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 Advocacy InitiativeTampa Bay Healthcare Collaborative (TBHC) supports its member and community agencies by promoting awareness and dialogue around the issue of the uninsured. We also seek to give a voice to our community and advocate for resources to be healthy. For Tampa Bay Healthcare Collaborative members this means focusing on four key areas: Access, Health, Wellness and Safety. Access Access to quality health services begins with having affordable health insurance. We advocate for comprehensive health services for everyone in our community. We will work to help remove social, racial, economic, and systemic barriers to health services. Health Good health means more than the absence of disease. Good health is achieved with positive conditions at the physical, mental, behavioral, emotional, and spiritual levels. We will work to expand the concept of health to include all primary, community-based prevention, acute, chronic, and long-term care services in physical, mental, and oral health. Wellness Because health ultimately occurs at an individual level, communities and individuals are responsible for decisions and behaviors that impact levels of wellness. We endorse the need to educate people to help them understand the impact of their behavior and decisions. Safety Building safe and secure communities is vital to achieving better health and wellness. Incidents of child maltreatment, intimate partner domestic violence, and sexual violence must be reduced to achieve healthy communities. We endorse efforts designed to reduce incidents of violence in our homes, streets, and communities. Each year our Advocacy Committee commits to bringing national experts in the advocacy field to Tampa Bay. Past capacity building trainings have included "Worry Free Advocacy" in conjunction with Alliance for Justice and "Building Your Advocacy Campaign" in cooperation with the Children's Campaign. Stay tuned for news on 2010's upcoming events on Advocacy! Click here to Join our mailing list and receive news on these and other upcoming programming. |
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Health is a primary public good that benefits families, communities, employers, businesses, and our country. The Tampa Bay Healthcare Collaborative believes that health care is a basic human right necessary for stable and productive communities.
Our Vision is to develop culturally competent healthcare organizations in the Tampa Bay area.
Our Volunteer Recruitment committee has developed the "I Can Help Now" program and we continue to build upon our awareness campaigns, which includes the final phase of this website. The collaborative is utilizing media created and designed by our committee. This program continues to attract medical professionals to our group of free clinics in the Tampa Bay area.
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