:
The GirlStars program targets girls at the Archdale and Washington-Beech developments and is designed to introduce girls to structured physical/recreational activities.
Those in the General Health Advocates Program will create a team of public housing residents to inform and advocate for other residents at the developments.
Others will tackle Family Health Promotion.
The remaining graduates will be a part of the Cancer Screening Program.
http://www.bostonhousing.org/detpages/deptinfo139.html
Thank you. Barefoot doctors?
Seriously, though, it looks to me like just another variation on “community organizer.” Boston seems to be shot through with these groups (although it appears that the education program she was involved with was actually a federally sponsored group).
So Obama’s aunt was being supported by the taxpayers of Boston while she worked as a “community organizer,” hmmm? Personally, I can’t believe he didn’t know about her, and I suspect somebody there may have helped her get this housing. She has a choice ground-floor apartment and things certainly seem to have gone smoothly for her transition from Kenya to US welfare, even though she supposedly has job skills. But I guess if she’s one of the leading cadre in her neighborhood, that makes up for it.