About us

1.          Mission

Visión y Compromiso is dedicated to the improvement of socioeconomic and health outcomes of underrepresented communities through the support, enhancement, and advocacy for the Promotora and Community Health Worker (P/CHW) network.

Through its partnership with the P/CHW workforce, Visión y Compromiso has a unique understanding of community issues and is positioned to address the ongoing, ever-changing social and environmental determinants of health and community well-being.

2.          Vision

Visión y Compromiso will be the recognized statewide training and advocacy leader of the P/CHW network by providing and facilitating leadership development, capacity building, and by integrating Promotoras’ voices as community experts.

3.          Who we are

Visión y Compromiso is the only statewide organization that provides leadership development, capacity building, and advocacy for Promotores and Community Health Workers in a continuous fashion.

Since 2001 the P/CHW Network has organized Promotores in communities throughout California to support their efforts to organize Latino communities around health issues, deliver culturally-specific health services for Latinos, confront obstacles to care, and inform health policy.

Regional networks support the work of Promotores’ in communities statewide, including: remote areas in the most northern part of the state; underserved rural communities in the Central, Coachella and Imperial Valleys and central coastal areas; and population centers in and around the San Francisco Bay area, Los Angeles, and San Diego.

4.          Who are the Promotoras and Community Health Workers?

Promotoras (promotores) are grassroots community members that act as natural helpers and liaisons to their neighbors and local neighborhoods.  Promotoras are viable community assets, and they are agents critical to reducing health disparities and social change.  Promotoras may or may not be affiliated with community institutions.

Promotores are primarily Spanish speaking men and women (mostly women) who are trained to provide accurate, culturally appropriate health information, conduct street outreach, arrange and conduct talks with their peers, make presentations to the community at large, and they may or may not be affiliated with community institutions.

The Promotora/CHW Network spans throughout the state of California and partners with local health and nonprofit organizations that integrate the Promotores model into their organizations. gaga

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Contributions to Visión y Compromiso are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

Visión y Compromiso is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization (EIN/Tax ID# 32-0071651).