Welcome to Sound Partners
A Record of Accomplishment in Community Health Care and Media
Sound Partners for Community Health has come to a close after ten years. Though we will not be updating this web site any longer we will continue to make its contents available. There is a wealth of material archived here that will be of use to community health care practitioners and community media makers.
The partnership profiles illustrate the depth and value of the Sound Partners program and the innovativeness of its grantees. Many of the publications, toolkit items, and research article summaries will remain useful, but please note that some links may become out-of-date and will not work.
We will continue to publish our Sound Partners Email Digest every other week. The Digest will contain summaries and links to articles that will interest community media makers and health care practitioners, with an emphasis on immigrant and refugees in the United States.
We plan to launch a new national "New Routes to Community Health" grant program on March 15, 2007 that will expand the Sound Partners model to include all kinds of media making to address the needs of immigrant and refugee populations. We will publish information about this initiative in our Digest, so sign up for our newsletter if you're not a subscriber already!
Local Voicesfeaturing stories, audio and video from our health and media projects across the country.
Featured Partnership:
House Calls
KUYI-FM, Hopi-owned community radio, and the Institute for Health Professions Education have teamed up to expand the scope of the successful program, House Calls. It's a weekly, live call-in show providing answers for Native elders living in remote areas on the Hopi and Navajo reservations. The program engages Elders as cultural experts as well as recipients of health information, offering opportunities to learn, to teach and to enhance their later years. The project includes 4 live remote broadcasts and PSAs.
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