Housing & Health
The San Diego Wellness Collaborative, in partnership with the San Diego Refugee Communities Coalition, is proud to have been selected to be part of the BUILD Health Challenge®. As a BUILD community, we lead the San Diego Refugee Communities Coalition Health through Housing (HTH) project, which aims to improve housing stability for refugee populations in El Cajon, CA using a multi-sector, community-driven approach.
Through the HTH project, the Majdal Center has worked alongside other local organizations to conduct community needs surveys and focus groups, while simultaneously supporting and educating our refugee and newcomer community members in the navigation of housing resources. We are also collaboratively developing upstream policy changes that will improve housing conditions for our most vulnerable populations.
BUILD Health Through Housing
The CalHOPE program had 27 Community Support Navigators drawn from the San Diego Refugees Communities Coalition (SDRCC) to assist underprivileged communities with material aid for general well-being as well as medical aid and environmental stressors, and more personal aid with mental health support.
CAL-HOPE
The AMEA campaign is a project of the San Diego Refugee Communities Coalition (SDRCC) focusing on Stigma Reduction of Mental Health and Substance Use within African, Middle Eastern and Asian (AMEA) refugee and immigrant communities. The goal of of this project is to:
Transform Norms, Beliefs, & Behaviors,
Address Structural Inequities that Impact Wellbeing
Capacity-building for Sustainability
AMEA
Elevate Ace is a campaign that engages youth and families from multiple refugee communities in a ground-up initiative to identify and understand factors that influence youth substance use, and to develop innovative substance use prevention programming that is culturally rooted, healing-centered, and promotes positive connections with peers and young adult role models.