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Community Service Plan

NYU Langone’s Department of Population Health is committed to developing and implementing effective approaches to health promotion and disease prevention at the community level. In partnership with the Family Health Centers at NYU Langone and the Welcome Center at NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island, we have led the NYU Langone Health Community Health Needs and Assets Assessment and served as the architects for the Community Service Plan. This plan brings together a collection of coordinated, evidence-based programs designed to prevent chronic diseases by reducing risk factors for obesity and cardiovascular disease and decreasing tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke, addressing the intersection of health and housing, supporting disease self-management, and connecting people to resources that address social and health risk factors.

The Community Service Plan also promotes the health of women, infants, and children through parenting programs, by connecting families to needed resources and through early childhood and teen pregnancy prevention programs. We also have an emerging portfolio of projects that focus on promoting a healthy and safe environment for other populations.

Our work and our partnerships are centered in Chinatown and on the Lower East Side in Manhattan, Sunset Park and Red Hook in Brooklyn, and Hempstead in Nassau County on Long Island. In partnership with many community-based organizations and government agencies, we have programs that span multiple sectors, including community-based early childhood education settings and schools, primary care, housing, and community settings, as well as faith-based organizations and social service providers.

Read the full Community Health Needs Assessment and Community Service Plan.

Preventing Chronic Diseases

Our work includes a variety of programs focused on using a community-based approach to prevent chronic disease.

Healthy Food Initiative

The Healthy Food Initiative addresses food security and healthy food availability in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and surrounding communities through evidence-informed interventions focused on emergency food access, screening and case management, community education, and a community-wide coalition of food systems stakeholders.

Primary contact: Kathleen Barth, director, Beyond Bridges Community Health Initiatives, Family Health Centers at NYU Langone, at kathleen.barth@nyulangone.org.

Greenlight

Greenlight, an early childhood program designed to improve health literacy and foster healthful diet- and activity-related behavior, is being adapted and implemented in partnership with the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center and the Seventh Avenue Family Health Center at NYU Langone in Sunset Park. Greenlight will be extended to the Sunset Park Family Health Center at NYU Langone—55th Street, as well as the NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island Pediatric Center in Hempstead, Long Island.

Primary contact: Yuxiao Lei, research coordinator, at yuxiao.lei@nyulangone.org.

Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health for Asian and Arab Americans Program

Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health for Asian and Arab Americans is an evidence-based program designed to prevent cardiovascular disease by increasing access to healthy foods and providing culturally tailored health coaching and messages. The program is being implemented in mosques on the Lower East Side in Manhattan and in Sunset Park and Kensington in Brooklyn.

Primary contact: MD Taher, project coordinator, at md.taher@nyulangone.org.

Tobacco Free Community

The Tobacco Free Community comprises an array of programs to address high smoking rates among immigrant populations—particularly Asian American men—including a community navigator program; a citywide coalition that addresses tobacco-related policies, including the development of a repository of resources; and a program to educate youth about e-cigarettes. These programs are being implemented in partnership with Asian Americans for Equality, the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center, the Chinese American Planning Council, the New York City Housing Authority, and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene—Tobacco Policy and Program.

Primary contact: Binh Luu, research coordinator, at binh.luu@nyulangone.org.

Stanford Chronic Disease Self-Management Program

The Stanford Chronic Disease Self-Management Program, an evidence-based educational program designed to build disease management skills, is being implemented in libraries and other community settings in Nassau County.

Primary contact: Kymona Tracey, director, Community Education, Outreach, and Health Benefit at NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island, at kymona.tracey@nyulangone.org.

Red Hook Community Health Network

The Red Hook Community Health Network includes community residents, community-based organizations, and health partners working to improve the health of Red Hook residents by expanding access to health and social services, supporting a community health worker program, and organizing to address root causes of health disparities in the community.

Primary contact: Kara Smith, network manager, at kara@rhicenter.org.

Community Health Worker Research & Resource Center

The Community Health Worker Research & Resource Center expands access to training and up-to-date information on health topics and community resources for community health workers (CHWs) across New York City and nationally, providing social support, professional development, and technical and evaluation assistance to strengthen and better understand the role of CHWs in promoting the health of underserved communities.

Primary contact: Dina Pimenova, senior project coordinator, at dina.pimenova@nyulangone.org.

Brooklyn Health & Housing Consortium

The Brooklyn Health & Housing Consortium is a collaborative network of healthcare, housing, homeless and social services organizations, and government partners with the shared goal of improving health equity and housing stability by fostering cross-sector relationships, informing policy, and building the capacity of frontline workers to support Brooklyn residents with unmet health and housing needs.

Primary contact: Harmony Arcilla, senior project coordinator, at harmony.arcilla@nyulangone.org.

Health x Housing Lab

The Health x Housing Lab conducts research to build the evidence base for initiatives, programs, and policies at the intersection of health and housing; informs policy and programs related to health and housing through evidence-based advising and research dissemination; and provides education to expand the reach of practice-relevant evidence on health and housing.

Primary contact: Ingrid Berthomieux, project coordinator, at ingrid.berthomieux@nyulangone.org.

Promoting the Health of Women, Infants, and Children

The Community Service Plan’s work includes a variety of programs focused on promoting the health of women, infants, and children.

ParentChild+

ParentChild+, a national, evidence-based early literacy, parenting, and school-readiness program, is being expanded in Sunset Park to serve additional low-income immigrant families. The program provides intensive home visiting to families with children between two and four years old who are challenged by poverty, low levels of education, language and literacy barriers, and other obstacles.

Primary contact: Jeannette Martinez, coordinator, Sunset Park Family Literacy Program, Family Health Centers at NYU Langone, at jeannette.martinez@nyulangone.org.

ParentCorps

ParentCorps, an evidence-based, family-centered early childhood intervention designed to improve child health, behavior, and learning, has been assessing needs and providing responsive support to the early childhood community in Sunset Park. The program will expand to 12 pre-K programs and offer resources system wide.

Primary contact: Shanika Gunaratna, manager of strategic partnerships, ParentCorps, at shanika.gunaratna@nyulangone.org.

Video Interaction Project

The Video Interaction Project (VIP) is an evidence-based parenting program that uses videotaping and developmentally appropriate toys, books, and resources to help parents strengthen early development and literacy in their children. VIP will continue to serve Sunset Park and extend its reach to additional locations.

Primary contact: playreadvip@nyulangone.org.

Project SAFE

Project SAFE, a peer education program employing an evidence-based youth development approach to preventing teen pregnancy and HIV infection and AIDS, is being implemented in Sunset Park and other Brooklyn communities.

Primary contact: Michelle Nees, director, Adolescent Health Education, Family Health Centers at NYU Langone, at michelle.nees@nyulangone.org.

Enhanced Family Support Services

Enhanced family support services will be provided at the NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island Pediatric Center in Hempstead, where a family support counselor will screen patients for socials needs, connect them to a network of local services, and follow up to ensure that care is received. The practice will also implement Reach Out and Read, an evidence-based early literacy program.

Primary contact: Kymona Tracey, director, Community Education, Outreach, and Health Benefit at NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island, at kymona.tracey@nyulangone.org.

Promoting a Healthy and Safe Environment

We also offer programs that foster a healthy and safe environment.

Tai Chi for Arthritis for Falls Prevention and A Matter of Balance

Tai Chi for Arthritis for Falls Prevention and A Matter of Balance, two evidence-based fall prevention programs, are being implemented at the NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island Wellness Center, two libraries, and other community settings.

Primary contact: Kymona Tracey, director, Community Education, Outreach, and Health Benefit at NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island, at kymona.tracey@nyulangone.org.

Translating Data into Action

We work with data to improve health across our system.

Brooklyn Data Station

The Brooklyn Data Station supports partnerships and fosters collaborations that aim to improve population health in Sunset Park, Red Hook, and other parts of Brooklyn. The Data Station also supports the Community Health Needs and Assets Assessment across all of the geographic areas that comprise the Community Service Plan, providing a range of data services and supporting a knowledge network and a forum to translate findings into action to improve health.

Primary contact: Jennifer Norton, research scientist, at jennifer.norton@nyulangone.org.

Contact Us

If you have questions about the Needs and Assets Assessment or the Community Service Plan, please contact Sue A. Kaplan, JD, plan director, at sue.kaplan@nyulangone.org.

For questions about Brooklyn-based programs, please contact Kathleen Hopkins, vice president, Department of Community Programs at the Family Health Centers at NYU Langone, at kathleen.hopkins@nyulangone.org.

For questions about Long Island–based programs, please contact Kymona Tracey, director, Community Education, Outreach, and Health Benefit at NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island, at kymona.tracey@nyulangone.org.